Although this website explores it a bit, it's not aiming to persuade people that living in the style of our forebares is altogether recommended!
It's about living a comfortable life within our budgets through selection, investment, need and precaution without spending where it's not necessary and giving guidelines to achieve this.
Also to realise it can be done without too much sacrifice and having some fun on the way.
Through career downshifting seven years ago, I have found, often through hardship, that life really is what you make it, you have to spend money sometimes to save money to be more cost effective in the long term.
You also have to tweakl your lifestyle and your needs to suit, but you can do this without losing out on too many material things.
Cost effectiveness, saving money, reducing expenditure in the home and at play
Main starter pages
Looking at the home and where we can save, both in purchasing and cutting costs. Every room covered!
From 'growing your own' to garden tools and equipment
Challenging looks on reducing this high cost part of our lives
Looking at lifestyle, hobbies, wellbeing and rest time in general
Other websites and shopping sites for more ideas and inspiration
Being frugal?, Being thrifty?, Being cost effective?
Or just being sensible?
Frugality (also known as thrift or thriftiness), often confused with cheapness or miseriless, is a traditional value, life style, or belief system, in which individuals practice both restraint in the acquiring of and resourceful use of economic goods and services in order to achieve lasting and more fulfilling goals. In a money-based economy, frugality emphasizes economical use of money in meeting long term personal, familial, and communal desires.
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Saving is a fine thing, especially when your parents have done it for you - Sir Winston Churchill
In economics, cost-effectiveness refers to the comparison of the relative expenditure (costs) and outcomes (effects) associated with two or more courses of action. Cost-effectiveness is typically expressed as an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER), the ratio of change in costs : change in effects.
Cheapskate A miser is a person who is reluctant to spend money, usually to the point of forgoing even basic comforts. The term derives from the Latin miser, meaning "poor" or "wretched."
Our home is our Castle
But these have to be paid.
Keep them at bay and......
enjoy a better life
