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Over the weekend, as you may have read here, Mr Thrifty and our family took off to a beautiful seaview cottage in Whitby to celebrate my mother in law's birthday. We did lots of mooching about, up and down hills and pottering in and out of pretty shops and art galleries. Whilst I was drooling…

I like a little luxury in life and as we know usually, luxury costs. Not just in the purse region but it also, it costs the earth.Despite being married to an eco fanatic there is one thing that I won't scrimp on and I'm aware it has an impact on the planet. I feel tres…

I was bullied at school and I was bullied in a place of work until I politely told them to get knotted. Now I suppose this is my way of telling the blog bitches to get knotted, to sod off and get a bloody life. I thought long and hard about posting this, wondered if…

I'll get to the question in a moment but first picture this. You're on your way back from the strange shop round the corner where the man tells you that your card has been declined when it hasn't (every single time *sigh*), when you spot a beautiful piece of furniture in someones front garden. You…

I'm no beauty, by a long chalk, but I do go through phases of finding the perfect cream, lotion or potion. So I thought I'd share my current cheap beauty favourites. Ready? Let's go! 1. Superdrug Vitamin E Gentle Eye Cream with SPF 15 £2.99I was told that from the age of 25 you should…

In our old house we had no room. No room whatsoever. No room to move. None. Moving furniture by one inch meant doors were blocked and sunlight was shut out. It was tiny. So we had our television shoved in the corner on a teeny, tiny, low down, flimsy Ikea unit that we bought second…

Introducing Barbara. She may not be vintage (I couldn't wait long enough to source one after I learnt, I needed to get straight on and learn more straight away), she may not be a Pashley but she is my newest friend and cor blimey, does she make me happy. And isn't Mr Thrifty a doll…

It seems a lot of you were excited about the Sound Asleep Pillow that I was giving away on this post and loads you entered both here and on my Facebook page.With the help of random.org a winner has been selected. Stand by, hold on to your hats, be careful not to fall off any seats…

Now, get that glow-in-the-dark stuff you can buy in supermarkets out of your head. This is the real stuff. This is the ultimate. The best picallili ever.Katrina from Windsor Deli over in Australia and I got into a little Twitter conversation about jams, chutneys etc and she very sweetly sent me jams, cordial and picallili…

This giveaway is now closed. You can find out who won here. Roll up, roll up lovely readers, want to win more chocolate than you know what to do with? Ah good! I thought you might. I can hear you saying 'What's the happy-haps Thrifty, what can I win and how? Get to the good…