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May 2024 Grocery Challenge
Welcome to the fifth Grocery Challenge of 2024! ******** Please post your budget in BOLD and HEADING 2 ******** If your new month starts early feel free to join this thread, or if you're still working on your April Budget then keep on posting in the April Challenge. As always this challenge is to reduce your own grocery…
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June 2024 Grocery Challenge
Welcome to the sixth Grocery Challenge of 2024! ******** Please post your budget in BOLD and HEADING 2 ******** If your new month starts early feel free to join this thread, or if you're still working on your May Budget then keep on posting in the May Challenge. As always this challenge is to reduce your own grocery budget…
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April 2024 Grocery Challenge
Welcome to the fourth Grocery Challenge of 2024! ******** Please post your budget in BOLD and HEADING 2 ******** If your new month starts early feel free to join this thread, or if you're still working on your March Budget then keep on posting in the March Challenge. As always this challenge is to reduce your own grocery…
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March 2024 Grocery Challenge
Welcome to the third Grocery Challenge of 2024! ******** Please post your budget in BOLD and HEADING 2 ******** If your new month starts early feel free to join this thread, or if you're still working on your February Budget then keep on posting in the February Challenge. As always this challenge is to reduce your own…
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New to the Old Style MoneySaving board? Start here
💬 Some classic Old Style threads * Share your charity shop bargains * Cooking for one * Meal plan thread * Sneaky Ways to Save the Pennies and Lots more Sneaky Ways to Save the Pennies * Vinegar - 1001 uses! * The Old Style Starter Pack * What are you making for dinner? * Reverse meal planning Plus keep an eye on the…
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O/S WOMBLING, Road Coinage, Skips, Roadside 'finds' etc
Okay Confess.......... Who has benefited from people having clear outs. I will begin with my 'finds'.......... A perfect lamp A wooden stool about a foot high. Perfect for me as I am challenged height wise. 2 Flower pots A plastic shopping basket. Great for carrying multiple items up the stairs. A metal shoe rack. All…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 27th May 2024
Welcome
to the weekly Flylady Thread. We
often see new flyers (gents welcome!) around this time of year so please don't
worry if you feel you cannot keep up. Similarly if your house has been
neglected it won't be turned around in a day - but if you stay you will get
into some good habits which do help! Happy flying. What…
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5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3
Ok I'm diving in as I've noticed several of us have lost posts we thought had posted, and there now seems to be a serious risk of losing the whole thread. So thanks for the heads up Karcher. (and i sympathise Frith - i too like to nip back) I've revisited the first thread of our part 2, posted 28th October 2009. It said:…
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2024 Fashion On The Ration Challenge
Welcome to the village hall of Much Mending on the Borrow, where it is perpetually 1942. We’ve just finished the village Fun Run and the runners are discussing their times. There’s a fire in the wood-stove, tea brewing in the pot and cakes to share. Don’t mind Scruffy-dog on the hearth rug, or Jess, the cat, on the…
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Cooking for one (Mark Three)
Welcome to Cooking one (Mark Three), time to get a shiny new thread up and running. The link to "Cooking for one (Mark Two)" can be found here http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?p=73708876&posted=1#post73708876 Cooking For One 13th Jan 17 at 7:32 PM Hi, newbie poster though long time lurker trying to adjust…
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What are you making for dinner?
There were problems with the original thread in that it disappeared and could not be reinstated. So a new thread was created and we all started again, unfortunately that thread also seems to have joined it's predecessor. So here's a new one. We need to hear about Suki's lamb casserole and Island Maid is back from Amsterdam…
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Shop Charity Store in '24!
A shiny thread for chazzer shopping in 2024 - and remember, if you're 'fashion on the ration' then it's 'coupon-free'. If you want to save the planet, boost a cause or stretch your money - come post your finds on here, be they fabulous or funny.
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Old Style Weight Loss Challenge - 2nd Quarter 2024
Hi All Welcome to the Old Style Weight Loss thread for quarter two 2024. Please feel free to start posting your weight loss goals for the next challenge which will run from the 1st April until the 30th June. You do not have to submit a loss or gain for the first week as it's our starting week, you can post your first loss…
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2024 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD
To use Guineapigsqueaks/Sa1sysoo words “A new thread for declutterbugs in (2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021, 2022, 2023) 2024 !" My 2023 was another washout on the decluttering & decorating fronts. Neither DH nor I have managed to summon up any enthusiasm for anything. Not helped by DH’s health scare in March 😔 Our…
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Thrifty in my 60's
Next year I reach 60. I have never been bothered about the other big O birthdays . Being 60 does bother me, for various reasons. 1 My father died when he was 60. 2,It is the decade you retire in 67 for myself. I am going to start saving and being thrifty, Also what did you all do when you were 60. I have arranged to go to…
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La Dolce Vita - 2024
Happy New Year. Hello Everyone. I continue on my mission to live La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life) - living the best possible life I can with what can be politely termed a modest budget. 😂 I want to have it all......a beautiful home, gorgeous clothes, gourmet quality food, exotic travel and fun. Alas I am not a trust fund…
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The Knitters Thread
Following on from the recent thread about handknitting it is apparent that many of us OS'ers are also keen knitters. The idea of this thread is to give us a place to post comments/suggestions, to be able to chat about our current work in progress (WIP), share patterns/tips/tricks, and post pictures of our completed work…
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What's in your lunchbox ?
There is a discussion on this board started by @markglasses who has been taking jam sandwiches to work for many years. To help him and others to have a virtual peek into others delights, this thread has been started. Mark would also like to see approximate costs as well, if at all possible. So anyone who wishes to lift the…
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The all new using what you have from your Freezer, Cupboard or Shed (Barn)
It is probably time to have a new thread for this. What do you have in your freezer? In your cupboard/shed? Do you have a veg patch or allotment? What did you manage to store, preserve or freeze? I, myself, like to cook following a recipe, but love to add veg from my allotment!
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Clean Drawers!
This is not a comment on my underthings, but the fact that at long last I have cleaned out my food drawers. Two things accelerated this project. First, a few weeks ago found evidence of moth in some bread flour. This comes from a mill local to my parents. Mercifully I haven't found any sign of them in the actual drawer.…
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Saving pennies to make pounds
Thought it would be good to share some money saving tips and would love you to join in. My first tip is something I have done this morning, I have stopped buying mint tea and just have a cheap pot of supermarket mint in the kitchen window, just snip, use and it keeps growing and growing.
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2024 Frugal Living Challenge
Welcome to the all new 2024 Frugal Living Challenge Join us here for year 17 of the Frugaldom challenge on MSE It's that time of year again, the time when we all need to start thinking ahead into the new year and how we are going to organise our frugal lifestyles, be it to tackle debts, generate extra income or squirrel…
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Lots more Sneaky Ways to save the pennies
Official MSE Insert: Thanks to Penlope Penguin for starting this legendary thread, which includes everything from growing your own veg to washing & reusing plastic bags. Scroll down for tons more tips. If you haven’t already, join the forum. Back to the original post... The original Sneaky Ways thread is now very long so…
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O/S Daily Tuesday 28th May 2024
Good morning, it's sunny here! Yesterday wasn't too bad after some showers. We didn't go out because the weather seemed so uncertain, but pottered on at home. Your cough sounds bad Gers, I'd thought it was going away. Bit of a cheek from your cousin, expecting you to travel to Germany when they didn't remember your…
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Slow Living 2024 - Doing It Old Style!
It's a bit early to be starting this thread but it's the last day of 2023 that I will have the time so I'm doing it now! I have decided that 2024 is going to be the opportunity to put into practice all the things that I have thought about, wanted to do and dabbled with in 2023. I have a few diaries on the forum which touch…