Live on £4000 for a year - Part 3

System

i am no longer suffering from jordanitis!

but i now have a mummified frankenfinger!

it all went to plan and i was very brave and chose to have a local rather than general anaesthetic, so i was awake to hear all the snipping and bone scrapping noises :eek:

i have to keep it elevated for the next few days so i will be joining the douvet gang
(you will all be pleased to know that i can still use my thumb to hoyk up my knickers)

ps £25 a week for biscuits!!!!! :eek::eek::eek: do they live off them?????

bails

Glad it all went ok JB, yuk to the icky noises. Now, does anyone have a duvet big enough for all of us?

BlueFleur

Glad the jordanitis has been cured!

We're really busy at work at the moment, and I'm in the post rush zombie state. Having read through the last posts all I've got is the message to stay home under my duvet and eat £25 worth of biscuits

Frugaldom

Hello to all and WOW! £25 per week on biscuits & cakes etc??? :eek: Janey, methinks those friends need a frugawakening to the realities of a sudden frop in income and a swift introduction to the OS thread and grocery challenges.

Jumble, I hope your finger doesn't hurt too much and am so glad that you're managing to preserve your modesty. This really hasn't been the weather for 'under dressing'. :rotfl:

Will catch up with everyone soon, got to dash again, I haven't even started making dinner.

Marru

MrsHayes wrote: »

Marru - would you like to walk my two dogs as well They are bonkers though!

That would be my pelasure. Then we would all be bonkers (except perhaps my old girl known as The Dog).

Today was better as we were able to spend some time with the animals except it was about health and safety mostly. Tomorrow we get our timetables and then the lectures will start on Friday so looking forward to that.

I completely forgot to go to the shop and buy supper. The options left are either cheese and pickle sandwich or houmus and cucumber sandwich. Or I just polish of some chocolate brownies that I have left from my meeting earlier with Bails.

I really need to get myself organised and get into batch cooking. From where can I get those foil containers to cook and freeze in the cheapest? Also I need containers to freeze soup. Any good ideas? Bails please don't forget to send me the recipe for the snack bars. I am off on Friday to get cup with lid for my teas in the college (hot water free, need just to take some powder milk and tea bags) and thermos for lunch soups.

This is what my menu looks like after I get myself sorted:

Breakfast: joghurt and berries/fruit
Elevenses: HM snack bar + tea
Lunch: veggie soup + fruit
On the way for a walk: sandwich (HM bread)
Dinner: choice of: pasta bake/potato bake/veggie shepherds pie/fish pie/curry.... taken from the freezer in the morning in readiness to warm up when DD home from nursery.

Wish me luck for getting myself orgnised enough to get this to happen. I am planning only cooking on weekends. At the moment DD only gets a snack when she comes home but she has started to complain in the evenings that she is hungry. Also eating with her instead of after she is bed will free my time after her bed time to get on with other things and ultimately allow me to get to bed earlier. So end result: stop constant hunger, stop constant tiredness and still be frugal and healthy.

Please give me a kick in two weeks time if I haven't even started to put this in action. I am being bullied to read a story so better go...

shaz_mum_of__2

Brighton_belle wrote: »

Ever had a discussion on here on the merits of reusueable 'monthly accessories': mooncups or reuseale ST's/tampons anyone? Quite an expensive outlay at first but very environmentally sound of course. Not gonedown that path myself yet though.

I too wondered this seriously considering a moon cup and even gone as far as researching home made pads

http://www.wen.org.uk/sanpro/reports/makeyourown_web.pdf

or

http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/sanitarypads.htm

Although i did decide in the end to trace round a disposable product i was happy with and extend the wings so they meet and you can attach poppers.

I am saving old t shirts for the wadding and on the look out for a cheapie shower curtain for the waterproof layer


Shaz

shaz_mum_of__2

Marru wrote: »

I am off on Friday to get cup with lid for my teas in the college (hot water free, need just to take some powder milk and tea bags) and thermos for lunch soups.

..

our poundland does those posh instant coffee already in the cup thingys(sorta like vending machine ones) i think they do chocolate and soup ones too

I am taking some to college so i can enjoy a posh coffee for much less than the cafeteria prices

I also got a cool bag/lunchbox and a food flask

great minds.......................;)


Shaz

Frugaldom

It's 8.25pm on the evening of 3rd September 2008 and I CAN SEE MY BREATH when out in the stairway! How cold is that for 'summer'?!! We'll NEVER last until November before switching on a heater! :eek: To top it off, I've just read the updates on Scottish Power website and the costs are as follow:

Daily standing charge - 21.85p
Cost per kwu daytime - 13.49p
Cost per kwu night time - 6.097p

The above is including VAT but excluding the online savers discount, but it's still going to mean that I'll be meter watching forever more and there's absolutely NO WAY I can afford the number of units used last year. At that rate, it will be about £50 PER WEEK through the coldest of the winter months! I'm thinking of tailoring my days around nights for cheap 'leccie'! If I heated the place and worked between 11pm and 7am I could save a small fortune. Unfortunately, I would also miss the post office, the bank, the shops and babysitting duties (assuming my stubborn DD gets over her current strop :rolleyes: ). I think I need some new cardies but refuse to pay the prices they ask for polyester and can't warrant the fortunes needed to buy pure wool! I wonder what's available in eBid & eBay? Hmm... the postage amounts usually scupper that idea, so I guess it's a charity shop trip for us all soon. I need my winter woolies!:D

Now I really must catch up properly with the posts and see what everyone else has been up to before retiring to the warmth of electric blanket land in time for an episode of 'Desperate Housewives' and a dose of birthday chocolate.

shaz_mum_of__2

Hi Nyk

Its so cold here as well have nuked the wheat bags and changed to the winter quilt for tonight

and its so dark too.

Its praline flakes here and Rory and Paddy - we can laugh ourselves warm...


Shaz

Frugaldom

Since our wonderful landlord decided to remove the carper from our livingroom, which is on the second floor, I'm seriously considering covering the floor in newspapers to stop the draughts coming up through the floorboards! I've started asking around for a room-sized rug because there's no way am I paying for and laying a carpet in a temporary let! Bad enough that the bandit hasn't fixed any of the heaters or the cooker and we've no lights on the top floor, but this is getting ridiculous! Oh, and I think there may be several leaks in the roof, not just 1. I wish we could find somewhere else to go!