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couponqueen123

jemmah1983 wrote: »

I was just on the phone to a friend and we discussed growing again. It's been 3 years what with being pregnant and we moved for 6 month while house was re done and now the garden is a tip after 6 month of full on neglect.... I'm wondering where I can get free dirt for it be worth growing our own again this year?

I'm a grow your own novice wi only 2 summers under my belt but even if I can just do courgettes, tomatoes and potatoes its all good on the finances.

I also have a chicken coup I got off free cycle that just needs the chickens and a little run fenced for them.

I have significantly reduced our outgoings ( having had my last weekly shop totalling £89 in tesco in April) after finding the lovely elite :A

Needs must to get down further so I'm setting a yearly budget that will take some serious :eek: hard work to get anywhere near :eek::eek:

I think the less you have the less wasteful and imaginative you get with what you have so I'm going to be digging out the recipe books.

I've also been getting some inspiration from the digger family (although I won't have 1 child) as they seem very frugal even making there own laundry detergent!

we only proply started 2 years ago aswell but growing up my mum and grandads all have massive green houses and lovely veg patches and flower patches

my mums flowers were famouse localy :rotfl: and had a waiting list :eek: shes back working now so dosnt do so much but dose a few things in pots,

but we live in rents at moment and not allowed to rearange to much the house is up for sale for £250,000 :eek:(way to much IMO) hence no viewings in few years :eek::rotfl: so we made boxes to plant in and kids painted them :eek::eek::eek: and use all sorts of pots and pans then we were kindly given soil from the farmer behind our house for free :cool: SO We have grown before potatoes straberrys, gooseberrys, onions lettues, flowers, tryied cucumbers they stayed tiny lol . grew lots of herbs lovley but never grow enough:( when we move to buy our own home my garden will be fab (i hope and suply us , :j

i to will be getting chickens my dd loves them

i enjoy saving money honestly and living frugal , i make lots of stuff out of bits of fabric, tried my own washing powder but was rubbish (i thought) and now i get it free from mum so dosnt matter lol,

also we make lots of meals and freeze ready to eat , but i must admit we have meat every meal o/h wuld never just have veg etc, has to have meat , or fish at a push (he likes fish but not as much as meat lol)

but i can only do that throu my lovely butcher or the local co-op it reduces amazingly DTD OR REDUCTTONS and i know the times and they fit well with my school run;)

im proud not to own a credit card or have any debt:j

i think of what i do as a job as it take so much organising lol im luck o/h has amazingly payed job so i can look after kids and belive me i know how lucky i am but im defo not a lady what lunches (unless free or voucherd or dare i say it payed for my other people lol:rotfl:

try local farms for soil look or free cycle and do adverts for post office local shops askanyone you meet you be supriced

bubbs

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

I beg to differ...I "recycled" 21 pairs of shoes and boots :eek: still left me with 26 other pairs :D

:eek::eek::eek: thats alot more than i own

savingbabs

Apparently the average woman has 39 pairs of shoes (I'm definitely above average - although charity shops and car boot have contributed significantly)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2033027/Have-I-got-shoes-How-Miss-Average-39-pairs-home.html

David.

davemorton wrote: »

Well this is probably my last post for a while, ship is about to leave signal, and Stella is making it harder to type on phone, have a nice evening all.

Enjoy :beer:

David.

Shortfatscotsbloke wrote: »

Don't tell me you've pulled a bird already!!:cool::cool:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
On form DumpyJock and only 8 oclock

couponqueen123

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

I beg to differ...I "recycled" 21 pairs of shoes and boots :eek: still left me with 26 other pairs :D

I just showed my o/h yr post he said, he wishes i wuld do same as i have 4 suitecase full of shoes( work ones fancy dress ones and 30 pairs of boots all in boxes and 120 pairs of shoes in boxes but there are alll loved and iv sold so many i just can part with these ones (my special ones ) the boes are just to keep them perfect and i havent bought them all so are gifts adn some iv won and some iv exchanged with friends and some iv got from ebay and charity shops but some wuld make your eyes water at the price

oh and the every day ones on the shoe rack:o nearly forgot but o/h just shouted to me about them lol

Westvleteren

savingbabs wrote: »

Apparently the average woman has 39 pairs of shoes (I'm definitely above average - although charity shops and car boot have contributed significantly)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2033027/Have-I-got-shoes-How-Miss-Average-39-pairs-home.html

Someone has got my share then - I only have 5 :cool:

And this was the last pair I chucked out



:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Dizzy_Ditzy

couponqueen123 wrote: »

I just showed my o/h yr post he said, he wishes i wuld do same as i have 4 suitecase full of shoes( work ones fancy dress ones and 30 pairs of boots all in boxes and 120 pairs of shoes in boxes but there are alll loved and iv sold so many i just can part with these ones (my special ones ) the boes are just to keep them perfect and i havent bought them all so are gifts adn some iv won and some iv exchanged with friends and some iv got from ebay and charity shops but some wuld make your eyes water at the price

oh and the every day ones on the shoe rack:o nearly forgot but o/h just shouted to me about them lol

I had to ban myself from buying more shoes when I went shopping on Monday. I just don't have the space for shoes AND stash :mad:

Busylizzie

3010 wrote: »

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Thanks for this 3010 :beer:
Registered with imutual and Moneyvista and when I closed my browser there was an email confirming tracking already :j

madmuppet5

davemorton wrote: »

Well this is probably my last post for a while, ship is about to leave signal, and Stella is making it harder to type on phone, have a nice evening all.

Which ship you on then Dave? I'll check it for norovirus :cool::D