Diary of a home owner wannabe (my 6 year journey)

pennyforthepot

EXTREME FRUGALITY WEEK

Only stubbed my toe a couple of times walking around in the dark :rotfl:

Weekly washing total: 2 (Mon & Tues)
Ironing reduction challenge: difficult as it was mainly shirts (didn't iron the tea towels)
Dishwasher: washed up last night
Gas usage: 3 units - £3.72
electricity: 18 units - £2.16
Shower: turned off whilst washing and didn't use any conditioner, towel dried hair (may be frugal but now I look like Crystal Tips - you need to be old to remember this :eek:)
Driving: DH had to take DSS2 to dentist
Food: made lasagne from batch cooked mince and used up salad. Had to buy cheese and some soup for DS.

Quite pleased with my frugality for day 1.

Daily food budget £8.00

VO survey: 0.75/3.25
YouGov survey:0/10.50
Ad Points: 102/352
OnePoll: 5.50

DS and DD are both off sick - must ring programming course to switch his lesson

PFTP x

pennyforthepot

EXTREME FRUGALITY WEEK - DAY 2

Washing - 0 (total of 2 for the week)
ironing- folded pjs
Dishwasher - managed to stop the dishwasher which only had 3 plates and 2 cups in it!
Shower - turned off whilst washing
Gas usage - 3 units (6 units for the week) £3.72
Electricity - 17 units (35 units for the week) £2.04
Driving - 12 miles to take kids to their dads
Food - waiting for the waft of curry to come from the kitchen - don't understand why DSS2 is still slobbing infront of the TV as he said he wanted to cook a curry tonight with the turkey I took out the freezer!

Daily food budget £7.57 picked up some bargain discounts from Waitrose last night which has taken my daily budget down but should help through out the rest of the month

VO - £1.75 (£5 total)
OnePoll £0.40 (£5.90 total)
SurveyHead £1.00 (£5.50 total)
Screenwise £0.25 (£2.25 total)
Adpoints 101 (453 total)
Tesco points 20 (1027 total)

Not a bad day though I've nearly watched all the ads that I can and some of the surveys are mindnumbingly boring!

Started reading The Millionaire Nextdoor which I got as a free pdf download - makes for interesting reading - a definite if you are under 35 - bit late in the day for me!

PFTP x

gallygirl

pennyforthepot wrote: »

Started reading The Millionaire Nextdoor which I got as a free pdf download - makes for interesting reading - a definite if you are under 35 - bit late in the day for me!

On the contrary - there's a great chapter on why you shouldn't give your adult kids money :rotfl:

Hurdler

gallygirl wrote: »

On the contrary - there's a great chapter on why you shouldn't give your adult kids money :rotfl:

Blimey - never show to that to Old Mother Hurdler... she likes to still feel useful (although I have to tell her there are no such things as penny chews any more!)

pennyforthepot

Thanks Gallygirl and Hurdler - we're never too old to save but lets but lets just say I don't think I'll be getting rich off the back of it :rotfl:

DSS1 got a new job yesterday which means his income will be going up by about £600 a month - he wasn't on a lot before but now won't be doing too badly. I desperately want to encourage him to put half of it away but somehow I don't think it will happen. Instead I will give him the book to read

PFTP x

pennyforthepot

EXTREME FRUGALITY WEEK - DAY 3

I didn't get a chance to post yesterday as my laptop screen has gone funny again so I had to drop it back at the Fixit place

Washing - 1
Ironing - 0
Dishwasher - didn't manage to catch it before DH turned it on with about 6 things in it :eek:
Bath - DH jumped in after me (that's after guys :rotfl:) - no conditioner
Gas - 2 units £2.48 (8 in total for the week so far)
Electricity - 17 units £2.04 (52 units in total so far)
Driving - 15 miles (had to take DD to doctors and then to her dads)
Food - £5.35 spent on a bag of new potatoes and 3 lots of veg

VO - £1.00 (£6 total)
OnePoll £0.80 (£6.70 total)
SurveyHead £1.04 (£6.54 total)
Screenwise £0.00 (£2.25 total)
Adpoints 49 (502 total) - already collected my max points this week
Tesco points 18 (1045 total)

Daily food budget - £7.69

Busy day of housework today and I need to clean the car :eek:

Will report back later for todays Extreme frugality report :rotfl:

PFTP x

Pearla*Merle

pennyforthepot wrote: »

Quietly getting p*ssed on my own as everyone is out :beer:

:rotfl: I love those sort of evenings.

Extreme Frugality is going well. Those are some serious dishwasher saves you're racking up!

Hurdler

I wait until I have used pretty much every dish/piece of cutlery in the house before turning mine on. I have even been known to have to salvage cutlery from the dishwasher to be able to have a soup at lunch.

pennyforthepot

Pearla*Merle wrote: »

:rotfl: I love those sort of evenings.

Extreme Frugality is going well. Those are some serious dishwasher saves you're racking up!

Me too Pearla*merle me too :beer:

When my mum bought her last house over 20 years ago now it came with a brand new dishwasher - after 20 years it still hasn't been turned on and that is despite many years of 8 people living in the house and 16 for Sunday lunch :eek:

PFTP x

pennyforthepot

Hurdler wrote: »

I wait until I have used pretty much every dish/piece of cutlery in the house before turning mine on. I have even been known to have to salvage cutlery from the dishwasher to be able to have a soup at lunch.

if it was within my control I would do exactly the same - I tend to wash up as i go along. Since going minimalist it is a little more tricky as I have a set of cutlery and plates for 8 which doesn't take much to become dirty in this household!

PFTP x