My kids really should know a thing or two about saving money I go on about it enough! Here’s their top 10 thrifty tips …..
· Use paper on both sides
· Homemade food tastes better and saves money
· Grow your own food instead of buying it then replant the seeds you get form these plants
· Use your recycling box to craft with
· Sometimes take showers to save money and don’t leave the taps running
· Buy books form charity shops as its recycling and saving money and its giving to charity (win win win)
· Hand things down and pass them on, saves money and recycling and people often return the favour!)
· Eat up food before it goes off (like fruit)
· Be creative, use what you already have rather than buying new
· Put the lids on your felt tips!
My kids are 6 and 9 and these are their ideas for keeping a thrifty home. Whys don’t you have this conversation with your kids and see if they can come up with 10 thrifty ideas. It can be a great conversation starter.
Awwwww so sweet to get your kids come up with this list. And I LOVE the list. Great ideas.. clever kids!!
Great tips from your kids. So simple, yet I often forget about some of them. Thanks for the reminder x
Oh how thrifty are they? Just goes to show what a great influence we can be to our kids – inspires me to try and be more thrifty!
I love the thrifty tips from their perspective! Especially making sure they put the lids back on the felt tips – you have taught them well!
I’m always telling Roo to use both sides of the paper and put lids on her pens
Oh how I wish my girls would use both sides of the paper when colouring / drawing ……
Lord, can they come over and teach my kids to put lids on please!
How onto it are your children?! Mind you, I wouldn’t really expect anything less!!
Please can you come and teach my kids how to put lids back on felt tips. I buy about a packet a week!
Fab tips, I wish my kids would learn the felt tip one!