Frugal Living Challenge 2011 - part 1

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rubytuesday wrote: »

Redglass, Turkish breakfast - halloumi, Turkish sausage, tomatoes, cucumber, boiled egg, pide, jam and honey.

Wish I hadn't asked now. :rotfl:I love halloumi and it just got more tempting from that point onwards.

twiglet98 wrote: »

They insisted the higher price was correct and said loads of items are cheaper online than in store. I thought it should make it clear on the website and left the powder there, finding 2-in -1 tablets in the yellow box at £1.77 for 40 washes, sitting quietly on the shelf, nothing to draw attention to the low price, next to the other colour box at a much higher price.

Thanks, that's worth knowing: print out the list before you go to the shop. It was in Mr T that I once pointed out that the big 'Economy' size of Zoflora (with ECONOMY printed on the packaging) was priced up so that it was actually more expensive per 100ml than the small size. They took my phone number, said they'd look into it and get back to me but I never heard any more.....

Must try to stay off this site, I'm getting totally addicted!

diddly74

I have a NSD today! Very unexpected as I was expecting to go to the pictures - then husband threw a big spanner in the works (as they sometimes like to do)

Anyway - along with it being a NSD I found £1 in the washer and £1.76 in the dryer!

enjoyfinancialchallenges

Erme wrote: »

Some ppl on this thread though just seem to be here to create disorder and disharmony so I am seriously thinking of putting them on iggie :T. Whenever I read their posts it just flames me.
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I haven't noticed anybody creating disorder or disharmony on this thread or did you mean facebook in which case I cant comment, I hope you are not getting ill again Erme. Please see you take your medication as instructed by your doctor. XX E

NuBu thanks for your comments and as a Mum I just do my best for my family and I know I will build up my kittys eventually, I'm a surviver. I still think I would rather be Nell Gwynne rather than the Queen of marmalade I'm sure she would have had more fun don't you ?

twiglet98

cw18 wrote: »

I bought a couple of boxes of those on offer a few weeks back, and opened the first of them this weekend. Pleased with the smell and the result, and have another box on my list for the intended visit to Mr T this week (ave a £6 off £40 spend to be used by next Sunday)

Thanks for endorsing them. I haven't used them before - do you really get away without conditioner, as I dry everything on hangers indoors, or should I still use vinegar?

Your SoW really is brilliant, I'm a long way off grasping formulae but every week it gets easier and faster to update it. I'd like to use a similar method of recording income as well as outgoings - salary, of course, but also the rent my grown up kids give me, ebay sales, quidco, etc.

I've just got a new 0% balance transfer card, and will be clearing one of the cards already on the SoW, and I'm not sure how to record this. The 'regular' payment for that card will look massive when it's cleared off but it isn't out of my budget. From April the new card will get those monthly payments instead. Scratching my head a bit as it will surely screw up the annual budget?

twiglet98

redglass wrote: »

Thanks, that's worth knowing: print out the list before you go to the shop. It was in Mr T that I once pointed out that the big 'Economy' size of Zoflora (with ECONOMY printed on the packaging) was priced up so that it was actually more expensive per 100ml than the small size. They took my phone number, said they'd look into it and get back to me but I never heard any more.....

Must try to stay off this site, I'm getting totally addicted!

Yes, that happens quite a lot. I always check the unit price for every size, though I often can't afford the biggest pack when it is, logically, best value.

cw18

twiglet98 wrote: »

Thanks for endorsing them. I haven't used them before - do you really get away without conditioner, as I dry everything on hangers indoors, or should I still use vinegar?

can't comment on how they compare to using seperate conditioner, as I've never used it (or not in the last 20 years anyway )

redglass_2

enjoyfinancialchallenges wrote: »

I still think I would rather be Nell Gwynne rather than the Queen of marmalade I'm sure she would have had more fun don't you ?

There's a story that she once went fishing with Charles II and for a laugh arranged for some divers to swim under the boat and attach a fried fish to his hook. Not sure how they managed that, but it sounds like a good joke.....

23rdspiral

yet another NSD yesterday, so that was 4 NSDs in a row!! over a weekend that's unheard of! wow! i'm pleased i managed to make sunday brunch ect acceptable despite not having our usual things but using up what we did have instead. woop!! (=big shop today + petrol but thats ok because it's needed)

Erme wrote: »

Sorry to whoever got bashed by the eastern european DD..

......Some ppl on this thread though just seem to be here to create disorder and disharmony so I am seriously thinking of putting them on iggie :T. Whenever I read their posts it just flames me.

hi erme, thanks, it was my neighbour's house that got crashed into and me who got flamed on fb for it too. i hope i havent confused you or vented too much irritation here that has upset you.

i dont mean to sound soppy but it's when i've Too Much going on it's when my depression often returns, but i'm actally feeling mostly fine now (bit panicky and overwhealemd but not depressed). i suspect i have to credit that to you lot and your good advice keeping me on track and reasuring me that i did the right thing. Thank you.

seriouslyfrugal - good luck with your new job! it sounds lovely!
rubytuesday - that breakfast sounds lush!

enjoyfinancialchallenges

redglass I told you Nell Gwynne had fun didn't I, I don't think I will repeat her escapades regarding fishing but wasn't thinking of that part of her life. Mind you I can't remember what the cause of her demise was can you ? Hope it wasn't the awful Syphilis which was rife at that time in which case I'll just be the Queen of Marmalade thanks, sounds safer. :cool:

Total marmalade to date is 47 1/2 lbs, all labeled and packed away until my first car boot sale. I am going to have a day off today re 'the orange delight' I have some grapefruit and lemons to cook up tomorrow I'm a bit fed up with oranges at the moment.

I expect I will have my usual NSD today, when you live were I do and buses are few and far between its an easy choice really, a lot of D/Ds went out today but I cant control them so they are not counted as a NSD for me.

Erme

Just a quick wee note before I dive out in the freezing cold and rain with the Mr L sewing machine to take back...(think I will go to the one with the nearest bus stop to my house )...just to say if you heard 'rumours' I got discharged this am...they are true

Will catch up later...so much to do today...so little time - my main frugal things of today being darning socks @ 6.30am and getting a free lunch in the hosp pre psychologist. Still daren't look at discharge note just yet and still quite short tempered for some reason (did the horrid dog like behaviour of texting someone's landline @ 5.30am cos he said on Sat he couldn't be A* to text....I'm like....red rag to a bull after I've been oh so nice to you...Lazy so and so - he doesn't even get up till 10 and he's not much older than me with less MH probs....He reckons starbucks is unethical (as is Mr A) but yet working in a Bookies is fine...so I said to him 'oh so it's okay for folk in this country to live in absolute poverty due to gambling but not if ya in africa'...sorry. I told you I'm having a few dog like moments right now )

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