Cleaning Green

Cleaning Green is the perfect name of a site that provides recipes to make your own natural household cleaners for the kitchen, bathroom and laundry room. There is also a section with recipes for floor cleaners and advice about decluttering the green house.

Love Food Hate Waste

The Love Food Hate Waste campaign aims to raise awareness of the need to reduce food waste. The impressive site offers tips on how to save time and money by planning meals using the recipes provided on the two week menu planner. The website offers lots of different recipes to "cook once, eat twice" and plenty of ideas for ways to use up leftovers.

There is also a Love Food Hate Waste Blog.

Just Tutes

Just Tutes is a fantastic crafty blog about how to make something new out of something old - that is how to make clothes by recycling old bits of fabric and used clothes to create a whole new outfit. The blog also features recipes and crafts to make with children.

I suggest you read the first post where Charity Beasley explains what her blog is all about in her friendly Welcome! post.

On the front page of her delightful blog, she admits that "I am not an expert! In fact, I've been sewing barely two years..." which is incredible when you read through her blog and see all the great ideas and projects/patterns she is sharing.

Crafting a Green World

Do you enjoy crafting? If you do and you also like being frugal and green by recycling items, the blog, Crafting a Green World, combines all these elements and "features do-it-yourself projects that incorporate reused, recycled, and natural materials."

The site provides plenty of craft projects with tutorials.

The Budget Traveller's Guide to Sleeping in Airports

Travel, especially flying, can be costly so for people trying to save money, the guide to Sleeping in Airports is a useful site:

Whether you sleep in an airport by choice or get stranded due to some airline mess-up, let sleepinginairports.com help you in your time of need.

The site provides a list of the Best and Worst Airports and handy tips for How to Sleep in an Airport.

Read more about sleepinginairports.com on the blog of the same name.

Organic Gardening and Homesteading

Sue Merriam writes Organic Gardening and Homesteading, a site that offers lots of useful tips and advice for a self-reliant lifestyle.

There is a Homesteading Blog too, with recipes and frugal living tips.

Garden Swap Shop

GardenSwapShop is a new online community for gardeners where you can swap your surplus plants/bulbs/seeds on the website.

You can register for free and browse the different items on offer. Then you can choose to swap (only 20p per swap) or use the 'Buy Now' feature.

Thrifty Decorating blog

Christy writes Thrifty Decorating presenting lots of creative ideas and tips about how to decorate your home on a budget.

MomAdvice

Amy Allen Clark, a stay-at-home mother of two, created MomAdvice , a perfectly named site since it offers tips, advice and articles for moms.

The site also offers some fun and useful Downloads & Printables, a forum and a blog called The MotherLoad.

Frugal Living in the UK

Frugal Living in the UK is a useful site offering money saving ideas, thrifty tips, recipes, and pertinent links.

There is a Frugal Christmas section too.

Print Free Graph Paper

This is a useful (and frugal) tool:

Print free graph paper from your computer.

The Sewing Patterns Website

Sewing Freebies offers exactly what it says - FREE sewing patterns!

There are hundreds of free sewing patterns listed on Sewing Freebies: appliqué patterns, baby quilt patterns, bib patterns, preemie patterns,patterns for baby clothes sorted in age categories, patterns for adults and children's clothes, doll patterns, curtains/window treatment patterns, fleece patterns, quilt patterns, patterns for stuffed animals, and lots of other sewing projects.

LondonFreeList - free & nearly free in London

If you think London is too expensive for you to visit because you are on a tight budget and trying to be frugal, you will appreciate LondonFreeList :

"LondonFreeList lists all the events and attractions in London that you don't need much money to go to. They are all either free or cost no more than £3 maximum"

How "The Yellow House" became a 'green' eco-house

The Yellow House is about how George Marshall and his wife, Annie, set about turning a house into an eco-house:

"This is the story of how we took a very ordinary English terrace 1930s house and set out on a limited budget to turn it into our dream eco-house: comfortable, clean, healthy, beautiful and a model for low impact living."

The site is set up so you can easily explore the house and the eco-features room by room and there are also tips and ideas provided that anyone can try.

Find the lowest UK petrol price in your area!

PetrolPrices.com is a "a web site to help UK motorists save money on their motoring."
Use the site to search - simply enter a postcode (or town)- for the cheapest petrol in your area.

A blog about "One family's search for the good life"

Do you fancy going back to basics and living life in a more simple way? Do you think about changing your ways and becoming more thrifty and caring for the environment by living a 'green' lifestyle? If you do, then you will enjoy reading the blog called bean-sprouts by Melanie Rimmer. Her interesting blog is very informative but also a lot of fun and chatty. Take a look and I think you will agree.

Living on a Dime: "Making the most of what you have"

Living On A Dime provides lots of practical tips and advice about frugal living, budgeting and homemaking. You can find lots of free money saving recipes and useful money saving articles.

uSwitch: search, switch and save money

uSwitch is a very useful site to help you compare prices for all kinds of services and products. It's easy to "search, switch and save money on all your home services and financial products."

According to their website:

uSwitch.com is a free, impartial online and phone based comparison and switching service that helps customers compare prices on a range of services including gas, electricity, home phone, broadband providers and personal finance products. Our aim is to help customers take advantage of the best prices and services on offer from suppliers.

Ways to help you save money on anything and everything

Find lots of different ways to save money with the UK's biggest money site, MoneySavingExpert with useful tips, articles, tools and forums.

Personal Finance & Budgeting Advice for Women

Mom's Budget is a website that provides lots of useful articles, recipes and tips about how to manage a household and save money.