Well, this is my last goal post focussed on the next five weeks. This one is all about saving a few pennies and learning more skills to save money in the future: To take time each day to explore Moneysavingmom blog. I used to read Crystal's blog when she wrote under a different name (Biblicalwomanhood…
Category: Angelicscalliwags Frugal Challenge
Home Making – Soap Nuts
Over the past year I have tried out many different recipes for home-made laundry soap. We have very hard water and to be honest I wasn't that impressed with any of them. At least I wasn't until this summer. I had come across soap nuts during one of my forays into the world-wide web and…
Angelicscalliwags Frugal Challenge Update
Our income has dropped considerably over the past year and because of more governmental changes we will no longer be receiving any kind of tax credits come April 2017. I am not opposed to the changes which state that by the time the youngest child is three the mother should be looking for work and…
Angelicscalliwags Frugal Challenge: September sum Up
Welcome to the September sum for our financial goal of paying of our mortgage in five years. If you've been reading this blog for some time you will know that right now we are focusing on increasing our savings rather than paying off our mortgage. We did this because we had a few bills come…
Angelicscalliwags Frugal Challenge: August Sum Up
Welcome to the August edition of our Frugal Challenge. It has struck me recently how much saving money is like losing weight. There are many ways to do both yet really all either require is a modicum of self-control, and the willingness to change one habit at a time. So why is it so many fail at…
Angelicscalliwags Challenge: July Sum Up
For all my other posts in the series see here. My last post was written in March, 4 months ago! We are still at it. To recap, we were trying to pay our mortgage in 5 years and had done really well in our goal until September when we got a bill for the car…
Angelicscalliwags Challenge: March Sum Up
I was a bit negligent posting about the challenge in February. In fact, I was wondering if it was worth continuing with the challenge at all. We were getting nowhere very quickly on account of the car costs in September (£1000), the boiler costs in November (£600) and then cutting down of our tree in…
Angelicscalliwags Challenge: January Sum Up
Welcome to the start of the second year of our five year challenge to pay off our mortgage. So far we are on track, but things have slowed down considerably in the last few months after some emergency repairs to our car totalling over £1000, in addition to a boiler break down. This month we…
Spar-Klean Science: Home-Made Washing Up Liquid
I've tried lots of recipes over the past few months and none have worked from an aesthetic point of view. Sure they all cleaned, they all smelt gorgeous and very lacking in chemicals and they were all kind to sensitive hands. Thing was, they were scummy. Or at least they left a nasty scummy water…
Angelicscalliwags Challenge: 2012 Summing Up
I promise this is my last post pertaining to 2013! Next week I will be moving full pelt into 2014 with goals, pond studies and lots of history related posts as well catching up on what the little ones have been doing in Mr Men school. For now though, I wanted to sum up how…
Angelicscalliwags Challenge: November Update
Source Yes, I take a lack of brain material to a whole new level sometimes. In this instant 'Duh!' is the only response to have. I often act without thinking and very nearly always speak what is on my mind without considering the effect of my words. Fortunately, I am a fairly nice person, so…
Angelicscalliwags Challenge: September Update
Hello, my name is Claire and I overspent on my holiday to Northern Ireland. There, I said it and it is very true. I'm thinking financially things will be a little tight until after Christmas, although to be honest that is always the case for us with every member of the family's birthday falling between…
The Angelicscalliwags Challenge: August Sum Up
Sorry, I know I've posted it before, but I love this picture! Welcome to the August sum up of the angelicscalliwags' challenge. The challenge is on to pay off our mortgage by the end of 2017 How did we do this month? We have currently paid back 17% of our mortgage since January of this year. Only…
The Angelicscalliwags Challenge: July Sum up
Welcome to the July sum up of the angelicscalliwags challenge. The challenge is on to pay off our mortgage by the end of 2017 For the rest of the posts in this series see here How did we do this month? We have currently paid back 14.7% of our mortgage since January of this year. …
The Angelicscalliwags Challenge: Week 8
I'm running a bit late with my posts at the moment. We had our yearly family party on Saturday and it's been all hands on deck! We host the children for a garden party in our garden whilst my mum hosts the adults next door. It is always great fun, and this year the children…