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2025 Frugal Living Challenge
Welcome to the all new 2025 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…
Help with dying jeans
I have two pairs of jeans, sold as black but they are more a dark grey and I've realised that whilst very comfy I have hardly worn them. The blue ones I bought at the same time are nearly worn out. I have gone down an internet rabbit hole trying to find out if they can be dyed properly black. So much conflicting…
O/S Daily Friday January 30 3026
Good morning, it's cold and damp as usual here. This tablet that I'm posting on seems to be on the blink so I'll keep this short. Unwanted letters are appearing in the middle of words and capitals are doubling. I'm doing more correcting than anything else. Thoughts to our sad and poorly people. Take care folks whatever…
O/S Daily Thursday 29 January 2026
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O/S Daily Wednesday January 28 2026
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O S Daily Tuesday 27 January 2026
Just starting us off as everyone seems late,,,,,,,,
Wheres Stardrops Gone?
Hi Folks. Have finally run out of a bulk batch of Stardrops original and green version that I bought years and years ago on the advice of this forum. It really has been great, effective on nearly everything I have tried it on and a real money saver! Before Christmas I started looking about to "restock" but can not seem to…
O/S Daily Monday 26 January 2026
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Weekly Flylady Thread 19th January 2026
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. Thank you, Valli, for last week's thread.…
O/S Daily Sunday January 25 2026
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Old Style Daily Saturday 24 January 2026
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The Second Purse Thread
Hello everyone, I’ve been thinking of reviving the Second Purse Challenge
for a while and a post by @Frugalistamama spurred me on. For those who don’t know about this way of grocery budgeting,
I’ve linked the original posting by @Mothership below. I intend to set aside £30 of my monthly food budget to look
for bargains to…
Old Style Daily Friday 23 January 2026
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Old Style Daily Thursday 22 January 2026
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2026 - Mindful Living and Connection
Previous thread: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6493531/slow-living-doing-it-old-style/p1 I've decided to start a new thread as life has developed and changed since I started my previous one and my focus is definitely shifting! Being more frugal and living a slow life has definitely been an uplifting and…
tasty stock without onions or garlic?
I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas to make my stock taste better! For medical reasons I'm having to do a low FODMAP diet which means I can't put onion or garlic in my stock. I also can't use normal supermarket stock cubes although if I get totally stuck I can buy some sort of compliant stock powder from the Internet.…
Old Style Daily Wednesday 21 January 2026
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Vegan Storecupboard Challenge Winter 25 - Winter 26
It's back for a new year!! I celebrate my New Years day on the midpoint between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice and that's today so it's time to get the new Vegan Storecupboard challenge off the ground! The aim of this challenge is to minimise grocery shopping and food waste by using up as much as possible of what you…
Instant pot is it worth it?
Instant pots are half price right now and I'm tempted but also worrying about whether it will be worth the initial outlay to save energy costs when cooking? Does anyone have one? What types of things do you cook n it?
O/S Daily Tuesday January 20 2026
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