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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 Plus keep an eye on the Grocery Challenge - the current month's thread is usually…
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Old Style Daily Monday 18 March 2024
Morning all. Happy Birthday to Camelot. 🎂🎉 Despite it being a work day I hope you have a great day with a lot of cake.
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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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Help - cooking supermarket pork chops.
Hi all, Is it actually possible to cook a supermarket pork chop without overcooking them? They are so thin that every technique I've tried doesn't appear to help. I've grilled, brined, cooked on high heat/low heat and all combinations of the above. All produce either an undercooked or "used insole" chop. Obviously I could…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 18th March 2024
Welcome to the weekly
Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week when it comes to
housework, or just the motivation to do the dreaded housework tasks you have to
do, come and join us, hopefully make it a little easier. You never know, you
might start to enjoy it! What is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US…
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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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Old Style Weight Loss Challenge - 1st Quarter 2024
Hi All Welcome to the Old Style Weight Loss thread for quarter one 2024 - where did 2023 go! Please feel free to start posting your weight loss goals for the next challenge which will run from the 1st January until the 31st March. You do not have to submit a loss or gain for the first week as it's our starting week, you…
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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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Reading as a cheap hobby
Reading needn't cost anything if you live within walking distance of a library or get a free bus pass. Libraries often put on free activities for children, too. If you're lucky, your local library will be warm and have some cosy armchairs. Some libraries will allow laptops so that students can work on projects and…
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Can we start using the oven for Sunday baking again?
Hi, as its been so long since I used my gas oven because it's been so expensive and I've got no idea how much it costs - so I've decided that when the gas (and electricity) prices go down in April I'm going to start using my oven again on a Sunday. I'll fill it up as I always used to, with a small joint of meat and…
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February 2024 Grocery Challenge
Welcome to the first 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 December Budget then keep on posting in the December Challenge. As always this challenge is to reduce your own…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Old Style Daily Sunday 17 March 2024
Morning all. Time for first coffee of the day.
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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…