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Re: 2026 Frugal Living Challenge
😱😱😱😱 It does make you wonder what she was doing with it. Mind you I heard the explosion when a previous neighbour of mine in France doused his bonfire with petrol and then lit it!! Thankfully he …11 -
Re: 2026 Frugal Living Challenge
It's well worth saying. I remember a number of years ago when there was a petrol shortage a woman filled up a can of petrol and took it into her kitchen. The fumes caught fire.11 -
Re: 2026 Frugal Living Challenge
Welcome back @leftatthetrafficlights It sounds like we are singing from the same song sheet. 🤣 Have you found Nikki from Back to the Good Life? I like her down-to-earth approach, no pun intended. 😁…13 -
Re: Changes in your retirement expenditure
you could also move the ‘weekend’ as long as the number of days stays stable the spend should? but moving out of sat/sun might be easier to park, less crowded etc?3 -
Re: 2026 Frugal Living Challenge
@PipneyJane thanks for that idea. Just after reading it another popped into my head - I have some plant pot saucers on wheels. Think I'll give them a practice and see how they perform 😉 @suzees…12 -
Re: 2026 Frugal Living Challenge
there’s a man I watch on YT who made a new kitchen which was very tight for space, he did just that. All the baseboards were drawers with the push to open function. It is a really wasted space. I’m t…11 -
Re: 2026 Frugal Living Challenge
I have a vague memory of seeing a photo of ? an iKEA kitchen where there were drawers in the kickboards. It was either in their paper catalogue - remember those? - or in one of those multi-part home …15 -
Re: 2026 Frugal Living Challenge
My storage for such items will be being located under the cupboards by removing the kick boards. There is plenty of space for your hand to gain access that is required. I may decided to put some tins…12 -
Re: 2026 Frugal Living Challenge
Which pressure canner are you buying, @dND? I use my 10L pressure cooker, but it only holds 3 jars (at best). It reaches 15lb pressure. Pip11 -
Re: 2026 Frugal Living Challenge
Wow! That is quite a marathon of processing/preserving @lurkeralongtime Well done! I’ve had one of those full-on weeks at work, which left me pretty brain dead by the end of each day. Fortunately, I …14
