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Anyone who knows me, knows that all is well on good ship Thrifty-pop when I'm busy baking, alas I haven't been much up to baking of late and who wants to eat the baked produce of someone who sounds like they've coughed up a lung spleen ovary, something lower, something lower...knee? I've had a few…

One of my favourite birthday gifts was a new lens for my DSLR. That poor camera has been sat on the bottom shelf of my desk for over a year now, you see I managed to break one the lens I got on with and it's only now it has been replaced.When sorting through some…

Television shows, movies and books will all have you believe in The Great Love. Not the love of a man but the love of friends. Female friendship is The Great Love that will see us all through to the end. Never put a man before your friends, respect that female friendship we're all told over…

Last week I was put in touch with the Fairy Hobmother from Appliances Online who is aiming to 'bring joy and happiness to the world’s bloggers by providing treats for great, hard work in the blogosphere...' When asked if there was anything I'd really like as a special gift, after stopping to take in what was…

Recently and really rather tragically an old friend of mine died after a long battle with cancer. When her parents went to sort through her belongings they found two cabinets filled with china, glassware and other bits and bobs that she was keeping for best. Never used. Boxes of shoes hardly out of their box,…

If your weekend doesn't equal cake, I am sad for you. Cake always features in my weekend plans which might explain why I am so fat big boned. A weekend without a new recipe, or even an old faithful seems wrong. A weekend without stocking up on flour and sugar - wrong. A weekend without…

For as long as I can remember I've had a frugal twist to my life. Even when I went mental on credit cards as a student I still religiously turned off lights, bought clothes from charity shops and meal planned (it was the jaunts around the world at the last second with my flatmates, oh…

Dear Man who called me fat, It was a strange experience 'meeting' you on the main road this morning. I'm not sure where you're from but it is customary to introduce oneself and perhaps even say "how do you do?" upon first meeting someone around these parts. I won't look down on you for not…

A lot of people just don't get why I shop in charity shops and will ask why on earth I love 'second hand junk' so much. They even turn their noses up when I mention I run a charity shop blog. Well, after the firm end of a ten minute conversation they're more often than…