What frugal find came your way today?

Ginger_Snap

My frugal "find" was being given free tickets for me and my DD to go to the circus. I also remembered to take our own water and snacks so we resisted the temptation of the hugely expensive snack bar in the interval.

Tiddlywinks

Ginger_Snap wrote: »

Tiddlywinks- many thanks for the info! Will sign up for one right away...

Remember, FREE WHIPPED CREAM - your hips won't thank you for it - get the big pants at the ready and enjoy .

Tiddly

DawnW

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

I got a voucher for a free Starbucks Frappacino topped with whipped cream :j.

The voucher said choose any size so I went for the fat girl large one to save maximum money . Feeling a little bit queasy now though and I suppose I should have exercised a bit more self control and got the medium instead .

Hmm I got a free sample the other day,and it was gorgeous Not sure if I could have managed a large one :eek:

Not that I have much in the way of self control - but it all seems very unfair given my hip size :eek:

Soubrette

I usually look on enviously to you lucky recipients

But today I was given 2kg of rhubarb so I'm stewing half to make rhubarb and strawberry crumble when our strawberries come in (it's a Canadian thing apparently!!) and I'm going to have a go at making rhubarb and ginger jam tomorrow

The lady who gave me the rhubarb was swapping 2 tomato plants for 2 chilli plants I had grown. So a great day today.

Sou

merlin68

Well today we helped nan clear her garden, so got free lunch and tea. We also got free sand and cement for doing our patio. Yesterday I got 16 runner bean plants of my dad.

leahciM

My frugal 'find' was spotify! Was on the way out today to buy some albums when I thought I'd look it up -I only really listen to music on my laptop anyhow so this has probably just saved me in the region of £60 a month!

The_Thrilla

During the big recession of the 1980s, when I was unemployed, my (now late) wife and I came across a little book called A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes by Charles Elm! Francatelli, former Chief Cook and Maitre d' to Queen Victoria. I believe it was published in 1851. I suppose today such a book might be regarded by some as patronising ("Right, you ignorant people, I'll show you how to cook a meal properly...") But the book and its author were of their time.

It does what it says on the title, and the recipes are not as detailed as in cookbooks today, and are more about method than ingredients. The spirit and the methods used saw us through that recession, but alas we lent it to someone, and neither book nor someone were ever seen again.

Well, the great news is that I have found the etext on Project Gutenberg, and here it is, so you, too, can make yourself some toast water, iceland moss jelly, and have thick milk for breakfast. But there are useful things in there. For instance, barley water is some mysterious substance that comes flavoured with fruit in bottles, and is seen on the umpire's chair at Wimbledon, even though no one seems to drink it. This book tells you how to make your own.

The link is here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22114/


In case you didn't know, Brown and Polsen Indian corn is cornflour and buttermilk is not the yoghurt stuff in the supermarket, but the milk left after making butter.

deborah64

Yesterday we went for a wander round the local garden centre, i treated myself to a couple of Yankee candle votives, and was at the till paying when the lad asked if we wanted 3 free boxes of rose treatment, clears rust, fungus etc, so of course i bite his hand off.
They retail at £5.99 each and the only reason they were giving them away was because they hadn't been tagged so couldn't go on the shelves in case they "walked".
The funny thing is that on saturday i noticed rust marks on my rose leaves, so this couldn't have come at a better time.

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The_Thrilla wrote: »

During the big recession of the 1980s, when I was unemployed, my (now late) wife and I came across a little book called A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes by Charles Elm! Francatelli, former Chief Cook and Maitre d' to Queen Victoria. I believe it was published in 1851. I suppose today such a book might be regarded by some as patronising ("Right, you ignorant people, I'll show you how to cook a meal properly...") But the book and its author were of their time.

It does what it says on the title, and the recipes are not as detailed as in cookbooks today, and are more about method than ingredients. The spirit and the methods used saw us through that recession, but alas we lent it to someone, and neither book nor someone were ever seen again.

Well, the great news is that I have found the etext on Project Gutenberg, and here it is, so you, too, can make yourself some toast water, iceland moss jelly, and have thick milk for breakfast. But there are useful things in there. For instance, barley water is some mysterious substance that comes flavoured with fruit in bottles, and is seen on the umpire's chair at Wimbledon, even though no one seems to drink it. This book tells you how to make your own.

The link is here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22114/


In case you didn't know, Brown and Polsen Indian corn is cornflour and buttermilk is not the yoghurt stuff in the supermarket, but the milk left after making butter.

Thanks for the link. It's odd because I planned on visiting that site today after being recommended it by my knitting magazine. I'm off now...

katieclampet

A free lunch at work today, provided by colleague who bought left over party food in. And it was delicious, yummy!

katiex