NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

sammy_kaye18

GreyQueen wrote: »

Congratulations IWAB and welcome to Sammy Kaye.

I'm also going to grow as many herbs as I have room for, with view to harvesting and drying them, to liven up meals cheaply. Have done this with fresh cut herbs from the supermarket, reduced on YS to something ridiculous like 3p a pkt and it was a success.

Didnt even think of growing herbs! Kids would love that!!! Will definitely see if any facebook friends have a few spare seeds flitting about!

socilate

Hi everyone! Total newbie here but stalked this site and forums for at least 4 years haha

Really need to reign the spending in! Between saving for a weekend in London, a moped and a course in the Netherlands I need every spare penny I can get haha Im going to try my best and NOT BUY IT!

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Hi chums had a good top-up shop in W8rose yesterday and fingers crossed will not need to buy anything else this month from my food purse Spent £31.61 yesterday but got lots of YS stuff as there were lots of reductions in the meat dept.I got almost a kilo of pork chipolatas which I gave to DD for the boys for £1.10p.They are still on holiday from school until next week so they hoover up food in enormous quantities when at home:)

This Wednesday my eldest is taking me out for a new outfit, plus a 'posh' afternoon tea at a smart hotel just outside Maidstone.She booked it as a treat for my birthday in February so I am really looking forward to it, not quite sure what I'll eat as I gave up bread over a year ago, but if the sarnies are in a nice brown seeded bread I will enjoy them .Then this Saturday my sis-in-law is treating me to an Italian meal in Faversham as I'm off down there for a night.So not a lot of cooking required this week.
My cupboards are now definitely full to bursting so no more shopping needed foodwise for the rest of the month :):)My padlock has been put back on my purse :):)
Hope everyone has a great NBI week
Happy sailing chums
JackieO xxx

vulpix

IWAB lovely news,congratulations.

Socialite and Sammy Kaye 18 welcome aboard the NBI ship.

I had a lovely weekend in Oxford.Fab company and amazing hotel.£130 for 3 of us dinner,bed and breakfast.Normal price too,not a deal.Will deffo use them again,and luckily they are a multinational company.

Some very strange weather going on at the moment.Oh Mr V was on the telly last night on a programme about strange weather!He got a txt so we watched it plus 1.I would be mortified to be on the telly.

Right back on the good ship now,celebrations and birthdays now finished 'till the autumn so some overpaying on mortgage in order.(Apart from my car tax n mot at the end of this month.)

Back on the lose 1/2 stone for summer now too.I just heard we are to have an early summer,bring it on!

Some money was spent over the weekend,my son bought me a print I admired in a posh shop,and Mr V sneakily bought me the other in the pair.We stopped at ekia on the way home and bought frames,and a house plant of course.

I have bitten off another big job.stripping wallpaper,there seems to be 5 or 6 layers.It will keep me busy for weeks.

Vx

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Arrgg!! I wrote a long post and I was offline :-( so I lost it all.
Basically I'm up to date with my spends and doing well at the moment. I did have all my expenditure written down on here but I lost it all.

Welcome all newbies I will come back and repost as soon as I have the time.

WeeMidgie

Have counted a pottery jar into which small coinage has been dumped from my purse. This has given me £18 to take to the bank for the savings fund, and another £10 in amounts too small to be bagged up, but I'll feed it in at a self-serve till every time I buy some food.

My purse remained resolutely shut over the weekend, apart from the usual coffee club cuppa. I'll be making coleslaw from rtc carrots and cabbage, to have with two lamb burgers tonight. Two packs of YS green beans need blanched and frozen.

I have an as yet unbuilt perspex cabinet mini greenhouse, so I'm using the perspex panels in the meantime as cold frame lids to cover baby plants in my plant troughs. Should stop them shivering at night, it is still cold here.

By the end of the month, I'll plant out mini lettuces from a Lidl living salad tray, and grow them up a bit before harvesting. If I do this every couple of weeks I will never run out, and it's quite a saving and quicker than growing from seed for an impatient gardener.

I hope everyone has a happily frugal week.

Primrose

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By the end of the month, I'll plant out mini lettuces from a Lidl living salad tray, and grow them up a bit before harvesting. If I do this every couple of weeks I will never run out, and it's quite a saving and quicker than growing from seed for an impatient gardener.
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I'm another one who has been doing this for some time. It's a big saving over buying strips of lettuce seedlings from garden centres and fills a gap until one's home sown seeds are ready for cropping. In mild winters, under cloches, this will ensure a salad supply most of the winter.

DawnW

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

Didnt even think of growing herbs! Kids would love that!!! Will definitely see if any facebook friends have a few spare seeds flitting about!

It is worth asking on freecycle if anyone is splitting up clumps of herb plants in the course of tidying their borders etc, as well. I have recently given away mint roots and baby chives (which seed themselves everywhere) which I dug out whilst tidying up, and was pleased that they went to new homes rather than the compost bin pr the tip

emslovesmickey

Congrats IWAB!

I've done a little spending with the £4 odd in my purse. I bought The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton. I've heard good things about it.

bexster1975

Hello all. Hope you are all well and NBI! I just dropped in to share in case any NBImums and dads are in GCSE revision hell. I found on Twitter the other day a company doing free GCSE revision sessions as webinars. It's only maths and I don't know why they are free but as a teacher ( not maths) and curious I sat in on one tonight and it was very good. The company is @howcloudonline and I would just say I don't know the people who run it, just found them and thought they could be useful. I await being reported as spam, but if someone gets the info and it helps before then, it's worth the risk!

Keep on, keeping on. Great to see new people arriving. Congrats IWAB!

Bexster