What Do You Want To Learn in 2012?

oldtractor

I've begun to learn to crochet. I have also learned to save a little money each month for repairs and renewals and emergencies. Great thread this.

budgetboo

1. Get to grips with my new argos value sewing machine.

2. Learn guitar. Son is already learning so it'd be nice to have a crack at it too. If I get an e-learning programme (2 years worth of lessons on dvd) we can both have a go.

3. Improve my foraging/camping skills come summer. This year we learned how to catch crabs and find edible seaweed with a chef friend. My lad is an expert blackberry picker We already have a small veggie patch but living in inner London, it's nice learn about "wild foods", when the opportunity arises, simply as an antidote the to the "pre-packaged tesco" culture and rampant consumerism that infects so many kids/teens nowadays.

louise3965

I'm definitely going to learn Spanish. Me llamo louise

WelshWoofer

Mine are ....

1. To decorate the living room as nicely as I can on a budget (not using the credit card) - saving is underway for it!
2. To learn to cook a few more veggie things that can be done for 1 person
3. To save enough for dog and house insurance to be able to pay them in one go next year rather than on DD
4. To wear more of the clothes that I already have rather than wearing the same things all of the time
5. To stay debt free by taking care of my money and making it go further by being more sensible with purchases
6. To lose half a stone and keep it off (think about this every year!)

Fingers crossed!

ShrinkingSavingKaren

budgetboo wrote: »

1. Get to grips with my new argos value sewing machine.

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hiyas by any chance is this the £45 one on offer at the mo, im after a cheapy at the mo and wondered what and how well it works?

boultdj

Learn to knit sock's.

sparrer

beemuzed wrote: »

Learn the art of self-motivation...after 62+ years I still haven't acquired it. So much I'd like to do - and have time to do in retirement - but do I? Nope.
Am so full of admiration for anyone like Spider in the bath - so that's what I really need: motivation.

I hear you beemuzed. I waited 60 years to find out how to motivate myself then the answer found me. I didn't think it was possible as I have a lung disease but was eating breakfast and flicking through the local paper when I opened the obit's page and the first one that caught my eye was a lady of 56, 4 years younger than I was then. It was a huge kick in the backside and made me realise how very fortunate I am. Four years on and I've been to India, been on a cruise, taken DGD to Rhodes and the Isle of Wight and am going to Rome next Easter. I've got out of the housework rut and started going out with friends a couple of evenings a week and have a regular lunch date with DD.

I'm not made of money, far from it. I follow just about every money saving tip on the forums, do a lot of scrimping and scraping, and have managed to save enough to have holidays, meals/evenings out etc. No point using one teabag for 3 cups or watering down the milk if I can't use the savings for the treats

If I wonder if I can afford something or accept an invitation I think of the years ahead when I could be immobile, and just do it. That obit's page was the biggest motivator I've ever come across.

barneydee_2

Hi I love this thread, and only just the other day made a list of things I would like to achive in the coming year from things I have learned on this site.

Well here gose
start a £1 a day pot for next christmas
Put £5 a week on a gift card towards food for christmas and B'days
To save up my nectur points for next christmas
Start Ebaying to raise money to help clear my debts which at the moment I am having a head in sand moment.
contact cc companies and make a repayment plan.
Get decluttering
get decorating
loss weight:rotfl:
cut waste
get the garden sorted and get the veg plot going
cut down on the amount alchol we drink
to do more crafts
and to be more organized with dealing with paper work,house work
getting the kids to do more instead of me running arounld after them

The list gose on, I making baby steps at getting back in to my os ways and I am enjoying ever step as I feel like I am finaly achiving some thing.

Dee

Beccatje

I want to learn how to cook the 'weirder' kinds of foods. As in, the less known cuts of meat.

Pork trotters and tails
ox tails, tongue.. that sort of stuff..

I want to learn how to make more frugal meals, with less volume of meat, but still make the family think that we eat posh stuff.


I want to learn how to get the DH and kids (two teens and one 7 yr old) on board of OS frugal living so that we'll eventually be able to pay off our debts and have money left over at the end of the month..

snowleopard61

louise3965 wrote: »

Cogito ergo sum.

... or, 'I'm pink, therefore I'm Spam'.:D

That would be Spam in the sense of OS luncheon meat not unsolicited email!