Live on £4000 for a year - Part 3

redglass_2

What a lot you've all written in the last day! Re the 'TIghtwad Gazette', I've also got the complete version with 3 years' worth packed into one book. How extreme? Well...extreme enough to carry out tests to compare whether you really do save money combining Cream of Tartar and Baking Soda instead of buying them ready mixed. :eek: Not everything she does is that gnat's-bummy and she says that a) you don't have to do everything she does, you can pick and choose and b) magazines and TV programmes already do the 'middling' stuff, and she's supplying the more extreme knowledge you won't get there. Which is all fair and true. And she is definitely amazingly frugal, plus she's got a great sense of humour which makes for an entertaining read.

Jumble-Bee - have you seen Marguerite Patten's 'Victory Cookbook'? It's got photos, cartoons and propaganda as well as recipes. Also 'The Super-Sizers' did one programme about living on WW2 food. During the week they lived on rations they were bored to tears, but their health improved! Oatmeal soup, anyone? :rotfl:

Frugaldom

This is for JANEY51

Hi Janey, after your tellng me about your interest in tornadoes etc, I thought this may interest you - http://CNN.com/Live - there's live coverage of hurricane Gustave, it's touched down in Louisiana. I would hate to live some place this could happen! Thinking of eveyone it involves, and their property and livestock, is scary. Mother nature certainly knows how to remind us who, exactly, is in charge.

bails

Brighton_belle wrote: »

. Courage is sometimes very quiet and unspectacular and not climbing everest in a tutu tossing pancakes.

Oh darn, that was my ultimate goal :rolleyes: Now you've told everyone I'll have to think of something equally spectacular

kbarty

I want to do a WW2 ration week or 2 here, ds is mad one WW2 and I think it would be quite fun! Need to think it through and plan it though (the fun is always in the planning - well in my world anyway).

Having quite a bad day today, not really spending wise, just that everything I am doing is going wrong. Feel like just giving up for the day. Had a good grocery shop ast just under £20 although forgot to get any drinks - oh well, council lemonade it is this week! Might need to pop down again during the week for more stuff, but I'll try and hang tight till I really need to. We have lots of food in, just need motivation to cook some of it.

System

redglass wrote: »

Jumble-Bee - have you seen Marguerite Patten's 'Victory Cookbook'? It's got photos, cartoons and propaganda as well as recipes. Also 'The Super-Sizers' did one programme about living on WW2 food. During the week they lived on rations they were bored to tears, but their health improved! Oatmeal soup, anyone? :rotfl:

yip i saw that supersizers!

in a few weeks they are going to be drawing recipe books with wartime recipes - vinegar cake and grilled pigeon etc. This week we are making ration books n staining them with coffee to age them (bet the irony of using coffee to do that will be lost on them through :rolleyes: )

and next week we are making model allotment gardens out of pebbles and plastacine

Janey51

Marru wrote: »

Janey - try to stay out of trouble will you? :rotfl:

I'm sure I don't know what you mean :rolleyes:

Janey51

nykmedia wrote: »

This is for JANEY51

Hi Janey, after your tellng me about your interest in tornadoes etc, I thought this may interest you - http://CNN.com/Live - there's live coverage of hurricane Gustave, it's touched down in Louisiana. I would hate to live some place this could happen! Thinking of eveyone it involves, and their property and livestock, is scary. Mother nature certainly knows how to remind us who, exactly, is in charge.

Great link. Thanks a lot.
I am trying to persuade someone to go tornado chasing with me in 2010

That will be my next saving project :j
All my friends change the subject or avoid eye contact when I drag the subject round to stormchasing

bails

Janey, I can lend you my OH, he's desperate to do this too! Where would you like to go and I'll book it in his diary for him I can just see his face when he reads the entry the day before ' Janey, stormchasing, 10am - when did I book that up?!' :rotfl:

Nyk, don't forget today is also Interest Day :j I love free money!

lingojingo

sophiesmum wrote: »

DD starts college this week since going on exam leave in May, I am so looking forward to her being out the house again daily instead of under my feet all time, and for the first time in 16 years I don't have to buy any school uniforms this year:j :j :j

That's what I thought this time last year - but the trade off is that they spend ages deciding what to wear, leaving a trail of discarded outfits all over the place :rolleyes: - school uniform was so much easier!

Hope your brother arrived home safely - we're all thinking of you xxx

Penny2myName

Jumble-Bee wrote: »

ooohhh i'm bored

not much to do at work, cos i'm leaving in a couple of weeks plus i will be a semi-useless one-armed bandit for those weeks so there isn't much point in starting anything

did i tell you about the art project i have started running through? its a WW2 food rationing project, to sneakily teach them some history and healthy eating. Except I got ridiculed last week when I drew a poster along with them, innocently using the slogan 'hoe for happiness' as a variation on dig for victory :rolleyes:

can't remember if i told you lot that already through...

think i will add up some spends now

That made me laugh, especially as I plan on cross stitching a few of the old adverts from the victory cook book, like the POTATOE one and 5 house wives. Just done this weeks treat baking from our rations. And measured the sweets out for the kids for the week. Would love to hear more about your WWII project.