Second Purse Challenge 2012

jakes-mum

Oh dear, my 2nd purse is £31 overdrawn can I charge myself interest on the loan do you think :rotfl: on the plus side I have 2 drawers of my freezer stuffed full of meat which includes 21 chicken portions, 3 whole chickens, 1 beef joint, 1 lamb joint and 33 sausages :eek: plus I have 16 beef burgers turning up on friday from DR and ive already played tetris just to get what ive got in the freezer :rotfl: no more supermarkets allowed for jakes mum!!

Went to Mr A today (hence all the chicken ) and bought my 6 chickens for £21, mum gets 1, 3 are frozen for sunday dinners and the other 2 have been hacked into 8 chicken portions, 4 chicken legs and enough scraps for a curry :j The only reason I already had 13 chicken portions was that I had none so had to get the pepacked ones from Mr C at 3 packs for £10 £1 a portion they work out at :eek: :eek: they work out 50p each if I cut em myself off a whole chicken :eek: was not impressed anyway at least I wont need meat for a good 3 weeks, wonder if I can stay away from the supermarkets for the next 3 weekends and just get my fresh stuff from Mr C :think: worth a try

Coxy11

jakes-mum wrote: »

The only reason I already had 13 chicken portions was that I had none so had to get the pepacked ones from Mr C at 3 packs for £10 £1 a portion they work out at :eek: :eek: they work out 50p each if I cut em myself off a whole chicken :eek: was not impressed anyway at least I wont need meat for a good 3 weeks, wonder if I can stay away from the supermarkets for the next 3 weekends and just get my fresh stuff from Mr C :think: worth a try

Wow, you're very good portioning up a chicken. Don't think I could ever do that, it's just the thought of cutting it all up. I have major wobbles whenever we have a whole roast chicken, definitely couldn't cut a raw one up

As an aside - my 3rd purse is earmarked for a KitchenAid but I was in JLewi$ yesterday and they had the KMix (Kenwood) - does anyone have one of these and would they recommend? They are around £100 cheaper than the KitchenAid and look quite funky! TIA

jakes-mum

Coxy11 wrote: »

Wow, you're very good portioning up a chicken. Don't think I could ever do that, it's just the thought of cutting it all up. I have major wobbles whenever we have a whole roast chicken, definitely couldn't cut a raw one up

DH cuts them up for me :rotfl: hes a dab hand at it now, I then attack the carcass for scraps for a curry, I much prefer cutting up a cooked one though as its much easier to strip and I have a real thing about the posibility of poisoning myself from touching the raw chicken :rotfl: we get through ALOT of hygenic wipes and hand wash in this house :rotfl:

Coxy11

jakes-mum wrote: »

DH cuts them up for me :rotfl: hes a dab hand at it now, I then attack the carcass for scraps for a curry, I much prefer cutting up a cooked one though as its much easier to strip and I have a real thing about the posibility of poisoning myself from touching the raw chicken :rotfl: we get through ALOT of hygenic wipes and hand wash in this house :rotfl:

I can imagine :rotfl:

2 x !am$ dog food 3kg bags purchased today. They are on offer in Sainsbugs for 2 for £15 rather than £10.45 each. It's large purchases like this that really stuff up my GC budget so at least pooch is sorted for a little while

recurrent-ostrich

Hi. I'm new to this thread, hoping to start next month. Just trying to get my head around how it works, do you actually physically use cash or is it all virtual? (Just not entirely sure that i'd be disciplined anout to keep the money in the bank )

Coxy11

recurrent-ostrich wrote: »

Hi. I'm new to this thread, hoping to start next month. Just trying to get my head around how it works, do you actually physically use cash or is it all virtual? (Just not entirely sure that i'd be disciplined anout to keep the money in the bank )

Welcome!! For me I do it virtually. I started off having physical cash in two purses - one for the grocery challenge and one for my second purse. I found it frustrating when I paid the 2nd purse if I didn't have the right money, so kept owing it or it owed GC purse iyswim?

I now do it virtually - have a spreadsheet for all my expenses anyway - and it makes life a lot simpler.

Feel free to ask any questions - you are sure to have questions as we all did when we started out Hope you have space to store your goodies. Oh and what will you call your shop

jakes-mum

recurrent-ostrich wrote: »

Hi. I'm new to this thread, hoping to start next month. Just trying to get my head around how it works, do you actually physically use cash or is it all virtual? (Just not entirely sure that i'd be disciplined anout to keep the money in the bank )

Ooooooooo RO, you've come to join us on the second purse , I know its just cos you wondered where all su debt free'ers had disappeared to :rotfl:.

Im a cash gal, I have my 1st purse which is grocery budget, 2nd purse which is for my bargains, then 3rd purse for my 'profit'.
There are lots of ways to run it but I have a spreadsheet with columns for: everything i've bought, How many I bought, the cost, how much im charging myself & how many I have left in stock.

Underneath I have a square that I add up money owed to 2nd purse as I use it (because I cant always be bothered to sort out paying myself every day) and a square to add up 3rd purse profit. Im very impatient so I pay original price to second purse and what ive saved through multibuying straight to 3rd purse .

I did find when I started that every time I had a couple of quid in 2nd purse I had to spend it on stock, but now I have a good stock in my cupboards, the system is really working :T. I also dont charge RRP when I buy things back from myself, I buy back at what I would be willing to pay, so some items I make a good profit (like DS's cereal) as I would pay RRP if I had too, some I make a small profit on because I would only buy it if I saw it at a certain price or less, and a couple of items got bought back at a loss :eek: My shop is so great

elizabunny

I've come to the conclusion I'm a gadget freak:D We went to the Go*d Fo*d Show last weekend and I was tempted by the Easi*o Yogh*rt System. You just buy the sachets of whatever type you fancy and then mix them up an pop them in the flask thingy (sorry not very technical:o) made some to day and it tastes wonderful. Probably not the cheapest way to make yoghurt but I think the benefit outweigh any negatives (Sachets in my opinion are a little expensive), but the taste is outstanding. I can see me getting alot of use out of this new toy:D

Second purse has recovered from the pounding it took last month and also the 3rd purse is filling up again (No more broken doors or taps I hope).

No big shop for me this week because I need to cut back a bit and the cupboards are pretty full. Will have to get some Milk and Cereal though ........and maybe order some more of those sachets:D

AlwaysHappy

I too have the easiyo elizabunny and love it - really like the taste of the yogurt but I'm the first to admit that I could buy it cheaper at the sm. The fact that my son will eat it sways it.
Settled up the purses today and added £36.20 tp to the 3rd purse. I usually settle up as I go but have been feeling the pinch this month so finally got around to it. Nearly £100 in there now so really pleased - plus I still have loooooaaads of stock. Feeling all warm and content with my shop.

recurrent-ostrich

Right. I think I've got the hang of it. So I have my weekly food shop budget, and a second purse budget that I use for multibuys and bargains. Plan is to start with £70 a week for groceries (family of 5, plus one big dog and two cats) plus a tenner for my second purse (a week for the first few months -cupboards and freezer are bare so it will replenish and stockpile LOL) Will see how it goes. Thanks for the tips!