How to make your own furniture polish with olive oil and lemon juice

    You don’t need to use an expensive olive oil for this polish. Inexpensive brands will work just as well and have exactly the same effect.   Ingredients: 250ml olive oil 100ml lemon juice   Method: Pour both ingredients into a trigger spray bottle. Amazon have a very cheap selection. Make sure the bottle… Read More

How to make homemade glass cleaning spray

    Forget store bought glass and window cleaning sprays. You can make your own with just two ingredients at a fraction of the cost. A 50 pence bottle of distilled vinegar makes almost four batches of this glass cleaning mixture, resulting in each batch costing little over 12 pence a bottle. That’s a big… Read More

How to make your own laundry detergent

    Three ingredients is all it takes to make almost 5 litres of your very own laundry detergent. At only 50 pence per unit the total cost comes to only £1.50 – a huge saving on store bought washing powder!   Ingredients: 2 x Dove Soap Bars 500g Soda Crystals 4.5 litres water  … Read More

How to Create a Workable Budget

    Formulating a workable and practical budget is one of the most important steps towards streamlining your personal finances. Budgets might need to be modified to incorporate unexpected or sudden expenses but by and large, basic patterns remain constant. Creating a family budget will not only help you regulate needless expenditure but also helps… Read More

Top 5 Tips for Last Minute Christmas Gifts on a Budget

    With only eight days left until Christmas we are rapidly running out of time to prepare.  If you already have your cards written and posted, your presents wrapped and your decorations beautifully hung in every room I salute you! If, on the other hand, you’re finding yourself feeling a sense of impending doom… Read More

Budgeting the Old-Fashioned Way

    Budgeting is a fairly simple process once you know how. You might have observed your grandmother perform miracles with much less than what you probably earn today. Of course, things were much cheaper back then. But the fact remains that you can develop a talent for saving in a simple and realistic manner.… Read More