Frugal Living Challenge 2011 - part 2

SandraScarlett

Buckets of good luck to you miss empty piggy re your Ofsted report. I remember when I was being Ofsteded - I'd rather have had a baby, or ate my own liver. :eek:

Mean May - hmmm. Not very mean so far I'm afraid, cos I have plantitis - every time I go near a garden centre, I find myself seduced by the lovely arrays of plants, and I spend.

But I shall have a most gorgeous garden to enjoy, and DH is getting so much pleasure going to the centres, so it's a small price to pay. And every time I buy something, I say to myself "Happy Birthday", and then amazingly I feel much better!

xx

silvasava

Morning all - been away for the last 2 weeks visting relly's in Lovely Lincolnshire so I'll catch up on reading first (see you at the end of the week?????)

23rdspiral

hi everyone, sorry for falling off the bandwagon and not reading in a while. i will catch up when i'm able.

we went camping for the may bank holiday and i managed to persuade OH to cook all but 1 breakfast and 1 dinner at the campsite = burgers, fresh pasta, couscous, curry & rice ect and not have lots of takeaways. :T it was a miracle but we were helped out by the friends we were with also needing to save money.

so with the money saved on food i feel less quilty about buying a cookbook (Complete Tassanjara = healthy wholegrains ect, 30 down to 10 due to slightly damaged spine), and 5 amber beads for my charm bracelet. in my defence they were half price and a good price to start with so i actually got 5 for 35.00, almost the same price as 1 branded Troll Bead!! (5 branded would have been 140:eek:, but it's not entirely a saving as i would have only have 1 at full price.)

my computer is still mostly up the spout so the pile of reciepts is taunting me:o. oh, and i think we're moving Tomorow. eek!:eek:

SandraScarlett

Glad you enjoyed your break 23rd spiral and good luck with your move tomorrow. :beer:

xx

inspirespirit

could someone kindly point me in the direction of Cheryls spreadsheet please.

never_too_old

inspirespirit wrote: »

could someone kindly point me in the direction of Cheryls spreadsheet please.

hi
is on page 1 in the handy links section
hth:D

SandraScarlett

I think we should all give ourselves a huge pat on the back, not just for our efforts to be frugal, but because of the smashing help, support and advice and harmony we enjoy on this thread. :beer: :beer::beer::beer::beer:

I've been reading some of the nasty, and totally unnecessary flaming that newbies have received on various other threads, and just can't understand why some people think that if they've made a few dozen posts, or even a few thousand, that it gives them a divine right to be judgmental, rude, dismissive and blo*dy 'orrible!

If there are any lurkers out there, wondering if they dare dip a toe in the water here, can I assure them that everyone is really helpful, nobody judges anyone for spending anything, or not saving as much as they did, and we're all very nice! :A

xx

tumptyteapot

SandraScarlett wrote: »

I think we should all give ourselves a huge pat on the back, not just for our efforts to be frugal, but because of the smashing help, support and advice and harmony we enjoy on this thread. :beer: :beer::beer:



xx

I agree, I've dipped my toes into another couple of sections on this website and been judged pretty harshly with people jumping to all sorts of assumptions - once I was asking for a friend and people were replying saying 'friend' as if I was lying and it was about me. I think life is too short to make people feel terrible about themselves and I hope I am never one of the people who do that.

LJC79

Hello! Is it okay to join in still? I've downloaded the spreadsheet and will start filling it in tonight! This sounds like a brilliant challenge and as a stay at home mum with only my husbands income frugal living is the way forward I think!

inspirespirit

l.m.hart wrote: »

hi
is on page 1 in the handy links section
hth:D

Thank you.

Unfortunately, having looked at it, I realise I haven't got a clue how to do a spreadsheet. :rotfl::rotfl:

Back to pen and paper. lol.