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A Year of Living Frugabulously

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  • Cherryjack
    Cherryjack Posts: 1,125 Forumite
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    Hi Lula..lol at the bulk buy washing powder.. you will be clean for a long time .. (I tend to buy in bulk) ive stocked all my cuboards and freezer up..so if the snow hits i will lots of stock.. plus i tend to look each time for the special offers and stock up each time. At least if im ever poor poor poor i will have food.. i dont like the eat everything til there is nothing left.. say something happens and u have no money (wont be caught out like that)..
    Last year i bought fairy washing up liquid in super size bottles x4... for £2.00 they are massive.. and im still going :)

    Headlights should be really easy to fit.. take a few mins (keep that £20.00 safe) Halfords will do it for a few pounds :) hopefully a nice man at our work will do it for free-wear the eyeliner lol x
  • Mags30
    Mags30 Posts: 1,792 Forumite
    edited 18 November 2011 at 10:32PM
    Hope Lula is enjoying her glamorous night out as I type.

    Re: free nail polish- I hate that Nails Inc stuff that seems to be free with magazines a lot. OPI is so much nicer at that price range. The No7 ones are ok when bought with vouchers and I find the rimmel 60 second ones rather handy too.

    I too have a massive stash of washing powder, mostly persil and loads of Cif/dettol cleaning sprays and bin bags. I'd be sort of embarrassed if non-MSE types looked in the press under my kitchen sink. Surely it's a bit weird that a single childless woman would have 10 spare boxes of washing powder :o
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    Mags30 wrote: »
    I too have a massive stash of washing powder, mostly persil and loads of Cif/dettol cleaning sprays and bin bags. I'd be sort of embarrassed if non-MSE types looked in the press under my kitchen sink. Surely it's a bit weird that a single childless woman would have 10 spare boxes of washing powder ;)

    My mother just looks at my stuff and says: "Expecting a siege?"
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  • kerri_dfw
    kerri_dfw Posts: 4,556 Forumite
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    ZTD wrote: »
    My mother just looks at my stuff and says: "Expecting a siege?"
    My parents have my 12 tins of chopped toms, 30 bottles of fairy and 24 tins of branston beans at their house 150 miles away because they're always in for the deliveries and I'm not teehee:p
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    kerri_dfw wrote: »
    My parents have my 12 tins of chopped toms, 30 bottles of fairy and 24 tins of branston beans at their house 150 miles away because they're always in for the deliveries and I'm not teehee:p

    You can usually have your deliveries sent to your work you know?

    I send my deliveries to my parent's as I live reasonably near to them.
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  • kerri_dfw
    kerri_dfw Posts: 4,556 Forumite
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    ZTD wrote: »
    You can usually have your deliveries sent to your work you know?

    I send my deliveries to my parent's as I live reasonably near to them.
    Yeah but carrying 24 tins of beans on the underground would be a bit out of order :rotfl:
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    kerri_dfw wrote: »
    Yeah but carrying 24 tins of beans on the underground would be a bit out of order :rotfl:

    You're right.

    Far more hilarious to have eaten them first, then gone on the underground...
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  • kerri_dfw
    kerri_dfw Posts: 4,556 Forumite
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    ZTD wrote: »
    You're right.

    Far more hilarious to have eaten them first, then gone on the underground...
    Oh it's ok, I've got Jerusalem artichokes growing on my allotment :rotfl:
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  • ZTD wrote: »
    You can usually have your deliveries sent to your work you know?

    Crikey, no. I already supply the facilities manager with biscuits and flattery just to maintain normal service, receipt of that lot would cost me far too much in favours!

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  • hope you are having a totally FABULOUS night out Lula :beer:

    Rosa xx
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