NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

eandjsmum

Jackie O DGS exam might not be as bad as he thinks DD always says she has done badly in exams. She passed GCSE with flying colours. Any way he couldn't be as bad as me I did French and German and an oral in both. In the German exam I was asked how old I was - I answered in French. When it came to the French oral a week later the teacher said just remember it is the French oral today. Ok I said he asked me how old I was I answered in German. The exam had to be stopped whilst the teacher composed himself, He couldn't stop laughing.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


Any way the not spending it is going well I have substantially increased my monthly savings :T and this weekend I hope to be able to watch the Morris dancing and listen to some free music, weather permitting.

nursemaggie

JackieO I remember both those machines. They cost a penny each. They were the first things we bought with our holiday money. After that we bought ISpy books at the news stand.. No drinks and sandwiches we took our own.

Our holidays started with the taxi to the station because of our big cases. We went for two weeks so that needed all of our clothes. We always went August bank Holiday weekend. Dad got the extra Saturday off making three Saturdays for the year if he gave up his bank holiday.

The whole journey was part of the holiday. We went to the seaside the first week and my grandmas the second week. Grandma lived in York so lots to do but not so expensive as these days most of the things we did were free apart from days out.

When we moved to York when I was 13 we started going in a caravan as the next year they had to pay full price in a guest house for me. We then went for two weeks as a caravan was much cheaper.

Caravans were not like they are now you had to go to shower blocks and toilets in the middle of the night. They were very tiny and the beds were in the living room and let down from the wall. Years later mum and I had a holiday with my youngest DS on our own. She had been very reluctant but was so surprised by how luxury they were, she came with us for at least a week until the year before she died.

Holidays back then were in guest houses where even if it rained all day you were thrown out of your rooms until lunch or tea time. We went full board then but you went straight out after breakfast or lunch. After tea was mum and dads time and we would be babysat buy the landlady.

No matter how cold it was we always went on the beach every morning and afternoon. I have lots of photos of mum and dad sat on the beach in their winter coats, not their summer ones. Remember when we had heavy winter coats and light summer coats. The 50s was very cold. We went to Skegness or Skeggy as we called it, Scarborough, Filey, Bridlington and Whitby, Blackpool, Brighton and the last place we went was Poole. Skegness we went to about 4 times because the landlord there was very good with children. We in turn did the same with a Blackpool guest house because the landlord was so good with the kids none of them wanted to go out. We went on mass to the beach one day because the kids all wanted to stay together.

I can remember being fascinated with the aluminum strip with our names on them. We must have lost them before the next holiday. We were amused with lots of things kids would not be amused with these days. Though my grandchildren love going to a park they have not been to before. They never get taken to the park at home.

vodkawitch1

Hi Everyone
Just checking in to keep myself on the straight and narrow don`t need much shopping or anything else so hoping for a frugal May. I have won a lovely weekend away 23rd/25th May in Liverpool so need my pennies for that. Taking my sister so should be fun. My niece is due her baby any day and I will be looking after her 18 month old.
Plenty of feeding the ducks then and playing in the park. Cheap and fun.

Hoipolloi

Vodka witch, congratulations on your win :beer:

Lynplatinum

Ahoy there me hearties!

Vulpix - I will look out my copy and try to type up & post on here for you the Donkey poem - it is such an unusual viewpoint on things

To the person who said somat about now being debt free the could start spending a bit - well - steady as you go shipmate - I have met several folks on here who did that only to end up back in a financial pickle again and I would hate that to happen to you!

Advice recently given me by an old lady I know, whom, despite only working in a bakers all her life has never had money worries - and when her husband died unexpectedly got left a lot of money (due to an excellent company insurance policy) - she said 'Even when I got all that money - I still decided a budget for days out and DIY etc and stuck to it. I decided I would rather do that than worry.' What a lot of sense I thought - and when I am finally out of my pickle (another 7 months to go of regular payments on a 0% CC) I hope i will be able to follow her advice!

NBI today - took own sanis as was travelling from one workplace to another at lunch time!

sail on in frugality folks :j

vulpix

Thanks Lynne,I did look but don't think I found it.

Edwink,hope you are feeling better soon and back to posting,I miss your posts.My ex MIL had the same and was quite poorly with it at times.xx

Well I am home.Op went fine but I had a funny turn afterwards with BP,bleeding etc so had to stay a bit longer.feeling fine now and can't believe that I will never have that pain ever again.Just need to get my back sorted and I will be a new woman!

We sold the house just before I went into hospital!And now I can't lift anything for weeks.I can though photograph anything that stays still and sell it!!!!!!
I am having a day in bed today as 1 of my wounds is still a bit sore,up and at em tomorrow.Vx

GreyQueen

Glad you're back home, vulpix, and take it easy when you're healing.

debtmess

Morning all
Proper Internet back yeheyyyy only taken months after house move.

Not much to report, frustratingly, dh is still waiting for a crb check to return meaning still no work on the plus side it can be chased next week. That said I am not at all missing the old me prior to starting this challenge, not a single non essential thing been brought by myself. New school uniform has been the biggest with jumpers and polo shirt for 4 plus new items of Pe kit.

Going to be a quite spend free bank holiday,we were off to Great Yarmouth but ds has chicken pox so not even a walk along the sea front with a bag of chips for us, instead it's a weekend of children's films popcorn and baking

suki1964

nursemaggie what lovely memories. We never done guest houses but we did do the caravan. Mum, us three girls, granny and grandad and dad at the weekends ( he was self employed so no holiday pay). Pull down double beds, gas lamps and a fridge that too a big block of ice to cool it. Milk was bought daily and for some reason was in triangle cartons. The obligatory shower blocks, gray, dank and always puddles of water. Us three girls would have to share one shower and because you had to be quick before your money ran out, mum kind of dunked you in, pulled you out, scrubbed you whilst the another was rinsing off. A conveyor belt of freezing girls lol. And then the mad dash wrapped in a towel back to the van to try and get warm

Money was tight so all meals were cooked in the van. Treats were cockles and whelks eaten on the sea wall. If it was dry it was the beach simples. Packed lunch, flask of tea and a bottle of diluting We would go searching in the rock pools for crabs , build complex sand castles and just play with other kids. We had the freedom to roam as far as we wanted, our rumbling belly's soon told us when it was time to head back to "base camp" Grandad and granny always sat on deck chairs, never on a towel and grandad always wore trousers, shirt and jacket and proper shoes and granny always kept her stockings on, never paddled


Simple holidays. Obviously they weren't holidays for mum as cooking and cleaning and washing was still done. But they were time for family without work getting in the way

debtmess

Suki that sound lovely much different to caravan holidays now. We have one in Hastings yet they come with all the mod cons houses have (and many live in them)