Frugal Living Challenge 2011 - part 1

lynzpower

no its only sved to the desktop

I can re save a new version somewhere else if you think so?

Ok going to reboot, be back in a sec

thank you x

itsallinthemind

If the reboot does not work, PM me, as this could take some time Easy enough to sort, but it could mean a lot of yabbering!

rubytuesday

A delicious fairly frugal lunch for me. Left over Heinz tomato soup, half a leftover reduced mini pear and stilton tartlet, toasted piece of bread that had been left out and had gone a bit dry, knobby end of reduced leftover caramelized onion flatbread, bit of left over red pepper and a little cube of feta.
I am aiming for a NSD today, so I will stay at home although I am itching to have a gander in the charity shops. I've already had an appointment at the hospital and resisted the lure of a vanilla crown in the coffee shop!

natnat13

Well done Ruby. I'm bored, got to do school run again in a minute but had very uneventful day, also a NSD so far, I fancy a look round the shops too! But I won't I don't need anything.

Thank you for the cashback site advice going to look at that tonight. Fancy giving the lovefilm trial a go, I found a free month with £10 M&S voucher or free fortnight on quido with £20 cashback (they would keep £5 though). I have a £50 giftcard for M&S so might go for the month and add to that and watch more films!

Need to look at my broadband, currently with BT which I know are expensive, but where I live I can't get the cheap talktalk or sky packages and we also have bt vision which runs through the broadband which I want to keep, mmm, lots to think about!

Is anyone else a facebooker? I haven't been able to get on, I hope it sorts itself, I can't cope with no forum and no facebook tomorrow!

lynzpower

Im a facebooker and its been fine for me today.

Isnt BT vision expensive? I dont know, i know we looked at it once and decided against.

We went from BT to02 for broadband an we found 02 a lot better. 02 is a lot better than virgin which we have at the mo.

Way cheaper as well...

rubytuesday

Can't get on Facebook either today.

natnat13

I pay £7.20 a month now VAT has gone up. That's the basic package.

Not sure what's wrong with my facebook then!

I need to look at the whole BT issue I think, we were with virgin before BT, they hiked the price and the connection wasn't good but that was 3 years ago probably. I will have a look at O2, plusnet are meant to be cheap as well I think. Thanks x

itsallinthemind

natnat13 wrote: »

Plusnet are meant to be cheap as well I think.

I have home phone and internet through plusnet. I pay line rental to plusnet, not BT. Got great cashback through Quidco too. Never had a service issue, bar when it was my filter causing an issue, they just popped one in the post free to me. Their current wireless modem takes seconds to set up and they prewarn you of any scheduled maintainance. I was with them years ago and tried BT and Virgin with housemoves, both a rip off for the speed. When plusnet say the maximum speed they stick to it, unlike the others. That said, I am sure many hate plusnet

mama67

diddly74 wrote: »

My 11 year old daughter is making crumble at school tomorrow and the teachers have instructed them to take and use a TIN of filling!!!!!!!!!! How is that teaching the next generation to cook and look after themselves. There is butter, flour, oats and sugar in her receipe along with a tine of peaches (her choice of fruit)!!!!

We had to stew our own fruit in my day!

DS2 came home last night with his cookery recipes for the term, entitled "healthy lunchboxes".

Ok on the face of it but when you start reading ingredients for indiviual recipes, lots of chicken breasts, odd tbsp of creme fraiche, and the biggest laugh a duck breast and small portion of red cabbage with 2 tbsp of puy lentils, I don't think this teacher realises there is a recession and people are counting pennies and cuuting back.

itsallinthemind

natnat, there is a few more offers on the free cash back things on TCB. Some are easy click throughs and some can be done daily
http://www.topcashback.co.uk/search/merchants/free-cashback