Living on $12,000 a year

Hardup_Hester

I've had to buy some clothes recently as I wreck my clothes at work. I did my usual trawl of the local charity shops & Ebay, I bought 4 pairs of trousers & 5 tops I spent a total of £25.50. I went to my daughters wedding this morning & I wore a red jacket which was part of the suit I wore for my other daughters wedding 5 years ago, I wore the jacket over a black shift that I was given 2nd hand last year, I wore black court shoes that I've had for 6 years & a red & black fascinator that was also given to me, the only new item was a pair af sheer black tights at £2.99.

ceridwen

Well - Hester sorta challenged me over on a newer thread to find some more blogs. I do like to oblige - so here below:

http://huswyf.livejournal.com

http://www.colouritgreen.co.uk/

www.sallygardens.typepad.com/

http://livingfrugally.blogspot.com/

http://livingthesimplelifeiwant.blogspot.com/

http://mikro2nd.net/blog/planb/

http://pocketfarm.com/

http://escapedchickens.wordpress.com/

(cooee....Moany Moany...chickens! - see last listed blog)


Well - Hester - did you plan on getting any sleep in the next month then?:D :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Hardup_Hester

LOL, thanks Ceridwen, I'll save them to read over Christmas, as I really must get some sleep.

ceridwen

Another blog - having a good read at present - lots of people will like this one (Rosieben - this will be on your favourites list):

http://downshiftingpath.blogspot.com/

one little pickout from it so far:

www.free-ebooks.net/

rosieben

Thanks Ceridewen, was wondering what to do this evening, as there's zilch on tv!!

rhonda_jean

yes ceridwen, I found you all. LOL It's a great forum here. I've been having a look around today.

ceridwen

Hi again Rhonda

Well I hope you've got a good stock of coffee in and a couple of weeks to spare then:rotfl: with all the reading on this Forum. It took me a while to trundle back through and view everything I thought might be useful/interesting - just on this Forum.


..... and then theres the rest of the website!:rotfl: :rotfl:
are we going to see you again some time this side of Christmas?;)

two_sheds_2

Pandora123 wrote: »

I don't really see how it would be possible to live on £6,000 unless you either were renting...

I agree..."unless you were renting a single room". My total income is less than £8,500. £4,500 of that goes on rent. You can't live on that, you exist ...
I have:

• no car (can't afford bus either)
• no wash machine
• no TV (watch at mums)
• no central heating
• no fridge (can't afford the leccy, use mum's down the road)
• no computer (use public library)

I have lovely friends and family though, so am quite lucky really

dND

Thanks for all those blogs ceridwen :A I don't know when I'll get any work done now

Getting out my crystal ball, I see many hours of fascinating reading coming up :T - just need to get the heating fixed so that I don't turn to a block of ice while sitting at the computer

JAMIEDODGER

rhonda_jean wrote: »

My husband and I live, voluntarily, on $17,160 Au dollars a year and we live well. That is the equilivent of 7420 pounds. I write about it in my blog here:
http://down---to---earth.blogspot.com/

i love this blog:D im a great fan!!