A lady called Zoe Morrison got a mention on a TV programme last Thursday evening "Going Green: Saving Money." They said she was a blogger so I investigated and found........
The
Eco Thrifty Living blog was started in 2011 when Zoe wanted to quit her
job and be a stay at home mum. She needed to work out ways to spend
less, but wanted to be eco-friendly too which can often be more
expensive. It took her a year to work out how to save enough money in
eco-friendly ways to be able to afford to quit her job. Ever since then
she has continued to pursue her passion.
She also has a book............Eco
Thrifty Living -
Linked to her website she is running "2021 - The Eco-Thrifty Challenge year". It says........
Now it’s your turn. I am starting up a private members group where I set you a challenge each month for a year, a bit like my year of eco challenges. However those challenges will be focused on spending less and becoming more eco friendly. Some of those challenges will be specific to the group and at times we will be joining in with wider campaigns e.g. Plastic Free July. At times there will also be bonus challenges along the way.
All sounds very good..........I read on ........until I got to this bit............
£30 a Month!!!
I guess that's how she was able to quit her job, but I don't really think that is very thrifty for the ones that sign up!
ReplyDeleteSo grateful to have spent 2020 in Dorset, where they ran the FREE Green Living Project. I do feel a little cynical about some of these groups. I do not need to spend £330 a year to learn how to spend LESS!
ReplyDeleteAll of which unfortunately bears out my growing feeling that while climate change will most seriously adversely affect the worlds poor it is only the worlds well-heeled and middle-classes who can personally afford to even pretend to be doing anything about it. We dont
ReplyDelete...sorry wrong button, we don't really want to give up life style, standard of living or conveniences, we just hope there is a magic replacement for our un-green things that we can buy and go on living as before. And some people will pay to find out what that is. The words snake oil come to mind.
ReplyDeleteNo flies on HER that's for sure! She won't be seeing the colour of MY money, but I shall pop over to her blog and be nosey.
ReplyDeleteWe shall do as we have always done - repurpose and repair furniture (note "new" headboard"), grow veg, have a compost heap, not fly all over the world or spend money gratuitously on 20 foot long gold velvet sofas!! (Which is something I heard on a Grand Design sort of programme yesterday - it was one of her vital things - I do hope she was joking, but fear she wasn't!)
Oh, and plant more trees.
ReplyDeleteNo, I won't be signing up either. Good luck to her, but I don't need to spend £30 a month to learn how to save money! xx
ReplyDeleteMy goodness I work so hard all month living frugally to save £30 a month and putting it away in a savings account. That would be so much more benefit to people in the long run.
ReplyDeleteSo that's how she's saving enough to be a stay at home mother! x
ReplyDeleteTo me the only sensible way to be thrifty in an eco-friendly way, is to do as our parents/grandparents did and that is to reuse, recycle and repurpose. I'm talking about before plastic, man-made fibres and materials dominated our lives so it isn't easy now.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many people will sign up for her website, I know I won't, Sue and IIona have always have good ideas to save money, if you have not got it go without.
ReplyDeleteHazel c uk 🌈🌈
"I'll teach you how to not spend money if you'll give me £30 a month for telling you?" There's just something kind of sneaky and wrong about that! I wish her all the best ... but also hope nobody falls for it!
ReplyDeleteReading Joan above struck a chord. Now that I live alone it is easy to waste food but as she says - our parents lived wisely. I don't think my mother ever wasted anything. A couple of crusts left and she threw in a couple of eggs (we had hens_ and a handful of sultanas - a bit of sugar and we had a delicious bread and butter pudding - the crusts these days would no doubt go on the bird table.
ReplyDeleteMy goodness. That's a lot of money! My first eco-thrifty decision would be not to sign up. Being thrifty begins with a conscious decision to be that. Decision made, you simply begin to look at your life and try to work out how to do things better/smarter/economically/mindfully.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Joan too. As a childless individual and not knowing the way of the young today as you do Sue with your children I am always at a loss to know why anybody has to be educated in thrift. To us of our generation we knew nothing else. It is all a mystery to me this teaching people to be frugal business, a total mystery.
ReplyDeleteHmmm - well, obviously, she knows how to make her money but I wouldn't subscribe. There's lots of free info out there.
ReplyDeletexx
Hi i just found your blog on life after money. I won't be subscribing to her blog is it a money making site? very expensive lots of free info out there and lots on youtube on frugal living and simple slow life etc living off grid.
ReplyDeleteThis paying to be part of an online group with a shared aim is becoming quite common. Recruits are made to feel welcome and special, to be working towards an aim, to be the ones in the know. The fact that the organiser can make a fair amount of money is somehow brushed to one side.
ReplyDeleteHaha ... clever lady!! If enough people fall for it she will not need to work. I guess we should think 'well done' of these entrepreneurs, starting little homespun businesses selling us a service during the Coronavirus epidemic, but to tell the truth there are that many of them my Facebook page is filling up with adverts for small businesses and it's getting more than a LOT annoying.
ReplyDeleteThe best way to save money is to simply take a step back. Need less, use less and make the best use out of everything you do have to spend any money on .... but then we already know that and we were brought up doing it.
That will be £30 please ;-)
Not for me but I do wish her luck with her venture. It would be interesting to know how many people join up.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, that seem a bit of a steep price to pay.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.