no spending for a year?

determined_new_ms

spookybuffy wrote: »

is that a pound a day for one person?

Yes she was a single woman and it was after rent and bills - but from the reviews I've read she cut down on everything including heat!

Derivative

determined_new_ms wrote: »

Yes she was a single woman and it was after rent and bills - but from the reviews I've read she cut down on everything including heat!

After heat and bills doesn't seem too impressive really.

I could fairly easily do £2 a day after utility bills. Or I could probably find £14 a week from odd jobs.

I think after that, it just depends how healthily you want to eat - pasta 5 times a day with a slice of cheese every now and then might do you for 50p a day.. :P

My assumption is that the woman probably cheated by getting handouts though. It doesn't really count if people give you food or a couch to sleep on, etc.

spookybuffy

there's 3 of us so it be £21 a week plus nappies, so it be £27 a week. i already live of £30 a week. so i cut back £3 a week. i'll keep an eye out for the book if i come across it. sounds like a good read.

determined_new_ms

Derivative wrote: »

After heat and bills doesn't seem too impressive really.

I could fairly easily do £2 a day after utility bills. Or I could probably find £14 a week from odd jobs.

I think after that, it just depends how healthily you want to eat - pasta 5 times a day with a slice of cheese every now and then might do you for 50p a day.. :P

My assumption is that the woman probably cheated by getting handouts though. It doesn't really count if people give you food or a couch to sleep on, etc.

Actually there was a whole roaring thread on this a little while ago - seems to stir up a lot of contraversy! To clarify she lived off of £7 per week. Her rent was paid and she was in a bedsit - from reviews and interviews with the woman she didn't put the heating on, didn't have a phone, used no public transport, hitch hiked whenever she wanted to go anywhere she couldn't cycle to, drank water & shopped everyday picking up reduced items. From what I have read - although I can't be sure as I'm not her, might be worth getting the book - no she was determined not to have handouts and refused things, although she did go along to lots of free events when there were likely to be nibbles.

There is also a realisation as her waist started to expand on not eating carp, so again from what I have read I think she did pretty well

Yes I could at a push shop on £21 for a week, but I don't know if I could do it for a whole year and make those sacrifices. So hats off to her I say!

katieowl_2

IIRC Kath Kelly was working full time, and paid her rent and other bills, but decided she would ONLY spend £1 a day on the other necessities of life. She wanted to save up to give her brother a memorable wedding gift.

Kate

pineapple

determined_new_ms wrote: »

There is also a realisation as her waist started to expand on not eating carp, so again from what I have read I think she did pretty well

Yes I could at a push shop on £21 for a week, but I don't know if I could do it for a whole year and make those sacrifices. So hats off to her I say!

The diet thing is where I struggle. I can eat for practically nothing by bulking out food with potatoes, pasta, lentils etc but then I end up having hardly any fresh fruit and veg.
Just now, I'm trying a mediterranean diet for my health. Lots of fresh produce including fish. It's not cheap!

Kirri

Apart from the planned direct debit household bills (I include 'luxuries' such as internet/phone/gym/TV licence in that as all on DD) and fairly low food spends so far this month, and although not essential, they are needed..
£80.00 Hair appt
£5 Oyster top up (I walk where I can though and haven't spent anything on petrol so far this year).

I must confess:
£1 bunch of daffs
£4.99 fat balls for the birds

Kirri

and another... this is very hard, as I need my printer for job searching (and coupons!)

£21.92 on printer cartridges

samwsmith1

Kirri wrote: »

and another... this is very hard, as I need my printer for job searching (and coupons!)

£21.92 on printer cartridges

Have you checked these sites?
http://www.ink.co.uk/
http://www.tonik.co.uk/
http://www.ijtdirect.co.uk/

Kirri

samwsmith1 wrote: »

Have you checked these sites?
http://www.ink.co.uk/
http://www.tonik.co.uk/
http://www.ijtdirect.co.uk/

Had a quick scan and think I got them cheaper for the same products - I only use original inks, but thanks anyway, I got quite a good price I think.