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

lingojingo

tryingtodobetter wrote: »

I've had a fantastic frugal birthday :bdaycake: today

Belated Happy Birthday, those are the best kind, glad you enjoyed it!

MushyPeas

Belated happy birthday wishes tryingtodobetter

Lovely to read everyone's progress, I made some chickpea and potato curry today and it worked out at £0.25 per portion which I'm really happy about. Thinking about making some gloup tonight!

Stay warm and safe x

lyndasharp

Happy Birthday ttdb!

Had great fun making things from art clay silver today. I actually got a kit a couple of Christmas's ago, and never got round to making anything. Found it while I was tidying and decided to do something with it - managed to get 4 pendants and a pair of earrings from it (10g kit), and so that's some of the prezzies sorted for people helping with wedding bits, plus something for me. I enjoyed it enough thatI thought I'd buy some more clay and got quite a shock at the price... would have been much more careful with every crumb of it if I'd known! Still, I guess it's not bad value really given the amount of jewellery I got from it. Will post a pic at some point if I can find my camera (h2B helped with tidying...)

Made a delicious curry followed by gingerbread tonight, using the Levi Roots cookbook we got for Christmas. It's not massively frugal food, uses quite a lot of ingredients (spices and herbs especially) so you have to buy them all to start with, but it is totally yummy and worth it for a nice treat.

Blairweech

Nuala - Yes you can freeze bananas, they turn out really mushy once defrosted though so would need using in banana loaf, smoothies etc
TTDB - Happy birthday!! Glad you enjoyed your day

Thankyou to all who posted good wishes etc for me. All is well again now - managed to defrost my pipes (opened all the cupboard doors and turned the heaters onto them). I can honestly say the shower I had this afternoon was the best shower ever My landlady got electric put on my key for me, as they can get out in the truck, and I managed to get my car back. Well, between 3 of us and a lot of pushing/shoving/swearing we got it back anyway! So I am happy again now, just got to get to work in the morning.

Todays frugal activites were making a fish pie and not spending any money

glendam

Trying to be more organised with my spending made me re think my desk space today. Looks much better now certainly more inviting rather than deciding if the only space on the desk is for the mouse or a cup of coffee.
Anyway on a happier note I found a purse with £110 in thing is I was spending money so fast end of last year didnt realise this was only lost. bad or what.
I am putting it in my holiday pot saving for a "big" holiday when my OH retires October 2011.

Glenda

sophiesmum_2

Happy Birthday TTDB :bdaycake:

glendam

Glad you had a good day ttdb.

Glenda

savingfortravel

Hi Everyone!
I’d love to beable to use a sewing machine..definitely one of my future dreams. Feeling more inspired by you guys.
Used the dodgy stilton up today by making some delicious stilton and broccolli soup. Enough for my suppers this week.
Made a great start to collecting materials for cards today. Definitely my craft project this month.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TTDB!
Well done Shaz! We are trying really hard to pay off our mortgage too. Looking for lots of tips.
Welcome back Ram-Murdock
BB-So jealous you got to spend time with Bails-I would love to chat to my twin in the flesh!
Paul-Hope you get to work tomorrow. Mr SFT won’t be back until Tuesday.


Butterfly-Well done for Music Magpie-We did that last year and the money paid for a significant part of our Flat Screen T.V,-something we would have never got normally.
Skint-Chick-I found the travel part of your dream very interesting..I too crave new experiences/cultures..travel?
Twinkles-Don’t feel guilty. I have also been clothes shopping on ebay but things cost significantly less than in the shops and you can resell them.
Debtmess-Good trading with your neighbour!
Congrats Ansoff on your decluttering. Feels great doesn’t it. Hope your doggies get well soon.
Fantastic money saving tips aeb! Love the nappy drying.
Debs08-Thank you for sharing your story with us. What an amazing woman you are too. Do hope this forum can help things for you and we can offer you lots of friendship and support.
CW/Debs-Thinking of your boys doing their job. My B-I-L was in Iraq.
Lynz-Well done for all your money saving.
Blair-I hope you are sorting things out.
Rozee-Glad you got some bargains when you went out !
Nat-Congrats on the sewing machine. You lucky thing. Might try asking myself.
Flying F-Hope you feel better soon x

Have a good evening

sft

mooomin

savingfortravel wrote: »

Flying F-Hope you feel better soon x

Still feeling pretty rotten to be honest and just used the last of the cold & flu tablets. Hoping I feel better for work tomorrow

Frugal acts today:

1. NSD
2. Looking suitably ill so Mr Fresian bought us pizza for tea. Not MSE but also not my budget :A Om nom nom

The rest of the time has been spent in bed either reading or lurking on MSE.

Off to bed now, night all.

LilacPixie

Evening frugaliers. this thread moves far too fast. I keep losing the plot and my place.

Welcome to all newbies.