It isn`t tough for us. We are OS and we COPE

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If you want chat and company as well as os then please join us in the arms

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3052532

everyone is welcome

purpleivy

With or without a recession/austere times etc etc there will always be some people finding it tough owing to their personal circumstances. Hopefully it won't be as tough as it might have been, as they have learned good habits and lots of tips on here. Thanks everyone!

kitschy

You're right kittie - as my Mum says, you cut your coat according to your cloth. I am lucky enough to have a job (at the moment), a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I am perhaps being a little more frugal than necessary, but my contract ends in a few months and the more I can do now, the less it'll hurt if and when I don't get TUPE'd.

Penelope_Penguin

The latest "tougher" thread is now in The Arms, and appears to be thriving :j Please restrict posts in the thread to Old Style topics, and feel free to chat as much as you would like in The Arms

To clarify, Old Style is broadly topics that were taught in Domestic Science lessons (cooking, cleaning and crafts).

Thank you all for your understanding :A

dollydaydream07

we can cope and we have some great support on here
had to put petrol in the car today as DH has a work trip to go on tomorrow and i'm shocked at how much money we've spent on petrol since just before new year

i budget for £80 a month but already we have spent that we seriously need to look at not using the car so much as if we keep putting silly amounts of money in the car then we won't be able to run a car and we need a car due to DD's medical condition
DH will have to start walking to work as that will save us 4 miles a day and it will keep him fit lol!!!!!!!!!!

cbrown372

im not OS as you put it so what tips exactly do you have ??

Penelope_Penguin

cbrown372 wrote: »

im not OS as you put it so what tips exactly do you have ??

• meal plan
• grow your own fruit and veg
• use leftovers inventively
• don;t buy clothes, or cosmetics until you've used what you have
• join Flylady and the declutter and grocery challenges

will that do for a start

Welcome to OS, btw

adelight

Nice positive title i'm lucky, it's not tough right now, but soon? we'll see

InaPickle

I'm kind of OS and happy to become more OS.

Look forward to seeing what other tips come my way.

Justamum

dollydaydream07 wrote: »

i budget for £80 a month but already we have spent that we seriously need to look at not using the car so much as if we keep putting silly amounts of money in the car then we won't be able to run a car and we need a car due to DD's medical condition
DH will have to start walking to work as that will save us 4 miles a day and it will keep him fit lol!!!!!!!!!!

I've got a budget of £100 a month for diesel, and for some reason I've still got £40 of it left. I put some diesel in today which should last until pay day, so I'm quite pleased! Mind you it's still going up in price - 139.9p today :eek:

catznine

Nice positive title! :T

I'm coping because I have a good storecupboard, trouble is it is not very organised so that is my next task. Mind you a fair amount of it is past it's bb date (app food) and as I am trying to improve our diet it's not really what we want to eat at the moment, only so much cous cous and angel delight we can get through:shocked:. I have got a good stock of pulses in though and soya mince so definately going to cut back on meat (hopefully dh will forgive me) now to menu plan so that it gets used. My goodness just heard someone on skynews suggesting the very same thing, that we all eat less meat and cook from scratch! Looks like others are catching on!:)