Frugal Living Challenge 2011 - Part 3.

23rdspiral

Hi everyone, I'm off for a week volunteering at a kids festival. Shouldn't be too costly as we're fed and watered. Got to resist the stalls though. Will pack a little more stuff than usual, Inc some fancy dress to try to stop me being tempted there.

Take care everyone.

Kerry_Woman

23rdspiral - Hope you enjoy the kids festival.

rubytuesday

Enjoy yourself Spiral - sounds great!

tumptyteapot

we had a lovely relaxing couple of days away at my folks - they live in Plymouth which has a free 1920's outdoor pool! It was freezing (so I am told by my 8 year old :-) )

Time to get everything back on track now, spending, eating, decluttering, cleaning etc.............I feel a bit poisoned by too much ale and fish and chips so I'm going to try to have a couple of days of rice, fish (heaps in the freezer) and veg.

alec_eiffel

Aril wrote: »

Evening fellow frugallers:j
Great recycling Mooloo with the duvet cover- would never have thought about bed linen as a source of fabric, glad you made it to the Fringe Rising from the Ashes and thrifty work 23rd Spiral with your Rac

More gnat bottomed techniques being brought into play here today- made some headway with my CV. They always take so much longer than I think they will- have some ideas but not a lot got written down today:o Popped into the town this afternoon and struck lucky- our local CS had a very smart Next suit for £15 and a spotless white longsleeved tshirt from M&S for 99p- all suitable gear for an interview hopefully when I get one!

Was most naughty and spent £6.99 in The Works on a huge pot of rainbow coloured wooden beads [different styles and sizes aswell as colours]- there was method in my madness as I was going to buy buttons to make a heart for a swap I'm participating in on another forum but they would have cost the same and I'd only have had a fraction of the number. This pack also came with different threads which I will be able to use to make jewellery as presents.

Arilx

I bought one of those barrels of beads, they're great. I made loads of Christmas decorations with them last year and they look gorgeous. Well worth the money. Everyone commented on how cute they were :j

Savvy_sewing

I managed to change my Gas Supplier, from British gas to EDF so should be saving a bit soon.
I also managed to sort out an old NPower debt account. Been paying off £15 a fortnight on both gas and electric for so long, I though I must find out what i owe still. To find the Gas account was £80 in credit and I owed £112. on the electric. So they have transfered the credit over, and I only owe £31.plus pence. That will be paid on the next due date and I am FREE of it. Saving £60 a month. YIPEEE
Twin1 also renegotiated her Talk talk package down to £27.10 so thats good as its me who currently pays the bill for that as well! Every penny counts.

Skint_but_Optimistic

Lots of positive steps being taken!

Mooloo, you ahve inspired me... I think to get a better deal I need to get rid of the key meter at my house, and get a credit meter in.

Have fun at the festival spiral and good luck on the holiday detox teapot!

tumptyteapot

well I meant to have a spend nothing day but I have just enrolled on a printing course £60 - unless they have no space in which case I'll be refunded - I won't know until a couple of weeks before it starts. Just had a very healthy barbeque in the rain, LOTS of veg!

Aril

Hello fellow frugallers:j
Finished the first draft of my CV hurrah and also had my first ever signing on "experience"...I've only put in a claim for NI conts and if today is anything to go by I could end up applying for and having to accept a job that's totally unsuitable so think I shall be signing off again asap. I shall put that one down to experience I think:o
It's been another spendy day here at Gnat Bottomed Towers- we've taken the plunge and bought MS Office 2010. The small person is reaching the point where he needs a later version that Word 97 for his homework and I can see it causing probs for me when applying for jobs tbh. However, we used frugal principles and because he is a student and his school is listed we were able to buy the student one- £48 rather than £400. Woo hoo!
Hope you have a good time at the festival 23rd Spiral
Arilx

dizzy_lizzie

Kerry_Woman wrote: »

Might have a 2 week temp job. Still waiting for my agency to email me details. Working Sunday, doing my casual work. Thankfully it is local. They give people lunch, which is a bonus.
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Will keep my fingers crossed for you Kerry

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

It's been a long day - was up at 4 am:eek: and couldn't get back to sleep (too much on my mind) so feeling pretty beat now.
Making progress on the preparing for winter list - my spreadsheet has grown and now have separate pages for different things (house, food, pets etc) - a bit like the SoW!:eek:
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Had a look on the Old Style at that thread rising and it's got excellent tips. Thanks for mentioning it. Already got some ideas for my winter list :T
Hope you get to relax and have a better sleep. I've read some rave reviews about Bach Flower Remedies Sleep Rescue. Not tried that one but have tried some of the others and they seem to work for me.

Tumpty the printing course sounds interesting. What does it involve?

Luv Dizzy x