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The Year of Frugality

The Year of Frugality

http://yearoflivingfrugally.blogspot.com/

If you are looking for a blog or a website that blames every other bugger for the credit and debt situation individuals have got themselves into, this isn't it. This is site is about about taking personal responsibility for personal debt. It is about living a life creatively, humorously, warmly and frugally to get myself out of the financial soup.

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  • Early Christmas pay

    Posted on Tuesday December 22nd, 2009 at 01:38 in payday

    Amazingly, I got paid LAST THURSDAY for Christmas and therefore January...how crazy is that? That means 6 weeks almost 7 until I next get paid. Good golly Miss molly. No spending on rubbish for me!!! It does however mean I can pay my debts early and ...

  • 10 financial lessons - Part two

    Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 13:23

    6) Look at how far you have come, rather than how far you still have to go – If you don’t stop and admire the view sometimes the climb is going to seem twice as steep. Even in my wildest dreams I didn’t think I would be in this financial posit...

  • 10 financial lessons - Part One

    Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 07:16

    1) Don’t be overly strict with yourself – unless you have willpower of steel you will not be able to sustain a spending and saving regime that is wholly alien to you usual way of being. It’s the old boiling a frog analogy – put a frog in boil...

  • The Year of Frugality

    Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 03:53 in the year of frugality, frugality.

    So, we are reaching the end of 2009 which is when I said my year of frugality would end.*sigh*I am trying to do my suming up of the year and look at the pros and the cons of what I have done, what have I learned and what I hope never have to go thr...

  • Breaking the £6000 barrier

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 07:21 in debt

    *beaming with pride* I have just sent off the cheques that will bring my debt down to £14,958, that is a whopping £6263 paid off since I started this year of frugality.How marvellous.OK, so by this point in the year I wanted the whole £22K paid of...

  • Cheap Booze

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 06:39

    I alerted you to the fact that Threshers and Wine Rack are closing - there are some seriously good deals on wine at these places at the moment. EG at our local Threshers it was a bottle of wine for £2 a pop. ...

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