Setting up a new home

Cerisa

Awww thank you for all the advice and well wishes - everyone is so lovely! I will definitely bear in mind about the knives and pans, I've already lost cheaper pans to cooking disasters.:(

amcluesent

>has anyone got any tips<

Make a slanket, save on the heating bills.
Use a spreadsheet to record all your income and costs to make a realistic budget
It's true - "buy cheap, buy twice"
Keep looking at collection only, local stuff on Ebay
Buy all your non-food stuff at Aldi/Lidl
Learn to cook and don't waste money on 'ready meals'
Have lots of parties

Cerisa

oooooh the slanket sounds like a good idea, and the ebay/ collection. I never eat read meals so that's sorted.... i tend to buy non food stuff at wilkinson's / home bargains, home bargains do very cheap sauces etc

LandyAndy

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

If you're buying a home, the advice I hear is to set aside 1% of the purchase price each year for maintenance costs.

I never heard that before but 30 years of house ownership tells me that is a good starting point.

poppysarah

Buy the things you don't want second hand. Bedding (sheets in particular are very cheap at Primark), towels, a mattress. Everything else is fine second hand. (and a cheap mattress cover is better than a new mattress if you can't afford one)


I freecycled a load of stuff and gave it all to the person who responded with the request for one of the things, but asking nicely if he could have anything else I'd not got rid of yet as he was starting out.

poppysarah

amcluesent wrote: »

It's true - "buy cheap, buy twice"

Buy badly, buy twice.