Frugal fun

bargainbetty

I read, cook, watch films (often cheap trash off ebay or charity shop finds). I've also taken up cross stitching as it is very calming, although I refuse to do the cutesy teddy bear type patterns, and instead carefully decorate fabric and shopping bags with cursewords, rude phrases and other less than pastel images. I am halfway through a voodoo sugar skull at the moment. I tend to buy bundles of cheap threads off ebay and just pick one that is close to the pattern, rather than spending on specific colours. It doesn't really matter when I'm stitching flowers twirling around the word a***hole if the stems are the right shade of green.

I like baking as well, but find that I overdo it, and people run out of stomach capacity for cake after a while.

LameWolf

We're a host family for a dog-sitting service; instead of sending their dogs to kennels, the clients send them to people like me, and the dogs live with us for the duration of their holiday. It's great, as I'm now too ill/disabled to work, it gives me something useful to do, and I get to spend time with my favourite species - dogs. The only proviso is the dogs must be able to handle "walkies" with a mobility scooter.:o

This in turn helps to fund my more expensive hobby, computer/console gaming - though Mr LW and I are always careful to research the games before we buy, to make sure we'll enjoy them and play them lots. Most evenings are currently devoted to Skyrim.:o

Other than that, there's always Hestering......:rotfl:

furball

I have lots of hobbies. My dd1 says I am like the mum in grandpa in my pocket, always finding something new to do. She calls it having bees in my bonnet. My name means busy as a bee so that's fine by me.
I read my kindle loads, mainly freebies. I am a fair weather gardener.( although I have done loads of hard landscaping to sort out my gardens front and back including building walls and putting up fencing and posts) and moved tons of earth. So now I try to make and keep it pretty.
I attempt veg growing every year and I keep chickens, lovely eggs yum. Between the chooks and blight my veg don't do very well.
I enjoy cooking from scratch and baking to use my eggs up.
I love knitting socks and anything that doesn't need sewing up.
I have a spinning wheel and spin my own yarn. Still learning but it is so relaxing.
I used to cross stitch and I can draw and sew. I also enjoy diy and am able to shabby chic furniture when needed.

good_advice

Frugal fun! Well, I don't know about that but Oh and I work at keeping our home looking as nice as we can the less spending the better. This morning, I spent an hour washing down here and there. Around doors, walls and up the stairs.

Washed a quilt today. It dried well on the line, along with the days washing.
Dog and I sat in the garden this afternoon. I did my knitting.

Then late afternoon I made x2 fruit cakes and cooked them at the same time as dinner.