OS living -a moment of self doubt

jem1276

This thread has made me feel all warm and fluffy!

Lovely for a sunday evening :kisses:

Justamum

Probably completely off topic, but I had to laugh this morning when I was listening to the omnibus of the Archers. Jill Archer was cleaning out a kitchen cupboard and found a tin of treacle with a use by date of November 2009, so she binned it. Later on someone was telling her that they'd just had some of the apple pie left over from Phil's funeral "Oh good, I don't like to see food wasted" says Jill!

Primrose

One of the nice things about getting older is that you start to worry a lot less about what other people think of you, you grow in self confidence and learn how to be happy in your own skin. It doesn't really matter how other people live their lives. They have different values and aspirations. The only person who matters is YOU. If you're happy doing what you do and living in a certainly lifestyle, as long as it's sustainable that's really all that matters.

I'm not Old Style because I have no money. I'm OS because this kind of lifestyle appeals to me, to my desire to help save the planet in a small way and to have the peace of mind that we are living within our means.

Don't ever feel guilty or apologise. Just be happy that you're doing all these OS things while those who criticise or make fun of you are probably wracking up a nice mountain of credit card debts which will one day have to be accounted for. Virtue will bring its own reward on the day when you listen sympathetically to tales of their debt woes and return home with a big grin on your face that you're not in their shoes :rotfl:

Purpleclutterbuck

I sat down and re-read all the comments from this old thread and more than ever I realised that more and more people are trying to live by this OS method and they are thirsty for knowledge on how to make things last / stretch food budgets as it's a case of having to make do and mend as the money situation gets worse:eek:

I have no qualms in chatting to people waiting at the bustop as some of them have some really good ideas and volunteering at a charity shop has helped me no end in thinking of fresh ways to make my shrinking pound go alot further but now I'm stuck in a quandry as I'm trying to pay off debts and also growing veg and also decluttering and etc...
I now wonder if anyone has any more inspirational ideas on this OS living - perhaps it's just a teeny tiny moment of self doubt creeping in again but never fear I will continue in this way of life but I think I occasionally need a quick kick of inspiration up the derriere when everyone else is
Any positive vibes available out there pleeeeaaase.......!!!!:o

Rage_in_Eden

Finally got around to getting back to the OS forum - too much stuff. I shall simply say IVF and leave it there Anyway, reading this thread made me realise how well me and OH actually live. I know people who plead poverty and say they can't have a party for their children's birthdays - and then go out to an activity centre and then pizza express. The children are both under 5. Now just who was that outing for? I make samplers for people - some are appreciated, some just get looked at and put down (which hacks me off :mad:, I've slaved over that) but at the end of the day some people know the price of everything etc. Today I have done some planting, started my salad cress off (okay, not a massive job :rotfl:) and have my mung beans soaking. I'm off in a bit to either (a) finish off a wedding sampler or (b) look at the horendously big holes I need to darn in OH's jumper. Tonight's dinner was again HM and tomorrow I am having a baking day and a good catalogue of what's left in the store cupboards and making cauliflower cheese for dinner...I walk or use public transport whenever I can and as a result even though working from home I get far less than I used to it means we aren't waiting for payday every month....If it wasnt for this OS mini forum I would never had half the "get up and go" to do all these things. I would have thought about it and just moaned. We are debt free (mortgage excepted) and look at prices in shops with the phrase "are they having a laugh?". A lot of this is thanks to here prodding me into adopting the ways of my late parents. So there you go. OS has a lot to answer for....and as for non matching nails? Well, some people should get their priorities right, I mean, how dreadful.....:D

HariboJunkie

Rage_in_Eden wrote: »

Finally got around to getting back to the OS forum - too much stuff. I shall simply say IVF and leave it there

Nice to see you back and sorry things have made you .

Haribo x

Margaret52129

Hi, just stumbled on this thread and although I've not read all the posts (sorry there did seem to be a lot!) I really felt at one with PURPLECLUTTERBUCK as I'm always trying my best to be OS when others aren't and they seem to like to think they're better than me because they can buy things! If only they knew!!!!

I cannot do all the things I want because I work FT and have other responsibilities out of work which takes up quite a few evenings! But I still prefer to make my own cakes, cook from scratch and although not got the time now, I used to make almost all my own clothes and those of my children and also occasional things for OH.

Perhaps your aunt thinks a bit like some of my older aunts - that they scraped and OS all the time when they were younger (we're talking war times and after) that when their families had flown the nest and times began to be good for them, they'd had enough and it felt like being rich and free to buy and not make anymore. And I do think that, although OS is brilliant, I sometimes like to have the chance to buy things as a treat, cakes etc have a different taste to your own and once in a while it's ok to buy them (they taste even better if they're whoopsies!!!)

Keep on track with it all and hold up your heads and be proud to be OS's but at the same time, acknowledge that it isn't always the same for everyone.