Giveaway:
Win a £25 Sainsbury’s Voucher!
Sainsbury’s recently introduced the ‘Taxi of Mum and Dad Calculator’ — a fun way to see how much you could earn in taxi fares, if your children were ‘on the clock.’ However, it’s not all about money, your time is also precious. So, how would you spend the hours if you weren’t playing taxi? Finish a good book, getting outdoors or just doing nothing, are some of the little luxuries the Money Matter’s team would enjoy.
To find out how parents would rather spend their time, I am giving all Lavender and Lovage readers a chance to win a £25 Sainsbury’s Voucher! All you have to do to enter is answer the question: What would you do with your time saved?’
To enter and win the prize of a £25 Sainsburys voucher, all you have to do is leave a comment at the bottom of this blog post. You can increase your chances of winning by tweeting about the give-away and referring a friend to enter. The winner will be chosen at random by Rafflecopter and it’s really easy to enter!
Disclaimer: I am offering this giveaway on behalf of Sainsbury’s Bank Car Insurance and the Sainsbury’s Bank Family Blogger Network. I received some Sainsbury’s Vouchers in payment for hosting and running this giveaway.
How to enter this giveaway:
Enter the draw by leaving a blog post comment with your ideas for: What would you do with your time saved?
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Whether or not you’re our prize winner, your affordable family activity ideas could also potentially appear in a future Money Matters Blog post.
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The deadline for entering the giveaway is Wednesday 1st May.
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I’d read more. I never seem to have the time to finish my book!
I would spend more time on m craft hobbies. They seem to get quite neglected and by the time the children go to bed, my eyes are too tired to focus!
would love to spend more time sorting out the garden so we could enjoy it
I’d spend more time relaxing in a green space, don’t have my own garden but live on the edge of the countryside so would pack up a small picnic and get out and about exploring the heath and woods locally.
Spend longer in the bath to relax
I’d read a book and have a glass of wine.
Watch a film.
I would spend more time in the vegetable/fruit garden.
Now the good weather is here getting out in the garden more
I’d spend it making cards
in the garden sunbathing 🙂
I would give my house a good spring clean!
I would sit on the patio class wine and enjoy our garden
get some sleep 😀
Read a book
I would indulge in breadmaking and trying to master it 🙂
Meditate
i’d spend it on my new hobby sewing
I would try to do something artistic
Take a big bubble bath!
Probably cooking. I do love cooking.
I would update my blog and take more photographs for it.
I would sit out in my garden watching the wildlife
I’d go for a walk
finish my painting in my hall
I would love the extra time to spend at the gym
Read more!
go out for a run!
I would love to use some saved time for meeee time. A nice long warm bath with music.
I would give myself a manicure and pedicure
reading cookery books and getting inspirations!
do more baking with the children
Do more baking
Cut the grass
household duties
id use the spare time to sleep…..afterall , being pregnant and having teenage children is very tiring! @chanson2010
I’d probably use it to read a good book! 🙂
Catch up on my reading – it’s piling up on my Kindle!
I’d catch up on all the stuff I never have time to read!
I would read more books
play candy crush
Read some of the books on my kindle
paint my nails x
I would spend it trying out some new recipes.
extra sleep!
Get fit.
I’d put my feet up and call a friend for a nice chat.
a nice walk over the meadows
I’d read a good book.
I would cook more yummy food – mmm food! Vohn x
A long lazy bubble bath
I’d be working on that novel I’ve been threatening to write for donkeys’ years x
I would read more
sleep. simple sleep, all else falls into place with more/enuff sleep
Put my feet up with a well deserved cuppa and a biccie for once!
catch up on tv programmes I have taped
spending time with my beautiful girls
have a nice long bath….
I would make more real food instead of grabbing a sandwich here and there
Cross stitching
Have a pamper session
If I saved time I’d like to play my drum kit for long enough often enough to become good at it!
exercise, sleep, clean and cook more fancy looking food
I would catch up on sleep or housework
I would definitely get fit as I never seem to have time to work-out 🙂
I would maybe have spent the time gardening. Though my daughter was very good at catching buses. She had to be pretty independent from early on as I wasn’t always well enough to ferry her about.
I would read a book and have a glass of wine.
I`d read always happy to spend time reading 🙂
Weeding the garden!
Drinking coffee and listening to music.
Relax in the garden
I’d paint my nails
sewing
I would do some patchwork
feet up, coffee and a good bool
oops I meant book!!
Blog or read. 🙂
Gardening
Blog!
Never have time to read, so perhaps I could do a bit of that.
Probably sort the garden for summer
Reading or cleaning – so probably reading because cleaning is dull !
i’d read
Perhaps I’d actually get to finish my book!
I would spend the time reading or baking
I love learning new crafts, I’ve been promising myself the time to learn how to crochet but not quite managed to do this. I’d like to get to grips with the crochet hook!
I’m not ferrying kids around but I am commuting in a car (shifts don’t allow for trains). I miss the train time for reading books, so I’d read
I’d read my book.
Definitely more baking!
Have a really good cup of coffee and read the newspaper.
go for a swim
gardening
Sleep
Read some of the books I’ve been promising myself to tackle
read a good book
learn to bake or crochet
Read a book
probably ironing – it definitely wouldn’t turn into “me” time
I would read more.
I’d probably do some baking!
I would catch up on some reading
I would use the time saved to get on with the gardening
Do more baking. Can never seem to make the time.
read some books
Read a book.
I’d spend mine either at my sewing machine or down at my allotment
More cooking and reading
I’d try and do some more interesting cooking again.
I’d spend more time cooking and baking, especially making bread.
I would spend more time in a bath full of bubbles
I’d read 🙂
sleep
Bake cakes
get my nose into one of the many books I haven’t had time to open lately
I would polish the car
I’d spend the time trying to relax and having some quality me time 🙂
Relax
Put my feet up and get lost in a good book
more me time
Read more Stephen King!
Growing herbs then cooking with them.
my partner and i would go for a walk together, or go for a nice glass of wine just the 2 of us. or maybe get the cars cleaned.
spent it with my children
a lovely family walk x
go shopping at Sainsbury’s with a £25 voucher i have won.
Get stuck in to the never ending ironing!
A long bubble bath with nice music candles and of course a glass of sparkling x
read more books
I will put my feet up
Read a good book
I would work on some of my unfinished craft projects that always get pushed to one side!
Have a bath 🙂
Make a cake
chilling out time for myself
Potter in my garden x
More housework
Catch some zzzzzz’s
Have a long luxurious bath with bubbles and chocolate!
baking yummy cakes
read and eat!
A little me time, a leisurely breakfast or a soak in a warm bubble bath
I would save it all up in a time bank, and add it on to my end date.
bubble bath, wine, sleep
sneak off with the hubby somewhere – with 2 kids, quality time is rare
paint my nails!
Enjoy a good book
I’d spend more time with my other half, he’s so neglected but never complains x
Bake! I love baking but have not enough time to do it 🙁
I’d love to write 🙂
spend more ‘me’ time, i started to trace my family tree but never seem to have the time to do all the research
Read a book
Read my magazine in peace
i would spend time relaxing and read a book
Read a book
Spend it with my children
Go for a nice walk in the country
i would lie in a deep bubble bath with a good book1
Start an excercise regime…again!!!!
Have a nice bath with a book and a glass of wine!
knitting, sewing, or gardening
I’d catch up with the mountain of books I buy but never seem to find the time to read.
watch a good film with a nice glass of wine x
eat and sleep.
Sleep!
I would use the time for cleaning, I love having it all clean 🙂
Summer, be out in my garden, winter, read or cook/bake
Take the family & dogs out for more walks.
I’d spend it doing up the garden.
Sleep 🙂
i would catch up on some sleep
i would sit down and have a nice cup of tea and hopefully finish it x
hello x I would sew more and read to my little girl x
I would spend the time reading and doing jigsaw puzzles maybe even have a barbecue
I would bake more & teach myself dressmaking – inspired by The Great British …. TV shows.
Go get a hot stone massage… ahhh bliss.
I would HAVE to fit my exhaust on my car.. It has been in the boot for ages, and i can’t drive it until it is fixed.. I have just been too busy!
yoga its becoming one of my new favourite ways to get fit
I’d have a long uninterrupted soak in the bath
Lock door, phone off, nice cuppa and a blooming long rest.
Have a nice hot bubble bath 🙂
watch a film or read a book
I would definately indulge in some Yoga to relax!
Reading a book without any distractions or interruptions would be a treat (preferably while lazing on a hot sunny beach!)
reading my book 🙂
Catch up with my tv programmes, I’m a bit behind on Grimm at the moment
I would do one of my exercise dvds
I would bake a lovely lemon drizzle cake to share with my family.
Brush up on my baking skills!
i would spend more time playing with my sons
learn something new
I would spend more time in the garden planting veg with the children.
HAVE AN EXTRA HOUR IN BED LOL
Read!
Have a lie in
Have a nap
read more blogs
I would love a relaxing bubble bath
Probably have a run
I would read! Takes me forever to finish a book at the moment!
catch up with some sleep
I would try and write a book
Learn a new language
Finally get myself out for that run I’ve been promising myself for far too long and kickstart my summer body!
I would play games with my family
read or cross stitch
I would enjoy the sound of silence. If I got bored of that I might play a video game!
I would read a classic book
I would spend it writting
Any time saved would be spent with the kids just messing around and having some extra playtime 😀
Gardening
Just savour some “me” time 🙂