Frugal Living Challenge 2011 - part 1

tumptyteapot

with the spreadsheet of wonder is there a way easily to put a weekly budget in? I've gone over budget this week but can claw it back next week.

redglass_2

Landregistrylass - we missed you! :hello:
Lesley Gaye, thanks for all these lovely recipes.

tumptyteapot wrote: »

as a newbie could someone please explain the ettique around the thanks button please

There's only one rule, TT, and that is 'use it as you think fit'. Some of us thank just about everybody, some of us only thank for especially useful or interesting posts. There's no rule that says you have to thank anyone at all. It's all valid so do whatever suits you.

Laushappy

Rubytuesday and Redglass - thank you for the welcome back's.

Landregistry- i missed your posts , i'm sure lots of others did too, probably just forgot to mention as the thread moves so quick.

Thank you so much for posting all the yummy recipes LesleyGaye, very kind of you.

Been out tonite to my dads pub for his 60th, took £20 out and only ended up spending £1 (charity collection) as my dad treated us to drinks. So a very frugal night out :cool:

Night night all.

rubytuesday

landregistrylass wrote: »

Evening all. I agree with the posts ref thanks etc. Sometimes things can get taken too personally - I could have been really upset when I asked recently if anyone had missed me and NOBODY said yes lol. I have been listing on evilbay all day and my back is killing me. Good job I am just heating stew through......no actual work required. It has been a lovely sunny day hasn't it? I went down to our local town and scoured the charity shops. I got a lovely book for my DD from her boys for Mothers Day. Brand spanking new and very appropriate. Tomorrow is car boot sale day and I am looking out for summer clothes. Wish me luck. Have all my meals for the week in the freezer for DH as I am away on business for several nights. I like to make sure he has good food whilst I am not here............I know he is a grown man and all that, but its a partnership isnt it? He does all the things in the home he is good at, and I do mine. (How do you push a lawnmower, clean a car, etc etc lol?????) Budget is being augmented by evilbay sales -thank goodness. Hope everyone has a fab weekend and that the freecycle queen is good to everyone.

Oh so sorry I was feeling lazy so I thanked you and assumed you would take that as a yes!:rotfl:

rubytuesday

tumptyteapot wrote: »

as a newbie could someone please explain the ettique around the thanks button please

In this thread I thank just about all the posts. In discussion time or the Arms I thanks posts I agree with, posts that make me laugh, sometimes posts that I don't agree with but that I have found interesting.

Do what works for you. As has been said it's a free choice.

I do find it interesting in DT and the Arms because I think it can be quite an eye opener who thanks nasty or spiteful posts even though they wouldn't voice such opinions themselves!

I've probably got too much time on my hands!:rotfl:

cw18

tumptyteapot wrote: »

with the spreadsheet of wonder is there a way easily to put a weekly budget in? I've gone over budget this week but can claw it back next week.

Nope.... I've always worked on calendar month budgets (and still do, despite my main income being paid 4-weekly), so that's the way I programmed it. But if you can claw it back next week, then you should - in theory - have balanced it out by the end of the month

tumptyteapot

cw18 wrote: »

Nope.... I've always worked on calendar month budgets (and still do, despite my main income being paid 4-weekly), so that's the way I programmed it. But if you can claw it back next week, then you should - in theory - have balanced it out by the end of the month

especially as I started the spreadsheet 2 weeks into the month :-)

It's a fantastic spreadsheet, thank you so much!

ceridwen

tumptyteapot wrote: »

as a newbie could someone please explain the ettique around the thanks button please

The "thanks" button is a bit of a moot point - as people view it differently.

Personally - I thank posts that I agree with or have made me laugh or have taught me a useful hint or make a positive mention of something I said. That is - to date this morning - I thanked Lesley Gaye's post for mushroom bhaji because I have added this recipe to my collection to try - so the thanks was for a post useful to me.

GreyQueen (a poster elsewhere on Old Style) gets thanked for making me laugh - as we have the same "black sense of humour".

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I guess, by and large, that other people have much the same ideas as to who to "thank".

I get very confused by people who automatically thank everything written by their friends.

I get even more confused by people thanking every post to mark that they have read it (though I DO understand that some peeps need to have a physical "marker" of this for clear reasons). I "struggle" a bit with that one - as there have been times on MSE as a whole where I have seen a friend of mine "thank" a post that was downright nasty about me and realised that they werent ACTUALLY thanking the post - they were just "place marking" and hadnt agreed with the nasty comment iyswim.

Puddleglum

Re thanks. On this thread, I thank all the posts as a marker unless I completely disagree or think that using thanks might encourage a poster who is causing mischief. I tend to think that if we have made the effort to post then, in general, we should be thanked for that effort. On other threads, I thank posts which are of use to me, show particular thought or effort or are humorous. I follow this thread but just dip in and out of the rest.

cw18

ceridwen wrote: »

The "thanks" button is a bit of a moot point - as people view it differently.

Personally - I thank posts that I agree with or have made me laugh or have taught me a useful hint or make a positive mention of something I said.

I use it exactly the same way