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Super Scrimpers
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Tried to watch this series again but found it so annoying!
To my mind, scrimping is about creating something for 'free' - from what you already have around the house and not spending any money.
Currently we are squeezing every penny until the Queens eyes water!!
Just got Grandmas hand cranked sewing machine going and have spent a very productive morning repairing and patching a large patchwork quit and will be spending this afternoon cutting down and hemming tatty, thin bath towels into kitchen towels and flannels. The sewing thread is what I have in stock - it won't match but it doesn't matter as 'free' as my stash is all stuff that I've been either given or picked up for pennies at car boots/charity shops.:heartpuls The best things in life aren't things :heartpuls
2017 Grocery challenge £110.00 per week/ £5720 a year
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I love it!charlies-aunt wrote: »Currently we are squeezing every penny until the Queens eyes water!!
Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
Just watching the latest episode on VM. What a waste of time, all it's teaching me is how to spend more on stuff I neither want nor need.
The pair of hoorays making cocktails is like watching playschool, as for the silly woman who can't even make a salsa....!Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
VfM4meplse wrote: »The pair of hoorays making cocktails is like watching playschool, as for the silly woman who can't even make a salsa....!
"I'm 26 and I'm having to start to pay for things myself" :rotfl: I found both of those sections painful......Great so they've made ONE lot of cocktails and made ONE meal. Let's see them budget for a week.... oh, yeah, that's Spendaholics..... However I did like the plant pot painting although I don't have any (expensive) terracotta pots...... does anyone know if I could use the paint on the cheap plastic pots you get? Loads of those lying about I need to find uses for.....But I'm going to say this once, and once only, Gene. Stay out of Camberwick Green0 -
Rage_in_Eden wrote: »However I did like the plant pot painting although I don't have any (expensive) terracotta pots
To be fair Tesco were selling quite large terracotta pots for £1 each, whch I thought was reasonable.0 -
Rage_in_Eden wrote: »"I'm 26 and I'm having to start to pay for things myself" :rotfl: I found both of those sections painful....
Me too, I am 25 and just can't relate to people they find around my age ... its like they're living on another planet :eek:0 -
To be fair Tesco were selling quite large terracotta pots for £1 each, whch I thought was reasonable.
I bought those pots for under a pound at the local garden centre ( known for being expensive!) so you might get the resonably. I bought an orcid in tesco on whoops, re potted it and its still going strong! I think blackboard paint is meant to be costly though?0 -
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sweetilemon wrote: »I bought those pots for under a pound at the local garden centre ( known for being expensive!) so you might get the resonably. I bought an orcid in tesco on whoops, re potted it and its still going strong! I think blackboard paint is meant to be costly though?
I've found the cheapest in Wilko at £3.60 for 250 ml which would be as much as I'd need frankly...... Might go for a nosey around my local garden centre - Mr Rage doesn't particularly like me going to this; he says it's bad enough the plant stall on the market :rotfl:
As an aside Wilkinsons is now calling itself Wilko - wasn't this what Woolies called it's own brand stuff in the 70s? Or is my mind going....But I'm going to say this once, and once only, Gene. Stay out of Camberwick Green0 -
Honey_Bear wrote: »
Hummus without tahini - just get any of the supermarkets extreme budget version. I guarantee it'll be cheaper than making it yourself, so it'll save you time and still taste disgusting.
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