Frugal Living Challenge 2011 - Part 3.

redglass_2

rubytuesday wrote: »

Ooh really funny bought a little porcelain wren from a new local market for a pound on Saturday - I am watching an icon on ebay and decided to click onto their other things and the wren was there starting at eleven pounds!

Here I am, here I am how do you do?!

Sorry redglass - little rhyme I used to sing the children!:rotfl:

Phew, everyone's come back....well done on the wren, that's a real bargain.

Welcome 76Rosie!

Lola, sounds like things are really taking off. All very exciting, do keep us informed (within reason)!

I've had leaks behind the sink leading to a William, a King William, in fact an Emperor of the Universe William, :eek: but it'll be reimbursed because the leaks were caused by kitchen fitters not getting it right the first time. So although it's meant a lot of wasted time and hassle, I shouldn't be out of pocket (eventually). Having to move/sort out stuff in the kitchen has sparked a massive decluttering frenzy and the entire place is now full of boxes and heaps of stuff....I know it'll be better in the long run but you know that half way stage when you wonder why you ever started? That's where I am right now....:o

rubytuesday

Welcome 76Rosie

I feel I am doing really well at the moment on my finds redglass - I bought some vintage spice bottles at the scout shop the other day for a pound and chanced across them going for about twenty quid and I also got a lovely cream and green enamel bread bin from the jumble for a couple of pound to replace the rather tatty one I already had which I may make into a planter.

I am wondering if I'm a bit silly but someone was selling retro push button phones at the car boot - they go for quite a bit sometimes. I don't need one but I asked him how much he was selling them for which was pence so rather than buying them I told him he should put them on ebay! He was surprised that they were worth anything.

Hope you don't mind but I am going to show off already done it in my main home but don't usually do it here.

This is my son.

You click around with it like a game.

http://www.wrangler-europe.com/wrangler/

youngmummy

hi all, hope everyone is well, im seriously p****d off tonight. earlier this everning i put my clothes airer outside to dry a few of LO's clothes. only to find about 2hrs later that it was gone and all the clothes had been chucked on the floor. i havent got a line outside and as it was still warm rather than use the tumble dryer thought id put it outside on the airer. well i wont be doing that again!!! will have to go and buy another later in the week. i got the one that was nicked in the sale for a tenner. but its like me and OH were saying its the principal of the matter, and the best bit is we live in a 14 house cul-d-sac in the middle of no-where!!! :O
SORRY FOR RANT thats another £10-£20 i wudnt of had to spend if it wasnt for robbing neighbours !!!!

rubytuesday

No wonder you are ranting youngmummy but at least they didn't run off with the washing too I suppose!

I have already had a spend as I have already had an early morning dip at the lido.

I am seriously contemplating going swimming in the outdoor ponds on Hampstead Heath but that may be a bit too hard core - although I swim in the outdoor pool in winter it is heated!

I think I will get some sausages from the free range butcher for our dinner - so another spend.

I've got a lot to do as the house is still not straight after sanding and catastrophes so I better get crackerlacking!

meg72

youngmummy wrote: »

hi all, hope everyone is well, im seriously p****d off tonight. earlier this everning i put my clothes airer outside to dry a few of LO's clothes. only to find about 2hrs later that it was gone and all the clothes had been chucked on the floor. i havent got a line outside and as it was still warm rather than use the tumble dryer thought id put it outside on the airer. well i wont be doing that again!!! will have to go and buy another later in the week. i got the one that was nicked in the sale for a tenner. but its like me and OH were saying its the principal of the matter, and the best bit is we live in a 14 house cul-d-sac in the middle of no-where!!! :O
SORRY FOR RANT thats another £10-£20 i wudnt of had to spend if it wasnt for robbing neighbours !!!!

OMG thats awful, have you had a good look round,I am thinking it could have been kids, building a tent or den or something.The little sods round by me even took my wheely bin to play in .

rising_from_the_ashes

rubytuesday wrote: »

I am wondering if I'm a bit silly but someone was selling retro push button phones at the car boot - they go for quite a bit sometimes. I don't need one but I asked him how much he was selling them for which was pence so rather than buying them I told him he should put them on ebay! He was surprised that they were worth anything.

I guess it depends on the way you look at it, yes you could have bought them for pence & maybe sold them on, however, it's nice to do a good turn for someone every so often!:D

youngmummy wrote: »

hi all, hope everyone is well, im seriously p****d off tonight. earlier this everning i put my clothes airer outside to dry a few of LO's clothes. only to find about 2hrs later that it was gone and all the clothes had been chucked on the floor. i havent got a line outside and as it was still warm rather than use the tumble dryer thought id put it outside on the airer. well i wont be doing that again!!! will have to go and buy another later in the week. i got the one that was nicked in the sale for a tenner. but its like me and OH were saying its the principal of the matter, and the best bit is we live in a 14 house cul-d-sac in the middle of no-where!!! :O
SORRY FOR RANT thats another £10-£20 i wudnt of had to spend if it wasnt for robbing neighbours !!!!

OMG, I can't believe that!

We're really lucky round here as you can leave stuff around with no problem - people are a lot more wary than a couple of years ago tho' (never even locked the garage for the 1st 3 years I lived here) as there was a spate of robberies - not locals, they were "doing the rounds" of the small communities.

It's horrible. I just can't believe they'd actually come in and take the washing off! :eek: If you were anywhere near, I could let you have one as there's a spare in the garage that I've not used for yonks.:(

Aril

Hello fellow frugallers:j
Welcome Rosie76. RubyTuesday- great news about all your finds...these things do all seem to come in at once I find. As for your tip to the chap- I'm a great believer in passing on good news. If I find a bargain or a way to save I always mention it if people are interested- what goes around comes around.

Sorry to hear about your airer Youngmummy and your leaks Redglass- we're here to cheer you on or support you.

Another good day here at Gnat Bottomed Towers- it's been gorgeous so got my ample rump out of bed and got moving early whilst it was cooler. Have defrosted my freezer [now where is my halo:rotfl::rotfl:] and even used the defrosted water for watering the plants:ANot all good though as I discovered the leftover joint from 10 days ago that we couldn't find in the freezer yesterday...erm at the back of the fridge in an empty marg pot [that's the trouble with thriftily recycling everything:D] Afraid that had to be binned!
More free food- been foraging for blackberries...not enough for wine yet though so will have to go back. Many aren't ripe yet.
Have been trading on freecycle today- candles and a game donated and am collecting some blue wool and and some craft mags from the 1970s tomorrow. Result!
Aril

SandraScarlett

What sh*tty bar-stewards the airer robbers are. :mad: It doesn't matter if you bought it cheaply, or paid a million pounds, it's a rotten thing to do and something you now have to replace at your cost. I hope that every time they use it, it rains, and their clothes get covered in pigeon sh*t. :mad:

Another of my friends received her Freedom Pass this week, so we went out today, doing more or less what I did with my DGD and her BFF last week. Train to Liverpool Street, free choccy in Carbonnel and Walker, bus to One New Change, up in the lift to the viewing area, a lovely Costa, which my friend bought, then a walk to the Millenium Bridge.

Bus to The Strand and we then had luxurious wees in The Savoy, and the boss (some Saudi Arabian Prince I think), was visiting and had parked his cream Rolls Royce, with pink leather hood outside, so we took photos of each other, posing next to the Roller in a carefree way! :rotfl:

Then I bought lunch (2 sandwiches and 2 BOGOF bottles of water in Boots, cost £3.60, I know how to live) which we ate in Covent Garden, then a bus back to Liverpool Street, train to Stratford, DLR to the View Tube, then DLR to Canarfy Wharf, and we got back home at 7, having both spent under a fiver all day.

Not a good day weather wise in the South tomorrow, but fine on Friday, so taking DGD to Audley End (free, free, free!). Welcome to our new frugalistas, commiserations redglass on The Emperor of Surpeme Williams :eek:, and hope all Mummies are surviving the school holidays.

xx

redglass_2

rubytuesday wrote: »

Welcome 76Rosie

I feel I am doing really well at the moment on my finds redglass - I bought some vintage spice bottles at the scout shop the other day for a pound and chanced across them going for about twenty quid and I also got a lovely cream and green enamel bread bin from the jumble for a couple of pound to replace the rather tatty one I already had which I may make into a planter.

I am wondering if I'm a bit silly but someone was selling retro push button phones at the car boot - they go for quite a bit sometimes. I don't need one but I asked him how much he was selling them for which was pence so rather than buying them I told him he should put them on ebay! He was surprised that they were worth anything.

Hope you don't mind but I am going to show off already done it in my main home but don't usually do it here.

This is my son.

You click around with it like a game.

http://www.wrangler-europe.com/wrangler/

RubyT, that's brilliant - did your son design it or is he one of the young men in the film?

Youngmummy, what b**t**ds. Things that didn't cost much but are stolen in a really mean way can get you fuming (someone nicked my watering cans from the allotment - cost modest, annoyance factor huge). What's more, it affects your relationships with all the neighbours if you think one of them might have done it.:(

rubytuesday

Thanks redglass - he's in it.

The one with a bit of an Elvis look about him x