Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

• Do more things I enjoy

Which is why I'm currently dunking a stack of homemade gingerbread men into a mug of posh coffee instead of eating rabbit food for breakfast. Did tell DD2 that she wouldn't like Bran Sticks when she insisted on them accompanying us home from the supermarket.

chevalier

how about only having 6 of any 1 item of food in the house, would this deplete the storecupboard.

Good luck with the final 5k. I hope when you have cleared it, it will also give you a pyschological boost to deal with that other problem in your life
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moo2moo

chevalier wrote: »

how about only having 6 of any 1 item of food in the house, would this deplete the storecupboard.

Good luck with the final 5k. I hope when you have cleared it, it will also give you a pyschological boost to deal with that other problem in your life
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*chortle* only six??????? I have 15kg of rice and about 30kg of pasta without rummaging about for the part packets. The freezer contains a dozen or so loaves of bread, there are at least 18 cartons of soya milk lurking about the place. The baking shelf contains 20 or so bags of flour and then I wonder why I never have any cupboard space.

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

*chortle* only six??????? I have 15kg of rice and about 30kg of pasta without rummaging about for the part packets. The freezer contains a dozen or so loaves of bread, there are at least 18 cartons of soya milk lurking about the place. The baking shelf contains 20 or so bags of flour and then I wonder why I never have any cupboard space.

If you challenged yourself to only six then you would definitely spend less :rotfl:

I have a prepping for the Apocalypse attitude that means my cupboards are often full to bursting :eek:

chevalier

moo2moo wrote: »

*chortle* only six??????? I have 15kg of rice and about 30kg of pasta without rummaging about for the part packets. The freezer contains a dozen or so loaves of bread, there are at least 18 cartons of soya milk lurking about the place. The baking shelf contains 20 or so bags of flour and then I wonder why I never have any cupboard space.

Precisely my point. How much more cupboard would you have with ONLY 6YKG of rice and6kg of pasta just for starters. And 6 loaves. And 6 bags of flour. How much money would you save on your food bill for the next few months, if you ran your stocks of these things down?

Marg

moo2moo wrote: »

*chortle* only six??????? I have 15kg of rice and about 30kg of pasta without rummaging about for the part packets. The freezer contains a dozen or so loaves of bread, there are at least 18 cartons of soya milk lurking about the place. The baking shelf contains 20 or so bags of flour and then I wonder why I never have any cupboard space.

OMG! I thought I had siege mentality when it comes to food (and [STRIKE]any[/STRIKE]everything else too) but even I haven't got that much in store. Flour can get tiny tiny weevily things in after a very short time.

Hope your DD's are fully recovered and the lurgy doesn't spread any further.

Thanks for sharing your New Year targets it made be think about some for myself.

Igamogam

Yep I am starting with the whole stock taking thing - food and non food. So far I have counted 35 tubes of toothpaste in bathroom cupboard - long story to do with with WAG daft waste of money initiative called Smile Team ( sorry if you have anything to do with it but IMHO its is a waste of time money and effort ) Also 12 bars of Imp*rial L*ather and probably over 100 rolls of Andr*x - bought when Mr T had a petrol promo on. The food cupboards are bulging so only fresh stuff to buy in January I should think and will be running the freezers down. When the carp from sheds is sorted and sold on Eb*y I am going to invest in another freezer and really get the batch cooking going proper

moo2moo

mmmmmm I see your point. I'll blame it all on my Approved Food phase which is why I still have several 3 litre containers of Sharwoods sauce in the cupboard along with a whole load of frozen sauce which was the result of opening a tub and being left with enough for another 5 curries once I'd made the first one.

In my defence m'lud I have depleted all bathroom stores to a sensible level. In fact in about 6 months time I'll actually need to buy toiletries...although not deodorant or moisturiser. I have a years supply of one and a decades worth of the other.

I do believe a mega storecupboard challenge is in order. Starting with a giant apple crumble which should free up a little bit of shelf space in the overflow fridge which is overflowing with cooking apples and industrial adhesive.

DD1 seems to be on the road to recovery. Shes most adament that tomorrows riding lesson will not be cancelled. DD2 shows no signs of lurgi which is just as well because I'm still washing the stuff DD1 exploded over.

Project houseblitz is going swimmingly well. The automatic chicken feed dispenser, which OH built in the dining room yesterday, has been relocated to the shed where it is sitting in a large bucket of creosote. Have had a quick tidy up which resulted in a dozen large empty cardboard boxes being deposited in the recycling bin and much other stuff disposed off. Next on the agenda is a spot of ironing to get rid of the half dozen shirts lurking on the armchair and then I'm going to clean out the cutlery drawer which is full of dross. Think I can chuck half the contents without anyone noticing. We certainly don't need a dozen medicine spoons or chewed up disposable straws.

Knitting_Nora

Good grief moo - you're scaring me with your sheer 'get on and do'-ness today. I was impressed that I'd made it out of bed, and had finally eaten the last four chocolates from the advent calendar...now I fear I may actually be inspired to clean something, somewhere *eyes up the laundry pile*

moo2moo

Ironig done and put away, cutlery drawer cleaned and a heck of a lot of odd cutlery ruthlessly turfed out. Am now decluttering the desk by sharpening all the pencils in the pen pot because it drives me nuts when I have to pull out a dozen in order to fine one with enough lead poking out of it to scrawl something down. Christmas wrapping paper is back in storage, much x-mas cheese decluttered and Pollyanna watched on the telllybox. Just waiting for OH to get home so I can go to work for a bit, if I leave it much longer I'll have mumified mouse corpses to deal with.