Frugal Living Challenge 2011 - Part 3.

millionaire_in_training

I'm loving this thread. Been reading for about a week now. I did my first skip diving today . Was at dump with cardboard for recycling and saw 2 wooden garden chairs. They are cracking and we need furniture for our summer house. So dd and I loaded them into the car and she will sand them down and paint them forthwith with some funky colour for the summer. Very pleased I am :j

paidinchickens

I am soooooooo envious of people that have a local tip where you can buy things. Ours is one of those robotic drive round and put in the correct coloured container things!!! :mad: We used to be able to but now it is council run.

I took my aunt to the church coffee morning/jumble this morning. Usually it is a cross between a charity and jumble with dresses £1.50, jumpers £1 etc. but today everything was 20p and books were 10p:j

I bought a pair of brand new waterproof trousers for DSIL. A brand new school t shirt (with the emblem of the right school on) and two dresses for DGD. Two ladies vintage coats (may wear them or Ebay them depending how I look :rotfl:)

All the books were down to 10p each.The bloke said "oh no one bothers to read books any more so we have to sell them cheap to get rid":eek: I spend an hour in the book section alone:rotfl: books for the boys. Two brand new books for DS which will get wrapped for xmas and loads for me. I filled the boot :rotfl::rotfl: I have gardening books, sewing books, quick novels, and some old fashioned housekeeping books:T DH hates me reading as when I pick a book up I don't talk until it is finished. When we have been married a tad longer he may start buying me books;)

Came home cleaned all the bathrooms:( and did a little gardening:D

To ease the blow of the pile of books that will be greeting hubby when he walks in from work I have cooked a roast dinner:A I have been a very busy bee today.

Hope every one is well

PIC xxxx

millionaire_in_training

I didnt even have to buy them paidinchickens. I got them free :-)

paidinchickens

Please tell me "the scotch egg incident"

paidinchickens

millionaire_in_training wrote: »

I didnt even have to buy them paidinchickens. I got them free :-)

Oh that makes me feel sooooo much better :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


not jealous much............mumble mumble........mumble

lola34

Oh, can I join in please, this looks like my type of thread:wave:

I've just come the end of my first frugal food month, I am on a budget of £60 per week 2 ad and 2 ch and used to use the card to pay but was paying out almost £400 some months:eek: so I now withdraw the cash and when its gone its gone - new month starts on Friday so its looking a bit bare at the moment.

I used to take DS2 to school in the car then onto work, I now walk him and then walk home and then onto work in the car, only a mile or two less each day but it makes a big difference.

I love Jumble sales, we haven't had any round here for ages, but its Thursday tomorrow which is car boot day so may pop over to see what bargains I can find.

Aril

Hello fellow frugallers:j
Welcome to all newbies and hugs to those who need them.

A small frugal treat found its way into my possession today...a CD of Abbamania hits- 'twas only £1 and is nice and boppy which is what I need at the moment.

Managed to get a couple of whoopsies from Waitrose and have discovered that my supermarket site has a link for the weekly top offers. Menu planning got even more complicated:D First check to see what I've got in and also what I've picked up reduced and then look and see if anything is on offer that grabs me. Takes a wee while longer but hopefully will produce lower grocery bills.

Aril

rising_from_the_ashes

:hello:Lola, welcome!

You've made a great start tackling that grocery bill:eek:.


MIT - ohhhhhh, well done on the garden chairs! Great find!

Paidinchickens - we've also got one of those lovely "robotic drive round" recycling sites (love your description) so missing out on bargains here too!:(


Must go and have a look at Free*cycle as haven't been on for a while & have a couple of bits to get rid of myself.

Pinched some more peas this afternoon - they are yuuuuuuummmmmmy - but don't think there's going to be a lot left for the plate at this rate!:D

KolaKube

Evening fellow frugalers!

Hugs to those who need them and welcome to new faces

Well its been quite a financial day here in kola land - the big move is next week so we've been cancelling services ( internet, ctax, gas & lecky, tv licence and moving others (eg car insurance - its actually a bit cheaper at my parents address so pleased with that..!). We have set an interim budget while were living on my wage only until OH finds work and it looks like if were careful we can still save :j

in other news i did have to pay my gmc fee this week (£420) but thankfully had that cash set aside separately.

So all in all not a bad day and very excited at a financial fresh start :j

alec_eiffel

paidinchickens wrote: »

Please tell me "the scotch egg incident"

It was just when we first started paying off our debts (credit cards, student loans, career development loan, overdrafts etc). And I was at home doing all the slashing and burning of expenditure and DH was going out to work bringing the cash in. I do have to say we were both on board but I didn't realise that DH wasn't coping as well with the change as me. The day we were dropping our car of at MIL's because we were taking it off the road to save money I found an empty scotch egg packet under the passenger seat...

I was soooooooo upset that DH had gone out and bought them because he was feeling deprived. He also felt really guilty and apologised for ages! But it was a turning point because it made me realise that it was easier for me to give up all the stuff because I was at home all day whereas he was out in the world saying no to coffee, work nights out, going to the chippy on a Friday with the rest of his team and things like that. He reached breaking point and the closest thing was a scotch egg! :rotfl:

So it was worth it for us to ease up a little and have some pocket money each month. It was just a little release valve to stop us having a huge blow out when the scrimping became too much.