NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

candygirl

JACKIE O! Love your post hun:D I will show it my Mum, as she is about your age , n I was born in 67 like your DD

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Morning chums it looks like December was a good month for babies.:) I had two December bairns the first 2nd Dec '67, and my youngest 19th Dec '69.lovely Christmas pressies but hard work when it came to birthdays My two also married withing 6 weeks of each other in 1988 :):) No wonder I seemed to be permanantly broke :)

Today I am off to Aldees as my friend gave me a £5.00 voucher that should be used up today ,I have a small list at the moment of essentials If I can't find enough to warrant using my voucher I shallgive it to someone in there with a trolleyful and just buy essential stuff.I have actually £36.11 left in my food budget purse so if I do use the voucher I will be left with £1.11 :):)

Its very cold here in Kent at the moment but dry at least.
I am hoping to have a go at making Sardine pate and have posted on another forum asking if you really need a food processor to make it I only have a food mixer (kenwood)and a blender or a mini chopper and I'm not sure if it would be worth my while investing in a processor and whether I would get much more use out of it than I do with my existing machinesI don't want to have another gadget cluttering up the place :)Do any of you own one and what do you use yours for .They are fairly expensive to buy I think(my frugal hat is on again )
Anyhoo must fly as I have to take DGS Mikey to school this morning as his Dad has another exam today and has to be out by 8.15
Cheers shipmates
JackieO xxx

nursemaggie

I have realised this last few weeks that my second husband started me on the buying thing. Before that I always bought what we needed.

He had a most peculiar form of economy. "Only buy one thing a week." it makes no sense what so ever. If the fridge and the washing machine both go in the same week you need both asap. On the grounds that the fridge stops food going off I would of course replace the fridge first if the savings were not enough for both but, on his system if I had replaced a wooden spoon on Tuesday and the fridge and the washing machine both went on Wednesday I would have to wait until the following week for the fridge and the week after for the WM.

Also on his system we could buy a Rolls Royce one week and regardless of whether we could afford it or needed it we could buy another Roles Royce next week but not a wooden spoon this week. This stupid system made me buy every week and keep in spares not just of a jar of coffee or a bag of flour but all sorts of things. That was how I ended up with hundreds of towels and duvet sets. I just bought them when I saw them on offer.

The only thing I stockpile now is toilet rolls, mainly because of one of the side effects of my cancer treatment. I will stop it when I start falling over them.

I think stockpiling food is instinctive so I suppose having stocks of household goods just follows on. Now we live in a very small house we had to get rid of a lot of stuff. I had a huge turnout last year and made twice daily trips to the CS. DS does have a reasonable stock of linen. I gave a lot to him. He thinks it is brilliant he may never have to replace any towels or bedding.

Jackie your shopping list reminded me of shopping back then. I think I would have died of a heart attach if I had known then what we pay now. I would have been sure we would starve to death.

My first Ironing board was my grandmothers. I think my grandad probably made it. It was all wood plus covered with old sheets and was very light and easy to put up. I hate these modern ones I cannot put them up. I have to wait for DS to put it up for me so I iron two or three times a year.

GreyQueen

Jackie0's reminsces reminded me that I was reared on Oster Milk in the sixties, and that Mum had a duck-egg blue ironing board for most of my life, think it was a Beldray? Long since gone, I will have to ask her what became of it.

117pauline

Good morning

Number 3 on my 100 challenge - Research and buy vitamins online

I take Vitamin D and had been buying a particular expensive brand as a pharmacist had recommended it which costs £10 per year.

So did a bit of research and ordered online for £3.59 so a big saving and another success

I have found that Vitamin D definitely helps with the Fibro after my doctor checked my levels. Even though I spend a lot of time outside, for some reason my body doesn't keep it long.

I have planned my shopping to be done today as I have to take someone for their physio appt. Just trying to see if I can do a Sainsbury shop where the Brand Match kicks in against Adsa prices as I have a £4 off £20 conditional spend. However I do not think my brain is awake enough to work it out so may just get what is cheapest in S's

Have a good day everyone, snow not here yet but the most odd coloured sky so something is on the way I think
Pauline

fairy3

Morning all from a nippy village oop North - ice and snow here but not in any quantity but the wind is icy. Re ironing boards my first one was a beldray bought from 'the catalogue' mid 70's and was chocolate brown (as was everything else in the 70's as I recall :rotfl:) it cost £15.99 and a deluxe model which lasted until two years ago when the handle went and was replaced.

On the food saving front there is a programme on tonight on BBC 1 Eat Well for Less with Greg Wallace at 8pm, about a family wanting to reduce their food bill by £40 a week - should be interesting.

Today need to spend some time on comparison sites for car and house insurance - hoping for some quick wins and not too much time spent on puter.

Have a good day every one on the ship NBI

x

boultdj

Not going anywhere today seeing as it's snowing,then raining' blowing a gale' sun coming out whilst rain/snowing so today's plan is kondoing the tea towel draw.

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I have a feeling it is a Beldray one I know its the devil's own job to buy a cover that is big enough .Great if your ironing sheets (yeah I know I'm that sad ) but I do like fresh crisp sheets.

Well I went to Sittingbourne and the Aldee's there is spectacularly good .Very clean, shelves refilled quickly and the staff very helpful.

I must admit I did buy a lot of stuff ,but it will see me through until the end of February. I also bought the essentials plus a huge amount of fruit and veg as I do like to eat as healthily as possible .
I spent £40.75 & with my £5.00 voucher knocked off a total of £35.75 leaving me with a huge 56p to last me until Sunday :) when I have my next lot of cash for my food purse.

I budget at £60.00 per month and I know I will have a lot more left next month as I basically have stocked up for several weeks The oranges are delicious and at 69p a bag I bought two as they are navelina's which I like the best.a few extra bits Ibought as well I wanted golden syrup ,but they only had Canadian maple syrup,but it was a good price and in a lovely pouring glass bottle as opped to a plasticy one so I didn't mind that.I have an abiding hatred of plastic bottles.

Their red onion chutney was reduced as well so I treated myself to some.I didn't buy a great deal for the freezer as I am trying to run it down a bit but a bit of gammon and some pork and leek sausages and a bag of mixed veg was all I bought freezer wise.The rest of the stuff was for the cupboards and I also used some of the money off vouchers my friends gave me .
All in all I'm pretty pleased with my shopping today and fingers crossed I'll only maybe have milk and veg to buy next month when I run short.

nursemaggie I think your right about the prices when I think Ostermilk was around 4/- a box (20p) God knows how much baby milk is now !!!.I remember buying a Vesta beef curry when it first came on the market and cooking it for my OH and when he tasted it he asked me if the box was still around as it probably tasted better than the stuff on his plate !!!.Never bought it again after that I went and bought some spices and made my own afterwards.Pasta and curries were thought of as quite exotic in those days :):) most folk had plain meat and two veg meals .

God know what my late Mum would think today about the prices .Although to give her her due, apparently when WW2 broke out she stocked up on dried fruit and spices as she had a feeling it would last a long time , never thinking it would last 6 years though.

She horded things like cinnamon ,ginger and nutmeg that her sister, my Aunt sent to her from the U.S.

I still have my mums nutmeg grater in the cupboard its probably around 80+ years old as it was one of her wedding presents in 1935.

Rationing made good housekeepers of a lot of women, and I think she would like to try the different stuff today, but would be horrified at the amount of stuff wasted.
But then never owning a washing machine or fridge she shopped almost daily when I was a little girl.
She knew the butcher as Mr Arnold and always greeted him politely as he did her.The Sunday joint was discussed by most of the women in the queue at the butchers and invaribly he would chuck in a few saugages or a bit of kidney/liver to his regular customers. I'm not sure if Mum would have liked the big supermarkets of today.She was loyal to the butcher,baker ,fishmonger and greengrocer.

Back in post-war Britain you had to be or you ended up with the throw-outs(scrag-ends ) :):).Plus shopping was quite community based with women telling each other which shop was likely to be getting stuff in,
ie. wool or material. Ghinns was the wool shop and Jones and Higgins or the big Co-op in Lewisham was the place for material.

Jumble sales had long queues before they opened as almost everything was recycled if possible.

My late Mum, bless her, knitted me a hideous yellow and brown stripped jumper which I hated, as it made me look like a bumble bee, but it was from re-knitted jumpers that she had snaffled at a jumble sale :).
Luckily I grew out of it fairly quickly and the yellow bits ended up as crocheted squares round a hot water bottle cover :):)

I never felt deprived though as everyone was in the same boat,and here I am again in another boat nearly 70 years later :):)
Have a good day chums what ever you are doing :):)

JackieO xxx

Bathory

Thunder, blue flash lightning and heavy snow over here last night. It was quite entertaining to watch. I've had 3 NSDs this week so far and feel rather proud of it. Will have to go out and open the purse tomorrow though. I may have another job lined up next week as well, will know more about it tomorrow.

I have never ironed. When I was married my ex husband did his own shirts for work as I had a real allergy to ironing. Talking of which, I do own an iron but it is used as an ornament and doorstop. Its one of these very heavy Victorian ones that were used in pairs, so whilst one was heating up over the fire the other would be in use. Mum told me a story years ago regarding an arrogant, pushy salesman who would not go away. He put his foot in the door so that it could not be closed so he got this iron dropped on it. This was back in the 60's - don't think he came back again.

purpleshoes_2

My mum says she cant eat herring because when my grandpa was out on strike (steelworker) when she was growing up for 6 weeks she ate nothing but herring and scrambled eggs. She said that my gran was determined to get through without getting into debt when all the family had was strike pay, some shops gave tick (credit), but my gran wouldn't do that.

Well today was spent looking for my glasses, had put a contact lens in a couple of days ago, decided to put my glasses back on, they were two feet away from my bed but sitting on their side so took me ages to see them, so in the meantime I got some random decluttering done.

I made up a mix of vegetable suet, an approved food food doctor quinoa mix and some porridge oats along with spelt for the birds, lots of pigeons down, must be hungry in this cold weather.

I stumbled on a site called freelywheely when I was looking for my nearest freecycle website, doesn't seem to be on nearby, used to be a community group along the same principles and I still have an account on there, but cant seem to find how to post, anyway, I offered some books on freelywheely (pretty sure its UK wide) and someone will be coming to collect them shortly.

We had a lot of snow here yesterday, a few flurries today but that is all although a lot of snow still lying on the ground.