Frugal Queen in France.
Welcome to our channel. We are Jane and Mike, British early retirees living in France. We live a thrifty debt and mortgage free life and love every minute of it. On our channel we share: money saving, thrifty living, home cooking, budgeting, simple living and everyday frugality. We put out three videos every week at 5pm Paris time. Wednesday is our mid week money chat which has a financial focus. Friday is all about food and saving money in the kitchen from meal planning to cooking an affordable homemade meal. Sunday shows a personal side of our life and can be anything from a budgeting video to a free day out somewhere in our part of France.
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Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful adventures. ❤
I love the visits you both make to such lovely places. Thank you for sharing your day trip with us.
here in 🇨🇦 we don’t eat goose (our national bird: Canada Goose), years ago we bought a small pre-lit artificial xmas tree, we don’t buy xmas gifts for friends/family instead we gather with friends/family where we draw names and each person at the gathering gets a “secret santa” gift. We alternate the hosting duties for which family household hosts xmas dinner, we don’t go out for xmas dinner
Absolutely gorgeous field trip today! Thank you for letting us tag along!
We recently bought a house with a woodstove. (We also have electric heat.) I will say the entire process has been a huge learning curve: how to buy wood economically, even kindling, building a good fire. Never had the opportunity to do this before but we have taken the last year and learned so much. Now we have a half cord of wood for next year and we have collected a lot of kindling as well. Feels so good to know how to offset our electric heating bill next winter! I can do glad to learn new frugal skills!
I prefer the ancient town more than the chateau. I adore these old buildings.
Beautiful village! Thanks for the tour!
Thanks for sharing!
Such lovely places, and that was so nice of the cafe to invite people to eat their own food on the patio. Smart too, as the sight of people around the place will attract more customers.
Yeah, those oranges would be $10 here
That head of broccoli would be about six dollars here
Wow, our prices are double here if not more
What a lovely place! Thank you for sharing your time there with us.
Wow lovely towns
Great narrative
Thank you so much for sharing video of your vacation with us. It contained sights I otherwise would never have seen. I love how Europeans treasure and retain their old structures.
Lovely scenery, thank you for sharing it.
So pretty. I'll never go but I can enjoy the sights from my chair. Thx for sharing. Glad you had a good time
Thanks for taking us along. How beautiful those little towns were.
Ok, there are two more places I want to visit!
Looks like you had a lovely day trip!
A M A Z I N G!! ❤. So beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
in our country, certain banking institutions discourage saving money longterm, those banks charge “dormancy” fees etc.. You really have to regularly review all your long term savings accounts to protect your hard-earned savings. ❤ 🇨🇦
I mean expenses
My husband calculated our experiences are up 10 thousand for the year. That's medical, home and auto insurance. Also taxes and food, gasoline, clothing. That being said I'm still careful with our spending. Our insurance, taxes, gasoline we can't change.
Loved this. Have aa friend who also is British who has been living in Josselin for several years. I've not been to visit her there, we met last year in London but this is tempting me. :0)
Lovely tour. I loved the flowers. Nice, quiet mini-vacation. The dogs really enjoyed it, too.
Beautiful, peaceful, and welcoming villages. Thank you for sharing your holiday with us… and your little furry ladies!
Thank you so much for bringing us the tour of these priceless places. Among many things, I was struck by the pristine cleanliness....I saw not even an errant leaf, let alone any trash of any kind. The pride of the people living there is something to be admired and celebrated. They are such an example for everybody else.
Such enchantment. What a wonderfull, peaceful, joyful afternoon shared by you for each one of us. Thank you and may you also be blessed
Such a beautiful view and wonderful commentary. Thanks so much! You have given me a new word: half-timbered. My mother's hometown had public buildings built in that style, with local timber and limestone. They referred to as "Bavarian" because of the immigrants who brought the style.
Beautiful. Loved it.
France was never on my list of places to visit, that is until I watched this video. Thank you Jane and Mike!!
Sounds like you got good prices on all your food! Excellent video thank you
I love that dogs are so acceptable in France. Man in my supermarket demanded I leave as I had my therapy puppy in a basket in the trolley.
The streets seemed so uncrowded! What time of the day were you there? Or is it that both were tourist areas so things would have been quite different a little later in the summer? It's dull and rainy here on the Eastern U.S. so it was good to escape a bit on your stroll through this historic area.
I see why that town was voted most beautiful. I love old stone buildings. They have a part in Quebec City that people call old Quebec City with all the old stone buildings and as I write this I remember that there is a place in Montreal they call old Montreal too. I love to visit those places and all the old churches are beautiful too.
What a treat. Thanks for taking us along on your adventure. Just love the cobbles and ancient buildings. Who knew that the timber and stone structures were painted with ox blood to make them red? I'll bet the dogs loved the walk around too.
Really enjoyed this video, such beautiful architecture.
Love Josselin, we have cycled along the canal and danced in the main square. Will be back mid-June for more dancing. 💃🏻🕺🏻
I highly recommend you visit Château de la Roche-Jagu. It has beautiful gardens too.
The avocados were a great price!
I feel like I just had a mini vacay by watching your lovely holiday video! Thanks so much for sharing Jane, Mike and pups.
What an amazing day out such pretty villages. Thank you for sharing your day with us.
Thank you too
WOW! Can't find anything like that in America! We have our own charming places... just not like that. Ours are too young to reflect centuries back that far.
Thanks so much
I appreciate all your wonderful tips. However the constant music really is not pleasant! I'll be nice to have it just here and there are beginning and end Maybe
Thanks for watching
We are fine because we have no debt and our boys are grown. I do meal plan and mostly buy only the Buy one/ get one free items and shop on senior day for another 5 percent off. I go to two different stores and buy their loss leaders. It takes some planning but it is worth it and I am retired. Don’t shop for pleasure or boredom. Only buy needs. Our Social Security is enough to pay our monthly expenses so we use a little of our 401K for trips. My main concern is what the future cost will be if either of us will need Assisted Living. Those costs have skyrocketed. We lived thru the 70’s with higher inflation than this. We have seen so many ups and downs in our 77 years.
Thanks
Absolutely gorgeous tour. I just love the old architecture, and the beautiful gardens.
Glad you enjoyed it
Lovely video.
Thank you very much!
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing
You are so welcome