Free to enter jewellery competition marks the coming of smart meters
Smart Meters are coming I am always looking for new ways to save money and having a Smart meter is a great way to get in control of your gas and electricity spending. Particularly important now its colder and the heating is needed. I have seen my bills rise by £20 from Sept to Oct […]
Secret Santa- £5 of tat? Take part in the #giftorgive campaign
Secret Santa #giftorgive Oh the joys of Secret Santa, that age old tradition of the work place. Everyone chucks in a fiver and picks out a random name from the pot. I worked in the corporate world until 2015 so took part in maybe 10 different secret santa, and over the years boy I have […]
How to Save Money with pet costs – Trev The Kitten
How to Save Money with pet costs If you follow me on Instagram @mrsmummypennyuk you will know that we have a new addition to the family. We have a new kitten called Trev. We decided now that I have made the permanent move to working from home I wanted some company. A cat was that […]
5 Frugal Things Post 10 – Mrs Mummypenny’s Week
5 Frugal Things Post 10 This week saw a couple of exciting things happen. It was Jacks 4th birthday, marking the last birthday of the boys in a 6 week period, phew. An early release also came for our book, we released it for sale on Amazon 9 days early. All week we have been […]
Mrs Mummypenny’s Advice on Black Friday Shopping
Every advert I have watched this week has been about Black Friday. I have been part of a Twitter Chat on Sunday and have recorded an interview on Bob FM my local radio station. All talking about Black Friday, but mostly what to watch out for with tips and advice. So I wanted to share […]
5 Frugal Things Post 9 – A quiet week for Mrs Mummypenny
5 Frugal Things Post 9 I have had a nice and quiet week so far and have done plenty of things to save the pennies. I have even managed to post a new post on Mrs Mummypenny every day, this 5 Frugal things post 9 makes it 5 days in a row! My posts have […]
Win an Aldi Christmas Lights Bundle – Free Prize Draw
Aldi Christmas Lights Bundle Today 17th Nov marks the start of the Aldi Christmas lights special buy event and to celebrate I have a bundle of goodies to giveaway to you lovely readers. Aldi has a huge and most fabulous range of Christmas lights for bargain prices. Why not take a look through their website […]
Financial Education for children – Top tips for helping your children
This week is Financial Capability week and marks a week of much chatter in the media about financial education and how much we as a nation understand finance, how to manage it and how to not get into financial difficulty. Here are my top tips for helping your children with financial education. I strongly feel […]
5 Frugal Things Post 8 – Book Announcement week
5 Frugal Things Post 8 Welcome back to my regular write up of my 5 Frugal things post 8 – wow I have got to 8 weeks of doing this, I am proud of myself! It has been a busy week of big announcements and if you follow my posts and social media you will […]
Blogging Your Way to Riches – We have Written a Book!
Blogging Your Way to Riches This is probably one of the most exciting blog posts I have ever written! I finally get to share with you the project that Emma Bradley (of ‘Emma and 3’ and ‘MumsSavvySavings’ blogging fame) and I have been working on for 2 months. We have written a book-Blogging your way to […]
How I am going to Save Money this Christmas and cut costs
How I am going to Save Money this Christmas Christmas this year is going to be much more of a frugal one for us. In the past we have always had regular money from full time jobs coming in and we have could afford something a bit more frivolous. This year it going to be […]
How to Make your home more beautiful with Framed Prints
Framed Prints & Interior Design Okay I’ll admit it I am not great at interior design. The last bits of design that make a house a home are a challenge for me. Our extension and house redesign was finished nearly 3 years ago and we still have bare walls without framed prints or pictures. We […]