Five fabulously frugal things I’ve done this week – 5th January 2018

Here is the first Five fabulously frugal things I’ve done this week of 2018. It’s been a great week and now Christmas is over it’s back to frugality and saving money.

Five fabulously frugal things I’ve done this week

1. I set my financial goals for 2018. With some big goals in place I’m using them to spur me on and keep me frugal. I find with goals in place I’m more likely to stick to my budget and not spend on unnecessary items.
2. I picked up some free bread using the Shopmium app this week. If you don’t already know what Shopmium is check out my review here.
3. It’s my sister’s birthday at the weekend, so Amazon gift cards earned from surveys paid for her gift.
4. I picked up 2 10m rolls of wrapping paper for 50p each this week. I could have happily picked up some gorgeous gift bags that were reduced to just 25p but we really won’t need them next year. Reminding myself that it’s not a bargain unless you need it! We will reuse the gift bags we received this year for next years presents.
5. I meal planned this week and will finish meal planning this weekend to prepare for a no spend January – February. We will be eating up out of the cupboards, fridge and freezer for (hopefully) 4 weeks. I couldn’t realistically start our no spend month until the kids had gone back to school and we had gotten a bit more back to normal. So I decided to start our four weeks mid way through January instead.

Summary

I’m looking forward to our 4 weeks of no spend on groceries, we do have some supermarket gift cards to fall back on if we need fresh stuff. Although I’m hoping that I can find time to make my own bread again now that the mad November/December rush has gone. Which will just leave fruit and veg to buy weekly when we run out of the fresh, dried, tinned and frozen we already have.

I’m linking up with Cass, Emma and Becky in this week’s ‘Five Fabulously Frugal things I’ve done this week linky.