Frugal Living Challenge 2011 - Part 3.

weequine_2

Hello again. Looking back I see you had a bit of a time with someone. Sounded very much like a day at work for me.
I'm a wee bit chuffed with myself, being of a certain age I was a child in the 70's and since then my treat to myself is a bag of discos, however I was getting a bit mardy about paying over £2.00 for an 8 pack in ASDA. While investigating a new £1 shop in town in the hope of cheapo craft stuff for the Sunday School I found buy 2 multi packs of discos for £1.00 oooo ya beauty heaven is a wee fat quine with 2 weeks supply for £1.00 mine mine mine mine

Aril

Hello fellow frugallers:j
Good weekend here at Gnat Bottomed Towers. We spent the princely sum of £15 for entry to the Bignor Weed and Wild Flower festival but it was worth every penny. Music to listen to, demos to watch and fascinating herbal info learnt on the herbal walk. A very good day.

Today it is OH's birthday- even the small person looked impressed when I explained that the gifts I had bought for OH were chocolate on offer, 2 DVDs from CEX, a book from £land, a book from the CS and a wine kit from Wilko which is much cheaper than we have been getting [we use both kits and make it from scratch]. Tonight we'll be enjoying wine bought on offer and a Thai Green Curry which I was able to buy because I'd got enough left over from my June grocery budget:jAnd I've made a hm birthday cake. Result!
A piccie of one of the hedgehog babies for you [yesterday's free fun:D]

baby hedgehog by Greenmanyewtree, on Flickr
Aril

paidinchickens

Aril wrote: »

Hello fellow frugallers:j
Good weekend here at Gnat Bottomed Towers. We spent the princely sum of £15 for entry to the Bignor Weed and Wild Flower festival but it was worth every penny. Music to listen to, demos to watch and fascinating herbal info learnt on the herbal walk. A very good day.

Today it is OH's birthday- even the small person looked impressed when I explained that the gifts I had bought for OH were chocolate on offer, 2 DVDs from CEX, a book from £land, a book from the CS and a wine kit from Wilko which is much cheaper than we have been getting [we use both kits and make it from scratch]. Tonight we'll be enjoying wine bought on offer and a Thai Green Curry which I was able to buy because I'd got enough left over from my June grocery budget:jAnd I've made a hm birthday cake. Result!
A piccie of one of the hedgehog babies for you [yesterday's free fun:D]

baby hedgehog by Greenmanyewtree, on Flickr
Aril

:T:T:T:T:T:T:T how cute:T:T:T:T:T:T:T

tumptyteapot

NSD and a bonus urgent mystery shop that paid twice as much as usual :-)

rising_from_the_ashes

Aril wrote: »

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Aril

Awwwwwwwwwwwww:)

redglass_2

weequine wrote: »

I found buy 2 multi packs of discos for £1.00 oooo ya beauty heaven is a wee fat quine with 2 weeks supply for £1.00 mine mine mine mine

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: My friends came to visit today and they left behind some biscuits. I won't say where those biscuits are now.

Aril wrote: »

:smileyhea So cute!

CHERYL - I'm up the creek without a paddle on the Spreadsheet of Wonder - all my own fault - is it possible to delete Jan to June, in order to get a 6-month version? I am wondering whether to go back to the notebook method; the SoW is a brilliant invention but I am lazy and prefer sometimes to just grab pen and paper....

paidinchickens

what a horrid day!!!

Went to the vets to get some worm stuff for the cats and kittens (kittens need doing tomorrow)

The last time I wormed them I bought the stuff from a pet shop (eldest and previous cats have all had this) Well the nurse gave me a lecture on how the stuff either does not work or they can be fatally ill. Well I must be a cat murderer then:mad:

Never mind two of my cats lived into their twenties.

Anyway bought the medicine so the cats and kittens can have the same instead of buying two lots £30:eek: came home gave to both cats who have thrown up and now refuse to eat anything so have ran to Mr T to get some posh cat food, tuna and chicken to see if I can coax them to eat. Not very good for a nursing mum who is being drank dry at the minute!!

I just feel that vets scare you into paying £100s sometimes when surely pet shop stuff would not be sold if it was useless or dangerous.

SandraScarlett

What a great diverse thread this is!!!! Cute hedgehogs, poorly cats, perfectly hung curtains, and peas!! Welcome back flippin' and well done you on saving £400!!! That's amazing, and you should feel really proud of yourself. :T:T:T

There's not a lot of mileage in doing "if only" when it comes to money - or anything else for that matter. If only my DH and I had taken a vow of "no snacks, treats or extras" when we tied the knot 45 years ago, we would now be ............... very rich .................. very slim and .................... very miserable!!!

I just look at what I can do to improve things from now onwards, and if I can succeed over half the time, that's a great step for me. You've done brilliantly saving that much money, and here's hoping you can carry on saving something each month. :beer:

xx

rising_from_the_ashes

paidinchickens wrote: »

Anyway bought the medicine so the cats and kittens can have the same instead of buying two lots £30:eek: came home gave to both cats who have thrown up and now refuse to eat anything so have ran to Mr T to get some posh cat food, tuna and chicken to see if I can coax them to eat. Not very good for a nursing mum who is being drank dry at the minute!

Aww, hope they're feeling better soon - as DM says, when she grew up the cats/dogs eat what was left off the plates, never had annual jabs, were rarely wormed or saw a vet and all lived to a ripe old age!:(

landregistrylass

Evening all. Havent had chance to catch up with everyone's news I am afraid, but realised that if , like me, everyone was a serial lurker and not a poster, we wouldnt have a thread, so gave myself a kick up the bottom and here I am. Call from DD this evening. All 3 DGS need new shoes and trainers - with 2 weeks to go before school finishes!!!!! Will have to see what magic we can perform - they cant look like 16th century orphans and go shoeless!