What a treat not to get up at 6 am this morning. I love bank holidays! What a shame the weather is so rubbish. I was hoping to catch a couple of boot sales this weekend but if the rain keeps up they will all be a washout. Still, not spending loads of money at a boot sale could be considered one of my five frugal things this week….
Simplicity and a cup of tea in bed
I picked up this book, Simplicity: Easy Ways to Simplify and Enrich Your Life
I have been thinking about simple living and decluttering a lot recently (I wrote this blog post on the subject), so finding this book seems serendipitous. It is right up my street! I will publish a review when I have read it.
The cat joined me this morning for a lie-in and a cup of tea in bed and I read a bit more. Now that is one of life’s simple pleasures.
Exhausting
The car exhaust started clanking this week. I think it had worked its way loose with all the potholes. I have been doing my best to dodge them but there are so many!
The local quick fit exhaust place looked at it and said it needed replacing. It would cost around £250….I must have looked shocked enough that they took pity on me and said it could probably be repaired with a bit of welding. So it is booked in for Tuesday and I am looking at £50 rather than £250! So I can count it towards my five frugal things.
Sweet potato burgers
I made these tasty little burgers using a recipe I found on the Tesco website. They were really nice. We ate some and froze the others. They will be a nice easy tea some time.
Sleeping easy
I mentioned last week that we had bought a king sized bed frame at a bargain price on Facebook. We then found a nice mattress online. Blimey, they are a price!
I would have liked a memory foam one but they were too expensive, so settled on a sprung one with a memory foam top. It was reduced from £340 to £170, so we made a good saving.
We put it all together today and it is so comfy! Mr S fits on it and can finally stretch out a bit! The favourite one of this week’s five frugal things for sure.
I can recommend the retailer, Mattress Tomorrow. Ordering and delivery was quick and painless with great customer service.
Asda bargain
Now that the bed is up we will need to invest in a king size duvet and bed linen. In the meantime, I popped to Asda to grab a couple of king sized sheets. They were only £6 each!
How has your week been? As usual, I’m linking up with Cass, Emma and Becky in this week’s ‘five frugal things I’ve done this week’ linky. Hop on over to see what everyone else has been up to and add your link if you have a blog.
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Frugal in Essex says
The weather forecast for Colchester etc is rain for the next week at least. I can put up with showers but the grey dismal weather we had yesterday was awful. A glimmer of sun today. But I suppose it does save you money.
shoestringjane@outlook.com says
Are you in Colchester too?
Margaret Powling says
One of the most simple but lovely things in life is lying in bed with a cup of tea and a good book, a cat is a bonus. We no longer have one, pity I can’t borrow yours now and again but he/she mightn’t like the long journey in a cat carrier to Devon!
Well done on finding a comfortable mattress. I saw a piece on TV not that long ago where some unscrupulous companies were getting old mattresses (those that peole have thrown out) and putting new covers on them and selling them as new to unwitting buyers. It pays to go to a good company for a mattress, and it sounds like you’ve had a bargain. We bought our ‘new’ bed two years ago last August from Dreams and have been happy with the bed, but my goodness, it was expensive! But it’s comfortable and we spend a 1/3rd of our life on it, so we don’t begrudge it. I also love cotton bed linen. Were the sheets from Asda cotton or a mixture?
Well done on getting your exhausted fixed for a reasonable price.
The only thing I’d not be keen on, Jane, are burgers with sweet potatoes. I’ve tried sweet potatoes (which aren’t potatoes at all, I don’t think) several times, in one recipe or another, and I just don’t like ’em. But we can’t like everything, can we?
Happy Easter to you and yours,
Margaret P
Faith @MuchMoreWithLess says
Lovely bedstead! Hope the exhaust repair holds, garage bills can really mount up.
Gillian says
Charity shops are a good place to find king-size duvet cover & pillowcase sets. The sets I have bought there tend to be around £7ish. When I volunteered in a charity shop last year, king-size seemed to be the popular donation, then single, and rarely double-size – no idea why.
ps: sorry but i hate sweet potatoes too!!
Julia says
It’s funny how people either love or hate sweet potatoes! It’s a bit like the vegetable version of Marmite!
I love them, and will choose one over a regular baked potato any day as they are more moist, but to me they taste very similar to carrots – which, rather surprisingly, is NOT my favourite vegetable!!
shoestringjane@outlook.com says
Me too. I love them in any form