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

JayJay14

XSpender - Congrats on your debt free status, I can't imagine the relief you must be feeling (just wish I could feel it too:rotfl:)

xnatalie81x

only another 28k ish and i will be debt free too SIGH and at my current payments that is 185mths or 15.5 years!!! When i am 44yrs old

NualaBuala

Congrats XS!!!! What a great start to your frugalmite-to-be's life!

A_fiend_for_life

Congratulations to RozeePozee and family.

XSpender - fabulous news well done.

Kerry_Woman

XSpender - Glad to hear your good news.

Blairweech

Hi everyone,

OH has been here this week, so spends have one slightly awry. We did manage to go to the cinema yesterday for £3.50 each so that was v.good. Almost ended up in a car crash on the way home though - some **** overtook a car coming the other way, and missed smashing into me by maybe 3 feet. Good job we were not in OHs car as I know he would have turned around and chased after him. It was dark, so did not get his reg, but it really shook me up.

Anyway, had a days training today in a local warehouse (through an agency), but it seems everyone got their wires crossed and the job is actually full time not part time. As I have agricultural commitments over summer, I dont want a full time job, so the hunt goes on.

Top Drawer - Single cream does not have enough fat content to be whipped, so its only good as cream or in sauces.

XSpender - Big well done to you

Rozee - Have I congratulated you yet? If not, then have some celebratory wishes from me. If I have, then...have some more.

landregistrylass

Morning all. Working from home this morning. Haven't been around much recently, so have a lot of news to catch up on I see. I would love to be able to put pics on here, and create wonderful congrats type logos, but I cant even make my wording larger or more colourful. I can see where the icons are, but they just don't seem to work when I click on them. hmmmmmmm. Any advice gratefully received. But this will have to do - my heartfelt congrats on the twins - my DGS were smaller, and they are growing into strapping lads. And congrats on newly debt free - a marvellous feeling I am sure. This week hasn't been frugal at all. I drove to Yorkshire and back in a day for DD's birthday, and we filled her cupboards whilst I was there, then went to garden centre for birthday treat - thank goodness its only once a year. I took up some whoopsied food I had in the freezer for her, and had made a rhubarb crumble from some rhubarb donated by one of the old hands at the allotments (we dont have any yet). Was a wrench to come away again - I only had time to read a short story with the 3 DGS as its over 3 hours drive each way.

Kiwisaver_2

Forgive me frugalers, cos I've been bad. When I'm good I am good, when I am bad I am VERY bad. This weeks spending has been off the scale; a new handbag come backpack, a pair of shoes, a bra and a pair of knickers. This now puts my 'Anything Else' budget seriously at risk, especially as I love the fit of the bra and thinking I should get another one. I am still trying to figure a way that I can cheat and not include these essential holiday requirements in my budget. :eek:

I should have thought about this when setting my budget and it was pretty foolish of me to think I could go away without buying anything new. I'm going to leave it where it is at the moment so I can keep an eye on it and try to cut back elsewhere, as I'm sure there will be a few more purchase over the next couple of weeks - but will ultimately aim to offset this from holiday spends. It's fair to say if I wasn't going away I definitely would not have considered buying the shoes or the bag, but I really did need a sensible pair of shoes, or my holiday would be pure misery with sore feet.

landregistrylass

Kiwisaver - Every girl needs a good bra! Lets face it, we need all the support we can get. And my mum said you should have a good pair of shoes and a good bed, cos if you arent in one, you're in the other - so thats got the shoes covered. But the bag............. struggling to justify that lol

grandma247

Just a quick read today as have not been on all week. I have been looking at this and printed it out as dh thinks it is a good idea.
diy greenhouse
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