As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

mrswive

LilacLouisa- the extra slices of ham usually wing their way to my fridge, so I don't mind! You're right though, it's a different generation - she's 81 - and her mindset is of another time. I didn't mean to sound hard on her, I just think it's sad that she's still so mindful of what 'people' think of her.
She does benefit from my frugal ways though, as half her shopping is reduced items from Waitrose that she probably wouldn't buy at their full price, which I drop in on my way home with an, "I thought you might fancy this and it was such a bargain!"(It's OK as long as she's not with me)
She's not very interested in food generally, but will have something if I've gone to the trouble of buying/cooking it for her, so it's one of my sneaky ways of getting her to eat!

oldtractor

Its interesting, my gran was very frugal indeed as was my uncle,my mum and my sister poured scorn on them. Only the other day I wondered if I'd been brought up in a mend and make do household would i be the person i am today? my immediate family prefered to buy the newest most expensive thing available and seemed pleased if they could get one up on the neighbours by doing so.put great store by home ownership and having a car. my gran and her son did the exact opposit, turned collars,edge of sheets to middle,sewed and mended.ate simply,lived in a council house,no car,no phone. I dont know how to sew,wish I did. But I have always bought stuff from charity shops and grown a few veg. I am taking pleasure in being more frugal than ever nowadays.

saveabobortwo

iv done a couple of shops like that now as wanted to see a bit more items for the money in a single shop recently bought lots of tesco value strawberry jam think its 38p and looks ok to me and we like jam on toast its a cheap snack.Old Tractor i thought it was a bit too quiet with regard to reports on the economy lately history repeats itself we ve had the good old days and cheap credit now maybe its the not so good days so plenty of stocking up with the lowest price bargains i can find when i see them got have an eye like a blackbird:rotfl:i do wonder sometimes with all this big society the government are talking about whether people will adapt and take it all on board it would make the uk a nicer place to live if everyone went back to take the time to help each other out again i dont mind helping my neighbours if they ever needed my help .

ceridwen

Kimitatsu wrote: »

Morning all

Ceridwen - thank you for that, have ordered it today, Amazon loves me at the moment with orders for courses and gardening. I would go to our library but its a bit rubbish at the moment, I checked online to see if it could be ordered but suprisingly not!



So despite my disbelief today is a proper June day, big yellow ball in the sky, few clouds and the wind has died down Its not supposed to last long but I intend to enjoy it whilst I can. Ducks have all gone broody so am off to find a cheap paddling pool so the ducklings dont drown themselves and the chickens should be hatching theirs soon too. We had kittens born on SUnday which are all thriving wonderfully, 3 ginger and white norwegian forest cats nicknamed ging gang and gooley by my DH. I said there is no way I am asking anyone if they have seen Gooley when he is grown up and he may well be arrested if he ask "have you seen my gooley?". :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Proper names will ensue........

No problemo re the book - just call me the "resident book maven":rotfl::rotfl:

Kittens:) Piccies please:) I've gone back in a second time and had a look at this post on a lovely gentle little blog I follow:

http://somersetseasons.blogspot.com/2011/05/aw-friday-smile.html

Warning - its got a very high "Aw - ARENT they sweet" factor:rotfl:

ceridwen

freudianslip wrote: »

I know Mardatha, I have to get up and get ready and close this machine down. I search and read, search and read. I've too much to do! *addicted at all? lol

That's one thing about our library, they're super at the books they have. I can find about 90% of what I search for (the Jo Whittingham was there) it's just a shame that it looks like we'll lose our library in the near future. I'll have to then pay £6.50 return to get the bus into town to pick up my reservations. May as well just buy it then.

Ohmegawd - that is SUCH a bl***y shame....libraries are THE thing par excellence that the Welfare State (or - to be more precise - the Victorians...) gave us. One thing my mother did for me - errr...yep....I got brought up in the (ahem...rather high percentage of British homes that have VERY few books in them) was to take me into the local library at an early age and say "Theres your library ticket - now go borrow whatever you want...theres all these books here to read for free...". That was something that was/is of HUGE value to me personally - and its so sad (to use a VERY mild word indeed to describe it....) that we are getting cuts in library services:eek::mad::(. Personally - I think libraries are one of THE most vital things we can spend our hard-earned taxes on.

I know I (and a lot of others) have found t'Internet in recent years - but there is nowt to compare with having a good collection of books on whatever one is particularly interested in.

Mrs_Veg_Plot

ceridwen

I am not a big cat person but that was just so cute . Thanks

ceridwen

oldtractor wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1393237/US-economy-Were-verge-great-great-depression.html heres an interesting article. Get ready for the Great Depression part 2.

We've been going into this for the last few years IMHO.

So - WE are all we have for resources....as (lets face it) those with power/influence are busy "feathering their own nests" at our expense. Witness - articles during the last week that one little person (venture capitalist) has been busy doing just that re care homes and now we are having to pick up the pieces after him. He's not the first and he certainly won't be the last.

Lets face it - we (ie "yer ordinary person in the street") are just so much "cannon fodder" to hand over taxes to the super-greedy/pay for the wars of the super-aggressors/etc/etc. But now we have the Internet:D:T - so we at least have the means to discuss this/give each other hints as to how to deal with this bad behaviour/etc and manage what money we have left after every excuse possible has been used to extract it from our pockets...;):)

LilacLouisa

mrswive wrote: »

LilacLouisa- the extra slices of ham usually wing their way to my fridge, so I don't mind! You're right though, it's a different generation - she's 81 - and her mindset is of another time. I didn't mean to sound hard on her, I just think it's sad that she's still so mindful of what 'people' think of her.
She does benefit from my frugal ways though, as half her shopping is reduced items from Waitrose that she probably wouldn't buy at their full price, which I drop in on my way home with an, "I thought you might fancy this and it was such a bargain!"(It's OK as long as she's not with me)
She's not very interested in food generally, but will have something if I've gone to the trouble of buying/cooking it for her, so it's one of my sneaky ways of getting her to eat!

Ahhh, you sound like a lovely daughter, your Mum is lucky.

Although I don't live on my own, my daughter lives with me, if she is away for a few days, sometimes I can't be bothered to cook a meal, and believe me I love my food! Sheer idleness I know, but since getting married at 19 and now on the shady side of 60, I can be quite happy with a tomato sandwich or, even worse for the figure, a chip butty when I get really desperate.

Lindy_-_Loo

hello everyone, this week I have changed shopping tactics and instead of just doing the one monthly shop at tesco on line, I have researched who has what on offer and spent £22 in sainsbury (was £33 but used copuons from the thread on here!), £21 in netto and my shop for tesco is around £100 which will be delivered saturday.

Its been hard work and time consuming especially with the boys off school but i have saved money and only bought what we needed. Got lots of reduced meat in netto today - 2kg chickens for £2 and 400g mince for 80p.

Have bought my dress for the wedding from house of fraser in the half price sale and this week alone we have lost 5 guests as I refused to let them bring a friend or not invite a different family member their partner doesnt like!

MIL to be has given me her mums wedding band to have sized which is lovely thought especially after 8 years of her not approving of me!

Have also ordered some more days out vouchers from tesco with the clubcard vouchers for the summer holidays.

Been a lovely day so the boys have been able to play in the garden whilst i made some cakes and then joined in their game

Lindy_-_Loo

forgot to say - if your on facebok and havent printed your birds eye rice frusions voucher for a free 400g bag its working again:j