Flying gleefully into 2009 - One Fresians adventures in debt-busting

Hopeful1

Hi f_f! I've just caught up with your thread after being absent for a few days. Busy as always!

I've done a few car boots. You're right about taking your own tea and coffee. I take sandwiches too as the food vans are so expensive. Oh and chair to sit on for the quiet bits!

People really want a bargain. I've made the mistake of asking what i think is reasonable for the quality of the item, but people aren't interested in that. I've got loads of clothes for my next one and shall sell everything at £1 each. People seem to love the stalls with bric a brac - stuff i'd think was junk! Tools eg drills and stuff go well too, my hubby has warned me to stay away from his Anything i have left i take to the charity shop by no means is any of it allowed back in the house!

Good luck with the bookcase!

mooomin

Hi Hopeful!

Nice to see you again

I have now been to the doctors. I got Yays for stopping smoking but Boos for being overweight :rotfl: My BMI is 33 which isn't great so I'm told and I have put on a lot of kilos since I was last weighed by them. I work in stones and lbs so have no idea how much weight I have put on, just know that I am heavier than I want to be, so this is now going to contain a food diary too. That'll be interesting :eek:

I have now been and picked up my prescription and done the shopping I will need for the rest of the week. I managed to pick up 16 reduced sausages for £1.45 and have frozen 12 of them in batches of 4. The rest are for lunch for me and Mr F. Does anyone have a [strike]muppet-proof[/strike] nice easy recipe for sausage casserole? Slow cooker or regular is fine with me!

I'm about to go and make shepherds pie soon for the freezer. I am a busy Fresian today! What I will likely do first though is sit down for an hour with a coffee as I'm sleepy!

paybacktime2008

I'm getting sorted for a car boot too. I think splitting the table up into prices helps. When I'm buying I like to know how much it is if this makes sense. One stall recently had big signs for each section of the table. 50p £1.00 £2.00 etc. Better i think than having no prices and people might not be bothered to stop and ask.

I've only done one but be prepared for people only wanting to pay peanuts. Really wierd things sold well like gift bags!

When you doing it? I'm planning on this Saturday. We can share car boot stories!

Intergalactic_Floozie

flying_fresian wrote: »

Hi Hopeful!

Nice to see you again

I have now been to the doctors. I got Yays for stopping smoking but Boos for being overweight :rotfl: My BMI is 33 which isn't great so I'm told and I have put on a lot of kilos since I was last weighed by them. I work in stones and lbs so have no idea how much weight I have put on, just know that I am heavier than I want to be, so this is now going to contain a food diary too. That'll be interesting :eek:

I have now been and picked up my prescription and done the shopping I will need for the rest of the week. I managed to pick up 16 reduced sausages for £1.45 and have frozen 12 of them in batches of 4. The rest are for lunch for me and Mr F. Does anyone have a [strike]muppet-proof[/strike] nice easy recipe for sausage casserole? Slow cooker or regular is fine with me!

I'm about to go and make shepherds pie soon for the freezer. I am a busy Fresian today! What I will likely do first though is sit down for an hour with a coffee as I'm sleepy!

Right I'm with ya on the watching weight thing! I need to get my act together as I have done really well (for me) and only another 5lbs and I'll be halfway there, and I have promised myself I can buy a new pair of jeans.

Re the sausage casserole, it's probably not very money saving but I just buy a packet sauce (something like Colman's, or Morrisons own brand) one of them only costs 39p or something equally cheap. I then just chuck whatever I have to hand in the slow cooker, so it might be onions, mushrooms, peppers, sweetcorn, peas and bung them all in together and have it with mash. Chopped up cherry tomatoes taste really nice on top as well but the kids wont eat them so I don't really buy them in any more - GRRRRR

mooomin

Chilli is making me hungry in the slow cooker

I have made the shepherds pie base, but was too busy on MSE and lost some of it as it got stuck to the bottom of the pan :rotfl: I am soaking the pan and will destroy all evidence soon! Once it has cooled I will freeze the sauce for use later in the month when funds are tighter!

I listed a book on Amazon today out of desperation more than anything and it sold! £2.39 minus postage for me, huzzah! I might take a wander up to Asda later and post it as my doctor did say more exercise would do me good and it's uphill all the blooming way!

I think I will list stuff on Ebay next weekend as I have been very lax about doing so and this has spurred me on!

Intergalactic_Floozie

Uh going to the post office depresses me so much. There were four in our local area, but they shut three so now there's just the one, and no matter what time of day you go, you end up queueing because they only have 1 window open. Very irritating, I think that is what's putting me off e-baying more, the thought I would have to visit the Godforsaken place more than once a week!

sashybo

Hi Fresian, decloaking again!

I think I got my sausage casserole recipe from the Old Style board and it's quite yummy. You need:

Sausages (I usually use 4 - 6)
Leek x1
Onion x1
Pepper x1
Carrots x2
Mushrooms (however many you want)
Potatoes x2 (cubed)
2 cloves of garlic
Chopped toms
1/2 pint of chicken stock
1tbsp cider vinegar
2 tsp brown sugar

1. Melt butter in chosen dish (I use a large pan that has a lid) and brown sausages on medium heat.

2. Remove sausages and add onion and garlic. Cook 5 mins. Add cubed potatoes and fry 5 mins.

3. Add chicken stock gradually, stir well and add sausages. Then add chopped toms, carrots, leek, pepper, mushrooms, cider vinegar and brown sugar.

4. Liquid should cover sausages and should reduce by half during cooking. Simmer for a few mins.

5. Transfer to oven proof dish and cook at 180C for approx 1 hr.

I don't always have all of the ingredients like mushrooms and leek and it's fine without. The sauce can be a bit thin so work on what you think looks right, I usually don't add as much as half a pint of stock.

Sorry if some of the instructions are a bit vague, I copied them from the Old Style board and adapted them into my own vague shorthand version.

mooomin

flying_fresian wrote: »

• [strike]Up early in the morning and call the doctors [/strike]
  
• [strike]Put chilli concoction in the slow cooker for the day[/strike]
• [strike]Go to doctors and then go home via the shops and buy all the veg I need for the next week or two[/strike]
• [strike]Pick up prescriptions [/strike]
  
• [strike]Get back home and make bolognaise or shepherds pie[/strike] Shepherds pie made, om nom nom
  
• Build the bl**dy bookcase that has been sitting in my living room for years mocking me This thing will never be built, I swear.
  
• [strike]Make dinner [/strike] Made sweet chilli stir fry thing instead, tasty good!
  
• [strike]Dishes[/strike]
• Relax!

Everything apart from the bl**dy bookcase again. Grrr!

Food time now - as I am now officially trying to lose weight I should keep a record of what I'm doing:

Breakfast - big bowl of Special K, semi skimmed milk
Lunch - sausage sandwich (Tasty though) grilled on the George and no marge/butter
Dinner - pork stir fried with stir fry packet and added mange tout and baby corn too for extra veggie goodness
Pudding - strawberries and apple cut up with small sprinkling of cream on top (Low-fat cream, if there is such a thing!)

Obviously the sausage sandwich isn't good, but the rest isn't awful, and this is what I would be likely to eat, I just had less cream on my strawberries than I normally would!

Off to relax and read my book now.

cocalls

Can you not sell a load of books at the carboot thus rendering the bookcase redundant so you can sell that too! That will save you having to put it up!

mooomin

cocalls wrote: »

Can you not sell a load of books at the carboot thus rendering the bookcase redundant so you can sell that too! That will save you having to put it up!

:rotfl::rotfl:

You would think so....!

Sadly, I am a total bookfiend - I have one box full of books to bootsale at the moment and I still need more room and soon! When the bookcase goes up it will also hold the DVDs I haven't sold.