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2025 New Years Resolutions, how many will you attempt ?
Good morning as the New Year is on the horizon how many will you make ,break or keep ? I don't think about what I want to do more of what I don't want to do IYSWIM I want to be as healthy as possible and walk more, I don't want to be a couch potato and just veg out :) I want to learn something different I've never done…
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Old Style Daily Saturday 04 January 2025
Morning all. There was a magnificent starry night tonight, I spent too long just looking at it.
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December 2024 Grocery Challenge
Welcome to the last Grocery Challenge of 2024! As always this challenge is to reduce your own grocery budget to levels that you will be pleased with, not forgetting that we always recommend that you stay inside your own comfort levels and take things gently one step at a time. Remember that this is not a…
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Old Style Daily Friday 03 January 2025
Morning all. Not moving yet. 😀
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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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Old Style Daily Thursday 02 January 2025
Morning all. It's a very bitterly cold Bank Holiday here. I'll be back.
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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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2024 Frugal Living Challenge
Welcome to the all new 2024 Frugal Living Challenge Challenge yourself to live a frugal lifestyle so you can afford the freedom to enjoy life. This is about household budgeting, simply living and being creative with your money. Frugality can be a fabulous lifestyle choice for debtbusting, boosting savings or investing in…
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Old Style Daily Wednesday 01 January 2025
Happy New Year. 🎉
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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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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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Ninja air fryer cooking problem
Been using a cheap air fryer for a couple of years now and an apple crumble is a favourite thing i cook. Got a Ninja for Christmas and just tried a crumble in it, set it for 30mins as usual and when i went to get it out i found that almost half the crumble topping had been blown off. Any ideas what i can do, if i cover it…
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Vegan Storecupboard Challenge 2024
It's back!! 😁 ETA: This challenge is about using up what you have in your storecupboard and freezers to make vegan meals and save money on groceries! Link to last year's challenge: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6413148/2023-vegan-storecupboard-challenge/p1 Following a massive deep clean of my food…
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Old Style Daily Hogmanay 31 December 2024
Good morning everyone. I'll be back soon.
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Old Style Weight Loss Challenge - 4th Quarter 2024
Hi All Welcome to the Old Style Weight Loss thread for quarter four 2024. Please feel free to start posting your weight loss goals for the next challenge which will run from the 1st October until the 31st December, although i appreciate people will probably want to stop before Christmas! You do not have to submit a loss or…
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My washing machine started beeping!
Recently my Indesit washing machine has started emitting beeps throughout its normal programme. It's usually a matter of three short beeps but can be more. Does anyone know what this means? The manual went awol years ago and I haven't a clue.
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Freezing iced Christmas cake
I've been given a Tesco finest iced Christmas cake with a best before date of 31 January 2025 and will not eat it all by then. I freeze rich fruit cake but never an iced cake. Will it successfully freeze so I can continue to enjoy it for a longer period.
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Old Style Daily Monday 30 December 2024
Morning all. The night has been very rough so I may snooze.
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Will sandwiches be alright for next day?
I'm going away for a couple of days and I wondered if I make sandwiches on the Tuesday morning and put them in tin foil in a tupperware box, will they be ok to eat on the Wednesday lunchtime? Unfortunately I won't be able to keep them refrigerated.
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Weekly Flylady Thread 23rd December 2024
🎄Christmas Week Starts here🎄 Thank you, Valli, for last week's thread. What is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US flylady idea - but we work on
the principle that housework is not fun, it's boring, can be time-consuming, is
often thankless but, unfortunately, necessary. It's here on Old Style to
provide the support…
