Living on $12,000 a year

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Hi ceriden

All will be welcome! :eek:

I've added a few US frugal blogs to my blog as they sometimes have some good tips. My blog can be visited through my username.

I intend to update it daily with all the things bf and I do to achieve our dream.

ceridwen

Hesters hitmen are thundering up the stairs in their hobnail boots as I type:eek: . Oh well - might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb

http://simplybrandy.livejournal.com/


not so much a moneysaver blog - more a beautiful little one from the Appalachian area, USA.

moanymoany

ceridwen wrote: »

Hesters hitmen are thundering up the stairs in their hobnail boots as I type:eek: . Oh well - might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb

http://simplybrandy.livejournal.com/



not so much a moneysaver blog - more a beautiful little one from the Appalachian area, USA.

Thanks ceridwen, what a lovely blog. :T

moanymoany

ceridwen wrote: »

Hi to all

I was amused again today by Hard Up Hesters comment on another thread about lack of time for housework due to looking up blogs, etc I post!! I had the wicked thought of sending her a PM of sites I have favourited on my pc - as some of them wont have been mentioned earlier in this thread! - but then thought I'd put them out on this (with due thanks to those who told me about some of them in the first place).

(NB I dont necessarily agree with all the views expressed in some of them - but find them all interesting in their own way.)

www.downsizer.net
www.selfsufficientish.com/
www.casaubonsbook.blogspot.com
www.pathtofreedom.com
www.simplereduce.wordpress.com/
www.transitionculture.org/
www.myflightfromthegrid.blogspot.com/
www.sfcompact.blogspot.com/
www.noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/
www.walkslowlylivewildly.com/
www.freerangeliving.blogspot.com/
www.hillbillyhousewife.com/index.htm
www.musings-of-a-mountain-mama.blogspot.com/
www.homesteadblogger.com/shekinah
www.carlalynne.blogspot.com/

Now - I just know Hester is going to send a hitsquad out after me! Better lock the doors!

You see, I read the last page before going back to fill in the pages since I last looked.

Ceridwen, someone must speak to you, quite seriously. You must get out more! :rotfl: :rotfl:

ceridwen

Hi moany moany

Sorry miss, honest miss! Just playing with my new toy - I had a deprived childhood miss! (joke!).

Perhaps I should go out and paint the town red a bit - those were the days! Watch out lads - batten down the hatches - here I come - and mine is a brandy and babycham.

Hardup_Hester

You really do like to live dangerously Ceridwen

ceridwen

Quick news thought -

Channel 4 are having a mini-series called "Dumped" - featuring some volunteers living literally off a rubbish tip (as in from the useful stuff they find there). I have seen 2 different verdicts as to what day it starts (this Sunday on the one hand and next Tuesday, 4 Sept, on the other hand) - so will watch out for it on both occasions.

I think it could well prove interesting - as we certainly do throw away loads of stuff thats still useful (even as private individuals - never mind the supermarkets!).

I've been following news re people doing dumpster diving recently - rescuing all the perfectly good food supermarkets throw out. Also saw an article re clothes shops throwing out unsold goods - and deliberately tearing them before doing so! (don't think that need deter freegans too much - patchwork bedspreads, patchwork curtains, homemade bags, ragrugs.....).

Wouldnt have the nerve to be a freegan myself - though I have seen people doing it locally. Anyway - my finances arent that bad that I would have to.

So - I shall be putting my feet up and looking forward to some interesting viewing - and maybe even picking up a few ideas about how I could reuse something I would otherwise chuck.

(note to self - used to put out 2-3 bulging sacks of rubbish each week. Am now down to about one sack half-full - still working on it)

rosieben

ceridwen wrote: »

Channel 4 are having a mini-series called "Dumped" - featuring some volunteers living literally off a rubbish tip (as in from the useful stuff they find there). I have seen 2 different verdicts as to what day it starts (this Sunday on the one hand and next Tuesday, 4 Sept, on the other hand) - so will watch out for it on both occasions.

Radio Times online says Sunday 9pm and looks like its on again at 9 pm on Tuesday 4th - more confusing scheduling!! Its taken me weeks to work out whether heroes is actually a new episode or the 3rd or 4th repeat!!! :mad:

Thanks for the tip on this Ceridwen, it looks really interesting.

moanymoany

Certainly one to watch ceridwen. I also have got my weekly bin down to about half, rather than the full bin plus a black bin bag!

Just down the road from me is a large - industrial - skip, It is clearly full of rubbish, but also lots of wood that would be very useful. I have not seen anyone to ask about the contents and I'm reluctant to go and take it, even under the cover of darkness!!!:p

I think I'll hang around tomorrow and ask.

ceridwen

moanymoany wrote: »

Certainly one to watch ceridwen. I also have got my weekly bin down to about half, rather than the full bin plus a black bin bag!

Just down the road from me is a large - industrial - skip, It is clearly full of rubbish, but also lots of wood that would be very useful. I have not seen anyone to ask about the contents and I'm reluctant to go and take it, even under the cover of darkness!!!:p

I think I'll hang around tomorrow and ask.

Go for it - waste not, want not. Whats the worst they can say if you ask? "No". In fact if its in a skip - then by definition its rubbish to them and they just want rid. I wouldnt even have said its necessary to ask to remove something from a skip.

If I'm putting out anything I don't want anymore then I take the view "help yourself" about anyone who wants it.

Its just a question of breaking the habit of a lifetime - once you've done your first bit of "skippering" or whatever the term is there'll be no stopping you!

Just think of it as recycling - you're doing your bit for the environment.