Preparing for a more frugal future?

Spendless

Have a look at the coupons board.I read the newspaper summary on a weekend. Today one of the papers has a free £5 bodyshop voucher, so if the offer is worth more than the cost of the newspaper and it is something that will be used, I get it. I stack up on some xmas pressies/stocking fillers this way.

Also, have you looked round your house at your 'large ticket' items. This is what I found we struggled with a few years ago when hubby taking a pay cut. Shower breaking, WM needing repairing, dining chairs on their last legs. All stuff we struggled to find the money to repair/replace. If you've got something that you know is on it's last legs, make plans now for what you'll do when it finally goes.

calleyw

do on-line surveys. You can save up for vouchers.

I do this get boots/love to shop etc type vouchers. Which means you only need to get a little something to go with it. It does take a while.

But every little helps as they say.

Yours

Calley

whiteguineapig

calleyw wrote: »

do on-line surveys. You can save up for vouchers.

I do this get boots/love to shop etc type vouchers. Which means you only need to get a little something to go with it. It does take a while.

But every little helps as they say.

Yours

Calley

i do them and use the vouchers for clothes and bedding/towels etc
i save the boots and love to shop for my pescriptions from boots

BitterAndTwisted

Savannah02K wrote: »

I know it sounds incredibly anal but also start listening to the business news, or checking commodity prices on line. We listen for work purposes but I always stock up on stuff when I hear that particular commodity is being traded highly, e.g. stocked up on pasta when wheat prices went beserk. Ditto on coffee last year. Anything long life is ok.

Sage words Savannah. I started stockpiling tea-bags while I was still working when I heard news of poor harvests. Bought a load of decent quality ones when they were twofers. They've lasted a year and I reckon I still have a year's worth left. I've got a tidy hoard of cheap pasta, too.

Same with ground coffee: I don't have a decent stock any longer because my reduced income won't bear it and the retail price has gone up 50% in the last year. I buy it whenever I see it cheaper than Lidl's (which isn't often) as even theirs is £6 a kilo now. I've cut down to a daily ration of three cups. I'd have to be absolutely desperate to swap to instanto. In fact, I think I'd just stop drinking it altogether

Just bought three litres of cooking oil while on special offer to add to my modest stockpile.

GreyQueen

morganlefay wrote: »

Ahem, GreyQueen, I thought we weren't going to hoard tins of things under the bed any more ?

Well, I had a bad attack of tinned-tomato-anxiety and promise I will stop now I have got 52 cans. I have totally reorganised the under-bed area (see the Decluttering thread) and it's now immaculate. I have branched out into Fray Bentos steak and kidney pies (so heartening and so very stackable) and baked beans. And cooking oil (but not under the bed). And pasta which is actually in a proper kitchen cupboard (the one with the saucepans in it).

:eek: Look, did I ever claim to be entirely sane? I also said I'd give up chocolate last month and I've failed there too.:rotfl: