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A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio files that you can listen to or stream from a podcast service. The average podcast listener tunes in to 6.5 hours of content per week. However, in today's online world, there are several million YouTube channels and blogs, but only a few hundred thousand podcasts.  …

Since from our higher classes.i.e from class 8 we all have an additional and interesting subject called biology.  What is Biology? Biology is a natural science, which is all about human life and other living organisms around us. Biology also provides information about the benefits of the environment, plants, animals, birds, insects, microbes, along with…

Welcome to athriftymrs.com, a blog about living a realistic and fun thrifty life. I originally set up this blog to talk about the junk I found in charity shops but it slowly morphed into chats about my life, struggling with debt, coping with a recession and ways to save money, how to guides and general…

Essential to any winter wardrobe is a decent scarf. I stumbled across this one when wading through the (stupidly huge) Primark in the centre of Manchester with Mikhila from Miss Budget Beauty last week. Although it is 100% acrylic it is deliciously soft and once swathed within its huge layers it is lovely and warm.…

Here is the day. Polling day for the UK general election (and local elections in England). Have you voted?I've been to my polling station in the rain, cast my vote and felt that uplifting buzz. I've chatted to the old men and women about the changes in politics they've seen since they have been able…

Let's have a little chat about how closely you pay attention to those little dates stamped on your food packages. There are a variety of different dates stamped on our food ranging from sell-by dates through to use-by and best before. The NHS explains some of the differences here (for instance sell by dates are more…

Just over a year ago we were a one sofa family and it all started to get a bit silly when we wanted to sprawl out and relax. Not having the largest of budgets we investigated second-hand options but nothing was turning up in our area and in a bid of desperation we went for…

Yesterday Mr Thrifty and I popped down to a salvage yard in Manchester, specifically INSITU Architectural Salvage which is less of a yard and more of a fantastic old building stuffed full of beautiful bits and bobs and helpful staff. We’re at the stage of our renovation where we need to start thinking about the…

On Thursday Mr Thrifty and I hopped down to Manchester’s Victoria Baths for a knees up in the shape of the Google City Experts Manchester launch party. The launch party was held down in one of the beautiful pools, which gave us a great chance to really appreciate how grand the building is. First opened…

If you cast your minds back to the last bank holiday weekend (a whole 8 or 9 days ago!) you may remember we struck it lucky with weather. We here at Thrifty Towers saw this as the perfect time to move forward with our house renovation. Actually truth be told, we were moving forward with…