Frugal Living Challenge 2011 - part 1

minnie2

flying_fresian wrote: »

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

Thanks - well i hope so!!! makes me feel awful.


All is well with me now we do not have a leaking roof!!!

And just for future reference if i text talk again - OMD - is oh my days - i cant remember where i got that from and OMS - is oh my stars - which i got from a tv programme a few years ago.

natnat13

Hi everyone
Hope you're all ok, I need to catch up on a few pages when I have a spare minute!
I have been really busy with my business which is great, lots of orders coming in :-)
Went to see FA yesterday, can save about £60 a month on mortgage when fixed rate comes to an end, had a big debate over interest rate rises.
The price of fuel is really hacking me off, desperately trying not to use my car!
Eatting out of store cupboard and freezer this week.
Right off to catch up now
Nat x

23rdspiral

my my, have you seen the price of cheese now?!

not that i want to drag this out, i just think i've something else to add that might be useful or at least memorable
- i once exclaimed 'Jesus!' outloud when i was a teenager when there was a huge thunder clap out of the blue that made me jump. a girl who i was with who i'd only just met said in all honesty 'yes jesus will protect us from the storm'. she didnt think i was cussing, she thought it was a prayer. since then i've always tried to remember other / original meanings of words.
- and the historian in me can't help but mention that language does evolve... one word that i couldnt write here which is probably the worst sware word and is rarely even in 18 films was originally a respectable Anglo Saxon word for 'lady bits' but when the French invaded as part of thier control mechanism they de-based the existing language and turned many previously normal words into sware words.

wow i think i've been bored to tears today doing this data entry! and have probably bored you lot to tears too! i'm off to the exercise bike with GTA and will leave you all alone in peace now!

rubytuesday

flying_fresian wrote: »

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!

Well I think I may have embarrassed myself getting all my neighbours to look excitedly at an aeroplane! I'm not sure!:rotfl:

Just seen my local market on the news - I'm on a commitee to save it!
The church trust that owns the shops is trying to put the rent up 200 per cent! Gone public at last after getting no response to communication from the trust!

rubytuesday

minnie2 wrote: »

Thanks - well i hope so!!! makes me feel awful.


All is well with me now we do not have a leaking roof!!!

And just for future reference if i text talk again - OMD - is oh my days - i cant remember where i got that from and OMS - is oh my stars - which i got from a tv programme a few years ago.

No no Minnie PLEASE do not say Oh my days! I really can't stand it!:rotfl:

youngmummy

just spent £60 on a brita filter jug and filters :eek:
i cant stand out water for some reason cups of tea taste disgusting as any other drink made using water ... i litterally have to be mouth dry before making a drink its horrid.
altho it was a big expensise for us atm we're kida struggling abit its cheaper in the long run than buying bottled water or pop all the time

feel like i shouldnt have brought it tho

CRANKY40

My favourite expression of exasperation is "Give me strength". There's not much else to be used when a 6 year old is driving you nuts. I think I say it a lot though, as now I only usually get as far as "give me" and a little voice adds the word "strenff".

I spent the first week of March wondering how I was going to make the petrol that I had last until the middle of March...then I realised that I was still actually on last months petrol allowance and hadn't put any in this month yet:o I did have a mind and a brain once.

I splashed out 95p on a joke book from a charity shop today for the afore mentioned 6 year old. It's all one liners so he has a fighting chance of remembering some of them. I was getting a bit fed up of hearing the same two jokes over and over, and of him getting the 'ump when I knew the punchline.

midwinter

minnie2 wrote: »

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!!!!

Excellent news indeed, I expect you're relieved :j As well as now being dry! :T

CRANKY40

P.S. Sorry Minnie, forgot to say excellent news about the roof :j:j:j

midwinter

JayneC wrote: »

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

An excellent evening at your drama club, and great that a reading group is being organised, like the swaps too!

It's hard to bite your tongue sometimes, when others are helping.... maybe when you get some seedlings going, you can give her a few in a yoghurt pot, and oh so innocently drop into the conversation, that you find the yoghurt pots are ideal for seedlings.... penny might drop then?

But she meant well, and was trying to help. The new slow cooker, can always be put back into wraps, for when the present one finally gives up the will to work