Living on next to nought - is that the key?

Greying_Pilgrim

supersaver1000 wrote: »

Do you have wings too?

Ay up supersaver1000 - nah, don't drink the stuff......
Welcome and thank you for dropping in, and for your very kind comment Hope all is well in the South West this morn

Greying

in_need_of_direction

This thread moves ridiculously quickly. I don't do much cooking myself but believe I am ethnically programmed to believe that any potato related effort is worthwhile. Second only to tea, they are the must have in this house.

Karmacat

Morning! The tinned potatoes - its a mea culpa from me, I'm afraid - I'd love to use baby potatoes, organic too actually, but costs and effort both dictate that tinned are the ones for me. Just as Jack wrote way back. We never had them during childhood, so I've got no bad memories of them they're completely different from *real* potatoes, of course

Very interesting on the lemon, using the carcass - I do like the sound of that. Frightened at the idea of the gubbermint austerity cutting back the number of minutes in the day tho :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Oh, libraries: someone who used to come on here and got debt free became a library volunteer, her (branch) library is now only open 3 or 4 days a week, and is entirely run by volunteers, with one librarian with oversight. In a rich town in the south east of England. Possibly thats why its still rich, because it won't spend :eek:

satchmo1

Ooo, I'll have to look at the forum about retirement now, as I've just given up a full time job ahead of my imminent move Northwards.


When in situ, I'll be self employed, doing "party plan" evenings to promote child-sponsorship via World Vision. Inevitably that means an erratic income.


DH was 60 yesterday, and has stayed in a job he hated for 25 years but it generated a final salary pension, so he's reaping the rewards for perseverance.


Don't forget, you can freeze lemons. I do that after squeezing out the juice, then I use the frozen hulls with roast vegetables, tis yummy.


I'm constantly grateful to GP for her diary, and how it prompts ideas. Thank you GP.

cocalls

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Good tip with the lemon shells - had you zested them too? Could see them sneaking in a source of fibre into the buns too - :shhh: shhh! don't the kids :rotfl:

Greying

no the lemons hadnt been zested just tossed aside after oh had used them for his virgin mary's and i remember i'd made a cake from a rachel allens cookbook that uses oranges steamed and blended and i thought why not try lemons-ah yes extra fibre now i have another excuse to ram more buns in my mouth tee hee.

moneyistooshorttomention

I can certainly see the point of "living as if in retirement now" way of thinking. Personally, I am retired now and am in the awkward interval between my Retirement Age (when I duly retired) and my revised State Pension Age and so am having to live on about half income at present. Getting the rest of my income back cant come too soon (ie when I start receiving the State part of my pension at last).

So, I alternate between living as if in retirement now (though I wont be any worse off once the Govt. accepts I'm retired at last:cool:) and spending as per normal (whilst worrying I might be eating into my savings a bit by doing so).

Couldn't honestly say whether I am actually managing to "live" on the income I have at present or no. With money going out right, left and centre at a rate of knots on house renovation (for house I moved to last year) it would be quite a hassle to work out how much of my savings are going on house renovation and how much (if anything) is going on subsidising a (currently) inadequate income.

Will try and get a handle on this and work out whats what once I've stopped spending hand over fist on the house, to see what the position is and whether I need to economise till revised SPA time or no in order to manage, if possible, on this temporarily reduced income.

little_sweetie

little_sweetie - I fear you are getting too
organickartisanmybodyisatemple for this thread...... get you with your *Californian mix*........ :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: [pulling ya leg - Forest green with envy really!!! :D:D]

Ooo, GP, you cheeky minx That's what it said on the packet, I didn't make it up, honest :rotfl::rotfl:Just you wait 'til I sow some more as they have fancy names too!

supersaver1000

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Ay up supersaver1000 - nah, don't drink the stuff......
Welcome and thank you for dropping in, and for your very kind comment Hope all is well in the South West this morn

Greying

Ta luv And you're welcome. Sorry to hear about the wings :A

Not a bad day thanks, won some lost some but hey ho I'm alive, well, with a lot to be thankful for so mustn't moan ( well not all the time anyway!) :rotfl:

Downloaded Tom Petty's Won't Back Down on the Way into work which pretty much sums me up at the moment - am trying not to let the b**gars grind me down. Lol.

Will tag along if u don't mind. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

beanielou

Our libraries our now closed on a Saturday afternoon & all day Monday.
Boo boo boo. :mad: :mad: :mad:
I am an avid library user~always have been & hope to be for many years to come.

I use tinned potatoes in a vegetable fritattia.

dreaming

beanielou wrote: »

Our libraries our now closed on a Saturday afternoon & all day Monday.
Boo boo boo. :mad: :mad: :mad:
I am an avid library user~always have been & hope to be for many years to come..

Our county's libraries open at all sorts of odd hours. Some are even open on Sundays, which is good for me as it is free parking and I can go and browse (instead of a quick 'in and out'), and some smaller ones open alternate days etc. However, a lot of cutbacks have taken place - mainly staff who have been replaced with volunteers (some of whom are great, some not so). It is a really difficult situation because if the choice for cutbacks is schools/social services or libraries then I can see that libraries are going to be the obvious selection. Difficult decisions.