Frugal Living Challenge 2011 - part 1

rubytuesday

Thank you re the cushion re 23rdspiral. It was upgraded free to first class and so arrived this morning. I do have a distinct lack of cushions so I have an excuse - this is the other one I have
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sass-Belle-Green-Cushion-Inner/dp/B003ETSLDM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299603837&sr=8-1
although his ears are more perky and my daughter has the pink one. Unfortunately I bought those from Urban Outfitters before I became accustomed to Amazon and Ebay and they were nearly twice the price although at least I had a money off code.

Erme as someone who was raised by Evangelical Christians but is no longer a believer I can appreciate where you are coming from but I agree that Flying Fresian and 23rdspiral have put it very succinctly. It isn't for us to dictate and unless a post is actually abusive we should accept others ways and ideas.

23rdspiral

rubytuesday wrote: »

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sass-Belle-Green-Cushion-Inner/dp/B003ETSLDM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299603837&sr=8-1

thanks Ruby, and thanks again... squee! he is so cute!! i dont need any more cushions, though i could do with some nice ones! and although i know i could sew him myself, i couldnt do it for that price! oh the temptation!!

esp as i've been slogging away on overtime at the computer all day - hence the many cheeky looks on here to try to keep what's left of my sanity! - but that only means i'll have a few more quid... and those cushions are just perfect!!

JayneC

Hey everybody,

Midwinter - I got a free world book night book:D. The local theatre where I do my drama workshops were giving away ' All Quiet on the Western Front' they had a bit of an event and some of the outreach groups (including the drama group) took part with readings, mini sketches and poems about the war and they showed some footage of the original film. They also got staff at the theatre to bring in any books they didn't want incase they ran out of the promotional books and gave them away too. Plus they've used it to launch a book club, which I thought was a fab idea. We're to meet again in May to discuss what we thought of the book. It was a good night.
Later that night I went to the local pub to support my friend who was singing at a gig organised to raise funds for the local hospice. It was really good and I think they raised quite a lot - I was selling raffle tickets and people were buying £5 worth at a time. Did feel a bit guilty that I couldn't afford to do that but I had donated a couple of raffle prizes (unwanted Christmas presents) and helped by selling the tickets, so eased my conscience a bit. It does annoy me a bit that generosity seems to be measured in monetary terms.

DD1s birthday today and so I treated her to lunch. Had got her present from Amazon with Survey vouchers and also made her some chocolate fudge and a big cake, so fairly frugal. She came and cleaned my house yesterday - which was quite nice but then I discovered she'd thrown away about half the contents of my kitchen!! She threw away my slow cooker and bought a new one!! There was nothing wrong with the old one - just needed a wash! Anyway I retrieved it along with a pan lid (Which doesn't match my pans but fits anyway!), my roasting tin (Which she'd also decided needed replacing) a breakfast dish - which again just needed washing up, glass jars I'd been saving for jam, etc, yoghurt pots for planting seeds in and my tin that I put veggie peelings in on the way to the compost. There was more but I'm rambling now - I was actually a little upset but didn't say anything....She also wound up all the other kids by saying they weren't helping me enough, I know she was probably trying to help me but it's actually quite undermining. Not sure whether to bring it up with her...

DS was off school this afternoon, there's a tradition here that on Shrove Tuesday all the kids go to the sea front to skip - something to do with fishermen originally I'm told..., so they get to finish school at lunchtime to go skipping, anyway we didn't go skipping but he came for lunch with his sister and then we made pancake batter so it's been quite nice. I'm now really looking forward to working part time and being able to spend more time with him, have put in an official request, so it's really real now!!

Well better stop thing this post is probably long enough - will catch up again soon.

Jayne x

minnie2

cw18 wrote: »

I don't know if you can challenge the people who did the renovations then?
My current place is new build so came with a 10 year 'warranty' (though IMO it's not worth the paper it's written on!), but if I'd had my roof repaired properly myself I'd expect it to come with some sort of guarantee - just not sure how long it would be for, or whether the company who did your place up offered anything when you bought the place?

l.m.hart wrote: »

car is 6 year old corsa, hoping to find out soon how much it will set us back, seems a sham with the insurance though, he will have his policy go up even though hes not at fault.will keep you informed.
what part of the world do you live in Minnie2?

ceridwen wrote: »

If the houses are 1970s build - then the roofs should be basically sound then. So - a small repair - and it might well be something like flashing then that is the problem. Goodness knows - a house THAT modern shouldnt have any problem at all with the roof...but check out that flashing in case..

Anningtons are not very good - after youve bought the property!!!! Got a new door with installation problem but as it didnt come up after 28days even though it was installation then its my prob etc.Also loads of my windows have blown but as they were not spotted at time i signed thats tough luck even though i reported it within the 28days windows dont count and we only found it out because we turned heating off and spotted it!! So no go there really!!

LM Hart - I living in east anglia - near norwich


And very good news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the roof has been repaired and cost £60 it was lead lining and the felt where it was attached to the chimney!!!!

rubytuesday

I am trying to remember to look for the space shuttle tonight at 6.15 - I have forgotten every night so far!

mooomin

rubytuesday wrote: »

I am trying to remember to look for the space shuttle tonight at 6.15 - I have forgotten every night so far!

What do you mean? Is it visible?

rubytuesday

flying_fresian wrote: »

What do you mean? Is it visible?

Yes there is a thread in the arms about it. 6.15ish London then other times for other places.

mooomin

rubytuesday wrote: »

Yes there is a thread in the arms about it. 6.15ish London then other times for other places.

Oooohhhh....

Sadly it's @rsing it down raining in Edinburgh, so I suspect we'll see nothing, but I'll keep an eye out. Thanks for the tip!

minnie2

i feel sick at reading whats happened because of my post! wow!!! shocker!! its scary how this thread changes.

I feel like i need to justify myself and yet I feel i shouldnt have to too. But I will........

Goodness is a word i use a million times a day!! For many reasons - two of which are my best friend and her family are very religious and so I have used other phrases since I met her over 16years ago and yes I did say it when I was younger - it was one of the phrases you could when you are young - but that is exactly why I dont use it now too - its a young person phrase, I also associate it with the other youth of the day - dare i say chavs - like that character on little britain and I think it sounds awful too.
Also I teach and goodness is what i use with the students which is the reason i say it a million times a day.
And I do not say oh my God (Anna would kill me- i do occasionally say bloody and I get put right - I say pants instead for that one usually)!!!!!!!!!

I am sorry i used my text language on here and i was meaning it in an 'oh no thats going to be expensive eek!!!' - oh my goodness - rather than a 'oh great, what a effort and another problem to sort!!' - oh my God.

All my friends, if that was a text would have known what i ment- I suppose it shows we are not among people who knows us on here.

mooomin

minnie2 wrote: »

i feel sick at reading whats happened because of my post! wow!!! shocker!! its scary how this thread changes.

I feel like i need to justify myself and yet I feel i shouldnt have to too. But I will........

Don't worry Minnie, it's hard for people to know what others mean when it's all done through the medium of text! I think that OMG is now an accepted acronym for Oh My God, and I for one wouldn't have thought you meant goodness to be honest.

Please don't feel you have to justify what you say or worry about how you say it for fear of offending people. I certainly don't - possibly to my detriment sometimes

It's another mini-drama in a fast-moving thread and we'll all be back to talking about libraries and the cost of cheese soon enough

Hope all is well with you. Xxx