The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

Popperwell

Thanks for that Fuddle. I have never ever seen the Riverside area...or this festival. Will study what I am able to watch in the daytime and how much I can watch at night with the bus service...

Spent too much at the SM again but where if I had a family it would serve a few sometimes I have to buy an item knowing I'll have difficulty eating it on my own.

All I purchased was vegetables and salad stuff(no meat or fish)

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Morning Toughies, last night we had some blessed rain, it woke me up pattering on the window at about 2 am and was wonderful. I stuck a head out of the bedroom window and felt the drops falling, it smelled amazing and made me very happy. We are damp and overcast here today which is quite lovely, and we are still warm but I needed my dressing gown on, which was again lovely!!! Sad aren't I?

I went to the cinema with my lovely SIL last night and we say the best film that has come my way for a long time, 'Now You See Me'. If you get the chance it's really,really worth the visit, great entertainment, a super car chase and a quirky ending, all in all a very good show. We had supper out, another rare occurence and went to 'Giraffe' which is surprisingly good with a varied and multinational menu and not too expensive either, yummy!!!

Busy day today, I am going to be mostly MIA for the next couple of weeks as I am going to DD1 for a series of concerts with the choral society and then to catsit for Pushkin kitten as DD is taking a break away to the continent with a friend and her children for a few days so I'll not have access to my computer, I might be able to get on DDs once in a while and catch up but not post, so look after yourselves and I'll post again when I'm back home in August, Cheers Lyn xxx.

PRINCESSX87

Morning all.

Its been rather quite recently. I hope it means that everyone is finally having some good times in whatever your doing.

Did anyone watch superscrimpers again last night?

I don't know why I bring myself to record it. I'm watching it & still cant understand why they use express stores, Major super stores ect.
This one is how to slash your shopping bills. Yet they show the same old tips which isn't really money saving. More common sense.

I do think that Martin should start his own show using moneysavers. At lease the tips, information, support & advice would be more current & upto date.

GreyQueen

Something strange is happening outside.......water is falling from the sky..........anyone ever seen this before?!:D

VJsmum

Have a nice time, Lynne, we will miss you. But how frustrating being able to read but not post, I don't know how lurkers do it. I am far too opinionated to keep quiet

Princess, I think there are two types of money savers, there is us who mostly know the common sense stuff or who at. Least will want to find out. Then there are those who realise they need to cut down but haven't the first idea how to go about it. This program is aimed at the latter and, lets face it, they probably need it more.

I am off on me hols tomorrow, though we have wifi in our rented house so I will be be around. Got a very busy work day to get through first.

Pooky

GQ - watch out it could be someone from an upper floor doing something unpleasant out a window.

Blue skies and a cool breeze this morning, my feet are decidedly chilly, yay!

Need to go do a small food shop today, I've got lots of tinned and dried stuff building up for my winter stores but the freezer is looking very bare (aside from lots of precooked lentils). I also need to go buy more cat food, I've swapped them from tinned to pouch food at the moment (tinned stuff goes vile in the heat and they won't eat it from the fridge). Fluffy kitten is appearing at my feet around 8 times a day for food, she eats 1/4 of a pack and runs off to play/hunt/sleep. She's doing so well.

Where you off to VJs? Hope you have a lovely time.

Mrs L - enjoy your adventures, give that gorgeous kitten a hug from me.

nuttyp

Morning everyone, I can report that the @ldi coupon is for a £40 shop. There are a few other coupons too including suncream reduced.

I was shopping at 820 am this morning, and even though it is the school holidays it was busy. I then went to the opticians to get my new glasses, cant believe how great they feel, youngest DD got hers too for reading.

All the shopping is put away and im having 5 mins.

Have a good day x

fuddle

Enjoy your holidays toughies! You've deserved 'em

I enjoyed superscrimpers last night to be fair. It was an eye opener about how much money I have stocked in my cupboards and although it's a well thought out plan of action should SHTF I am going to try cut back on the cleaning hoarding side of it - I don't need 5 bottles of bleach!

I have a lot of patience for super scrimpers even though it's a bit cringe worthy at times. Not so long ago I was clueless about all this. If it gets the message out then its a good thing. You know what? Sometimes I think common sense is a skill that has to be learned and influenced by others, in the OS way of living anyway. I think you can only make an instinctual good choice if you have to skills and knowledge to pull it off. I doubt that makes sense

It appears that if I change companies for gas and electric next month when I'm free to leave BG then I can save £6 per month. I am just scared that better the devil you know etc and worry that the new company online account management isn't going to allow me to be in control as mush as BG. Something to think about.

Belly pork, salad and pasta salad for tea. Off I go to look at some recipes but I think there will be some roasted peppers and tomatoes in there somewhere

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I've got the dehydrator going full blast with courgettes and cucumbers, He Who Knows is going to try his hand at dehydrating while I'm away as the produce is coming thick and fast at present and both freezers are virtually full, so it will be dry it or lose it as he just couldn't eat it all, not in a month of Sundays! Lyn xxx.

That makes perfect sense FUDDLE, I know people of my generation even who have never made somathing as easy as soup because they only know soup from a tin! If you want to take the OS a step further and cut back on what you use for cleaning too then do a bit of research on the pooter about Victorian Cleaning and what was used then, DD1 and I did a course at a local Museum and you can get away with using vinegar, bicarbonate of soda, borax and fine sand for most jobs, it's interesting and useful if you're interested, Lyn xxx.

kidcat

Morning toughies finally school is finished:j:j not just for the kids but for me too, have felt very overwhelmed in last couple of weeks between events at DD7 school and events at DS9 school for parents to attend and then events that governors have to attend it has been incredibly busy.

MrsLW - have lovely break


It rained last night and its definitely cooler here today which is a relief, as I have struggled with the heat this last week.