Frugal Living Challenge 2011 - part 1

Laushappy

Evening all.
Thankyou for your encouraging and helpful comments regarding panic attacks, much appreciated
GELMC sorry to hear you have suffered to (and to the others on here who also have had them) i will definately look into getting that book - thankyou for recommending.

Well not a very frugal day overall, spent around 80 quid but 70 of that was bday money makes you realise when you go into town and just buy stuff it really adds up, eek!

I'm going to try and have a LSD tomoz (prob wont be a NSD as taking little uns to toddler group and costs 2.50, money well spent though!)
And then definately NSD thurs and fri (hopefully )

BTW surf washing capsules are half price in MR S and so is princes tuna (4 tins for 2.49 ish), birdseye peas and fishfingers 99p, some good offers at the mo.

Love this thread its fabdabbydoza!!!!!

itsallinthemind

enjoyfinancialchallenges wrote: »

The long and short of it was whilst cooking the valve blew off and decorated my kitchen a delicate shade of pea green. Not nice at all

:eek: Oh no, nightmare!

Fruittea wrote: »

Hi Everyone

Helloooooo!

l.m.hart wrote: »

itsallinthemind

i baked your lemon cake today, that too was lovely, lighter than the other as you said.2/3 gone already and i only made it this afternoon.
( we have had a few vistors who all devoured it) Would love the pudding recipe when you get a spare moment.

They are different completely really. I will get it off her person at the weekend as I think she is not checking emails. Remind me if I forget!


NSD here, am knackered. Had a flood...bye bye stockpiled toilet rolls plus more. Nasty day frankly! Still off my food, sounds odd I know, but I can't hardly taste what I am eating and feel nauseas 24/7(no NOT preggers!). Annoying me now grrrr

LittleMissHappy_2

Nuala - I use a site called Food Focus which I find really good and I think it is British based (they have known brands in their lists). I have used Spark People, but went back to Food Focus as I found it easier to navigate etc (you can also log excercise - including housework!)
wornoutmumoftwo - thanks for that site, it's great!

NualaBuala

LittleMissHappy wrote: »

Nuala - I use a site called Food Focus which I find really good and I think it is British based (they have known brands in their lists). I have used Spark People, but went back to Food Focus as I found it easier to navigate etc (you can also log excercise - including housework!)
wornoutmumoftwo - thanks for that site, it's great!

Thanks :T - I am now signed up to that as well, plus the one Erme mentioned. I'll play around and see which suits me best.

rubytuesday

redglass wrote: »

Is that so far over your target, WOMOT? I'm also quite a lot over, but a lot of my spends have been bargains which will pay off later (I hope) and some things just came as a lump at the start of the year, like a one-off gym fee. I believe Americans call this 'spaving' (spending in order to save) - does anyone here use that expression? I seem to do quite a lot of spaving.

BodyShop half-price body butters came through on Quidco. :j I love these as I get sore cracked hands and they make fabulous handcream.

23rdSpiral - go out without your purse.

Yes I have become a spraver redglass, although I've never heard that expression before!:rotfl:

rubytuesday

Spent about a fiver today on food and charity shop goodies but went to the City Farm with my walking group; seeing the animals always makes me smile so that was free entertainment!

23rdspiral

chika wrote: »

I've never bought them from the net - i'm quite fussy and need to really try them on before hand if that makes sense. However, if you have an Asda optician near you they do a fantastic deal where it's £65 for complete glasses including the thinnest lenses. More info here. I had a look last time I was there and they had some nice frames. I'm really short sighted and an equivalent pair in vision express were £583 when I priced them up last week. http://www.asda-contactlenses.co.uk/opticians/glasses.html This is the site.

:T thanks chika. i never noticed there was an optiticans in Asda - just checked and there's one in my 'old' store, the one a bit further away, BUT they sell the brand that made the pair i Really liked, Jai Kudo, and also Fat Face (who before my even thriftyer days i could have said 'sponsored' me as i wore so much of their clothing, though mostly from sales!). so that's brilliant. thanks!

wow! that's one hell of a saving! :T

rubytuesday

Erme you can do 3 quotes just click the balloon on the first one then click on the posts you want to quote.

chika

23rdspiral wrote: »

:T thanks chika. i never noticed there was an optiticans in Asda - just checked and there's one in my 'old' store, the one a bit further away, BUT they sell the brand that made the pair i Really liked, Jai Kudo, and also Fat Face (who before my even thriftyer days i could have said 'sponsored' me as i wore so much of their clothing, though mostly from sales!). so that's brilliant. thanks!

wow! that's one hell of a saving! :T

No worries, trying to spread the word as it is cheap as chips. I really like the Jai Kudo frames too. The ones I wanted were £179 in Vision Express plus £350 for the lenses. I'm fairly short sighted (-8.5 in both eyes) and normal lenses look like milk bottle tops so I need to get them thinned. Shameless vanity!

JayneC

Hi,

just a quickie before bed!
My toilet man came yay:j!!! He thinks it's the loo paper not dissolving so no more cheapo loo roll Have instructed that minimal amounts of loo roll should be used (is that a step too far?) and IAITM eeeugh :eek::eek:

dizzie _ I love the look of your book. I'm thinking of making things like that to sell on Folksy, that's about as far as my business plan has got, lol:D

23rd Spiral - I've got glasses online from Glasses Direct and they were fine, about £25.

Night night all xx