If things get tougher?

Mrsbojangles_2

Sell the house, buy a static caravan on a residential park, my friend did this last year, the saving is vast, no mortgage payments yippeee, plus a lump sum from selling your house. Downside I guess is coming off the property ladder and losing your only security, but saying that as people end up having to sell their homes to fund their care when older, whats the point holding onto it anyway?

Justamum

Alfietinker wrote:

Come to think of it - boiling a pan of water for pasta can take 10 minutes + cooking time. I can cook pasta in the microwave in 10 minutes total! Mmmm.

When I cook pasta I always use boiling water from the kettle. Apart from anything else it's much quicker.

Bargain_Rzl

Mrsbojangles wrote:

Sell the house, buy a static caravan on a residential park, my friend did this last year...

I've always thought this sounded like a nice idea. And without the stigma attached to it that there is in the US ("trailer trash" etc).

thriftlady_2

My Gran(97) has lived in one of these for the past 25 years and very nice it is too.Not at all like a US trailer park.

katieowl_2

Bargain Rsl

The Penge end of Bromley! Actually somebody just called me so I have two on my list now. I know some of the other people around here have some vacancies. (Especially if you were prepared to do some heavy duty clearing to reclaim a totally overgrown plot)

I had seven people on my list before Christmas, and with the end of year shuffle around/and leavings managed to accomodate all by halving some of the plots to 5 Rods (quite enough IMHO for a novice!)

Regards

Kate

Alfietinker

Bob_Terveuren wrote:

I do have a Macro card but we have found that you have to be very careful in there as a lot of their stuff is not that cheap.

This is something we've found. We generally only use Macro for cat litter and washing powder. But we went to Nettos for the first time last week and noticed a special offer on Surf. £5.99 for 75 wash box. We paid £5.99 at Macro, but then VAT is slapped on top.

On a lot of Macro's stuff, when you add VAT (if applicable) they can work out the same price as the supermarket. Eg cat food - averages 45p per can. We buy 6 cans for £1.98 in Tescos = 33p. Particularly if you don't usually buy brand names (we don't)

So be careful and do your sums first. It's very easy to be tempted in there - particularly with the sweety aisle

birdmadgirl

I've been jobless for the last 3 months, ive had to cut back on so many things, its amazing what i was spending that i didnt need at all....

- gave up smoking (feel and LOOK a million times healthier)
- stopped shopping at my local sainsburys central (overpriced with a poor choice) and cycle to tescos instead
- cycle everywher, saving a fortune on oyster card bills
- stopped going to the pub (well, nearly!)
- havent bought any clothes
- realised that if i do washing etc in the machine it should be in the evening as our electricity meter is on economy 7
- shifted my overdrafts around to pay as little interest as possible

Since October, I have managed to live of the equivlant of 1.5 months wages, that normally i would have frittered away every month!!!! Thanks in part to all you guys on this website

Now im feeling better than when i was at work, although if i dont get job soon my trainers are gonna be looking threadbare....

shazndaz

How do you detune your tv? Also, I heard that you don't have to pay a licence fee if you just disable bbc because the other channels are funded by the ads. I hardly ever watch bbc so that would be great but I wouldn't have a clue how to do it?????

aloiseb

I think you shouldn't even think about it - the thing about ITV channels not needing a licence to watch is almost certainly an urban myth.

If you get caught without a licence, and they don't buy your detuning story - which let's face it, sounds pretty unlikely! - that's £1000 fine isn't it? Not very good Moneysaving.

lainey_pixie

Nothing else for it - Great Britain is no longer great, so time to jump ship. I think Australia sounds like a good option. Can't be any worse than living here paying through the nose in taxes and working our fingers to the bone - what do we get in return? MP's with fat salaries, and administrators with even fatter salaries