1 mortgage, 2 babies, 3 years to be MF, 4 goodness sake!- weezl's diary

LilacPixie

Well done on your total weezl, totally in awe

TPA i just fling everything in my slow cooker and hope for the best. Usually meat, veg, tinned tomatoes and sometimes a tin or two of the cheapest baked beans i can find. Seems to work well enough but there is a big thread over on Olstyle to help too.

I have a scottish gas energy monitor. They were giving them away to those on disability benefits and its still in it's box. oopsie. I am a lazy moooooooooooooo

shaz_mum_of__2

TAP http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=43570&highlight=slowcooker

Loads of good recipes here, including doing whole chickens and joints and puds not just casseroles


Way to go weezl with the payments
Shaz

Tesco_points_addict

TPA, I know you were joking, but as a matter of interest, how bad was the hoover for energy usage?

I will let you know it three weeks when it's time to hoover again:p


Thanks for the link shaz, have added it to my favourites

TPAx

gallygirl

LilacPixie wrote: »

TPA i just fling everything in my slow cooker and hope for the best. Usually meat, veg, tinned tomatoes and sometimes a tin or two of the cheapest baked beans i can find. Seems to work well enough but there is a big thread over on Olstyle to help too.

LP, that's my recipe as well , except you forgot to specify that the veg should be manky bottom of the fridge veg

Weezl, well done :T, I'm speechless (which doesn't happen very often )

THRIFTY_GIRL

Tesco_points_addict wrote: »

I will let you know it three weeks when it's time to hoover again:p


Thanks for the link shaz, have added it to my favourites

TPAx

I have got bored with guessing and purchased a monitor that tells me how much electric each appliance uses. At £11.72 I did hesitate a little but the idea is that I should at least recoup this in energy savings. Will post when it arrives and I have had the opportunity to test a few items.

cha97michelle

Your total is brilliant Weezl. Well done. :D:D :beer:

Interesting to see the energy usage comments. I watched a TV programme about this only the other week where they took a house off the mains and then got 80 cyclicts to convert pedal power to electric. They also said the worst offenders were the things that heat up, particularly things like showers, kettles, irons, hair straightners. (It was BBC so probably on iplayer but i can't remember what it was called.)

Since watching that i have used my Slow cooker an awful lot, and i have been less lazy and hand mixed my pizza base mixture rather than using my bread maker to mix it and help the dough rise.

pammyj74

http://testtubetelly.channel4.com/programmes/items/69109890 it was this one, i watched it too and just goes to show how much the shower and kettle use up, I am terrible for boiling the kettle and forgetting about it. I was tempted to actually fill a flask up for the night instead lol

ah just played it and they dont play it after a certain amount of days

mumtoomany

Hi all, loving the diary Weezl. Don't know if you remember me, I was the one who tested whether unknown berries were edible by feeding them to one of my children (on the 50p thread).

Just popped on to say, as a veteran of old draughty victorian houses, we are now on our third, dated 1886; have you insulated your cellar. (assuming you have one Weezle). If you put loft insulation between the joists that form the cellar ceiling (and therefore hold up the ground floor) hold it in place with drawing pins and string. It will make a big difference to your heat loss.

We have had our cellar converted into rooms this year. A double bedroom, a gym for dd2, a storage room, and a bathroom. As soon as the insulation was in the house felt immediately warmer.

Keep up the good work, I'm sure you can be mortgage free in 3 years. We have been for the last 5 years now and it certainly makes life less stressful.

Mumtoomany.

LilacPixie

My dyson uses 0.6KW a hour I checked it today because I am a sad soul because my energy monitor is my new toy. I was actually shamed into fitting it yesteray.

cheerfulness4

cha97michelle wrote: »

Since watching that i have used my Slow cooker an awful lot, and i have been less lazy and hand mixed my pizza base mixture rather than using my bread maker to mix it and help the dough rise.

I also now use my slow cooker all the time rather than heat my power hungry electric cooker.

You don't need to feel too guilty using the breadmaker for doing pizza dough - mine monitored at 1/2p for a dough cycle and 5p for a 'normal' loaf of bread cycle. (allow for differences in BM's and that it was a year ago, but still not bad.);)