Its tough, it will get better and guess what its freezing brrrrr!

Fruball

Am I imagining it or do Lidl or Aldi only take cash? (OMG I feel really stupid asking that )

I could be mixing it up with somewhere abroad...

jackieglasgow

They take debit cards too. Don't know about credit cards though, and they do cashback.

lambanana

Sammy_Kaye: I'd go with tuna/egg mayo or possbily ham and grated cheese with some salad in tortillas...yummy!

I'm sorry the last thread had to be closed, I do enjoy reading and posting in this thread.

I'm going to Morrisons AGAIN today...might as well have my wages paid directly to them instead! We just haven't managed to get to the supermarket properly since getting back from our hols, our veg box was delivered so we have loads of veg and nothing to go with it!

Noticed Costco had put the corned beef back up to £6.50 for 6 tins from £5.99 which was disappointing, wish I'd been able to get two packs before instead of one but never mind.

Katie1980_2

Hello :hello: I am Kate and decided to join this thread, I am very into saving money at the moment as I am on sickness benefits and a student so not too helpful..

I bake alot anyway and am looking for more things to bake and so that I can put in lunchboxes for me for the week..
my boyfriend and housemate laugh at me as I refuse to put the heating on at the moment and have still only got things on for the winter I don't care as I have a snuggie and it is amazing..

I have Mrs Beetons books and my gran took great pains in teaching me how too cook things from scratch.. and I love delia and marguettie patten

[Deleted User]

Oh my word!! I just read a bit from the other thread. My personal view and the reason for starting the original thread is that we all need a bit of mutual support from time to time and that means to be able to `chat` to people who have become online friends. I have learnt many new things while merely `chatting`, good tips here and there and mostly money saving. The emphasis was originally on tips and hints and developing an awareness that times were going to be tough and the chat developed from that. The threads have helped people to survive and sometimes provided a virtual shoulder to cry on when things got too much for some. Sometimes people fired arrows while hiding behind this or that username and that is not the spirit but when it happens then you begin to feel `what is the point` and that happened to me, hence me disappearing to carry on surviving without passing stuff onto others. I don`t know why certain lovely posters have gone to ground but it only takes one online virtual `bully`. The original thought was in `pulling together` and that seems to be even more relevant today

lambanana

You'll be the one laughing when you have a lower heating bill Katie

Also I asked DH yesterday about a cheaper Christmas and a strict budget for spending on each other and he said he'd rather spend more at Christmas than birthdays...that's lovely dear but you earn more than I do and can spend more on me than I can on you

I also really wish we could have Christmas just the two of us at home but it's always with his parents

Fruball

Welcome Kate and Welcome back Kittie

PennyPinchingPrincess

I shall briefly delurk on this shiny new thread :wave:

I enjoyed reading the other thread, it's a shame the it got locked. The levels of moderation on here really put me off posting, I'm sure I'm not the only one, so I mostly stick to reading, and sighing when things get closed or merged!

But, mustn't go on about it, or we'll have another closed thread on our hands!

So, how am I coping? Only just! I manage to stick to budget most of the time, but there's so much more I could do with getting, it seems never ending Not looking forward to the vat going up! I'm as frugal as I can be now, so I'll just have to put my budget up, which means my house fund will be even more neglected than it is at the moment

seasalt_2

Thanks frugal for pointing me here. And sorry if I was telling you things you already knew flowertot mum! Oops - pressed post before I meant to.

We lit the rayburn about a week ago because the weather was so bad and it has been lovely to have a warm house but today it is sunny. Have got it almost shut down - just enough to stop it from going out, but I still keep thinking I have got a temperature and must be going down with something!

One thing I have started doing this year is putting the cold ashes through a garden riddle and then tipping any reusable bits back in the coal bucket. Want to see if I can get our coal bill down. You should have seen me in my swimming goggles yesterday - got ash in my eye the day before - bit too windy!

Thats_Me_3

KITTIE!!! How lovely to hear you again! PLEASE STAY!

xx