The Complete 'Getting Started' Collection

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This post is going to be a complete collection of ALL "Getting Started" threads here on Old Style. Please do not add any posts or questions into this Index Thread but do your best to choose from the many threads below one which is most closely related to your query and by all means join that one.

Getting Started

These are threads where people have asked "How do I start?"

Everyone's needs and circumstances are different so there are as many different ways as there are posters.

The best way to start is gently. Do things you think you can do that stay inside your own personal comfort zone.

If it gets to be hard work, or downright miserable then you are likely to get discouraged and quit. Do it gently, and when you think your budget is right, and you haven't given up things that you personally do not want to give up... then fine, fix it there. This is much more about shopping wisely and thriftily than it is about "spending less money" and many posters have found that as they learn the tricks of the trade, so to speak, they also find that they are actually eating better for less!

You wouldn't expect to pass a GCSE after just a few days in school and you shouldn't expect to be able to "do" Old Style in one easy go either. It's a learning process, and instead of trying to do it all at once it's a good idea to pick one or two things that catch your eye and you think "YES! I can do that!" and do them until they become second nature before picking out another thing (or two) to do. Honest

If you keep it as a nice easy process you'll find things change almost without effort and then one fine morning you'll wake up and think...

Hey! I am Old Style

Starting OS…

Help please - fallen off the Old Style wagon

Help me get sorted please

Starting to Old Style for who you are

I made it at home myself for nothing... - Old Styling when you're a busy parent

How to be Old Style when there are only two of you

What can a single person use on this board?

Can you do OS and work full time too?

Starting to Cook OS

Picky Children-How To Reducate then to OS eating?

Help getting my kids to eat HM/OS way please

Starting to Clean OS

Miscellaneous Old Style Hints and Ideas for Starters

Top 10 Hints for Starting Old Style

Budgeting (in the Shopping section)

First ever shop - and doing it OS

Getting organised (in the Misc section)

Menu planning (in the cooking section)

My first OS shop

New to OS

Please Help me become OS

The OS starter pack

Where do I start?

Finally

Even veterans have Old Style disasters, and no-one gets it right all the time! O/S disasters.... let us share ...

Many thanks to CQ, Racy, and Squeaky for all their work on previous versions of this collection