LBM in 2003.. What have I been doing since??!

mummyroysof3

Read your thread...hope you don't mind. Wanted to say how great your doing with debt and mortgage busting and you sound a lovely family. Can I ask about chickens please? Something I've thought about a few times but need some opinions x

scotdebs

Hi brizzle very impressed with the money saving savvy of your DD - need to find a way to get my boys into good spending/savings habits - both are still primary school age but never too young to start.... Oldest one cannot spend any money he gets quick enough -can't think where he gets that from:o The youngest just isn't bothered by cash at all is excited when he is given some but then promptly forgets all about it :rotfl:

scotdebs

Hi brizzle very impressed with the money saving savvy of your DD - need to find a way to get my boys into good spending/savings habits - both are still primary school age but never too young to start.... Oldest one cannot spend any money he gets quick enough -can't think where he gets that from:o The youngest just isn't bothered by cash at all is excited when he is given some but then promptly forgets all about it :rotfl:

brizzledfw

Hi folks, thanks for stopping by. Nice morning spent reading paper and some MFW diaries for inspiration

Chickens are great. We have 3 standard (ie normal size) and at moment now have at least 1 egg a day but sometimes 3. Should be up to 3 a day when days are longer and warmer. Ours do trash our garden but kind of our own fault as we let them out of their run. We have an Eglu run and extension - classic I think it's called?. Pricey but essential to be fox proof around here and so easy to clean. Having spent childhood afternoons cursing badly designed wooden hen houses I like the Eglu a lot and they hold their value on Bay of E. Our chickens came from a specialist - farm just to south of here which run a lot of breeds. Before these we had bantams which were cute but didn't lay as well and of course the eggs are smaller. If you want chicks though they make great mums. A box of fresh eggs is also a great MSE present if you go to dinner etc, people generally love them and appreciate the thought.

Have decided not to work this weekend and crack on this week instead. Need to carve out time for myself and family and not let work leak into the 'leisure time' we have

Off to the park with a coffee and a troupe of kids whilst boys make dinner. Roast. Yum

brizzledfw

Debs - I have two different styles with my DDs too - the youngest is much more keen on spending!

Sun_Addict

Hi Brizzle - glad to read you still sound very motivated. I love reading your diary as it inspires me to "do". It's always a good idea to try and instil money sense into children. When my two were little DD spent her pocket money as soon as she got it and DS squirrelled it away. A woman I work with makes her teenage son put away half of any money he gets given for his birthday or earns at his Saturday job. It's a good habit to get into and I wish I'd been like that when I was young.

brizzledfw

Thanks SA - most kind I partly write a diary to gee myself up, especially at the moment as little more anxious about work than usual - not something generally feel. Will be glad when next 2 weeks are over actually.

Lovely weekend, on long drive home now. Kids asleep in back!!

Igamogam

I have Eglu envy...........always wanted one but could never afford one! We inherited chickens when we moved into this house - they were fab but yes garden wreckers. We where bit lazy about putting them away - ie shutting shed door and Mr Fox had them ......his need was greater than ours. We than hatched our own when the children where little but kept a better eye on them. Eventually I gave to the local community farm enterprise to join some other hens and we then had a 'share' in the flock which meant only collecting eggs and seeing to the hens about once every 2 weeks which suited us at the time. We have chickens at school .......again our own hatchings. Would love an Eglu for school..........I am working on it;)

brizzledfw

Yes we have lost a few to Mrs Fox...we like to think they helped her young/unborn :eek: most recently they were taken in broad daylight though from under a netted run :eek: not the Eglu tho.

The Eglu is great. Would be worth saving up for if serious about chooks in a tiny urban space like mine. OH and I so love getting eggs..productive pets. Who eat our scraps. It's ace.

brizzledfw

Done some more decluttering. Mainly DD1s bits. Some I will try to shift on Amazon and Bay of E. Some bundled up for CS. Will update my sig when they actually leave but it's another 17 items for CS alone :j