I live an abundant life on a small, private pension.
I live an abundant life on a small, private pension.
This website provides tips and encouragement for others that want to simplify their life, reduce consumerism, reduce the waste of the planet’s resources, and be more content with what they already have.
A simple, frugal life does not have to involve feeling poor without luxuries, or be just about surviving.
You can feel rich in so many other ways. Through planning, having a positive mindset, using nature’s resources, and by reducing waste, it is possible to thrive, and live your best life, even on a small income.
Latest from my blog
The Frugal Things that You Can’t put in a Shopping Basket
There is a strange contradiction at the heart of modern frugality. We are constantly surrounded by advice about how to spend less, yet so much of that advice still involves buying something. We are told [...]
The Social Cost of a Frugal Life: Finding Out Who Your Real Friends Are
One of the unexpected things about becoming more frugal is that you may discover it costs you something you hadn't put in the budget. Sometimes, it costs you friendships. At the very least, it changes [...]
Not perfection, but consistency
I don't want to live like a pauper. This blog is aimed at people who are new to the frugal journey, mainly. A lot of folks are having to stretch the purse strings due to [...]
16 Meals from One Tin of Beans
I make my own baked beans sometimes, but always have a tin of baked beans in the cupboard. They have quite a lot of sugar in them and so I try to make meals or [...]
Switching up a tin of cheap rice pudding
This is the third in a series of blogs about what to do with cheap 'essentials' cans of food to make them more appetising. I wrote one about a tin of tuna, and one about [...]
Don’t panic about food prices.
I have people saying to me that they are scared about feeding themselves this winter if prices go up. Worry is just wasted imagination. The thing to do is to use that creative mind and [...]
Meals from a tin of tuna
I always make sure that I have some tins of tuna in my pantry. Once upon a time I only used it in a sandwich, or on the side with a salad, which I still [...]
Briquettes for free fuel
We have a wood burning stove. I have been meaning to make some briquettes out of waste items for a while, to complement the wood that we forage. Today we finally got round to it [...]
Favourite recipes
Using affordable ingredients and what you already have in the store cupboards, as well as what you can grow and forage.
