Live on £4000 for a year - part 4 (Oct - Dec 2008)

Marru

Hello all,

Thanks BB, I have now joined for 3 months and they have walks to see deers and owls, charity pub quiz for animal charities, symphony orchestra concerts and multimedia night featuring U2. OOOOH!!! I wish I could go to all of them but I will need a monkey sitter and I don't think Bails wants to go professional :rolleyes:.

And thank you Lynne, my problem is to be able to figure out when the chicken is ready and not too ready. CW thanks for reminding me of the SC. Will pop the chicken legs into mine in the morning as I had enough food for today so they are only needed for tomorrow. Will see if I can manage to put some sort of tomato sauce going with the chicken as that would be handy later in the week with some pasta.

I will have NSD tomorrow, I will have NSD tomorrow, I will...

Enjoy your evenings,

Marru

Frugaldom

nykmedia wrote: »

'A la carte' I understand but what is 'Frankie and Bennys'?
Need to go do a paid search now. :rotfl:

OK, I have now completed my research and have learned that 'Frankie and Benny' possibly ARE relatives of 'Ben & Jerry', assuming that Ben and Jerry are of Italian descent. :rotfl:

I also noticed that you can register on the Frankie & Benny site to receive special offers and promotions, hope you checked that first, Lynne The closest we come to something like that is if a local B&B has a spaghetti night.

mumzyof2

Frankie and benny is like a pizza/pasta place i think (i dont know) all i do know is tho that they usually stick a frankie and bennys next to cinemas/bowling places lol.

PS: Im off to get another bank account just to put my rent money in and also to do my insurance now it tracked for NYK

sophiesmum_2

Good evening frunchkins:D

Went out for lunch with a friend today - her treat, then went for a mooch around town and market. Spent £2.75 on fruit and veg, but this included lots of bargains, got 9 peppers for 45p, a bag of mushrooms for 10p,2kg bananas reduced to 20p, and lots of other stuff:D . I then spent £6.99 in Thorntons on a huge box of continental chocs for my dad - his favourites - and they are usually £13.99 so bargain , anyway he is worth it

Spent £9.74 in total, but had a smiley frugal day -

• Free parking as friend has blue badge:D
• Charged phone in car on way to town:D
• Lunch bought by friend:D
• Coffees later using pigsback coffee vouchers off OH:D
• Three carrier bags of Fruit and veg for £2.75:D
• Half price chocs for dad:D
• Swim , sauna and jacuzzi tonight at gym using membership and free day pass for friend:D
• Tea of cheese/onion and potato bake done in remoska:D HG onions and pots and xmas cheese from freezer.

Just going to visit parents for an hour then settle down to a dvd as DD is out and OH just left for work.... peace and quiet:j .

cw18

Wow Sophiesmum !! That sounds like a really busy and productive day :T

And being able to round it off with a DVD of your choice in peace and quiet sounds like total bliss to me

cha97michelle

Just thought i would make a suggestion to those of you who want a reminder about doing your meter readings. There is a free to use website called remember the milk, which you can get to email you reminders of things - whatever things you want. I use it to keep tabs of when to do things like pay bills, frontline the cats, wash the hoover filters - you can also get other people to email things to your list, or email them with stuff to do - i find it useful anyhow.


On the frugalling front here, we managed a below £20 food shop today , mainly because we are having a long weekend next weekend at the in-laws house so we will eat there food instead.

DH has been outside all day with DS1, and he has been replacing rotten wood in our garage doors. Before when we had more money, we would have probably just replaced them now, but we know we can't, so about £13 spent on wood at the local DIY shop and lots of hours of DHs time, but better than it disintegrating on us.

I have been doing a bit of housework, and made us a pizza. I guess another quite night for us watching telly, and me making the rug kit that i got for my birthday back in April. All good fun.

cw18

cha97michelle wrote: »

Just thought i would make a suggestion to those of you who want a reminder about doing your meter readings. There is a free to use website called remember the milk, which you can get to email you reminders of things - whatever things you want. I use it to keep tabs of when to do things like pay bills, frontline the cats, wash the hoover filters - you can also get other people to email things to your list, or email them with stuff to do - i find it useful anyhow.

Oooooo.. sounds useful :j

Off to check it out, as I've currently got the Frontline/Drontal reminders in my phone, but it was enough of a pain setting them up for the next year..... didn't fancy plugging in loads of other things

lingojingo

cha97michelle wrote: »

There is a free to use website called remember the milk, which you can get to email you reminders of things

Just checked it out and it's just what I need to remind me when to cancel subscriptions I signed up to for the cashback

Had my eyes tested this morning and need to change to varifocals, so now I feel really old, plus it cost me £137.50:eek: :eek: :eek: (and that's with free test and free frames and £61 off due to being on low income).

This time last year that would have been put on the credit card, but thanks to this challenge and the grocery one I now have a small contingencey fund so it wasn't a financial disaster.

Great news about the house and the insurance Nyk.
Mumzy it's really worth going through the cashback sites (after checking quotes). I got better cover for the half the price and then cashback on top earlier in the year. Would never have done that without reading about other people's sucess on here.

Spent £47.50 on groceries :eek: but got enough meat to last the rest of the month, and probably most of the tinned and dried stuff too. Off to update sig,

bails

Hi all, hope everyone's good.

I was meant to be out with OH tonight at a concert (part of our celebratory weekend) but am poorly so had to stay in :rolleyes:
Mum brought me some thermals today (she has an Aldi in her town) for £6.99 and I LOVE THEM!! I'm going to get two more pairs so I have two for the day and one for in bed - who needs heating?
Off to a car boot early tomorrow if I'm up to it, buying not selling :rotfl:Will be good. I've priced up some bargain cat food at our local home and roadtested it successfully on the gang so will get that in soon :T Might also have a sneaky look at the dogs while we're there...:whistle:
£1000 challenge going well so far so I may yet have the first quarter of next year's challenge upfront :j
Enjoy your evenings, off to bed for me soon x
Thanks for sharing your memory of your mum Janey, look forward to the next one. (We'll move into your big house if you'll have us, OH is very good at DIY and chopping wood ) Hope you're okay Whitewing, thinking of you.

lingojingo

Sorry you're not so good today Bails, what a shame to miss the concert.

Janey my Auntie is great at growing fushias, she has dozens of them in her garden, and so did my Nan. I remember 'popping' them as a small child, thanks for sharing the memory.
Hugs to both of you, and Whitewing, and everyone else who needs them
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