2012 Frugal Living Challenge (Part 1)

dizzy_lizzie

CT19720 wrote: »

This site, is the one that I use to make soups from as they are easy to make - so far I have done the leek and potato, french onion and my favourite is mushroom.

Ooh thanks for that CT. Leek and potato is my favourite soup. I do make my own but always ready to try new recipes

slowlyfading wrote: »

CT19720 - thanks for posting those links
How is everyone doing? This thread is getting quieter and quieter

Aw Slowly I've been thinking that too recently. Hope we don't grind to a halt
Hope the Sunday dinner went well. Anything with veggies in is always a winner with me

I've been decluttering our bedroom all weekend. I have so much craft stuff, wool, material, crochet hooks, knitting needles, rubber stamps, inks, the list is endless. All in our bedroom, supposedly contained in drawers but the overspill was in plastic lidded boxes, flowery boxes, all mismatched, not a good look really. So I've pared it all down and given lots away. Still masses to do, inside wardrobe, drawers etc but I'm taking my time and being thorough. OH has also started decluttering his stuff too. Will carry on with it until it's done then start on another room.
Last week I wanted to take my own lunch in all week which I did.
Will do that again this week and I'm going to try and use up as much as I can from my food cupboard. So that's my frugal challenge for this week.
Hugs to all
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Kerfuffle

Hi everybody,

I'm still here :wave:

I read nearly everyday, but feel I don't have too much to say so I'm mainly lurking.

I guess no news is good news and that whilst it's quiet it's probably because we're all just plodding on nice and steady.

Happy Torty here's a link that is taken from the first page of this thread that may help, if you haven't checked out the first page, then please do as there are lots of useful links there.

seriouslyfrugal

HappyTorty wrote: »

I love books. I have too many books so am trying to avoid more lol! unless i get somebody else to buy it hehe. Less time in front of the comp and tv is always a good thing
thanks for those suggestions xxx

I think its a good job I use the library otherwise i'd need an extra wing on frugal towers :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:


Libraries are great and frugal

rubytuesday

Still enjoying my little visitors every day.




I've been a bit spendy on EBay and Amazon of late only a few pounds here and there but I need to remember it all adds up.

I was also reading the Moneyless Man but since I've been ill I find it very hard to concentrate and tend to have several books on the go but don't finish them for ages! I'm also reading Housework Blues Dizzy.

HappyTorty

Kerfuffle wrote: »

Hi everybody,

I'm still here :wave:

I read nearly everyday, but feel I don't have too much to say so I'm mainly lurking.

I guess no news is good news and that whilst it's quiet it's probably because we're all just plodding on nice and steady.

Happy Torty here's a link that is taken from the first page of this thread that may help, if you haven't checked out the first page, then please do as there are lots of useful links there.

Thanks for that there are soooo many pages to trawl through so that will help me a lot!

Seriouslyfrugal I have boxes and boxes of books. My mum has about three times as many but she has a spare room :rotfl:I am moving closer to a library (walking distance) so will take that in to consideration. I think I have the dream of having a house with a library and haven't quite realised that I'm not that well off!

silvasava

Guilty of lurking over the past few weeks & not posting so Hi everyone!
seriouslyfrugal - what did you think of Salmon Fishing? I fancied going to see it but was put off by the review in the Sunday paper - although IMHO critics are there just to criticise!!

slowlyfading - Dinner sounds yummy - hope it all went well (any leftovers???) DS1 invited us to dinner yesterday as it was DH's birthday. He did chicken too & it was lovely although there was a minor panic as the oven kept tripping the electrics out. We nearly had Chicken Manyana but DH helped sort it out so we were just a bit late with dinner & as he kept us all plied with plonk no one minded!

RuTu - awwwww

slowlyfading

Evening everyone!

Sunday dinner was lovely yesterday and, as I overestimated everything, there was enough left over for both me and OH to have another chicken dinner for tea tonight! So, didn't have to cook tonight which is always a bonus after work.

Another NSD in the SF household which is also good I'm really tired this evening so I'm just spending it relaxing on the sofa, and having an early night hopefully. OH is outside at the moment cutting the lawn, which has needed doing for ages, but this is the first evening it hasn't rained in over two weeks! So it's all looking a lot neater out there

How's everyone doing? Okay?

Winchelsea - I've not heard of those books, I'll have to check them out!
ruby - that's a cute pic

LolaLemon

Got the crafting bug on! Eventually!! I really want to get the sewing machine out and use some of the material I have to make a peg bag. But instead I have a few different blankets on the go, one coloured ripple, one white square, currently 3 10 round squares, and one 6 round cream with flecks square, need to do many squares for our knit a thon later in the year....
I've also been buying from eBay, :-( , love getting packages through the door tho lol, got 3 shirts for son who doesn't fit in anything he got for his birthday at the start of the month! Whilst on, I began looking at making those sock flowers, as I don't think I am going to manage 7 blankets for all these babies due ( 1 for my sis, 2 for my cousin, 1 for a friend, 2 for a friend and 1 for another friend, that's babies btw lol) so really looking into the nappy cakes etc...
Also thought of a (I think) great name for when I get my childminding business started, just need to find a good domain/web hosting company, then I can 'own' it. Already got the gmail address lol

twiglet98

Thanks SF, I am working such stupid hours I don't catch up every day and had wondered if it seemed quiet because some were actually on another thread!

Ruby your pics are lovely, all baby animals are beguiling, but this isn't a nice time of year for our chickens and ducks - mine are shut in their sheds at night and although they used to be totally free-range, they now have to stay in their run, confined by electric fencing unless someone is actually in the garden with them. The vixen lurks under the hedge in the paddock in the afternoon and can nip into the garden and snatch a hen in the time it takes me to carry an armful of washing indoors and come back out for the next. The electric fence keeps the fox out of the run, and the big hens and the ducks stay their side of it, just the little bantams are light enough to fly over if they are determined to do so, and I can't afford to surround their patch with 7 foot chain link. Especially maddening is that the wood behind us is teeming with rabbits, hares, pheasants and partridges, but of course they all have a much more advanced instinct to escape. My hens are so used to the dog and cats they don't seem to see the malevolence in the fox until an attack happens. The old ducks saw their drake killed a couple of years ago as he tried to defend the hens, and they are very anxious when they know a fox is nearby. I suppose I'm lucky I've only lost one or two at a time - if a fox gets into a small run or shed full of hens it will kill most of them, but only carry one away.

dizzy_lizzie

rubytuesday wrote: »

Still enjoying my little visitors every day.




I've been a bit spendy on EBay and Amazon of late only a few pounds here and there but I need to remember it all adds up.

I was also reading the Moneyless Man but since I've been ill I find it very hard to concentrate and tend to have several books on the go but don't finish them for ages! I'm also reading Housework Blues Dizzy.

Ooh too cute for words Ruby.
Hope you're enjoying the book. I thought it was good and I could relate to most of it
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