FRUGAL LIVING CHALLENGE 2010, part 1. (Living on £4,000 a year)

lingojingo

chika wrote: »

Ooohhh Lingo your from Huddersfield? Me too although currently on exile due to uni in Manchester. I really want to go home this week but can't because of the snow, you've just made me feel all homesick. They are beautiful pictures though!

DS is in Manchester, I'm supposed to be visiting on Saturday, if i can get there.................

larmy16

My ds works at Waitrose and he just bought me back 4 cartons of UHT semi skim milk. I feel all secure now. It's the little things - it really is.

ps. He said they were out of regular milk and bread and was delighted to see my super duper loaf sitting on the worktop.

lingojingo

flippin36 wrote: »

Oooh you live by me lingojingo. We are hoping to get our son into this school he's on the autistic spectrum. I hear its an excellent school.

Oh, you're the first person I've 'met' on here that lives anywhere near me! Will send you a PM re school.

Thriftkitten

can someone explain to me how I do my buget thingy sheet for my groceries for the year as I see some people posting how much into their food budget for the year they are but dont understand what to do other than save my receipts or write it down in a diary.

mooomin

Thriftkitten wrote: »

can someone explain to me how I do my buget thingy sheet for my groceries for the year as I see some people posting how much into their food budget for the year they are but dont understand what to do other than save my receipts or write it down in a diary.

I use Cheryls spreadsheet and enter each item into it as and when I spend. It's good as it allows you to work out how much you have saved buying reduced items too.

Paulgonnabedebtfree

Well it must be pretty cold out there right now because I've actually put my heating on. Some winters, I never use it at all and last winter I only used a one room gas fire for a few evenings. I'm astonished the rads actually still work.
And I'm down in the southeast. I saw -20 predicted for some parts of Scotland/Northern England.

danielley

Good Evening

Thrifty Lass - i hope you feel much better soon, what an awful time to be ill.

SlowlyFading - take care of yourself


Well, Carpet finally got fitted. The living room looks so nice and new and smells like a show home! The carpet is so fluffy and thick, my only concern is that the cats will like it a little too much and think it is special litter for them!

Unfortunately not a NSD; I had to buy a sandwich for lunch instead of going home as normal. £2 and it was tasteless and really unsatisfying. Im not making the same mistake again, so i am off to make some spagetti with smoked salmon, creme fraiche and garlic puree to take for my lunch tomorrow now.

Got a call from my mum; she had a takeaway tonight (she is like antithesis of frugal despite being very low income) anyway the chippy had given her 2 extra bags of chips in error. OH & I jumped in car and went to get them (we did need to go around to drop some other stuff too) Mum works at the Co-op and I have told her to keep her eye out for bargains for me. Anyway she had 240 Typhoo teabags for £2 for me too Im not sure what they are like as I usually have PG Tips, but they'll do for visitors

Hope you are all safe and snug. There is more snow forecast tonight; its getting quite scary, we got stuck on the way back from Mum's and some kind bloke pushed us!

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xnatalie81x

i think next door are heating my house - not checked temp recently but wearing vest top - pjs, no socks and tiny cardi thing and toastie (plus 4 puppies spread around me sleeping - can you believe they will be 6 wks on sunday lol - i posted the birth pics on the 2009 thread lol) i have done some magicarry in kids room to keep them warm lol - no heating on here

knithappens

Thriftkitten wrote: »

Yes, maybe we were seperated at birth lol!!! where are you located?
We are here in normally somewhat sunny St Ives, but today it was a white out and very exciting to be stuck home baking and saving money, have even had the radio on all day whicih I never do.... jeremy kyle, eastenders... Be gone with you!!!!!

Manchester here, been listenin to leona's new album i got or xmas, (sssshhhh :shhh:bought and wrapped by myself- the kids think santa brought it)

mooomin

Paulgonnabedebtfree wrote: »

Well it must be pretty cold out there right now because I've actually put my heating on. Some winters, I never use it at all and last winter I only used a one room gas fire for a few evenings. I'm astonished the rads actually still work.
And I'm down in the southeast. I saw -20 predicted for some parts of Scotland/Northern England.

According to the BBC our minimum temp tonight (in Edinburgh) is -9 :eek: I'm sitting in padded shirt and two layers underneath that with the heating on again and I'm freezing! I've just lit 9 candles and I'm sitting here about to list stuff with Mus!cMagp!e because before I was sitting in bed on the laptop and was still cold. I may as well be making a few quid :rotfl: