Thrifty life
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A 10yr photo challenge with a twist! Well, more like a six-and-a-bit year photo challenge. Pre-2013 we totally loved Dolmio pasta sauces. Yes, it was out of a jar and hence processed food. But we were crazy busy & it was delicious as well as quick. Also we didn’t really agree that homegrown is tastier.…
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Ah, bet you weren’t expecting this from me huh?! The last 3 years have been an exercise in resourcefulness & we found a treasure trove of free advice on various blogs! Now we just want to give something back. Right. So. Rosewater. In case you love rosewater for cooking & baking, or personal care but on…
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You know how it is. You go about the house getting on with chores when you hear a crash. What now, you ask yourself rushing towards the noise…
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Dining table, cups of tea gone cold, and lots of financial calculations. We were checking through our budget. “You will hate this, but we can’t buy them anything. Just no room.” I heard John say as I started at the calculator. We have found ourselves managing a very different mature student life than the one planned…
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“Djuknow what we need to focus more on?” John asked. “Hmm?” I looked up from my book, quite curious. “Cook from scratch as many weekday evenings as possible”, said John thumbing through a thoughtful Xmas gift. (I hate housework, and this idea sounded like more housework to me!) But we do cook from scratch, I protested. We…
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Our corporate lives were hectic. You must be expecting me to say how wonderful it is to slow down as a medical student, eh? Ha! No sir. I hate it. I would take high productivity, being on the road, deadlines, multiple projects on the go, & long working hours any day. On the plus side though this slow life (and…
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I used to have this Sunday afternoon ritual, if at home- a piece of dark chocolate truffle, freshly brewed espresso & catching up with my favourite blogs. While John and I were planning our mature student life we didn’t think I would have to let go of stuff like this. In any case, I would have reiterated,…
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Meet Joy Jar: A tradition we kickstarted to cope with the extremes of 2013. By mid-year we had already experienced a couple of fantastic highs and an awful lot of terrifying lows. So, we started to fill up this old sweetie jar with mementos of whatever made us happy this year – from Suravi’s first…
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(John) Rent or buy, looking for that perfect place is a headache of mammoth proportions. We wanted to rent, which had its own set of issues. Landlords with strange demands, houses with bullet holes in them, or a troll living in the cellar! All that time spent looking for properties online – I finally found Zoopla to be the most…
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John and I had initially set this blog up to share our lives with friends & family who are spread across the globe. After all life’s stories are only half lived unless you share them with a loved one, preferably over a beverage! Then a year passed as life decided it did not like my…
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