Live on £4000 for a Year, 2009 Challenge, part 1

shaz_mum_of__2

Fizzle more bad news...................don't deep fry with olive oil it has a lower smoking point than other oils ie doesn't get hot enough before burning

check the dates and store somewhere cool for longer lasting

Shaz

Janey51

Just made a batch of the Spicy Carrot soup and it's yummy. I put some sad leeks in with it and it's absolutely gorgeous.
Thanks to OP.

fizzel81

its un the cupboard which is on an outside wall and very cold so im hopeing it will last the year, will pass on a couple of bottles to my dad when he comes down

on the plus side just brought a grand remoska for just under 80 provided (arnt i trusting) it gets posted iykwim, payed by paypal so having to suck it and see it was too good a bargin to miss, they have only sold one other thing recently, my ebay invoice does have an address/person in evesham so im not overly worried

fallen_angel_shelley

Good afternoon, frugalers. so far today has been another NSD for me:j. I spent an hour this moring looking at the finished hampers thread and it has inspired me to do something with the 3 hamper baskets that I have, i'm going to make one up for DD and put make-up, smellys and beauty products in for either her b/day or christmas, the other one I'm going to do for DS (17) not sure what i will fill his with and yet to make my mind up who is going to get the other. not got to much done round here today, most of it seems to have been spent waiting in call queue

save a holic- I have taken your advice and have just called my HA, the woman on the phone tried telling that its not a problem and to open the windows everyday for half an hour, so I told her that it could be a health risk and she soon changed her tune and said that she would get the surveyor out to take a look at it.

to do list

washing-up- done
washing- done
phone HA- done
clean bathroom
sort ebay stuff
make meal plan and shopping list for next week
start essay, going to do the plan for it now:whistle:
phone concil tax- done but was a wasted call, told i had to call benefits about it after waiting in a queue for 30 min:mad:

cw18

Nichelette wrote: »

though it was really close to the lambda emissions limit last time so I'm expecting it to fail. I've researched this and apparently it's a common problem on Fiats

:eek: and you just had to share that one :rolleyes2

guess who else owns a Fiat -- it's in fact my 4th since 1988 (Uno, Tempra hatchback, Tempra estate, and now Punto hatchback). And it doesn't look like I can easily change to another make (or even model now), as it was a change of car (and pedal alignment) that they think knocked my back big time in July 2006 :eek:

(the Fiat I had then died for the last time, so I was driving DH's Peugeot intstead)

candygirl

I've had another NSD day today, as have stayed in sorting through the clutter:o
DD's coming for tea and i've made potato and carrot cheesy mash, it's her fave comfort food:p
Think i'm within target up to now this week, aren't I good:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: [STRIKE]it wont last[/STRIKE];)
Am liking the look of the spicy carrot soup, might try it tomoz

cw18

kayharcombe wrote: »

Originally Posted by JAMIEDODGER
Started with imeasure 3 days ago and used nearly £20 of gas in 48 hours

Are you sure you're reading the meter and doing the necessary conversion correctly? You have to convert from units to kWh, and the conversion is different depending on whether yours measures in cubic feet or cubic metres.

I'm heating a 4 bed detached -- thermostat set to just under 17 degrees, and running from 6:30am until 9pm. Last week cost me a whopping £16 of gas (this was a huge increase for me), which was 43 units on my 'cubic metre' meter converted to 495kWh.

dND

[quote=sophiesmum;

Still looking for a way to reuse the net bags that sprouts and carrots were in - may use to keep birds off my fruit bushes, or save to store potatoes in later in year, or may stuff with (nitbone)comfret leaves and soak in water to make a fertiliser liquid - have a huge batch of comfret in grounds.

Better make tracks downstairs:rolleyes: catch up with you all later:D[/quote]

I've saved all my net bags this year and they've been really useful for storing onions, the garlic that I'm going to replant etc. My friend uses them for her walnuts, she has 3 quite large walnut trees and gets through quite a few bags which she sells to raise funds for here cat sterilisation programme. I also read somewhere about stuffing a small net bag with others and making a pan scrubber. I've now trained myself to cut the bags open carefully across the tops rather than just tear into them.:D

MRSMCAWBER

Hello all

Nope, Nyk -nothing anyone has said or done -Its just that the thread is busy enough with everyone trying to keep track of all their out goings -Im only Keeping control of the housekeeping -so figured If I dropped out it would be one less person "cluttering up" the thread and might make it easier for everyone else to keep up..... hope that makes sense
Im still sticking to the same budget that I set myself -Im just doing it on my ownesome :rotfl: ..... Probably won't have time to post much once spring arrives anyway as I will be out in my Potio appotment -once the 6" of snow and -15 weather has gone
hope everyone is doing ok .... I will no doubt stick my nose in from time to time -

Skint_Lynne

Afternoon all,

I've had a lazyish day, picked up sister at 9am and took her to my oldest brother's house to look after the wee fella, my sil is not well just now. I dressed the wee one and gave him his breakfast and then left them to it. Then went to town and delivered/swapped my repairs round and then came home. Made something to eat, went to my mum's and am going out with DH tonight. He is taking me out for dinner, his treat, so no spend from me:D .

I spent around £3 today, a pound for the car park (this is work related, so does not count in the challenge), and spent £2 in morrisons, I bought some cough sweets for sil, a bag for myself, just in case and also a loaf.

I'm off tomorrow, but DH forgot and has arranged to go to lunch with a guy he works with, he is based in Glasgow, and is in charge of dishing out postings. He just missed out on one to Brunei (that would have been nice), but he will get one either in France or Norfolk instead. No point in being angry, he's got to do it for work I suppose.

I told him off about leaving the heating on when he came back last night, he looked like this:o . I must be getting frugally scary as the days go on methinks:cool: . xxx