NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

greenbee

fuddle wrote: »

I should consider the mooncup and rid of both but I wear plastic gloves on my hands day in day out, I just don't fancy the thought of them.

The mooncup would lower my consumer spending though. :cool: Thoughts?

Love my mooncup . Just give it a try when you're NOT working, as it takes some time to get the hang of it! I found it uncomfortable until I got the hang of exactly where it should go.

It revolutionised my life... I travel for work, and it means I always have something with me wherever I am, but don't have to pack masses of stuff. As long as you can wash your hands before and after it is absolutely fine.

thriftwizard

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

It used to be GQ but they grubbed out all the orchards to grow linseed for the subsidies, they grubbed out all the hedgerows to make massive fields for more subsidies and the rest of the countryside and market gardens they built on!!! I'm from Rainham originally when it was a small village and haven't been back for 25 years but even then it was so built up that you couldn't see where one place ended and anothers boundaries started, I can't even hazard a guess as to how much housing is there now.

All the Oast Houses are now tasteful house conversions except for the one at the Whitbread Hop Farm at Beltring (if that still exists) where I was reduced to small childhood on the visit we made as the smell of kiln dried hops is the smell of going 'Hopping' with Mum as a tiny child, oh nostalgia eh?

OMG, it's a good job my mother's not up for a trip home to Maidstone - or Egerton, where my Grandpa was Vicar & she & Dad courted for a whole month before marrying, just after the War - in her memory, nowhere on this planet can rival Kent for simple, unspoilt English beauty.

Fuddle I opted for a mooncup ten years ago, thinking I might just get my money's worth out of it if I got on with it. Well, I certainly did; it took a while to get used to it, but it was brilliant and coped very well with the unpredictability of the beginning of the end of these things. Not needed any more, but a very sound investment.

alice-mary

GreyQueen wrote: »

Izzat where you're buried alive? I had no idea Kent was so notorious. I always believe the Garden of England line and thought it was full of market gardens and orchards..... oast houses?

Dammit, haven't been so disappointed since I couldn't find the Hanging Tea Gardens of Yorkshire a coupla summers ago. Those lying marketeers with their so-called 'yorkshire tea' - pffttt!

The way I describe it is that YES, Kent IS the Garden of England, but every decent garden has a compost heap... and that is where Gravesend comes in!

Alice
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GreyQueen

alice-mary wrote: »

The way I describe it is that YES, Kent IS the Garden of England, but every decent garden has a compost heap... and that is where Gravesend comes in!

Alice
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lobbyludd

I love christmas - I love doing the bits we like, I am less keen on the foisted bits from school and work.

work: christmas buffet afternoon (have to take half day holiday), secret santa, christmas evening do, departmental christmas lunch. and the charity chritmas jumper day, christmas raffle, christmas decoration purchases (plus christmas child shoeboxes etc).

kids (2 schools): christmas concerts (inc providing christmas concert costumes), carol concerts, 1 christmas jumper day and a random allowing home of children after lunchtime registration (why??), christmas fete (x2), 1 x christmas party with dressing up (I've been told what to provide food-wise...), presents for teachers, raffle tickets - oh and more charity stuff.....

I'm really interested in what you're doing here, I'm not sure about not shopping in supermarkets - I've no idea when I'd get time to get food with working full-time and 2 kids on my own without a monthly food delivery, but very interested in your experiences. and I need to stop buying stuff. I've decluttered a lot but I've a homewares habit that needs breaking!

thriftwizard

Hmmm - considering doing the month without supermarkets & chain stores, and can probably do it without too much trouble, but may have to stock up on cat food first... I should explain that one of ours has a condition that means that almost any dried food is harmful, even the stuff the vet recommended, but she seems to be OK with normal tinned food. With 3 of them, individual pouches are too expensive. However I'm game to try them on the raw food diet again as the one who wouldn't eat that at any price has since died, and we're close enough to a supplier to pop over & pick it up, thus no delivery costs. But if they don't take to it, I'll have to buy tinned, and seek best value, which sadly probably will be a chain - pets@home.

FrugalinShropshire

Wow , I am Canterbury born, but lived in Medway for four years until last year when we relocated to rural Shropshire:rotfl:

nannygladys

I work in one of the big four sm, so I won't be giving sm shopping up but in January I will only be shopping for dairy,veggies and fruit as have quite a lot in my cupboards. I won't be spending anywhere else either unless there's an emergency of course, so that will be my start in January.

Not only will it save me some money, but it will be an exercise in willpower!!

Still catching up on thread as it moves so fast but keep it coming as it certainly gives me plenty to think about and I'm really enjoying it

Nannyg

cydney65

We can't do the no supermarket challenge in January unfortunately as we are rural and only have a greengrocer in the village. We are aiming to buy most of our fruit and veg from there though, as it's local produce and seasonal. We do have quite a bit of food as well, so we will try not to spend so much in January.

Still plugging away at The Moneyless Manifesto...some great ideas, some of which would be difficult to implement but others are easier. I need to mull on these.

Tomorrow and Wednesday are granddaughter days so will be knocking up some salt dough for a hand print and helping her to make a card for mummy and daddy. Can't wait!

CydneyX

edwink

Just stocked up on potatoes from our local Greengrocer. Decided to buy a whole sack 25kg/55lb cost £7.00.


I have divided it all by putting jacket sized potatoes in to one basket. Medium sized for stews, soups and mash in to another basket and the smaller potatoes in another basket for roast potatoes.


I find dividing them up in to different baskets and placing the baskets in different parts of the kitchen allows me to empty the whole sack. (I would not have room in my kitchen for a whole 55lb sack).


I have purchased a whole sack several time now as this is such a cheap way of buying them and I always have potatoes for any meal we wish to make.


Maybe some of you could do the same if you have the room. Maybe if you could not carry them your local Greengrocer would deliver them to you. You could also halve them with a friend or neighbour! Imagine just over 27lb of potatoes for £3.50 BARGAIN!!!


Potatoes are heavy to carry if you are trying to shop locally, so I find this the most convenient and cheapest way.


Love reading this thread!!!!!!!


Edwink