2012 Frugal Living Challenge (Part 1)

SAVVYJADE

Morning all

Weather looks promising today so the washing will be going out on the line hopefully

OH away which means less spending for a few days

Yesterday did treat myself to a few items at Boots, had no7 face wipes, a nail varnish from 17 and a under eye foundation highlighter from
17 .. All in all I was paid 50p to take items away! ( items were 3 for 2, nail varnish was free, had a voucher from ACM for the highlighter pen worth £4.99 for free if bought another 17 item which was nail varnish, then had a £5 off no7 voucher for the wipes and a bonus 250 points voucher. Transaction only cost me £2 but earnt £2.50 points!)

Hope everyone has a good day

SJ

Igamogam

Making full use of the solar energy today

More4Less

SAVVYJADE wrote: »

Morning all

Weather looks promising today so the washing will be going out on the line hopefully

OH away which means less spending for a few days

Yesterday did treat myself to a few items at Boots, had no7 face wipes, a nail varnish from 17 and a under eye foundation highlighter from
17 .. All in all I was paid 50p to take items away! ( items were 3 for 2, nail varnish was free, had a voucher from ACM for the highlighter pen worth £4.99 for free if bought another 17 item which was nail varnish, then had a £5 off no7 voucher for the wipes and a bonus 250 points voucher. Transaction only cost me £2 but earnt £2.50 points!)

Hope everyone has a good day

SJ

Well done SavvyJade that was quite a transaction! Wish I had been behind you in the queue to witness :T

Savvy_sewing

Went to a pamper night, and blew the budget badly! ended up spending £50. So now I will have to rethink the rest of this months spends and the food budget is going to have to be tweeked to save funds. Why do I do it? Get really good and then blow the budget on a whim really. Only good thing is that the Nursery raised some £380 for themselves to at least it was in a good cause!.

seriouslyfrugal

SandraScarlett wrote: »

Elvis and limo today! :j Very excited, and I have 2 lovely days to follow. Classical Spectacular at the Royal Albert Hall tomorrow, and dinner at DD's on Sunday.:)

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend, and a Happy Mothers Day to all Mummies, Aunties, Grandmas and friends. :A You are angels, all of you.

xx

hope you have a fab time :j

worked out that i swam 218 which works out to be 5450 metres decided today I needed a rest _pale_

hope everyone has a good mothers day :heartpuls

paidinchickens

Sandra I want all the details

Igamogam

Mooloo wrote: »

Went to a pamper night, and blew the budget badly! ended up spending £50. So now I will have to rethink the rest of this months spends and the food budget is going to have to be tweeked to save funds. Why do I do it? Get really good and then blow the budget on a whim really. Only good thing is that the Nursery raised some £380 for themselves to at least it was in a good cause!.

Hey Mooloo - everybody needs a little pamper now and then - dont beat yourself up about it! Now if it was £50 every week then you would have to have a serious talking to

Savvy_sewing

Igamogam wrote: »

Hey Mooloo - everybody needs a little pamper now and then - dont beat yourself up about it! Now if it was £50 every week then you would have to have a serious talking to

Oh no, I think I am safe there, but I did buy some cupcakes for my Mum and a necklace too. So was supporting little people in thier own enterprises as well.! (well thats what I was telling myself anyway).:D

I dont think that i will be spending much today, as i havent got any plans to go anywhere, and that makes it easier.:o

We have been much more cost effective on the meals this week, although DGD has not been eating hers, and some of it has had to end up in the bin. But she has been ill most of the week. Today its sausages and mash, with some peas. Simple easy as I dont have to think much to do that.

rising_from_the_ashes

Mooloo wrote: »

We have been much more cost effective on the meals this week, although DGD has not been eating hers, and some of it has had to end up in the bin.

If anything's not eaten around here, it's put into a tub and used as lunch the next day .....


Well, another beautiful day here (typical - I have no washing left:rotfl:) and will be heading off to see DM shortly. Def a NSD

Happy Mother's Day

Erme

Igamogam wrote: »

Making full use of the solar energy today

Get the solar cooker out .....LOL

Anyhow yesterday was about as stressful as it could possibly get :P....

All was fine (only I was grumpy) yesterday am. Then pm I got invited out to my friend's allotment - thought why not? Will do me good. Only to have a leaky water bottle in my bag and the phone to die (fixed with putting it in a tub of rice) and my favourite e-cig to die too ....Then by the time I'd finished my other e-cig wasn't working so I had very little sleep with nic withdrawal (Wasn't till I found my inhalator and got some nic I could sleep :T) so yeah. Spare one is fixed now...I changed the cartridge (did everything else but that in the middle of the night *thud*) but still....


And now I have a wee tiny allotment - :A...yay...it's a commmunity run thing so really nice. Of course I missed out on the spades but still. I've ordered a fork off amazon for £12 (eek) so Dv that will come by next Saturday....

And meds are working :j...Yay Erme is off jags and her new meds are working so long as she practises self care (like don't wear myself out)...Yay :A - sure it's part the caffeine and nic reduction but still...

My plot is so tiny (only £5 for the year though plus £5 key deposit) so I'm just just going to grow a few things and put salad veggies in over the winter for fertiliser and I think it has to be all organic. So much fun though ....

E