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A reformed ex frivolous spender
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Never be afraid to try the cheapest of anything. These are strange days, and sometimes the cheapest option is the best but even if it's not the "best" it's usually perfectly good. There are exceptions and there are some threads on here about which value products people like or dislike, but switching down a brand and then to value or basics saved me a bomb.I believe in the freedom of spinach and the right to arm bears.
Weight loss journey started January 2015-32lbs0 -
Plan your meals weekly or monthly & cook as much as possible from scratch. Batch cook now & again so that instead of making one cottage pie, for instance, make an extra one for the freezer for a 'free' meal next week. This cuts out all those silly little trips to the supermarket for a basket of things that soon becomes a small trolleyful as no planning has been put into what you are going to cook & eat. Can't believe how much money I saved as soon as I started knuckling down to this as a routine. From Foxgloves (another reformed & now debt-free ex-frivolous naughty spender....there's a lot of us about! x)2026's challenges: 1) To rebuild our Emergency Fund to at least £5k.
2) To read 50 books (12/50) 3) The Re-Shrinking of Foxgloves 8.1kg/30kg
Remember....if you have to put it on a credit card, extend your overdraft or take out a loan to buy whatever it is, you probably can't afford it, as that's not your money, it's somebody else's!0
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