Minding Pennies

Another little post about the wider world of thrift - rather than our own personal penny pinching! I was flicking through Left Lion last week and stumbled upon this delightfully thrifty art project. Kristy started by deciding to pick up every penny she found in order to save them up and donate them to charity - which then blossomed into an art project where she photographs pennies in situ before picking them up. In doing so she is attempting to challenge the wasteful attitude of modern day living....

Minding Pennies, Kristy Guest

Here is a link to the article if anyone else is interested in reading more:

Art Works: Kristy Guest - Nottingham Culture - LeftLion.co.uk

Inspirational Stuff! Thanks Kristy!

 

 

Ken x

A breakthrough!

Right.

I have got my first thrifty milestone to post! Yesterday, I reduced my overdraft limit by £400. I realise this may not seem an awful lot to shout about but it's definitely progress, and means my overdraft limit is smaller than it's been for years - and this is all down to thrifty six!

Wahoo! Just need to keep it up now...!

Ken x

Lakes Lovers

T2

First and foremost....I can't believe we've been blogging a whole month already, which means we are now officially into T2 - the second month of Thrifty Six!

Secondly, there has been a serious lull in posts due to me and Chi taking a cheeky trip to the wonderful Lake District with some friends...an excellent time was had by all, whilst being seriously thrifty in the process! This post was supposed to be a joint blog, but clearly we were far too busy eating stew/drinking cider/singing Whitney Houston tributes to actually manage this - but I hope you'll add some further thoughts on our frugal times Chi, and possibly some photos?!

My three thrifty highlights of our trip are as follows:

1. Group Savings Galore - by going as a group Rachel managed to find us this amazing house which was only £100 each for 5 days stay (in comparison you'd be looking at about £20 per night for a shared room in a hostel)



Thankyou Lakes Lovers! http://www.lakelovers.co.uk/cottage-details/701

2. Cooking at Home - we went on a big shop at the beginning of the week and all put £30 into the kitty. From this we got four delicious dinners (so hard to chose a highlight of these - but mine and Chi's beef Stew was clearly a standout dish), breakfasts and packed lunches for every day. Oh, and enough wine and cider to get suitably merry every night! If we had eaten out every night it would have been easy to spend £30 on just one dinner...so pretty chuffed with this level of saving! And most importantly...the good times were not compromised!

3. Wholesome Walks - Despite some initial grumbles from myself, couldn't think of a better way to spend a bright winters day with excellent company! And completely free!


Ken x
      

Simple Snowy Savings Smugness

Exciting times in the T6 camp - we've starting to show people our blog and been getting some great feedback! It is amazing how many ideas and tricks people have about money saving, so will be posting these in the forthcoming weeks! We can also look forward to some guest blogs in the future - thrifty crafts and homemade cosmetics are just a couple on the horizon!

I thought I'd also post a quick blog of a simple saving I made just last night. As we've mentioned, the aim of Thrifty Six is not to stop doing fun things completely, but to make small cutbacks that will eventually add up. One of my biggest unnecessary expenses before T6 was going out for dinner - it really is one of my favourite things to do. However it also ends up seriously adding up when happening on a regular basis...! So last night, had dinner before I went out with friends (thus avoiding temptation) and just had a drink whilst everyone had their main course - and then joined in with the pudding. I still had a thoroughly enjoyable evening and made a saving of £12.90 (average cost per head was £21.00). I won't be doing this every time, but it all adds up!

Good Times!

A rather snowy Ken x