FRUGAL LIVING CHALLENGE 2010, part 2, April - June.

gilligansyle

lynzpower wrote: »

Its in Liverpool. I'm not 100% sure as parents are from near Manchester Airport, but its so so good.

For food you cant beat Bury market it really is super ( or was last time I went)

We are talking about either the Heritage or Paddies then(?) - Heritage is usually Sundays only. If you do get to go the city centre is full of all those little European food market huts. The smells are amazing but quite expensive.

Have a good break everyone.

Frugaldom

Good morning What's a 'break', Gilligansyle? :rotfl::rotfl:

To anyone who is worrying or beating themselves up about being over-budget, don't! The very fact that you have made the conscious decision to analyse your spending or record where all the money goes is where frugal living starts. Remember it's a lifestyle choice, not a challenge imposed as some form of punishment. Once all debts have gone, frugal living is basically money in the bank or else a different way of viewing the necessity for more income. Congratulate yourselves on making a wise decision to frugalise. :T

My Dig-in seeds just arrived! :j I'd almost given up hope when everyone else got theirs last week, so I went back on site to reregister, in case my application hadn't gone through the first time.

Re the seedlings moving out from greenhouse or similar, where we live, I certainly wouldn't risk it yet, we're prone to hard frost until about mid May here.

Hope everyone who is managing to have a holiday this weekend enjoys themselves and that everyone else has a good weekend, regardless. I'm just hoping we have electricity and some heat. :rotfl:Who knows, maybe by Tuesday I'll even have a couple more chicks hatched out.

micron_2

Frugaldom wrote: »

Post 2 'HANDY LINKS' exact same here as previously, hence the reason I'm always harking back to it when someone posts a question. I'm trying to get the old thread closed but the board guide seems to have gone AWOL



Who, where, when, what have I missed? Who is Micron?

Fingers still crossed for eggs in incubators and the 3 chicks have come through the powercut just fine. Going to have to go and look at the old thread now as it appears people may still be posting on it for some strange reason.

Hi pagangirl, thanks for the welcome. I've been reading the posts and you are all so welcoming (and funny as well!)

Frugaldom, sorry for not making it clearer that I want to join, I'm still fairly new on posting. Thanks for adding me.

I didn't have a great day yesterday as I had to drive into London meaning I had to pay the dreaded Congestion Charge (which I forgot to pay so now costing me £10 instead of £8). Met some friends for lunch (but we used a voucher from my!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so it was much cheaper than expected). I did however save on parking of £15.00 by being cheeky and using the car park where I use to work 6 years ago. A smile to the security guards sure does go a long way. Having said that, I was feeling really lazy and got the tube two stops either way to meet my friends when I really should have walked.

Happy Easter everyone.

Frugaldom

Welcome on board Micron - I don't always get time to keep up with posts, so just yell in big coloured letters to get noticed.

London is like a foreign country to me, I've been once and couldn't understand it at all - all that rushing and traffic and people and running lanes on escalators and running for tube trains that themselves run every 2 minutes - what's the panic in missing one, I have to ask? But we need the city dudes, just like they need us, so I just don't visit cities very often. I would never dream of driving into one but, at the same time, I curse the city drivers on country roads who reckon they're in such a hurry that they shouldn't need to drive at 20 miles an hour behind a tractor for half a mile. What a wacky world we live in! Give me peaceful, simplistic, debt free, frugal living any day.

Blairweech

Good morning everyone, new thread

Today will not be a NSD, as am purchasing my 'new' car. £900, which leaves me £600 to transfer into savings :j :money:. Am giving my brother £100 cut for helping me.

Anyway, the weather is inevitably atrocious, so this weekends activites will be indoors. Do some more Ebay listings (the pile is definitely going down :T), maybe go to a carboot on Sunday if its stops persisiting down for an hour or so. Making bacon and sweetcorn chowder today nom nom nom

My Mum mentioned to me last night that now she is not working there is a 'shortfall'. So, whilst I am not working and cannot contibute much monetarily, I am contributing to help the running of the household. This is not easy, as she refuses to do her shopping online or do a meal plan, and does a £200 shop every week, plus a £60-£80 top up shop halfway through :eek: God knows what their gas bill is, as the heating rages morning noon and night (my Dad has very very high blood pressure and as such is always cold whilst the rest of us roast). Oh well, at least I am well quipped with frugal knowledge!

cw18

I've been to London a few times (day trips, a one week course when I started in IT, and a week with DH and the boys about 7 or 8 years ago), and I don't like the rushing around or crowded tube stations either. I'd never consider driving there, even though I'm happy enough driving through Manchester (as long as I know the route I need) even at busy times.

I'm also another who doesn't understand drivers getting frustrated at tractors etc., but I guess that comes from growing up in a semi-rural area where the routes to many places included narrow country lanes (which is also where I learned to drive).

Even now I get flashed by drivers who don't like the fact I won't pass a cyclist unless I can give him/her plenty of 'wobble room' - and in the past have been "accused" of being a cyclist myself due to the amount of room I give them


I have a weekend of h/work ahead of me (after work this afternoon), and then a week of long hours at work from Monday (doing a 7am start instead of 1pm on Mon, Thur & Fri - so am showing as the max 39 hours on the rota due to holiday cover).

Depending on how the h/work goes tonight/tomorrow, I may sound out my OH (that sounds sooooo nice) and see if he'd mind me 'bobbing up to Blackpool' to watch him play hockey on Sunday (he's there for a tournament from today until Monday) - but I'm not sure when his games are, or what the protocol is regarding spectators. I do know that parking will be a nightmare though !!!

rozeepozee

top_drawer wrote: »

hello,


I'm very concerned about some of my lettuces - they look very floppy in the trays and my herbs dont seem to be regrowing either after I trimmed them fo using .... are they one yield only maybe?

Happy Aprils Fools everyone

Jen

I bought "cut and come again" coriander seeds, so I'm assuming that's ordinarily a once only. My Parsley however seems to benefit from trimming as it doesn't have chance to go to seed thn - maybe it's just too early. I'm only just starting to get some worthwhile growth on the coriander and the parsley and basil is incredibly slow.

Skint_Lynne

cw18 wrote: »

I've been to London a few times (day trips, a one week course when I started in IT, and a week with DH and the boys about 7 or 8 years ago), and I don't like the rushing around or crowded tube stations either. I'd never consider driving there, even though I'm happy enough driving through Manchester (as long as I know the route I need) even at busy times.

I'm also another who doesn't understand drivers getting frustrated at tractors etc., but I guess that comes from growing up in a semi-rural area where the routes to many places included narrow country lanes (which is also where I learned to drive).

Even now I get flashed by drivers who don't like the fact I won't pass a cyclist unless I can give him/her plenty of 'wobble room' - and in the past have been "accused" of being a cyclist myself due to the amount of room I give them


I have a weekend of h/work ahead of me (after work this afternoon), and then a week of long hours at work from Monday (doing a 7am start instead of 1pm on Mon, Thur & Fri - so am showing as the max 39 hours on the rota due to holiday cover).

Depending on how the h/work goes tonight/tomorrow, I may sound out my OH (that sounds sooooo nice) and see if he'd mind me 'bobbing up to Blackpool' to watch him play hockey on Sunday (he's there for a tournament from today until Monday) - but I'm not sure when his games are, or what the protocol is regarding spectators. I do know that parking will be a nightmare though !!!

Oooooooooooh Cheryl,
OH? I am so happy for you, I hope it all goes well. Enjoy your trip to Blackpool. I heard on the news that Merlin Entertainments are going to be taking over the running of the tower which would be nice. You might remember that I was in there last summer and felt sad about the state it was in, they should make big improvements. xx

grannynise

Thank you to all of you for your inspiration in this challenge.

I'm still just monitoring my spending in order to get a better idea of what I really do spend. I think it will take the whole year before I can tell.

In February I spent double what I spent in January, then in March about half way between the two. I suppose I'll get a clearer picture eventually.

rozeepozee

Frugaldom wrote: »

To anyone who is worrying or beating themselves up about being over-budget, don't! The very fact that you have made the conscious decision to analyse your spending or record where all the money goes is where frugal living starts. Remember it's a lifestyle choice, not a challenge imposed as some form of punishment. Once all debts have gone, frugal living is basically money in the bank or else a different way of viewing the necessity for more income. Congratulate yourselves on making a wise decision to frugalise. :T

My Dig-in seeds just arrived! :j

Thanks for reminding us of this, frugal. I'm inclined to beat myself up when I perceive myself as not succeeding (in this instance exceeding the budget). I really have made some big changes since starting this thread - all my ISAs and savings are transferred to the best interest rate accounts, I have my slow cooker, we hardly ever throw any food away now and I can account for every penny spent - and know what the price of everything in the supermarkets is. A far cry from the last few years. Change is a journey, eh?

My Dig In seeds haven't arrived either - did your's arrive after you'r re-registered?

Cheryl what is RTC? I never seem to get any bargains at the supermarkets but perhaps it's because I rarely go to the biggies (prefer Costco and Aldi). Thinking of stocking up on the half price deals being advertised at Sains and Tesco for Easter meat - are they "real" deals? I love a leg of lamb and it's always nice to have one in the freezer to take to MIL's when we visit (she's a frugaleer to and I think she appreciates this to a bunch of flowers!)

I keep wanting to reply to other posts but can't keep them in my head at the mo - pregnancy brain! Still, as I am now housebound more or less (had to be wheelchaired around Costco on Monday), I'm having loads of NSDs