What do you spend the money on?

blessings3

What do you spend the money on that you save doing it OS?

I know for somepeople OS is a nececity to keep within budjet - personally for me it is 1. to be greeener but 2. so we can have an extension in 3 years time without a loan and not have to share 1 bathroom with 3 teenagers(not yet teens) and so my special needs son can have a large room of his own

liz.._4

My goal is to be mortgage free...

skintas_2

im trying to pay of my debts, and joined rentplus scheme with ha, i want a part buy, part rentproperty by 2010

sophiesmum_2

Being oldstyle allows us to have 4 weeks holidays abroad every year without using credit cards etc.It also allows me to say "yes" to dd when an expensive school trip comes up,this week she has been in Belgium for 4 days on a history trip which cost £250.Without the savings from OS i wouldn't be able to afford these things.
sophiesmum

Dobie

It's the mortgage for me too. We should be mortgage free by the end of 2007!!! We could achieve this without being OS but we'd have no social life & no holidays in the meantime.
The main reasons I do it though is because I enjoy it, it makes environmental sense, it's thumbing my nose at the consumerist society we live in & it gives me a sense of achievement so I'm not going to stop when the mortgage is paid.

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I like to spend my spare cash on travelling, though with the state of my joints I don't know how much longer I will be able to do that. But I have been lucky this year and had six different holidays from one to Brugge,twice to Holland, Blackpool (OS meet), Isle of Wight and a week in Caistor with my DD and family .I also like to treat the two DD's to something for their house's if I can to help them get what they need without getting themselves into debt over it. I also have seven grandchildren that , although I don't give pocket money to, I help out with school trips or any surplus things they need for school,books ect,. It's really satifying to know that any cash saved is going to help my family and also to let me do what ever I want to.I also use some for my studies and classes at Adult-Ed.

gingin_2

We are saving to go to Australia, Oh will have take a big cut in wages and cost of living is not that different from the U.K. 10 months left and I can't wait!

Penelope_Penguin

Hi! For us, being OS is about minimising our use of the planet's resources, by cutting down on our use of stuff, growing and catching our own food, buying secondhand and Freecycling as much as possible, and recycing, especially by composting. Saving money comes as a pleasant consequence of that!

As has already been said, we can, therefore, afford the odd indulgence such as school trips, weekends away, takeaways.

We're planning to use what we've saved so that DH can retire early and we can buy a smallholding, in a more hilly part of the UK, and lead an even more OS life.

Penny. x

katieowl_2

What Penny said! Plus all of the above. I get a kick out of OS'ing it and looking at the looks of shocked amazement on other peoples faces! (You MAKE bread, You GROW vegetables, you can SEW....LOL!)
Regards

Kate

elona

I have one daughter at university - another daughter wants to go next year and the nearly 13 year old is already saying that she "wants to go to a good university!" :eek:

DD (17) has sixth form trip to Venice with the school as well as the odd day trips ( one has just cost £80!) I like to get revision books for my daughters as they work hard and want to do as well as they can.

DH is keen to get a bigger house so each DD has a big bedroom when they are home and we have more space. Just when other people in their 50's are downsizing - we are trying to "upsize!" As DD is not 13 yet then we have about ten years for her to finish school and go to uni etc.

I want a "magic purse" that replenishes itself! Oops - that is what MSE and old style is doing for me. lol:T

tinselfairy

We are waiting to be matched with a little girl as we are hoping to adopt again soon. When this happens I will hopefully be taking a year off work, 6 months of which will be unpaid leave. So any money we can save at the mo by my OS ways is put away to help us with living expenses during this time and also a bit extra on clearing the one credit card debt we have. I desperately want to clear the remaining £1,000 but know we need all we can for the unpaid leave and as that could happen at anytime that is more pressing.