The Frugality Shop – For matchbox collectors and art lovers, everywhere

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Our first year doing an advent calendar for our 3

Our first year doing an advent calendar for our 3 year old and this is what we’ve learnt:

It doesn’t have to cost a lot. We’ve done an ‘activity’ calendar and ‘watching a Xmas movie’ or a ‘walk spotting festive lights’ is enough.

Don’t wear yourself out - split a packet of chocolate buttons across some days!

Don’t try and get every day ‘sorted’ before 1st December - pace yourself and do 5 at a time like us!

Reuse - save ideas from each year and adapt.

The same goes for the envelopes - these mini sacks were passed on by a friend from an advent calendar last year!

Its okay to pick and choose - just because everyone is doing something doesn’t mean you have to! Because once you’ve committed that’s it - I’m never starting elf on a shelf!

Chris spent the best part of today creating this v

Chris spent the best part of today creating this video so hope it’s appreciated 😆 our final gift guide is live on www.the-frugality.com (or link in bio), everything is wonderful and under £10 (a lot under £5) - because we don’t believe in gifting pointless useless items for a secret Santa 😉

Tagged some great and small businesses we used in the post

Today’s secondhand stories feature @queenieky.le

One more from the gift guides ✨ everything is un

One more from the gift guides ✨ everything is under £50 (and that’s the balance bike, everything else is far less) but we hope they are useful items that will be loved for a long time.

Link in bio 💫 www.the-frugality.com

I’ve tagged the small businesses here too

✨Secondhand stories✨ This will be a regular f

✨Secondhand stories✨

This will be a regular feature, we’re asking some of our Instagram faves about their best secondhand purchase, whether it’s a bargain or investment item we love seeing the personality vintage and preloved items bring to a home/wardrobe.

First up is @thenatmaison and her Ligne Roset chair 🙌🏼

“When I started looking at how I wanted to style my home, I kept seeing this recurring chair crop up in photos - it looked soft, fluffy, and sophisticated. I had no idea what it was called but I knew I had to have one. Flicking through the pages of a magazine, I finally discovered it was a Ligne Roset Togo. It felt like an investment piece so I set aside some money for it and kept scouring several auction / vintage furniture pages (Catawiki, Vinterior, Pamono, thesaleroom, eBay) to see what was available. Ebay seemed like the best bet so I narrowed my searches and spent a few weeks watching auctions. I lost quite a few (six to be exact). The motions of an eBay auction can be a lot: initial optimism at finally finding what you've looking for, saving it, monitoring for a week, forgetting about it until half an hour before, panicking, the flurry of last minute bids, and that lingering 30 seconds of waiting to see if you've won - followed by victory or crushing regret at missing out on a bargain. Seven was my lucky number, and this beautiful piece was delivered to me via Shiply. It was a lockdown highlight when it arrived and sinking into this comfy, beige cloud after a long day was well worth the wait!"

Which are you? We’re Team 1 & 2. @hannah.rochell

Which are you? We’re Team 1 & 2.
@hannah.rochell wrote this for The Frugality 2 years ago and it’s even more into our consciousness now.

Are you doing anything differently this season?

(We’ll add the link to this post to stories)

They’re here! www.the-frugality.com Link in bio

They’re here! www.the-frugality.com

Link in bio (and more next week!)

We’ve also included a few (exclusive) discount codes within the guides including:

20% off @west_stanton
15% off @soapsmithlondon
20% off @phaidonsnaps

(We’ve tagged fave independents in the image, too)

This is a precursor to our gift guides which will

This is a precursor to our gift guides which will be live on the site this week.

We compile them because they bring us joy, we try and search for the best priced items that are useful that we also never find in big publication gift guides. They often give us ideas but we would also like to re iterate that we would never want people to feel pressured to buy, or feel less than.

As stated before: your generosity is not defined by how much you spend on someone.

Feel free to scroll on by, skip the stories and not click those links ✨

The Frugality Shop is coming BACK! Sign up to the

The Frugality Shop is coming BACK! Sign up to the newsletter (link in bio) to be the first to shop the pre order.

Last time we sold out very quickly (and were a bit overwhelmed but it was an amazing experience and we feel so happy that you like what we’re doing!).

We have a reissue of The Frugality x @frances_glory_costelloe matchboxes in GREEN with pink matches plus a new product in the form of an amazing meal planner 💗.

Printed on recycled paper using green energy and 100% recyclable - we use these notepads every day and this version is tried and tested 📝

There’s a pyjama post live on www.the-frugality.

There’s a pyjama post live on www.the-frugality.com (link in bio!)

We’ve broken down fabrics in our search and found, in our opinion, the best versions under £70 so you too can dress like Alex’s all-time favourite holiday icon: Kevin McAllister

Holding image: @laredoute_uk

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