What I think about the £2000 sharing economy tax break
The UK government has shown it’s support for the ‘sharing’ economy in the 2016 budget with a potential £2000 worth of tax breaks for people who want to start up…
5 free kids Easter holiday activities that could save you money!
Easter holidays can get expensive with days out trying to keep the kids entertained. Here are 5 ideas that are low cost or even save you money!
Please nominate me for best thrifty blog in the MAD Blog Awards!
Dear lovely readers of this blog, I can’t believe I have been writing this blog for over 4 and half years now! All that time ago I decided to make…
Even a making a small change is worth it!
Toilet paper is an ongoing subject in my household at the moment! Aside from my experiment with not using it, usually we buy it in bulk from Costco (if you…
Sustainable Book Club: what’s happening next and the next hot topic – veganism!
The Sustainable Book club has stalled a bit recently. Our last meet up didn’t work out, so I decided to change things a bit and have a weekly ‘what are…
What did I learn from not using toilet paper for a month?
Toilet paper has really been on my mind recently strangely enough after all the media questions about it 🙂 and aside from reminding myself why I tried living without it…
I’m in the rubbish hot 100!
Resource Media’s Hot 100 – their list of the ‘brightest sparks of the waste industry’ was recently announced and I managed to sneak in there at number 76, which was…
How I saved over £500 by avoiding waste on an overseas trip!
I was recently taken away on holiday with my family by my lovely parents. I felt slightly guilty about the whole thing as this is the first time I have…
Sustainable Book Club no.5 – The Moneyless Manifesto by Mark Boyle!
I read the Moneyless Manifesto quite a while ago and blogged about it here and here. At the time the book had quite an effect on me. It really put me…
Footprints, but no hedgehogs :(
When was the last time you saw a hedgehog? We spotted one in our compost heap a few years ago, but haven’t seen one since. Hedgehogs populations have reduced in…