Good Life Gran

sweetserendipity

Hi, Anyone see the article in the Daily Mail online (today) about a lady who has adopted an eco-friendly lifestyle? She has bought a wood-burning stove & insulated her roof space with sheeps wool & this has brought the price of her gas down to 7p a day and her electricity to 16p a day! She grows her own fruit & veg and this has brought her food bill down to £1.42 a day! The initial outlay was quite dear (£1,800 for stove and £700? for sheeps wool) but its paying off now! Anyway, it's a really interesting article if anyone wants to have a look (sorry I don't know how to add links!)

miserly_mum

I dream of doing that sort of stuff. OH thinks i'm completely bonkers.

You have no idea how much I lust after a woodburning stove.

Also I hope being frugal and aging well are linked.......the lady looks amazing at 64. If thats the case I should be getting younger instead of older

Pink.

Here's the link to the article: Good Life Gran



sweetserendipity, if you want to learn how to do links have a look at sra's unnoficial A-Z under 'L' you'll find Links (Inserting in Posts)

Pink

sweetserendipity

miserly_mum - me too! Would love to live the Good Life complete with chickens (just for the eggs!) and grow my own fruit and veg etc. I can but dream ..........

sweetserendipity

Thanks Pink (appropriate choice of colour writing!) - will have a look!

miserly_mum

sweetserendipity wrote: »

miserly_mum - me too! Would love to live the Good Life complete with chickens (just for the eggs!) and grow my own fruit and veg etc. I can but dream ..........

I love the idea of chickens, but I think i'd be a bit of a woose at first. Especially if they started flapping around. But the thought of my 2 year old collecting eggs in a little basket every morning makes me feel all warm inside.

I blame my Mother, she forced fed me episodes of Little House on the Prairie and The Waltons from an early age. I thought Laura and Mary's bedroom up in the loft was wonderful.

mum2many

miserly_mum wrote: »

I love the idea of chickens, but I think i'd be a bit of a woose at first. Especially if they started flapping around. But the thought of my 2 year old collecting eggs in a little basket every morning makes me feel all warm inside.

I blame my Mother, she forced fed me episodes of Little House on the Prairie and The Waltons from an early age. I thought Laura and Mary's bedroom up in the loft was wonderful.

chickens are ace, got 4 ex batts that i adore. yummy eggs too.
I too wanted to live in the loft after watching the waltons

KittyBoo_2

I'm going to reach the big 50 in a couple of weeks and have been living the Good Life for a while now.
I downsized from a senior post and am now a cleaning lady.
I clean lovely big houses in the Peak District and really enjoy it.
I have a mortgage like alot of people but just live as frugally as possible (I do have mad moments when I run amok in Sainsburys but not very often now)
I have 2 chickens who lay eggs every day and I grow my own fruit, veg and salad stuff.
I also yearn for a log burning stove and try to put a bit of money away each week with our Credit Union so I can get enough money to buy one.
I am greedy and want a greenhouse for my 50th and if no -one buys me one then I am going to treat myself to one.
I also watched Little House on the Prairie and the Waltons/Good Life.

SuziQ

I read this-pretty young looking for a gran! Great article.

mary43

I;m 64 and sadly am nothing like the Good Life Gran but I am trying................
Grow own veg in pots (as much as we can)
Very frugal with food shopping -hate waste so leftovers used where possible.
Cutting cost of Christmas/Birthdays by getting charity shop buys for gift baskets, plus making my own cards
Buy second hand clothes (cheaper and cash goes to a good cause)

Mortgage will be paid in October :T along with loan two months after:T

I'd love to keep chickens but sadly, dont have the room without removing my wildlife part of the garden which is my sanctuary.

So for now, thats about as near to the good life as I can manage.

knittingnelly

How old?? She's over twenty years older than me but looks a heck of a lot better. Hrmmmph!!! ( goes to make something from weeds that will reverse time;) )