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

taka

CW (and son!) - Good luck with your interview!

Bails - :D:D:D I love "seeing" you so happy! :j

Nyk - well done on the weight loss. Its scary sometimes exactly what a proper portion of something is... isn't it. I'm not great at portion size control at all sadly...

BW - well done on the heating still being off - I'm still holding out too but probably not for too much longer. My personal rule is once the clocks go back I can put my heating on (and in spring when the clocks go forwards my heating goes off). Brrrrrrrrrr... No signs of the indian summer here - just LOTS of rain...

Sf - :hello: Hang on in there... apparently it will get easier...

bails

Ah thanks Taka! :kisses3:

My mum was the same, heating off until we'd been away in the caravan at October half term, it was fr-eezing! :eek:

Well done on the NSDs SF!

taka

bails wrote: »

My mum was the same, heating off until we'd been away in the caravan at October half term, it was fr-eezing! :eek:

Hmmmm... I'll probably give in and put it on this weekend. I usually just take off my coat and add a thin fleece when I get home + blanket if I'm vegging on the sofa. Weekends are different though. I need to check the radiators are free of stuff 1st though. My hall one usually has 101 bits of mail resting on the top as its near the front door. I really need to put up a proper shelf above it instead. I also need to work out how to bleed my bathroom radiator - its not the same as my other ones and doesn't have an obvious radiator bleed screw thing... :rotfl:

Brighton_belle

lynda -was it a boy cat by any chance, who couldn't be bothered to get off the sofa and catch himself a mouse:rotfl:
Lynne - well done of the crimbo pressie org.Grandma - your hold sounded great. And how impressive to take your own canned goods.
Mooloo, welcome back
Redglass - great to hear from you
blair - your sig made me laugh out loud.
cw - wow, good luck with the interviews for you & DS. Hopefully, the fact they are giving you an interview means they are not too worried about your back history.
Nyk - you portion control star:T And yes, it is very very mild down here. Tee-shrt and open window as I write.
Bails - I can see it now - you, a few kids and a couple of chickens, a camper van, somewhere is south america...:D

My lodger has had a job offer back home in spain and is leaving, lol. Oh well, all part of life's rich tapestry. Wacked a new add in this moring and a few hopeful looking replies...

This looks like the it is tough now thread:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1295539

Vixstar

Sneaks in...think we have the Indian summer on the South coast, positively roasting this lunchtime (pity I was in work and it was dark when I left)...slinks back out

Blairweech

Nyk and bails - The link that BB posted is the correct one, thanks for doing that my dear!

I know it is silly but those couple of comments about my signature really cheered me up after a particularly trying day at work

Re: the heating. I think there are a few factors which help me - a) I am out of the house for 11 hours a day, and by the time I get back in the evening and make tea etc it is pretty much time for bed anyway! b) I work in a refridgerated warehouse, so anything above about 2 degrees feels like summer! c) I have storage heaters so by half 8 at night when I am home, they are cold. Last year I only put them on to stop the house getting mould

Had a NSD today. Off to do the washing up now, such excitement is my life

Edit: Ok, I have now dined on a chip butty and feel much better for it. SF - Don't worry too much about your savings, you are enjoying uni! I find it quite remarkable you are saving at all considering the pittance you are living on (£3000), especiallly seeing as you are (almost) the same age as me! I must try harder

Skint_Lynne

Evening all,

I feel as if winter is well and truly here, no signs of an Indian summer round this neck of the woods, it was cats and dogs all day!

DH is home, what joy.:p I had to make my own dinner, never mind, it was nice anyway, a curry, yum!

I hope all goes well for you and DS cheryl, I'm sure it will.

Nyk, I asked T about the pea pods, she said that she will have to decline your kind offer this time, she has a couple of family members that are poorly, so she is on hospital driving duty most of the time at the moment, which means almost daily trips from Ayrshire to Glasgow. That means, no spare time for wine making. Why don't you give it a go, have you got lots now, as I recall, you only had a small batch to begin with, has it grown into a pea pod mountain?:D

BB, I'm sorry about your lodger, I'm sure that another one will come along very soon to snap that fantastic sounding room up!

I'm still trying to stay on the wagon and will soon start looking at how I'm going to do my personal challenge next year. I can't believe that it will be November on Sunday.:eek:


Speak later. xx

Savvy_sewing

Thanks for the welcome back.
Now I am really trying to get my act together. Managed a NSD here, and stopped myself from going out, so no petrol used.
Tomorrow I am working in the charity shop in the morning, so I will have to be up and out earlier then I have in a few weeks.
I have spent the afternoon cutting out some handbags. Think I have cut out 6 ready to sew for this week.
Want to watch that programme on ITV about living on the bread line. I thank god, that although my money is below the bread line, I am not living in such a run down place.
BF gave me two sets of two different types of curtains, been lurking in his airing cupboard for years. (Well over 5 as thats how long I have been seeing him), and I think that the original idea was for me to use in my creative modes, but one colour scheme ties in with my pale green leather sofas, so I have changed the landlords curtains and put them up, and also used the matching set on the front door. I have used the picture wire, wound around some nails in the door, and fed it through the header tape, so now the draft from the front door has been reduced. This means that its a lot more cosy in the front room now, and much more co-ordinated too!.
(Must just remember where I put the landlords curtains so I dont loose them, or cut them up!)

BigMummaF

On the bubby-front, I saw a post yesterday that Weezl is expecting another Fergie!
My own three are less than four years apart, with only 1year & 11 weeks between the eldest two :shocked: Seeing mums around now with a few toddlers in tow, I can't imagine how I got through it :eek: with all my own hair & very few grey ones intact :rotfl:

I too, am having to think long & hard about budgets...The attempt to keep within the GC is proving to be a nightmare, mainly because I still buy things 'just in case' There's a fair bit [food-wise] stashed for :rudolf:that was bought on offer so perhaps I'll recoup some of the over-spend in the early New Year & the "store cupboard" could support us for a goodly while.
And we are trying to do the portion control thing too. I found smaller dinner plates in MrT at just 50p a go, bought one to begin & the offspring decided to join in the fun so we've one each now. Still not worked out how you managed to get so much soup from one turkey leg & very envious Nyk, but seeing as it would only be me & Pup who would eat it & hardly any room in the freezers, I guess I'm in no hurry to experiment for myself

cheerfulness4

I'm in awe of the milage that you can get out of one turkey leg, too. Now this sounds like a great challenge I could set myself.
Was it an Asda turkey leg? Assumed not as didn't think you had one near you but SM may have fetched one at the weekend.

My farmers market sells quite large ones that have done the 4 of us two large dinnners. They cost £1.70 each. Actually they are really big so would love to see how far I could stretch one of those out.

Hope the interviews go great for you and son CW.

After a truly awful day yesterday weatherwise, the sun is now glorious out there so I shall scuttle off and hang the washing before it disappears again!