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

Frugaldom

Janey, thank you for popping onto the thread, I'll cancel the 'bring back Janey' campaign and hope to keep better tabs on you in the future. Look after yourself as best you can and the rest was in the email.

Hi Mumzy, hope you are keeping well and behaving yourself.

FrankieM, Well done on the campervan - you could always buy some land, park on it and live as a mobile smallholder!

Back soon, just trying to catch up properly

Edited in - I hope you are feeling a bit better SF, just saw your post.

savingfortravel

Hi Everyone!
Good to hear from Janey (hope things get better for you x) and about Marru.
It was a beautiful afternoon here but we are sure our 3 mile walk was more a 4 mile walk. Saw some more splendid wildflowers and took some great photos of Primroses, Lesser Celandines and Greater Stitchwort for our calendars Nyk.
We really enjoy our walks..great exercise, lovely scenery and very frugal.
ram-murdock-Tell us more about your holiday!
Bails-Any news about hubby's placement yet?
Take care all
SFT

Skint_Lynne

Good evening,

Not much to report, I didn't do much today, made some batch meals in the slow, went to town, done some work, that was it.

I spent 2.50 today in Asda, I am not spending much at all, long may that continue.:T

Good to hear from you Janey, I'm so sorry that things haven't been going too well lately, you take care of yourself and remember that we are all here to 'listen' if you need someone to talk to. xx

Speak later guys.

Blairweech

Hello all :wave:

Janey - Welcome back to you, sorry to hear things are bad ((((hugs)))).

Had a NSD here, technically that is three in a row (apart from the phone bill DD that went out yesterday). Good job as I forgot that I am being paid a day late this week!
AND in a bid to make tomorrow a NSD too (as I was really craving chocolate today), I just whipped up a batch of Weetabix Brownies.

Plus I got £20 from my parents for Easter . Oh, and my landlady soooo kindly replaced my washing line tub (after dumb dumb here left the wet washing on the line and it brought the pole down, smashing the bucket in the process). I was going to sort it out this weekend, but now she has saved me hassle and time! Will bake her a cake this weekend to say thanks I think.

So, all in all, this week is going quite well. And I got 2 whole days off this weekend, so think I will put some more [EMAIL="!!!!"]!!!![/EMAIL] on Ebay. Maybe start off my homebrew too (am thinking peach wine, as I have a tin of peaches in the cupboard that need using)

enjoyfinancialchallenges

A quick post tonight, I have spent most of the day either in the garden or potting up in the greenhouse and am feeling tired. My neighbour gave me the rest of his left over onion plants so they went into the ground plus lots of different salads seeds that I will use as cut and come again leaves. So all those plus the spring onions and radishes will keep me going for a while once they all grow......and it rained tonight.:j

Janey..It seems like all that you have to cope with is loads more than is expected of any one human being, please consider getting some help from somewhere...((((( BIG HUGS))))) and lots of empathy.

My lovely OH (my live-out-lover) was going to come to see me but cancelled because he had spent a long while in the dentists chair earlier today and the empty tooth socket was causing him problems so I had a full day in the garden instead of the half day I thought it would be. He is coming tomorrow instead though!!!

My money is going well! too well unfortunately, I must get my mind back onto it again and look at my budget once more.

Going to bed now to think frugal and other thoughts.:D

purplevamp

slowlyfading wrote: »

Evening everyone.

This will be brief as I'm not very well I got sent home from work at 1:30pm today, as I went deaf in my right ear, and was really unbalanced and felt really dizzy. I'm hoping to go to work tomorrow, as its only for 4 hours. I went to the docs and she said to steam one in the a morning and once a night with some olbus oil in the water. I just did that a while ago, and it made my eyes stream!

I've added a new bit to my sig - I'm going to aim to lose 30lbs, the sensible, hopefully healthy way. I've had problems with food before, so I'm going to be careful. I need to lose some weight, so here's to a new challenge.

I have read the thread, but i can't remember what I've read I'm sorry! I will be back tomorrow, hopefully bright eyed and bushy tailed

sf xx

You poor thing :grouphug: . It sounds a bit like labyrinthitis - honest I didn't make that up! I've had it a few times and it really makes you feel like cr*p and all you want to do is sleep and not move. Good luck with the weight loss as well. I need to lose about 3.5 stone, 2 of which I've put on since I got married just under 2 years ago :eek:. I've been good this week and have lost about 2.5 lb so far. Hope you're feeling better soon. :A

Janey51

Good morning from a surprisingly lovely day in the Frozen...now thawing...North.
Last night I had to rescue a lamb from the garden and return it to Mum. The sight of a one-legged lunatic racing around after a bouncy bundle of wool must have been worth a spot on Jeremy Beadle.
And today my exciting social diary is full of delights...beginning with a visit to have the foot dressed. If I was insensitive, I could describe in great detail what it looks like but I think a lot of breakfasts would go uneaten, so I won't

I have been working my way through the freezer..again. When I am under pressure, I cook. As I don't eat much, this mountain of food diminishes very slowly but I need to find more space to fill.
Last week, I made a gingerbread and tried to ignore the lack of a suitably sized tin.
30 minutes later I was trying to scoop up molten lava from the floor of the oven where it had made a bid for freedom. But what remains tastes wonderful and I did use up some ancient syrup and treacle to make it so it wasn't a total disaster.

I won a humungous Easter Egg in a raffle which is going to take me a year to eat

I need to get my ISA sorted for this year as I have missed nearly a month already. But the rates are so abysmal it's not worth getting too excited about.

And the Tax Office wrote to me telling me I owe them £230 which is very confusing as they gave me a rebate of £78 in January.
I really think I should give up work altogether and keep my savings under the mattress.

enjoyfinancialchallenges

Janey...your description of your gingerbread really made me laugh when I remembered a similar incident about 20 years ago, DD1 and I watched in horror through the oven window as the contents of our tin spewed out its contents all over the oven floor. DD1 is no longer with me so its always special to have good memories...thank you Janey.XX

lyndasharp

Hi Janey, welcome back and sorry to hear you've been having such a tough time. Congrats on your giant easter egg though, it sounds like you are due some good luck after everything that's happened! SF, hope you feel better today.

I'm happy as I sold the giant TV for £34 on ebay. Nearly freecycled it, so anything is a bonus. First stage of my 'cancel the TV licence at home' campaign is complete... now just have to convince H2B that as we've only used the TV twice since we moved in, there's no point paying £12 a month for it!

Veg plot progress - 2 beds dug (out of 6), one planted. Have so far found part of an ammonite fossil and a blue plastic button - sadly no buried treasure! Hoping for good weather tonight to get a bit more done.

FrankieM

Morning everyone...
It's grey and miserable her in Staffordshire. We had an early start getting stuff out of our current campervan so we could get some welding done for the MOT, only to be told that the guy can't do it today...oh well, it means the money stays in my account that much longer. It seems he wants our beetle first but not till next week. I'm going to have to get a srappy guy to come pick up our Toyota soon too...it looks a bit like a car lot out the front at the moment.
We planted some seeds out in the garden the weekend before last but I think I'm going to get some stuff in pots and in the conservatory. I'll have to see what seeds I have and try to use those up.
I also need to look at what veg etc needs using up and do something with that too.
Thankfully it's nearly the end of the holidays so I can start getting back into routine and encourage the children to as well!
Hope you all have a good day...

Oh nyk it's a microbus and currently in South Africa...best not to ask! But we do have a trailer tent and I'd be very tempted to buy land and put that on it!