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

ilovetea

Hi,Sophiesmum.
Please can you tell me where you got the "sprouter" from.Would love one of these and I'm sure others would too.

Thanks.

Ilovetea x

scrooge2008

looby-loo wrote: »

Nyk - eccentric? I'm working on it too. I have a very dear friend (XXXX) whom I suspect most people would think of as eccentric. One day it started to rain whilst I was digging the front garden. I wanted to get finished but I didn't want a load of wet clothes so I put on wellies, bathing costume and shower cap and continued digging. My son returned home and said 'You get more like (XXXX) every day' Yhaaaa!!! I was so happy!!

Now if this occurred in the middle of winter! :eek:

Spent 55p today, would have been £1.40, but used a 75p coupon in Tescos. Bought the Times (saving the coupons as want to go to a Ramsey restaurant for £15.00 a person) and the Scottish Record, for a free Subway and a coupon booklet. Always thinking about my stomach!

sophiesmum_2

ilovetea wrote: »

Hi,Sophiesmum.

Please can you tell me where you got the "sprouter" from.Would love one of these and I'm sure others would too.

Thanks.

Ilovetea x

http://www.naturallygreen.co.uk/biosnacky-large-germinator-sprouter-p-654.html?zenid=ktlo64ab3muf82j711p177k8j1

You don't have to have one of these you can do it with jam jars and muslin but I wanted to keep my kitchen uncluttered, and this seemed easier way to do it.

sophiesmum_2

looby-loo wrote: »

Nyk - eccentric? I'm working on it too. I have a very dear friend (XXXX) whom I suspect most people would think of as eccentric. One day it started to rain whilst I was digging the front garden. I wanted to get finished but I didn't want a load of wet clothes so I put on wellies, bathing costume and shower cap and continued digging. My son returned home and said 'You get more like (XXXX) every day' Yhaaaa!!! I was so happy!!

Can't remember who but someone on this thread last year used to dig their allottment wearing undies, and a raincoat so maybe it is contagious - :rotfl: all this frugal eccentricity

Glenda

Hi guys, I know I'm probably submitting this in the wrong thread, and I'm not a member of the live on £4000 a year challenge, but I'm desperately trying to pay off my debts and I can't bring myself to buy a magazine which I really want! Does anyone know if there is a swap it for magazines anywhere. I have been trying to search this site and google but to no avail. I hope I won't get into trouble for posting this here.

Sorry!

boring_beige

I've managed to fritter away about £3 so far.
Got a weekly shop tomorrow.
I was wondering if anyone knows if you can freeze muller light yoghurts?
Thanks.

sophiesmum_2

Ha Ha busted :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Looks like looby loo is a serial eccentric gardener - found this from last year -
"Don't laugh but I did do an hour on the lotty first thing in the rain - I just try to ignore the getting wet. I go up there in just my underwear and waterproof coat and flip-flops. I did some cutting back, caterpillar control, weeding and planted some radish and parsley. Picked a nice marrow for tea. Did a bit more weeding and dead heading in the garden too. I wash my feet and flip-flops under the outside tap and hang them and the mac up. I can go straight into the house and get dried and dressed. No horrid wet clothes or trainers to sort out or dry! I wear shorts at all times of year in the house and garden as they save one heck of a lot of washing and ironing. In the colder times of year I wear the same but resort to wellies on very cold days. Oh, and strong shoes for digging for safety. "

Made me laugh so much remembering that
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

sophiesmum_2

boring_beige wrote: »

I've managed to fritter away about £3 so far.
Got a weekly shop tomorrow.
I was wondering if anyone knows if you can freeze muller light yoghurts?
Thanks.

You can freeze natural yoghurt and use it again for starter cultures and it tastes fine so I don't see why you couldn't freeze flavoured yogs.:rolleyes:

redglass_2

dND wrote: »

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.

Sorry, but this created such a funny picture in my mind....:rotfl::rotfl:

THESE WALNUTS ARE SOLD IN AID OF THE CAT STERILISATION PROGRAMME
1, 597,053 CATS SO FAR AND COUNTING
:eek:

FrankieM, thank you for link.

Fizzel, there are things you can do with the olive oil: hot oil treatment for hair, salt and oil scrub for legs, you can even make soap from it though I've never done that myself. Just did a quick Google and found furniture polish, preserving herbs and treating nits (hope you won't be needing that one! ) and other uses .

(Edited in) Janey, have just read your post. I'm so sorry...:grouphug:

Sarah147

Good evening frugalmeisters, hope you have all had a good day


I started off with good intentions, to have a NSD but it did not turn out that way. A packet of crisps from the newsagent for 20p had to be purchased on the way home from work as I had a long 20 minute walk from the metro station to the blood donation centre to contend with.

In a world where we are constantly told by the media that Britain is a terrible place to live, everything is rubbish, life is not worth living etc etc the blood donation session really gave me some faith back in the human race, there were so many people turning up to donate that they actually had to turn people away as they could not keep up with the demand. All hail people and their willingness to endure this pain and torture :rotfl: I had to wait an hour for an appointment (stupidly had forgotten to book in advance) so trailed around Morrisons next door for a bit. I was starving at this point so "splashed out" on a reduced cheese and tomato sandwich and salad/crisps "platter' for 70p and a peppermint tea in the cafe. All around me people were paying £4 for an omlette. YES, FOUR QUID FOR A BLOOMIN OMLETTE!! Mugs I then browsed the store which is always dangerous but came out only 55p lighter; with a huge poppyseed bloomer being purchased. It looks absolutlely divine, which is more than I will when I get all the seeds stuck in my teeth :rotfl:


Came back and my sister had been round and delivered a card "from" my nephew wishing me luck in my new job, with a lovely picture inside me had drawn, well, more like a scribble, but it made my eyes well up with tears

Enjoy the rest of your evenings, going to catch up with the rest of the thread now.