website i wanted to share

brokenwings

Hi all

please forgive me if this is the wrong place to post this and feel free to move it
i also apologise if its been posted before

but i am now also addicted to THIS site and thought there were sufficient items of interest to all OSers to post the link :

self sufficient-ish

arkonite_babe

Looks like a well informed site, thanks for sharing that brokenwings.

a_b

Newbird

Look really interesting, bookmarked to read later

Sweet_Pea_2

Another interesting site that I found recently because others on this forum had mentioned it in their posts is called https://www.downsizer.net. (sorry I cant do links) There's lots of familiar names over there, and it seems quite similar to Old Style.

squeaky

I'll add the first one to the grow your own section later. I think we have the downsizer one collected. As has been said, we have a lot of posters in common

moggins

MMMmmm, I must get back to Downsizer soon, with the housemove I didn't think there was a lot I could contribute but now we've decided to stay put I badly need it again

maryb

A couple of weeks ago SilentFlute posted a link to Frugal Genius UK which I registered for and got an activation code but it still won't let me log in to the forum - two weeks later it still says my account is awaiting approval from a staff member. Has anyone else registered and had more success?

culpepper

some of these sites need you to enable cookies could that be the problem?

maryb

I did wonder if it might be that and i have been into Internet Explorer and Windows security to enable cookies and everything seems to be OK. There is something odd about my settings because every time I click on a link it closes the browser and opens a new window which means the back button won't work. I don't know how to fix it - I wonder if it is McAfee being a bit nannyish.

Anyway sorry this is off topic (though if anyone knows how to fix it I'd be ever so grateful - I'm quite computer literate, eg reinstalling Windows and reformatting hard drive doesn't faze me- but this has me stumped)

chickenlady_3

I love selfsufficientish too! It's a really interesting site.

HOLsale

maryb wrote:

A couple of weeks ago SilentFlute posted a link to Frugal Genius UK which I registered for and got an activation code but it still won't let me log in to the forum - two weeks later it still says my account is awaiting approval from a staff member. Has anyone else registered and had more success?

maryb

i'm the founder of frugal genius uk

have you been able to get signed up yet? yahoo is really strange and irritating and does weird things, too bad i can't get everyone to use the forum i started up years ago (( minor gripe, over now)) i'll have a dig and see if maybe you're bouncing, that could be the problem.

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