So we survived Day 1 Living Below The Line. Here is the excitement that is Day 2… Breakfast Toast with butter and homemade jam (taken from the store cupboard, but I have factored in some pennies for it) and mashed banana-maybe half of our 21p loaf? 20p Milk for the Smalls-20p Snacks 2x Sunshine Buns-with … Continue reading
I first read about this on the wonderful blog of a fellow Waste Watcher, Everyday Life on a Shoestring, and then again on the equally wonderful A Cheerful Living Adventure. It is a competition being run by MoneySupermarket to celebrate 30 years of the £1 coin, and they are trying to collate 1000 ideas all together. … Continue reading
For those of you wanting to follow our progress as we Live Below The Line, I thought I would update you each day with a rough ‘what we ate’ and the cost. Apologies if this is boring some of you to tears..! Breakfast porridge made with 50:50 milk and water, with raisins and sliced banana-44p … Continue reading
The other night I decided I NEEDED a pinboard to take to our inaugural Make It Better…mending/sewing/crafting cafe evening, to display posters for other upcoming events and workshops. Just in case you ever NEED a pretty pinboard in an emergency… This is what you need: cheap pinboard or cork tile fabric of your choosing glue … Continue reading
This weekend saw us shopping in preparation for our 5 days Living Below the Line. This meant we had £20 (four people, on a £1 a day, for five days) to spend. In my last Live Below The Line post, I had done a basic meal plan, and a shopping list of sorts. Hubby had … Continue reading
The last (but by no means least) of our birthday triple bill… And this one is an extra special treat for you, a guest post by the lovely hubby…! It has been some years since we have exchanged Birthday and Christmas gifts with my brothers. We initiated a present amnesty when it we realised that … Continue reading
So the second birthday in our triumvirate (is that the right word to use?) of birthdays was my lovely mum’s. She has been dropping some reasonably heavy hints that she wanted a pinboard/memo board for her new kitchen, so this is what we decided to make. And this is how you do it… What you … Continue reading
I posted yesterday about the fact that we celebrated not just one, but THREE birthdays in our family this weekend. And I thought you might like to know what we made for each of them. So first off, it was SmallSmall’s “number 2” birthday (as BigSmall called it). Being the second of two boys, he … Continue reading
This weekend saw a very special day. It was SmallSmall’s SECOND birthday! When did he get so big and grown up? It was also my lovely mum’s birthday. AND my brother in law’s 50th birthday. When did he get so old big and grown up? So we have been busy making presents, and cake. Lots … Continue reading
Live Below The Line is an initiative of the Global Poverty Project, and from the 29th April to the 3rd May will see over 20,000 people in the UK, USA, Australia and Canada, all voluntarily spending 5 days living below the poverty line. The challenge is to survive on £1 a day for all your food … Continue reading
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