Leaving London and downshifting to become a full-time parent and rural homemaker
It must be human nature to want to acquire things. I used to love shopping and spending. These days I’m always trying to think of more ways to keep spending to a minimum.
A number of beautiful looking catalogues regularly come through the post addressed to me. I usually open them, flick through and then throw [...]
Here’s a fantastic list of easy ways to save money from The Times Online. Some really good ideas.
http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2008/02/the-thrifty-fif.html
I’m already doing some of them (cooking in bulk, using leftovers, magazine swapping with a friend each month, using a piggy bank for all my loose little bits of change, reusing pots and bread bags for storing sandwiches [...]
Ever since we noticed our monthly food bills rising without good reason, since we heard more and more about the so-called ‘credit crunch’ and the predicted downturn in the economy, we started thinking seriously about what options we had to make ourselves recession proof.
A brief look at our fixed monthly outgoings identified our rent, food, [...]
Its a new long term project that has just emerged for this family but since Bealers has been Head of Veg Gardening and really enjoying it (having never planted or grown anything before he’s now growing chillis, tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes, peas, pumpkins, all manner of herbs and salad items, raspberries, strawberries and LOADS of potatoes!), [...]
As someone who used to have a job as a crisis management coordinator for a big global firm. I realised this weekend while talking to my uncle about oil prices and how heavily our island society depends on oil to transport food that my young family is currently woefully ill-equiped to cope with any kind [...]