Frugal Living Challenge 2011 - Part 3.

flourgirl

Hello Ladies,

I hope you don't mind me joining you. I have signed up for the 2012 challenge but my shiny new spreadsheet starts today. Can you believe its December the 1st already, where on earth has this year gone!! I'm hoping to be more frugal and build up our savings next year, DH has retired and I only work 12hours so we are on a very limited income, we just get a small private pension and I'm on minimum wage.

Had a marathon bake up today as my son and family are coming up to see us at the weekend and they always like to take back some home baking. Loaded the dishwasher and its gone BANG!! and filled the kitchen with blue smoke :eek: Just waiting for some more hot water so I can empty it and wash up by hand:( 23rdspiral I'm now feeling sorry for myself too, could do without the expense of a new machine before Christmas, I hope your repairs don't cost you too much.

natnat13 I hope you start to feel a bit better now you have released some of your commitments, I know what you mean about feeling bogged down, the more you do the more you get put upon. I felt tons better a couple of years ago when I resigned from loads of committees.

I am looking forward to getting to know you all, I have been lurking for a few weeks and thought it was time to say hello.

Blairweech

Hi everyone, sorry I have not caught up yet

Lidl have their 100g milk chocolate bars for just 17p (half price) this weekend

natnat13

Sorry everyone, bit less moody now!

Welcome to flourgirl :hello:

Buy the telegraph this weekend and there's a £10 voucher for Lidl (£60 spend) but it has to be used by Tues, I might do it I need a big shop and have got things to buy to finish off hampers, but the paper is £2 so it's only £8 off really! Still, that's over 10% potentially!

Cherryjack

someone is pressing a big button to make us buy new electrical items!! MY tumble dryer has had it lol.. but to be honest it wasnt very frugal so starts my year off better... airers all the way

paidinchickens

Blairweech wrote: »

Hi everyone, sorry I have not caught up yet

Lidl have their 100g milk chocolate bars for just 17p (half price) this weekend

You little chocolate temptress you :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Hi to everyone, even the mardy ones

PIC x

slowlyfading

Sorry I've not been aound much this week - I've not had much to say...

seriouslyfrugal

slowlyfading wrote: »

Sorry I've not been aound much this week - I've not had much to say...

Its been a quiet week for me too so your not the only one slowly I have set the programme on channel 4 @ 8pm to be recorded so I can watch it in peace:D

rising_from_the_ashes

Me either ........ head's still a bit of a mess:(. I am reading tho':)

Working on next years budgets and trying to sort my budgeting pots out - spent ages last night moving money from one to the other - goodness knows what the bank will think if they take any notice of these sorts of things!


Just had to say ..... Sandra fantastic news!

jammy_dodger

thank you for warm welcomes

am back from my 4 days away visiting distant friends and family ( in the geographical sense not emotional sense ) .. i hope

i have been inspired to write a spending diary i did look at the spread sheet but they are a foreign language to me and dont know how to use them so will use good old fashioned pen n ink for now till i have time to look at techno advances

have opened my sealed pot challenge to a whopping £582 and have joined up with this months grocery challenge so i hope to stay within my budget

am having debates about how best to dry my washing its so cold and damp most of the day so outside is not a consideration

tumble drier is :eek: i have one of those electric monitors very frightenning

my radiators are only on low and dont want to introduce condenastion so am trying out the washing on a large clothes airer in dd bedroom while she is away at uni , with the de humidifier on eco setting using 200w but not the heating bit as that seems dearer to run but not anyway as much as tumble .. will see how it gets on

was loooking at the elctric airers from lakeland as they dont seem to use much electric but shall see how i get on with this way first as reluctant to shell out more money now i am a frugal warrior

am busy trying to finish off various knitting projects to go with DS and DD christmas

am recording the money savin programme to watch later on

have a grand evening everyone
JD xx



ps great news sandra xx

Cherryjack

jammy_dodger wrote: »

thank you for warm welcomes

am back from my 4 days away visiting distant friends and family ( in the geographical sense not emotional sense ) .. i hope

i have been inspired to write a spending diary i did look at the spread sheet but they are a foreign language to me and dont know how to use them so will use good old fashioned pen n ink for now till i have time to look at techno advances

have opened my sealed pot challenge to a whopping £582 and have joined up with this months grocery challenge so i hope to stay within my budget

am having debates about how best to dry my washing its so cold and damp most of the day so outside is not a consideration

tumble drier is :eek: i have one of those electric monitors very frightenning

my radiators are only on low and dont want to introduce condenastion so am trying out the washing on a large clothes airer in dd bedroom while she is away at uni , with the de humidifier on eco setting using 200w but not the heating bit as that seems dearer to run but not anyway as much as tumble .. will see how it gets on

was loooking at the elctric airers from lakeland as they dont seem to use much electric but shall see how i get on with this way first as reluctant to shell out more money now i am a frugal warrior

am busy trying to finish off various knitting projects to go with DS and DD christmas

am recording the money savin programme to watch later on

have a grand evening everyone
JD xx



ps great news sandra xx

ive just moved from tumble dryer to airers so will be watching this :-)

which programme was that and channel? thank you x