make do and mend for tougher times

prepareathome

:heartpulsHappy Anniversary Fuddle,:heartpuls

I hope you and hubby have some nice me time today, enjoying being the couple you are - so easily forgotten when you have a young family.....

mcculloch29

Haven't caught up with all the postings yet after my week away. I had a lovely time though arthritis did limit me a bit. I bought a second stick for walking around Bowness on Windermere, and it's a lightweight one that will be good for trips away in the future.
Also had trips to Skipton, Southport and Salford Quays. Great bargain, hotel was fine, food very good for what we paid.
Well.. what a fantastic Olympics opening ceremony. That genuinely was the best one ever.
My son's friend's sister was one of the members of the Armed Services carrying the flag, and I had the utter joy of spotting one of my former child-minded children in the GB Athletes Parade. She is 26 now and captain of the GB Women's Water Polo Team.

adelight

mrschip congratulations on your chickens. We always had them when i was a kid but it will be years before i have an allotment/garden to have my own.

fuddle i really should start some serious christmas shopping, i only have cards and little bits. Or at least be putting money aside for it.

I really need to get in this thread and start absorbing all the good advice. It's becoming increasingly likely that me or OH will be moving out soon so I will either have seriously increased living expenses or be shelling out for a caravan, pitch fees and maybe even a car. Two live so much easier and cheaper than one

westcoastscot

ATG thankyou so much for going to the trouble of asking for me, you've made my day!!!!! So so happy to see that the post office local will be accepting overseas packets up to 5kg - that will be perfect for the tiny items I make. I have asked at my local post office who "know" they will be a local but didn't appear to have any details.

I have relatives overseas, but posting chrimbo pressies etc will be ok if I have to wait for my monthly visit up or down the road - can be organised for that, but for my tiny business I really like to get things dispatched quickly.

I feel so relieved - I'm going to really need the money soon.

Thankyou again - what a fantastic thread this is for peer support!!
WCS

alltrustgone

WCS, so pleased it will work for you :j. It’s made my day that it’s made your day. Was uncertain whether it would resolve your worry or not, cos I’ve no idea what differentiates a Royal Mail Standard International packet from a Parcelforce Worldwide International item. You’ve got to feel for the PO staff too, knowing change is coming but not the detail, maybe we should pass the leaflet on to them. When the heck did things get so complicated.

ATG

Mrs_Chip

Welcome de-lurkers!

Just back from the evenings session and I am totally jiggered. It was utter madness from start to finish, so busy, and our system went to pot (clock stopped ) and a customers did not turn up when they should and all the orders were muddled. But on the upside we had our best night to date. Just wish I did not feel like a heffalump had danced a jig on me.

Got to do it all again tomorrow night, not sure my poor old bod is up to it! (now when I earlier in this post I still feel like I am 16 I did not mean physically - one of the bu88ers about getting older is the brain thinks you can run the world but the body will have none of it!)

Sammy - Re the cup measures.They are volume measures and a cup of flour will weigh differently to a cup of sugar. Here is a handy conversion table for the most common things, but in the end I found it easier to buy a set of cup measures, you can pick them up for a couple of quid.

fuddle

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Sammy - Re the cup measures.They are volume measures and a cup of flour will weigh differently to a cup of sugar. Here is a handy conversion table for the most common things, but in the end I found it easier to buy a set of cup measures, you can pick them up for a couple of quid.

I have my eye on these sammy http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/80152358/ for 85p but I need to have a look at them when I go to ikea.

I'm just using a standard little cup, not a mug, more like a latte cup. As long as your water/flour ratio tallies you should be fine.... Mrs C hark at me, giving advice on 5 minute bread :rotfl: you don't mind an apprentice do you?

kidcat

Fuddle I havent seen those in Ikea but I bought a red set from Asda I think and they were only a £1 or so a while back, you can buy measuring jugs with cup measurements too my friend has one which you may prefer.

Mrs_Chip

Fuddle - please feel free to take over the 5 minute crown - you have probably made it more than me! We don't eat a lot of bread and OH likes making it it the BM so I don't bake it as often as I should.

Popperwell

I agree with much of what you say in the following post from earlier...
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=54788003&postcount=2040

You know I have no reason to but since that form arrived to fill in I have started to panic that if my DLA stopped I have no other income and wonder if that means I lose a roof over my head.

I worry what the future holds and yet it may all be ok. At present I should just thinking about the day I am living in and getting sorted about losing Mum and on that I have surprised myself and I think I am doing remarkably well.