£9 to last 12 days

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taplady wrote: »

Hi bluejeans - am sure someone will have lots of ideas but all I can think of is

feel down the back of the sofa;)



HTH

Sounds Funny, but I actaully did that excercise about 2 weeks ago when I was on my Rs (dont know if you can say that word lol)

Anyway I found over £5 in change, I couldnt believe it

Go throght all your draws as well, check in the car ash tray, under the seats etc

Good Luck

All I say is its worth a try !

bluejeans

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

take 1 day at a time - don't put petrol in until you really, REALLY have to.

Do a list of all the food in the house and when you've made all the meals you think you can - head over to Old Style and list what you have and the number of meals it has to cover.

Crack open the £2 tin (sorry - know you've only got £2 in it!) and again look at OS for meal ideas - there is a regular doing food for 50p a day at the moment over there!

Is there anyone who OH could get a lift to work with - even if it's just 1 or 2 of the days?

I've been in your situation, it's really horrible but just keep posting each day and we'll get you through it.

Thankyou for the info, will pop on to OS now. I will post daily and let you know how i am doing. Talking through it with you all, is the only thing keeping me sane at the moment.

jo x

Burlesque_Babe

if you do have to go and get some food - choose the time you shop carefully. My Tesco does first reduction at 5 and then second one at 9. Asda is 12pm and 6pm. If you know when your stores are yellow stickering you could really save the pennies. might be a bit hit and miss what you get but worth doing - Asda always has loads of veg and fruit reduced where I live.

Skint_Lynne

Jo,

If you are doing a car boot, they usually don't ask for the money straight away, just tell them to come back in a while if you haven't made the stall money yet, I think it's about a tenner a pitch in most places.

SL x

ceebeeby

Is this £9 between you and OH???

Have you both exhausted asking family for a small loan (£20??) To buy yourself some time pending doing car boot / ebay etc.?

Puzzledbubbles

Hey Blue.

I dont think there is much i can add.

May be you could send OH out to mow lawns??? Or ask a neighbour if they want you too baby sit (you do such a wonderful job with your grandkids)

Also - do you know how many miles your car does on "empty" when ours hits the red line we normally have a good 15 - 20 miles left.

Dont forger Gala free b!ngo on thursday - my nanna always says you can change your luck yourself so stay positive and remember a problem shared is halved and you get three times as many solutions.

Puzzled

xxxxxx

Broken_hearted

Could you share the boot fair pitch with another family member or a friend, my sister and I do it a lot.

claireabelle_2

have you got any sainsburys or tesco points you could redeem as vouchers mate?

elliemoo

Hope things pick up soon. Have you looked at the make £10.00 a day thread, there are loads of ideas on it on how to make some money, or try the Up Your Income thread.

mandy2901

to avoid the cost of a carboot, why not fire some ads into the adtrader, its free to advertise and they have "i think" an under £20 section at the front or if you have alot of smaller things then fire them all into a box and advertise the box for sale for carbooters!