2014 Frugal Living Challenge

Frugaldom

Did everyone know about the sugar offer in 'Poundies'? 49p per kilo, 6 bags per customer. Finally, I have managed to get hold of a relative who is visiting this month and they have visited their local store on my behalf. Yeah!


Best of luck to everyone for their November challenges!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Frugaldom wrote: »

Did everyone know about the sugar offer in 'Poundies'? 49p per kilo, 6 bags per customer. Finally, I have managed to get hold of a relative who is visiting this month and they have visited their local store on my behalf. Yeah!


Best of luck to everyone for their November challenges!

NO!!!!! I knew b&m had an offer at 50p? but haven't managed to get there.. which shop is 'poundies' is that poundland or poundworld??

teabody

Hi Guys, Have not poster for ages but intrigued about the LED lights.
Would they be any good for a kitchen? They are the most used lights in the house and we will leave them on habitually when no one is in there! We have two lights. The room is the lightest in the house as the the sun shines in all day. I am sure this is where a lot of our electricity goes when no one is in there!

cw18

The only room I currently have LEDs in is the kitchen, but in my house it's one of the darkest rooms as it's north facing - so at this time of year I need lights on almost every time I go in there. My kitchen has 7 recessed spotlight fittings, 4 of which now have LED bulbs (the other 3 having older energy efficient ones that still work).

COOLTRIKERCHICK

picked up a lidl offers leaflet when I went in there yesterday, and from the 6th to the 12th November ..packs of 24 cushelle toilet rolls are down to £7.49 sounds good to me, I have been buying cheaper brands, but I have noticed its a bit of a false economy as we go through it quicker.. been buying the 24 pack of soft??? in home bargains and farmfoods, have tried the nicki stuff bot don't like that..


so might buy a few packs next week...


going to try and find some cheap demi-johns ( any idea where the cheapest place to buy them?) as I like crabbies, someone has now given me an easy receipe for alcoholic ginger beer.. should work at pennies for quite a few litres lol

Frugaldom

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

NO!!!!! I knew b&m had an offer at 50p? but haven't managed to get there.. which shop is 'poundies' is that poundland or poundworld??

It's £ streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetcher


And I got my demijohns in the charity shop for £1 each

LED lights - you can get LED strip lights, but not sure if they are available online for delivery, so I'm contemplating switching my kitchen strip light to ordinary bulbs and just having a couple of 5w instead of the current 2 x 58w.


In an attempt to lower the heating bills I have also fitted an infrared bulb in the kitchen, where there's no heating. This makes a huge difference, especially as it's suspended over the dining area, making that a very cosy place to sit. Saves lighting the fire and costs less than 4p per hour to run.

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Frugaldom wrote: »

In an attempt to lower the heating bills I have also fitted an infrared bulb in the kitchen, where there's no heating. This makes a huge difference, especially as it's suspended over the dining area, making that a very cosy place to sit. Saves lighting the fire and costs less than 4p per hour to run.

Does an infrared bulb need any additional electrical wiring or can it be used with 'normal' wiring? Not very technically phrased, sorry:p. What I mean is, our wiring is a bit iffy, something else that needs to have money spent on it:eek:. The ceiling light bulb in the kitchen (just a regular suspended fitting) occasionally 'blows' and I definitely don't think it's a dodgy lightbulb. I'm worried that adding heat to the equation will cause more problems but the prospect of a suspended heating source in my arctic kitchen is very tempting. We used to have a light fitting with heating elements round it (like a suspended circular electric fire:rotfl:) in the bathroom in the bad old days before central-heating and I remember it was on a different circuit to the fuse-box.

Kantankrus_Mare

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

picked up a lidl offers leaflet when I went in there yesterday, and from the 6th to the 12th November ..packs of 24 cushelle toilet rolls are down to £7.49 sounds good to me, I have been buying cheaper brands, but I have noticed its a bit of a false economy as we go through it quicker.. been buying the 24 pack of soft??? in home bargains and farmfoods, have tried the nicki stuff bot don't like that..


so might buy a few packs next week...


going to try and find some cheap demi-johns ( any idea where the cheapest place to buy them?) as I like crabbies, someone has now given me an easy receipe for alcoholic ginger beer.. should work at pennies for quite a few litres lol

Dont know when I will find time as I have a five gallon of white wine to bottle up and three demijohns of bramble and elderberry still to make (fruit awaiting in freezer).......but would you share your ginger beer recipe please?

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Kantankrus_Mare wrote: »

...but would you share your ginger beer recipe please?

Another one here that would love the recipe please:T

COOLTRIKERCHICK

will do,


I have it sribbled down on a back of an envelope in work, so will pick it up tomorrow and post it here..


We use infrared heat bulbs for our chicks and piglets


http://www.chicken-house.co.uk/acatalog/Standard__Heat_Lamp.html


http://www.chicken-house.co.uk/acatalog/Infrared_Heat_Lamp_Bulb.html


these are the type of holder and bulk we use.. and the holder has a 3 pin plug on them, so you just plug in to a normal socket.


you can get them cheaper.. I don't buy from this site.. just using it to show what we use..


check out your local agricultural/animal feed merchants. or even large pet stores..


they do give off tremendous heat, and the holders we have has a switch to turn them down etc..