An Introduction

For anyone stumbling across this blog I will introduce myself and what this blog as all about.

I am a 29 year old SAHM (stay at home mum) to my little boy Harry (16 months) and my step-son Jake (13 years), I also have another step-son Samuel (8 years) but he lives with his mum and spends all the holidays with us.

I have always been one for getting value for money (some call it cheap I prefer frugal) but when I decided to leave my job as a bank manager to be a full time housewife and mum getting value for money became a necessity, it doesnt take a degree in accountancy to see that 2 adults + 3 children / 1 income = A HEADACHE.

Its amazing how quickly you learn to turn lights off when you leave a room (and drill this into the kids) and how it becomes second nature to look for super market deals.

We dropped our income by £28,000 p.a and added another tiny person to our family and yet we still have everything we NEED.

It is this very thing that has prompted this blog and my slightly obsessive compulsive behaviour for penny pinching, super scrimping and overall living as frugally as possible. It got me thinking, just how little money can we live off????

Over the 5 week period 24th Aug - 26th Sept that question is exactly what i set out to answer. I have challenged the family to live off as little as possible and I will be blogging daily with how we are getting on.

I will also be sharing all the cost cutting tips that I come across and hope that in doing so it will show just how much we waste and show how we can change that.