I need to stop frittering money away on crap. I'd like to have some savings, one day I'd like to be able to take my children to Florida but struggle to save.
So in the new year I'm going to be a superscrimper.
I used to meal plan and was very good at it. But then when I passed my driving test and started actually going to the supermarket rather than doing my shopping online my food bills doubled!
So I'm going back to meal planning and would like to get my food bill down to £40 a week. Even less if I can.
I will be buying all clothes from eBay and charity shops OR just making do with what I've already got.
Cook and bake everything from scratch
I also plan to bulk buy some stuff in January and have a bit of a stock pile, things like rice, pasta, washing powder etc
Is anyone else planning to save/be more frugal in 2014?
I've also been lurking on the money saving expert forums for tips.
And yesterday, instead of chucking some rather soft black bananas in the bin I made banana and white choc chip muffins out of them using ingredients I already had :)
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PublicEnemyNumeroUno · 22/12/2013 13:23
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