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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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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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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…
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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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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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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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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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Dreaded food shop family of 6 🤦♀️
Hey! We are a family of 6, we have 4 boys that seam to never be full! So our monthly food bill is coming out around £950 per month and it just isn’t feasible anymore! We normally shop at Aldi for the majority of our food but go to farmfoods and home bargains for the bits we can’t get in Aldi. I go weekly and spend about…
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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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Weekly Flylady Thread 10th June 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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Old Style Daily Saturday 15 June 2024
Good morning folks. It's such a bright start, I'm hopeful about it staying that way.
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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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Make Do, Mend & Minimise in 2024
With the cost of living showing little sign of easing soon, I thought I'd start a new thread for this. I'm sure many of us are trying to be as environmentally friendly as we can be as well as stretching our budgets as far as we can. I'm putting together a To Do list towards this end and will publish any achievements as and…
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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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Could we start a meal plan thread again, so it's not lost in the GC?
Just thought this would be quicker reference than what's for dinner or searching through lots of posts? There used to be one a while back, Meal Plan Monday or obviously whatever day you start yours on 🙂 I did post mine in the Grocery challenge, but will post again for anybody that doesn't join in with that thread. Vegan…
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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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24 for 2024
OK, it's that time again! I know a few people have done this in the previous years, but I'm making a start on getting organised (or procrastinating over my 23 for 23 list 😂) The idea is you have a list of 24 goals, that you do 24 times during the year. It can be big or small, fun or serious, and the idea is something you…
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O/S Daily Friday 14th June 2025
Good morning, it's a dry start here, we'll see how it develops.I managed to get some washing dry outside yesterday before the inevitable rain descended. I have no particular plans today apart from the usual houework. I'm going to ring a man who cleaned our carpets a few years ago to see if he's still doing it, if so I'll…
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Reverse Meal Planning
Not sure if many of you will have tried the reverse-meal plan idea. Rather than buying all the ingredients you need to support your meal-plan, you look at your fridge, freezer and store-cupboard and meal plan from that, minimising what you shop for. Based initially on the fresh produce that would be wasted if it is not…
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Cleaning fence
Hi any tips on cleaning bird poo and green on fences. How do we stop birds perching in fence? Thanks