Live on £4,000 for a year - 2009, Part 4

grandma247

Grandma, glad you got the cashcard problem sorted out, I remember all the hassle of them sending cards back & forth and your trying to sort out which one you really could use - nightmare, I'm glad it's all past for you.


Not me bigmummaf

Frugaldom

It's only 6.55pm and it's getting dark here!

Oops, hit send before typing the rest of the message, sorry

Not much to report from frugaldom today. I managed to get all the washing dried in the sunshine, the feed merchant delivered my order (EVERYTHING up AGAIN!) and HS has been very helpful with regards to my back problem - carrying stuff, reaching stuff, cleaning out the fire grate etc. On the downside of frugalisation, the fire has been on for the past 3 days and is swallowing up the logs and cones but the heat isn't enough to spread throughout the entire house, so I have switched on the storage heater in DS's northish facing bedroom so it starts heating up tonight. No point in him being freezing when it's not his choice to frugalise and he does buy all his extra food and supplements for his wacky hi-protein, body building, I have a six-pack to feed diet. Besides, I can leave his door open when he's at work and it'll contribute to heating the hall. The short days also mean we have lights on for many more hours in the day, so electricity is going to take a leap this week, too. Just as I thought I was getting the weekly averages well under control. Hmph!

No batch cooking or baking has been done today, still eating from store cupboard & freezer, didn't make it into town but will NEED to go tomorrow or we'll completely run out of milk and I'll have no velcro for my fleecy window coverings when SM gets back here on Friday.

Dinner was sausages, egg & fried dumpling but I saved the fat from the pan for making oatcakes so I can try the cream cheese SM was talking about earlier.

Brighton_belle

It's 6.59 and completely dark down here

cw18

And I reckon that if it weren't for 2 street lights (that keep it marginally lit all night) I'd not have been able to find my way around my back garden for a good half hour !!!

Frugaldom

We get an extra half hour's day light at teatime so we can see when the rain or snow starts. Has anyone looked at the Greenwich Meridian Line? There's quite a time difference between one side of the country and the other, I don't think it even touches Scotland. We're really about half an hour behind you guys way down south. :rotfl: (Must go play on G00gle now in case I'm talking nonsense! )

slowlyfading

Evening everyone.

Second day on placement today. Had a nightmare year 8 class third period which showed to me just how hard I might find this whole teaching thing. I would have NO idea how to control a class like that, and it made me think whether I am doing the right thing going into teaching. I know I can't base it all on that though, but still. Making me wonder slightly.

Today is nsd no 3 for me in October. It helps by taking a packed lunch to school and not taking my purse, lol that way I can't actually spend a penny! Not that I need to, and I need to keep clocking up the no spend days, as I need to watch my budget carefully until christmas time, just to see how things balance out. My second placement could be miles away, and cost a fortune in travel expenses, so just because I can walk to this one and not spend a penny, doesn't mean the second one will be like that - the probability of it says I will be miles away. Great :rolleyes:

Hope you're all well this evening. I have read through the thread, just can't really remember what I was going to say to everyone too tired this evening I think.

sf x x

Mollymop5

Hello everyone.I've fallen off the wagon
tried to limit my time spent on laptop and mse site and have taken up crafting.i seem to be spending lots on fabric and wool ect.I'm loving making things but need to come back here to curb my spending.I'm sorting a budget out for now to xmas then will be joining properly again injanuary.I've learned my lesson now and know I need to be here every day!

sophiesmum_2

Don't get too disheartened so soon sf , you are there to learn after all, controlling a room full of kids is like everything else, it is a skill which is learned one day in the future you will look back on today and laugh to yourself about how new you were to it all.

slowlyfading

sophiesmum wrote: »

Don't get too disheartened so soon sf , you are there to learn after all, controlling a room full of kids is like everything else, it is a skill which is learned one day in the future you will look back on today and laugh to yourself about how new you were to it all.

Thanks SM. Think I'm just a bit overwhelmed by it all at the moment. I'm hoping it'll settle down a bit more soon. Hope you're okay. x x

DdraigGoch

Hello from dark dark Wales :hello:

I'm laid up with a heavy cold [man 'flu!] and tippy tappying around the Net and so far I've avoided spending hundreds!! It's positively dreadful how frugalitis gets a hold of spendaholics like me :j Today I didn't do anything useful, well, apart from investigate even more frugalising - but that's normal behaviour nowadays.....

Thanks for the good wishes, NYK, I have high hopes of someone who's promised to be here tomorrow for a chat.

My home modifications are on stop this week - good job I got "ill-ish" this week, then!

Nice to see that some of us are having things work out well and hugs for those for whom things just aren't quite the way they should be.

I'll be thinking of everyone until I'm back
best wishes to all.
DG