Live on £4000 for a Year, 2009 Challenge, part 2

whitewing

Can't remember who told me. It was sometime last year on this challenge. Anyway, we did get set up with National Geographic magazine through the Tesco Clubcard vouchers and have saved a fortune. Thank you very much.

HH62

Just quick before the board goes down for maintenance today will be NS! yay!
Went to Farmers Market - nothing interested me. Not having wine tonight. Going to be a good girl
See everyone later!

cw18

We're back !! Refreshed the screen out of habit, and here we were :T

Supposed to be dejunking today, but feeling totally blah!!! so I'm doing some number crunching instead.

Don't think DD is going to like me when I tell her that officially half the car expenses should be covered by her, as half the mileage I'm doing is for her benefit rather than mine :eek: Don't think she'll be happy at coughing up £600 a year - but that doesn't even include maintainance costs like new tyres

TBH, I'm not sure she can really afford to cough up that much - but perhaps showing her what her share should be may convince her to pay something

Brighton_belle

Must be something in the air Cheryl: I had great decluttering plans today but have felt bleughhh and achieved very little. Still, roast chicken in the remoska and visiting afriend for huge catch up this evening so should be good, and tomorrow's another day.
I did pop into attic and identify several last bits of furniture stored " just in case" that I ought to get rid of. If I had had a magic vanishing wand I could have decluttered loads: it's the shere faggeration of doing it that tends to put me off I think.

As for for DD cheryl: she may well not be able to afford it, but I think she should be shown how much it costs just as part of her financial education: you are only as 'well off'(!) as you are through constantly working at frugalising: it doesn't grow on trees.

Blairweech

Does anyone know if there is a thread somewhere on MSE that deals with 'little things that make you feel rich'?

Paulgonnabedebtfree

Blairweech wrote: »

Does anyone know if there is a thread somewhere on MSE that deals with 'little things that make you feel rich'?

Playing monopoly?

whitewing

Little things that make me feel rich:

Afternoon tea (even if it's at home as long as it includes cream + a teapot+floral serviettes)

perfume

cocktails

baguette, cheese and a bottle of wine on the hillside overlooking the sea

riding a horse on a beach (not that I've ever done that)

singing lessons

there will be plenty of others.

whitewing

Here you are, Scottish people:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1707913

Frugaldom

Hello

Have just caught up and am glad the weather has been fine for some of you - it was miserable here until about 6.30pm and now the sun's decided to shine. Typical! Yesterday made up for it, though, and I'm sure I now have a frugal suntan after working outside all day.

Today has been one of those 'non-days'. I was soaked by 7.30am, someone that should have turned up didn't turn up, I got nothing done in the garden, nothing done by way of housework and nothing done in the paperwork department either. I don't actually know where the day went! It seems like all I got done was the livestock, lunch, dinner and lit the fire.

Spoke to SM on the phone and they're getting glorious weather in Malta, so she's going to try and bring some back with her. I mentioned that Mrs Black (one of my hens) had been running round her garden but forgot to mention the return of the hare or the fact that there's a herd of cows munching their way along the back fence. :rotfl: Hope everyone who is off on holiday now gets great weather and enjoys their overseas vacations not matter how far afield they've gone. The only part of the Louvre I have seen was what was in The Da Vinci Code, but I have made it as far as the London Tate Gallery, if that counts.

I can't see a thread for listing things that make you feel rich, so feel free to list them here. I like Whitewing's list and can honestly say that I have or have done all of them, including riding a horse on a beach and am embarrassed to say that I took most of them for granted at the time.
I think my top one must be going racing as an owner but anyone who knows me will know how I managed that particularly expensive 'hobby'.

andromache_2

Blairweech wrote: »

Does anyone know if there is a thread somewhere on MSE that deals with 'little things that make you feel rich'?

You might like this thread - though it's not quite what you're looking for.