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  • Katzen
    Katzen Posts: 535 Forumite
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    You've got £10 in for clothes, can you make do with what you've got for a few months? And I imagine you'll find once you start meal planning and shopping more carefully there will be a £or two more you can save there eventually. Good luck!
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  • How long before the current Sky contract ends?
  • Katzen wrote: »
    You've got £10 in for clothes, can you make do with what you've got for a few months? And I imagine you'll find once you start meal planning and shopping more carefully there will be a £or two more you can save there eventually. Good luck!

    I don't need new clothes, it's just in there for when i see bargains at the charity shop. I'm going to reduce it to £5 and that'll be it done then.
  • Bedsit_Bob wrote: »
    How long before the current Sky contract ends?

    Not until next August unfortunately.
  • August 2014?

    And the lowest you can reduce it to, is £58-50?
  • Oh no this August, I forgot where we were then.
  • So 6 months?

    Well, my advice is, in August, dump Sky completely, and go Freeview/Freesat.
  • The sky bill is internet and phone too. Is freesat internet?
  • I've run out of bread yesterday and am trying to avoid the little shop. It took me until this morning to realise that I could make a loaf in the bread maker I have with the bread making ingredients in the cupboard.

    Although I think the milk's off because my coffee tastes funny so I'm going to have to pop to the shop today after all.

    keep a couple of bottles of longlife milk in the fridge for when you run out
    just milk its called from tesco or sainsbury, only to be used in emergency!
  • keep a couple of bottles of longlife milk in the fridge for when you run out
    just milk its called from tesco or sainsbury, only to be used in emergency!

    I usually buy a 6 pack of the UHT milk once a month, I should have added it on to my shopping list. I'll add it on next week.
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