Daydream thread continues.....

rozeepozee

I'd add courgettes to that list. They may not taste of anything, but that means I can hide them from the kids by blending and stirring then into most sauces

lostinrates

rozeepozee wrote: »

I'd add courgettes to that list. They may not taste of anything, but that means I can hide them from the kids by blending and stirring then into most sauces

I love courgettes. I think they are tasty. They make a great frittata, just them grated or maybe a grated onion too, softened for sweetness.
Delicious summer eating.

Davesnave

I just forgot the courgettes. Always grow them. We're about a week from our first one.

The end of the barn is coming on in leaps & bounds. At this rate, I'll get him to do the internal partition too. He 's a super carpenter, but his estimating skills are a bit weak. Good job I have plenty of uses for the spare wood! :rotfl:

Rummer

Please permit me a small moment of self pity

Ok moment over, now I need to figure out a way to raise/earn oodles of money over the next 12 months.

I am reading my way back through the Old Style boards for ways to trim the food bills and the rest of my bills are as low as they possibly can be apart from gas/elec which we are working to reduce our consumption (already on the best package) so there is little to trim from our outgoings.

The fruit and veg we are going will go a little way to help, although not very far. So I need to get my thinking cap on and figure out others way to increase our income, all suggestions welcome

lucielle

I don't know Rummer but when you find it, can you let me know.

Decided to move the broody hen as nothing was happening, DS2 cracked an egg and it was rotten. However after booting his football into the long grass he's found a partridge and her nest. We've covered it back up and will hopefully have some chicks soon. DS1 has managed to shoot 2 rabbits from our bedroom window. He's a bit fed up at the mo as his new handpiece isn't working right and has been back to the supplier. It was sent back today and a different one is coming. He's being enetered into some shearing classes at the Yorkshire Show and the Highland Show. Hoping it rains next MOnday as he's got to go back to hospital for a check up from his op last year.
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rhiwfield

Rummer wrote: »

Please permit me a small moment of self pity

Ok moment over, now I need to figure out a way to raise/earn oodles of money over the next 12 months.

I am reading my way back through the Old Style boards for ways to trim the food bills and the rest of my bills are as low as they possibly can be apart from gas/elec which we are working to reduce our consumption (already on the best package) so there is little to trim from our outgoings.

The fruit and veg we are going will go a little way to help, although not very far. So I need to get my thinking cap on and figure out others way to increase our income, all suggestions welcome

Although trimming outgoings does work, it does have limits and gyo fruit and veg helps, but is no big money spinner.

It was a dilemma we faced and we tried crafting but that didnt pay its way. The safeish way to get extra income is a job, part time or otherwise. We chose to start a new business and dont regret it though its often quite demanding. It's a specialist field but if you want more info pm me

rozeepozee

I don't know the detail of your outgoings, but I think we're pretty frugal when I compare myself to my friends. However, when my mum came to stay this month, her frugality skills put me to shame. She lived through WWII and rationing - and it shows.

We went shopping about half of the times we would have if she hadn't been staying. A grocers box of eating apples which we'd paid £4 for and was past its best was peeled, the brown bits city out, the waste put to worm food and the remainder stewed and we had stewed apple and ice cream or yoghurt for about three meals; ditto the sack of potatoes. Soggy carrots and celery were made into tasty coleslaw. She simply will not waste ANYTHING.

As for buying, she wouldn't let me buy half the things I would have. This also obviated the need for a few trips out in the car, so saved on petrol. If she lived with us, we'd be much better off. Perhaps I should hire her out a week at a time.

Rummer

rozeepozee wrote: »

I don't know the detail of your outgoings, but I think we're pretty frugal when I compare myself to my friends. However, when my mum came to stay this month, her frugality skills put me to shame. She lived through WWII and rationing - and it shows.

We went shopping about half of the times we would have if she hadn't been staying. A grocers box of eating apples which we'd paid £4 for and was past its best was peeled, the brown bits city out, the waste put to worm food and the remainder stewed and we had stewed apple and ice cream or yoghurt for about three meals; ditto the sack of potatoes. Soggy carrots and celery were made into tasty coleslaw. She simply will not waste ANYTHING.

As for buying, she wouldn't let me buy half the things I would have. This also obviated the need for a few trips out in the car, so saved on petrol. If she lived with us, we'd be much better off. Perhaps I should hire her out a week at a time.

I have over the years become more and more frugal however recently I have let things slip and I can certainly tighten up on the food bills as that is where the majority of our money goes. That and a small amount on entertainment that we could also do without.

All our meals are cooked from scratch and I use value brands etc and I have started to place the occasional approved foods order to keep the store cupboards stocked. I need to get back into meal planning and start keeping a closer eye of things. I think I may invest in a note pad and start recording every penny that leaves my purse to make sure I am not spending money on things I do not realise.

Organised an ISA so that the extra pennies I make/save can be tucked away, small steps

Davesnave

The biggest money spinner for me will be hitting pension age! :rotfl:

I shall be an OAP in well under a year, which is scary and financially rewarding at the same time.

I'm trying to embrace it, but returning to the location where my youth was mis-spent makes it harder. Sometimes it feels as if the intervening 40 years never happened, or was just a strange dream. When I was fishing the other night, I was a spotty yoof all over again.

Hope DS gets his kit sorted soon lucielle. Our woolly hooligans aren't returning for a while, and when they do, we'll rig an electric fence to welcome them.

It was trying to rain when I shut the chooks up for the night. A good downpour right now would be welcome.

Rummer

Davesnave wrote: »

The biggest money spinner for me will be hitting pension age! :rotfl:

Oh I have a loooooooooooooooong time before I will be in that position