A Year of Living Frugabulously

taxi73

The money front sounds ok bar the HB stuff.Guess it takes so long due to them having no staff as well.
Glad to hear Goblin is behaving and what a clever idea with Firefox and hiding it..you clever girl

Souk08

Lula, YES YOU CAN manage on the £200! x

Karmacat

Yep, I'm with Souk and Taxi - of course you can manage on £200! Its a good amount for a grocery bill - I've been spending in that region or above myself, pro rata, and when my sister stayed over, I realised *quite* how much food I had in the house the bill for this month is going to be about £20, if I have my way - well, about £50, anyway. There really is a *lot* :o:o

You brilliant person, tho, hiding firefox and using it for personal stuff! How brilliant is that :j:j:j

Lula-Hula

G'morning all,

I did my waitr:)se shop yesterday morning & was pleased that kitty food was £2 off if I bought 2 boxes so His Royal Furriness is now fully stocked with munch for the rest of the month :j

This is important as he's starting to go out more now & I dread him bringing home his catches to share

I agree that I can indeed live on the £200, this is the figure first given to me by the CCCS for our family to live on, when I did their online debt remedy all those years ( ok, just 4) ago & I see no reason to change that just because prices have gone up. If it was just me, I could live on half that, but I'm quite fond of both DD & the cat so £200 it is :rotfl:.

Having topped up with the extra bits I needed, I'm now left with £109.50 + £2.50 which I spent on buying an e-cloth for DD1 & have to take back from the money I'm using to do hampers for her.

She & her B/F are moving in to their new home & apart from all the items of furniture I've been saving for them : sofa bed, bookcase, 2 tables, bench seat, old desktop computer I'm making them up some hampers to start them off.

Their first month's mortgage payment is HUGE so I want them to have a full stock when they move in.

Due to my stash of goodies, both cleaning & pantry, I've made a good start already without spending anything, so the e-cloth is the first item I've spent money on .

My goal is to do it for no more than £100 & I have decided to use some of the Holiday Fund for this project ... it's the only properly spare money I have ... although, I do have some Amazon vouchers & about £50 of Boots points, so could always use those up :think:

I've finally caught up & completed all the surveys that were drowning my inbox. I just couldn't face doing any last week so have probably missed out on some points, but frankly, I don't give a damn . I am within £7 of a You Gov payout & really really hate how they try to con you into taking prize points rather than hard cash by using that pop-up box as soon as you've finished a survey :mad:. I think that's a very clear message about how government operates in general :mad:.

Grey & gloomy again here today, but I have plenty to get done & if it does brighten up later as predicted, then we'll be out in the garden tackling the pruning.

First task is to empty the washing machine & load up the next lot of laundry & then to try shifting & rearranging some furniture.

Bye for now
xx

Shoe_Gal

Sounding good Lula! I am rubbish with grocery shopping - maybe just adding up what I spend would be a start!

vasseur

I made up a hamper for my sister when she moved into her first flat. I had great fun doing it and I think it was far more appreciated than a bunch of flowers, although I think she might have been a bit disappointed that I didn't put any wine in

RosaBernicia

You lovely person you :A - hamper is a fab idea. I should write that down somewhere ready for when someone moves!

£200 sound doable. Have just scrolled back through my monthly spreadsheets and there are times when I have managed with £125 for just me - though it's the months that didn't involve Christmas, work chaos or master's so it probably has a lot to do with staying out of M&S at lunchtime

Rosa xx

taxi73

I now have to work to a budget and that is scary..never had to do it before.
Great idea with hamper

taxi73

hope everything ok with you Lula xx

vasseur

Yes Lula - where are you?