NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

Butterfly_Brain

This piece of &*$& should be arrested for exploitation!

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/10/thinktank-interns-charged-300-pounds-job-reference

1of3

Hi All

I've had a good few days of NSD's but yesterday had to get shopping and petrol. And I only came out with what was on the list! Long may it continue. Has anyone read the Frugalwoods blog? Seems interesting if a little americanised?

Away off now to catch up with the thread it moves so fast:j

I_want_a_baby

Slowdown - if you needed a jumper, bought one that will last and that you like enough to wear it for years and didn't buy it full price then I think you can stay safety on deck!
SLOWDOWN - please could you share the festive flapjack recipe? Sounds perfect for lunch boxes and for me to make post baby for an energy boost!

CEW - I will ask again in case you didn't see a few pages back, would you please share your bread recipe and bakers tips? One of my 2015 goals is to start baking our bread. I have a kenwood chef to make the dough in and will then let them rise and bake in the oven.

So plans for today -
Son going to party, taking gift bought yesterday - card and wrap in stores.
Lunch is leftover pigs in blankets and cauli cheese from Xmas day (freezer), homegrown carrots and parsnips, roast potatoes (the last of the sack) and homegrown green beans from freezer.
Will go out on the plot and make plans for preparing the ground and a rough planting plan.
Will make two banana loaf cakes for lunch boxes/snacks for the week (instead of buying chocolate/cereal bars).
Make a loaf of bread using up a packet bread mix I have, hopefully will give me the confidence to try it with a 'real recipe' soon.
Read over meal plan I've written for next week tues-mon, check shopping list has everything we need, it seems rather sparse so make sure I don't add stuff on the list for the sake of it, only healthy essentials should be on there!
Plus the usual - tidy kitchen, put washing away, iron shirts, clear the clutter areas etc
ADDED - repair hole on maternity pj bottoms.
That should keep me out of trouble and it should also be a NSD!

IWAB x

ETA - just did a quick manicure, took old varnish off, filed down & shaped and two coats of nail strengthener. I'm doing gardening today (with gloves) so this is more to protect them than anything, trying to keep them nice to avoid them getting so bad I feel the need for a professionals help!

bexster1975

Thanks for link butterfly brain. After reading the article I posted it on my business Twitter account as I am an education consultant. One of my favourite things about young people is they have a strong sense of justice! Let's hope they send it viral.

Lovely am yesterday with a friend who booked us in for a liz Earle consultation. Got a couple of freebies and nice pamper. As I'm still not able to drive I paid car park (£2) but that was total spends yesterday and I came away with freebies I will use worth more than that so good day.

Bexster:)

Bobarella

1of3 wrote: »

Has anyone read the Frugalwoods blog? Seems interesting if a little americanised?

Away off now to catch up with the thread it moves so fast:j

Hi there
Yes several of us are FW readers, there is a good discussion over on the Make, Mend,Minimise thread that Cheerfulness has set up. Also in the OS section.
Bob

mumto2monkeys_2

Planning a NSD today - family coming and have baked/got food in to make. I feel very domestic.

I have also turned down an opportunity to do some additional work (unpaid but might lead to other things). This goes against every bit of me, but this year is about family/house focus and my well-being. I'm supposed to be reducing my 70-80 hour week, not increasing it. It was a hard no to say, but I feel like I am really addressing my people-pleasing, 'yes' to everything personality flaw and that can only be a good thing.

I absolutely agree re think tank exploitation of interns. He should be in court for that!!! :mad:

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Just lost a long post but will redo tomorrow as eyes are closing.....
Had a productive day scrubbing the decks and working in the galley..

Night all sleep well

It's called https://www.theminimillionaire.com feel free to check it out although there's not much to it at the moment, one empty shelf, 1500days, and many different forums on here has led me to challenge myself in life and certainly look at the bigger picture.

Life's a bit like a diet, you go around unaware of what your eating and the pounds pile on. You look at the bigger picture and see you got fat.

You go around unaware of what your buying, buying 'stuff' without thinking, and the stuff piled up, you look at the bigger picture and see you've just accumulated a load of stuff

You see the bigger picture, and so you change the only way to do this is to focus on the day by day activities, noticing what your eating, thinking about it and making a decision.

You notice what your buying, think about it and make the decision.

I once said how I'd like to loose some weight, but I'd been trying for a few months and was getting no where. To which my manager replied, I've been fat, and if you wanted to loose weight that badly you'd loose weight. It's as simple as that.

I've seen the bigger picture in my life early on, which has given me time to plan and adjust, I also love a challenge on extreme cheapskates (A TLC TV Show) one woman said we started living on $100 a month, and then said, could we go lower... so we started doing x, y, z... then we lived on $70 a month, then we said could we go lower... However by this point I had to swear to my OH I'd never get that bad.

I don't want to downgrade our quality of day to day life, if anything I want to improve it.

GreyQueen

I've bookmarked your blog for perusal later, and isn't it fanatastic that your Amazon knowledge is going viral up here and helping strangers get some cash into their hands, you should deservedly glow with pride.

I'm smiling at the scales this morning at they said to me 14 12 2. Last night they were telling me 15 0 2 and at this time last week they were telling me 15 8 0. I'm not dieting or exercising, I've just cut out chocolate and other high-sugar snacks. Very early days yet, but I have the ultimate intention of getting down to my fighting weight of 11 st (I'm 5' 11" and big-boned so never will be a twiglet nor do I aspire to be). I daren't drop below 10 8 or I get ill, that it the point of unhealthiness for me, too thin for my bodytype.

I thought that this weigh tloss would be possible because I was a total pig for chocolate and cake, but my (over)weight was static, therefore removing the excess should logically lead to weight loss.

I just got tired of being heavy and not having some of my favourite clothes fit, and decided to take ownership of my problem and do something about it. And the flat is slooowly moving towards tidyiness, so much so that a pal can drop in after work tomorrow without me having to turn into a cleaning demon to make the place respectable.

Although it's blindingly obvious, it's quite hard to look yourself in the mirror and say Yep, this situation is of my own making, and the only person who can change it is me, what am I waiting for?

emiai

Morning all, had a long rough night in the emergency ward. Tired and nursing a coffee I am catching up here loving the posts.

I've tried to make cut backs, but am having kitchen disasters when trying to make my own, rather than buying it. A few batches of things I have made have gone into the bin, because they were awful. Not sure if my scales are wrong or I just can't cook properly.

Either way it's made me enrol the help of my teenage daughter, who thinks that making certain things at home are a waste of my time, such as biscuits. The time taken plus ingredients cost is just extortionate compared to the ones I can buy in lidls, and we don't really eat them that often anyway.

I still need a good stint of time to check out charity shops I have not been into yet. We have so many in the city, but I can never seem to find the time to go browsing.. maybe that's a good thing?

purpleshoes_2

I was massive 18 months ago. 100kg. I'm now 75. I've always put weight on easily, there have been a few times in my life where it has gone up but that was the heaviest I'd ever been. I'm not someone who loses a stone and drops 3 dress sizes, I was a size 18 and I'm now a 14, still 16 in some things as the sizing on some clothes varies massively.

There was no lightbulb moment for me, I knew, but I was so big I thought the weight would never come off. It was actually being videod for an assessment, I had to watch it back, got 30 seconds in and said that's it.

I cleaned up my diet and started exercising hard. And to be honest even though there's been days where I've been peeling myself off the floor after certain classes, its not been that bad.

I remember being in the gym a few months ago talking to someone who lost inches but couldn't lose weight, when I asked him what he ate he said takeaways, when I told him I ate a diet based on less processed foods he said that sounds terrible.

My response was, do I look like I'm fading away? (I certainly don't).

I'm not photogenic and I hate getting my photo taken, but there's one pic of me from that time, at my largest. On the days when I think I hardly look any different I take that out and realise I have changed.

There's a certain bodyweight exercise that's horrible (hello burpees), I used to be able to do 4 in a min tops, I can do 30 now.

I'm fitter than I was at 35 and I was fit then. I have people who have helped and supported me. I've not been this weight for around 7 years and I actually feel good about my size.

I will always battle with my weight, but sometimes you need to give yourself a boot up the backside and get on with it.