Have you got OS friends?

seraphina

My mum and all her family are very definitely OS! I had a lapse when I left home to go to uni but am now back on the OS wagon.

My sister is a bit of a conspicuous consumer but she earns far more than me and has an OH who earns about what me and DH earn together! So I guess she can pay for it, and it's really no business of mine TBH.

Friends: Of my good friends, a few "get" OS and are either OS or don't have the financial constraints that drives me to be OS 24/7 -they are pro cooking-from-scratch for meals but wouldn't necessarily bring packed lunches every day or bake their own bread.

DH's mum and dad are very OS as well (they bought us a Kenwood Chef as a wedding present, bless'em) and I think they find it quite funny that DH and I are doing all the OS stuff they used to do when they were young and hard up as well - growing their own veg, fixing their own vehicles, making HM bread/yoghurt etc. Although now all their kids have left they have graduated to Marks and Spencer bread and yoghurt so there's hope for us yet!

Penny-Wise_4

I don’t really separate my friends and family into ‘OS’ and ‘not OS’ slots. I think nearly all of them are OS to a certain extent. My granddad makes his own wine, MIL & FIL grow a lot of their own veg but they aren’t OS in a lot of ways.

My mum is definitely pure OS. Her ‘catch phrase’ as we were growing up was “I can make that cheaper at home”. I grew up loving making things at home, my younger sister ‘rebelled’ & used to buy things on purpose that my mum would usually make :rolleyes: . She had a very OS wedding though, everyone mucked in & we made everything cheaper at home .

OH is my best friend & is happy for me to be as OS as I want. I doubt he would be OS if he were on his own though.

Last night we were watching TV picking the elderberries off their stalks and made elderberry cordial.

moggins

I take it back, I definitely have an OS friend now, she may live an hours travel away from me but Kaz is definitely my friend One day we may even get a chance to gasbag over a cup of coffee without the kids shouting over us or attempting to kill each other by accident

comping_cat

Ive tried to convert some of my friends, but apart from some of my home cooked recipes, they tend to be very un-OS!!! Mind you, im good friends with ronankfan, and she introduced me to the forums (after i sent her Martins email, i hadnt been here defore!!!) and im so glad she did, and she is very OS!!!!

comping_cat

moggins wrote:

I take it back, I definitely have an OS friend now, she may live an hours travel away from me but Kaz is definitely my friend One day we may even get a chance to gasbag over a cup of coffee without the kids shouting over us or attempting to kill each other by accident

Ive never met Kaz, but she kindly sent me some kifir, and also put in some mung beans in as well, as she had remembered from a previous thread that i had said i couldnt find any!!! A def lovely OSer!!!!

happygal_3

Neither of my friends are OS.

THey think i'm some sort of hippy for having a compost heap, using washable nappies and breastfeeding!

Jo - I don't think your weird, I wish I had the time to be more OS and care more for the environment.

Hope your feeling bit happier am feeling down too as had to have one of my cats put down yesterday

moggins

(((((((((((((((happygal)))))))))))))

So sorry to hear that, I had to have one of mine sent to the cattery in the sky (he's only boarding while he waits for me) shortly after my wedding. I still miss him now.

gentlepurr

(((hugs happygal)))) its heartbreaking when we lose one of our loved pets.

i have to say i am lucky to be blessed with many friends, and even more aquaintances, but that never stops me valuing each one of them individually for who they are, and what they mean to me. having said that, most of my friends take the (friendly) micky out of me for my os and mse ways. some of them think they are very os, and thrifty, but still have their hair and nails done 5/6 times a month, and would never dream of shopping in a charity shop, or looking in the reduced corner in tescos, then they say " i dont know how you do that" to me. love all my friends, but you can never have too many, and reading through the thread here, you all sound great to me.

i think the comments about being yourself are very valid. i always say if people dont like who i am, or dont like my untidy but clean home, then thats their problem, and not mine. if people dont accept me for who i am, then thats fine, and i'm not about to get hung up about it.:D

btw, can i join you all outside for a ciggie and a gossip?:D

xx

Peem

Penny-Wise wrote:

My mum is definitely pure OS. Her ‘catch phrase’ as we were growing up was “I can make that cheaper at home”. .

Oh - that's my mum. If we go out for a meal she still says that.:rotfl:

She was always OS out of necessity when we were young - not that I realised it at the time. I couldn't understand MIL when I used to come and visit and be presented with a ready meal - not acceptable in our house.

She still makes things from scratch - though the lentil loaf and barley stew have disappeared since they've got fewer kids and more cash around (barley, carrots, onions and beef stock - I hated it, but looking back now it sounds ok. Hmm wednesday's dinner?)

Queenie

gentlepurr wrote:

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btw, can i join you all outside for a ciggie and a gossip?:D

xx

I'll provide some cakes to nibble on between puffs :laugh: