Have you got OS friends?

black-saturn

I have one friend who is quite OS. She cooks most things from scratch and keeps her eyes open for E numbers (which prompted me to be OS in the first place). She was the one who got me to try cooking from scratch in the first place but now I seem to have overtaken her and now she comes to me for advice :rotfl: I'm kind of getting through to my 16 year old step daughter who has started doing meal planners and cooking stuff from scratch thanks to my influence. My boyfriend thinks I'm mad and says things like "why spend 12 hours making yogurts when you can go to the shop in 10 minutes?". He just doesn't realise. My parents also think I'm mad and says theres more to life than making your own breadcrumbs (thats what they said in a conversation about making your own fish fingers once).

Austin_Allegro

I've noticed a few people here saying they have few close friends but have an OH. I'm the opposite - lots of friends but never seem to get an OH! I did have an old style girlfriend but we split earlier this year.

Most of my friends like charity shops, second hand books etc but are not strongly OS. My mother is the most OS person I know, but even she is getting a bit 'modern', partly due to my father needing looking after. She even thinks I'm odd reusing teabags!

katieowl_2

Actually most of my non internet friends are OS in one way or another... I don't think any of them think I am particularly weird but I probably have a more complete OS package going on than most of them!!! (SAHM for 16 years, allotments, frugal forums, dressmaking, baking, all on a low income etc)

Not one of my real friends would turn a hair at being told that what I was wearing was from a charity shop, or that I had made their christmas present (or that THAT had come from a charity shop LOL!) or be in the slightest bit surprized to find me cleaning the loo with cola! They would expect the meal infront of them to be homemade and include home-grown vegetable - Guess I'm really lucky :T

I think the longer you are OS for the more of your non OS friends fall by the wayside! (And yes I have lost a few...mainly over christmas issues!) All I can say is hang on in there! By the time you are a ripe old OS'er all your mates will be the same! Your idea of a good day out will be trolling around the charity shops in a posh area, and a lunch with vouchers!!!

All my online friends are frugal too...on another forum I confess....I am about to meet a couple of them in person at the end of the month and I am SOOooo exited!!!

Regards

Kate

Queen.Bess

Alas I too am flying the OS flag alone. My DH originally thought that me comingo n this site was quite sad, but with the money I've managed to save us, all the freebies I've got and finding out about pigsback and quidco, he's come round to my way of thinking!

But I mentioned it to a group of friends and they took the mickey out of me and made me feel that I shouldn't have said anything and I was a bit embarassed about it all. But then I thought it's their money they're wasting, and I've got my free 2 rolls of bounty kitchen roll to show! They didn't seem to grasp that no matter how little money can be saved, it's still been saved!

So I am very glad to say that my OS friends on here are the ones who I know where I'm coming from and will be just as pleased for me for saving money as I am!!

Thank you all - my OS friends!!

dumpy

I managed to get three rolls of bounty with that voucher! It was a pack with an extra roll and it scanned through at the price of the voucher. Bargin.

little_miss_thrifty

thriftlady wrote:

Not really, even my Mum who I always used to think of as OS has got less and less so recently. Most of my friends think I am some kind of domestic goddess/earth mother. The weird thing is I find myself apologising for it, I say 'well, I've got nothing better to do'.Thank goodness for everyone here, reminds me that I'm not alone.

Exactly the same here...must be something to do with the user name!!

Sarahsaver

My OH is fairly OS too and to echo what someone said earlier he is a friend too as well as an OH. He makes OS stains on his cricket trousers and I am going to set to work on them this afternoon with vinegar and bicarb
He bought me 2 large bags of flour yesterday as he got them reduced to 30p each I'd rather flour than flowers, always been fairly practical

vik6525

All my friends are os in one way or another! two of my best friends are lesbians, and they cook everything, and i mean everything from scratch, they make their own clothes, and keep chickens in the garden! a lot of my (male) friends make their own beer and wine to save money, my parents grow all their own veg and my dad cooks everything and detests ready meals etc.. All of my friends from uni still make their own clothes (i did a fashion degree, so i guess we all got in the habit!), and even my mates with more 'conventional' jobs are great cooks, and happily share their tips...

Aril

My friends are very diverse and with different outlooks. I don't think I could put them all in a room together. They'd clash like the Titans. However, I respect their different views and expect them to do the same for me. To be honest I think they're bemused by me but then I always have ploughed my own furrow and I think they've given up trying to understand why I do some of the things I do eg only having one child. One friend in particular isn't OS in her spending habits but she does a lot of home cooking [my friends and I seem to endlessly talk about grub] and she is very artistic. Over the years we've spent evenings making candles, paper, lotions and potions and trying out various recipes. She gave me the plums and the door at the weekend amd we went elderberry picking. Next year we're hoping to have a crack at lavender cordial as I've just bought back some from Norfolk and it was gorgeous. Gosh must get back to work!!
Aril

liney

My mother thinks i'm barking mad and says convenience food is there for my convenience! I told her my DS liked tuna mayonaise the other day. She went out and bough a tin! Yes a tin of pre mixed tuna mayonaise. She bought a slow clooker because she was at my house when i had a batch of bottom-of-the-fridge- soup cooking and has used it once. Bless her cotton socks.

People at work humour me. One girl is proud that she can make spag bol now though lol

My best friend spends money like water. Well like a non MSEr spends water ahem.