Parks – what’s your local park like?

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Parks are a budgeting mums no. 1 summer budgeting activity option.  Local parks can be absolute lifeline for all parents for the following 2 reasons: they are free and open all year round …hurray. Usually empty of big kids on a weekday, they are usually well maintained by the council, safe, and they help your little one [...]

Top tips for a cheap, green kitchen

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Thanks Kate for a fab, green guest post that affects all of us…some top tips indeed! Over to Kate…. Thanks to Becky at Baby Budgeting for allowing me to write this guest post. I’m expecting my first child in May and invested in “How to afford time off with your baby” a few months ago. [...]

Green and Budget-Conscious Cleaning

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Thanks to Jessica at Green Families for this brilliant green and budget consious post Green and Budget-Conscious Cleaning According to 2007 statistics, the average family spends over £2 a day on household cleaning supplies. You can cut these costs AND get rid of all the toxic chemicals through supplies found in your pantry without sacrificing [...]

C’mon, it’s time to plan the best party on Earth (Earth Day April 22nd)

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 Earth Day Earth day is coming soon and you might want to plan a prty. If you child loves to have a celebration and a bit of a party this is a brilliant reason. Here’s some info.  Earth Day began in 1970 in the USA and is celebrated on 22nd April each year. It is a [...]

It’s a bank holiday tradition- Gardening (with kids + on a budget)

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spomsered post My hubby loves his garden and pre-kids we would spend a lot of money on it, making it beautiful. The lawn had to be just so and we would have pots and pots of gorgous flowers outside.  Now we don’t want any dodgy chemicals anywhere near the kids and we are on a [...]

Be energy efficient (guest post from the green familia)

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Our guest post today is from Brenda at the green familia and here she shares some fab tips on energy efficiency.  Thank you Brenda! Energy efficiency at it’s purest! One of the easiest ways of saving money and being kind to the environment is to be energy efficient.  Here are some tips on how to [...]

April is ‘going green’ month on baby budgeting

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 Budgeting is essentially about reducing what you spend but as a by-product of that you often and usually reduce your waste, recycle your goods and reuse skills and objects too! Budgeting is by nature environmentally friendly! We have to take care of our planet for our kids so we have to give focus and energy [...]

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