How to live on 65 per week?

grumpyoldwoman41

Taehc - thanks a lot for that

Give your beautiful girl a belly rub from me.. my one is snoring on the settee next to me.... she could do with a bit of a diet too, should really be 35kg but is nearly 40... LOL

taehc

Mine is snoring here too! Rather smelly as well had a good roll in fox dung the other day and still smelly after a bath. Hope those links are useful all the best to you and you GS :j

grumpyoldwoman41

taehc

Gorgeous x

grumpyoldwoman41

Thanks - problem is she knows it

Better go to bed, the hairy princess will wake me up at some insane o'clock, alaways does it at weekends for some reason...

Nite nite for now

elaine12022

Hi Grumpy Old Woman

Well done on the cutting down you have done so far. I wouldn't like to try & live on JSA. I find it a struggle on twice that,although reading the posts on here has made me think again about getting a water meter..

I just wanted to say good luck,and if you do manage to cancel Sky you will still be able to get any channels you get on Freeview (and more). I would have cancelled mine sooner if I realised! ( I was well out of the contract period though).

I hope you hear about HB/CTB soon.

Re jobs. Have you rung the Jobseekers direct line,run by the Job Centre? (you don't have to call from home,there's phones in the Job Centres,or in our village there's one in the library). I don't know the number by heart, sorry.

For cooking, I love my Pressure Cooker - if you have one. I love making soups/stewie things in them. Making soups is a good way to use up veggies,and can be kept going for days, and is very filling. (and warming).

Have you got a good social network? It's important to keep your spirits up as much as possible. Are there free classes or training around,or groups that you could join? (where I live there are quite a lot of different groups that cost nothing or minimal to go to, from crafts to computers to walking to local history).

Bread making as others have mentioned is definitely cheaper & more satisfying. And you can make other things as well then.

I have found that sometimes buying cheap food is actually a waste, as it is not as filling. eg meat we get from the butcher is better quality and fills us up better so we eat less. Also we can get exactly the amount we want. If you have Farmfoods near you, they're good for packs of frozen fish,which you can do different things with. I couldn't survive as a vegetarian, even though it's cheaper, a lot of veggie foods make me sick.

I hope that you find a new job path soon, that you will enjoy.And that you can look after your animals with less expense. And that you have a good relationship with your daughter.

grumpyoldwoman41

Hi Elaine and thanks for posting.

Whatever shops I have, they are all a bus or two rides from home so always have to keep the bus fare in mind.

I am not a very social person and like being by myself actually, just with my pets (yeah I know, sad but that is me)

Called around some gyms on Friday asking if they do any deals for unemployed - nope.

Any classes that I may want to do started in September, all doom and gloom around LOL

tonybur

If you do run out of money and you NEED food etc you can apply for a crisis loan, these are one off payments to prevent you starving whilst you make your transition into budgeting on benefits.. search social fund/ crisis loan on google.

2011_will_be_debt_free

grumpyoldwoman41 wrote: »

2001 will be debt free - my regular vet is within a walking distance (but and they do not treat animals under PDSA), PDSA is a bus and tube ride away (cost/time) I am afraid.

I can not get a 0% CC or any CC for that matter..

Thanks for posting , missed your post before due to the TV License discussions going on here....

But if your a regular customer can you not ask them to do it for you as you have been and are a regular customer who is hoping this situation isnt going to last and you dont want to be forced to take your dog to another vet? Ask why they will not treat through PDSA anyway. You just get the form from PDSA, fill it in and put your vets details, get the council to stamp it to prove you get certain benefits and then you leave it with vets to sort or post back to PDSA. Then its like direct payment insurance, they treat your dog, you just give a donation for PDSA and PDSA pays them the bill. (it just costs £5 per year to register with the PDSA first (which you send with the form)

I'd think its a bit dodgy tbh honest if they didnt do it. Theres no reason for them not to.

grumpyoldwoman41

2011 will be debt free - thanks for that, had no idea how this works, will find out with my vets.
It is a big practise, there is several vets there....Goddards...