Smiley Badgers and 2013

I've been blogging a bit more frequently recently that is because I don't have a lot else to do at the moment, but let me share with you some of the things I did when I had things to do. My proudest achievement was facilitating the creation of this:

a badger with a side smile cheers everyone up right?

What's even funnier than that is Dan's impression of the side smiling badger.

Last time I wrote a blog I never got round to saying what I set out to say, and again I have been distracted. Damm those smiley badgers and their powers of distraction!

So 2013 that's what I was going to chat about. 2013 is going to be the best year ever because I declare it! and because I have been super stingy my whole life but 2013 is the year we have chosen to convert money and to super fun adventure times.

Here are some of my top most stingy things I've done.

• saved 50p a day out of my lunch money all through secondary school by not drinking.
• for 2 months I lived on a budget of £5 a week for food.
• I didn't go to see Atomic Kitten when they came to my school because it cost £1
• I virtually never buy cards, I always make them - it's not because I'm thoughtful it's because I'm tight.
• When my old work told me I needed smart office trousers, I found some age 10 school uniform trousers for £2.
• I use free wallpaper samples for wrapping paper
• this year I've made my own Christmas crackers from toilet rolls
• I've had my current phone for about 3 years- it was free with a £10 top up.
• in my whole life I've had a desktop computer and 2 laptops, the combined cost of all of these is £20

I've done generous and extravagant things too but I won't list them.

But the point is I've been very careful with money my whole life, and since we've been married Dan has been working very hard commuting to a job he doesn't like in southport (by bike and train because it's the cheapist way) BUT 2013 is going to be the year of adventure and fun where we take 2 months out from working to travel by folding bikes, interail, planes, and a sailing boat through 14 different countries to Kuwait. 

It's going to be massively epic!