Is frugal the new normal?

Nargleblast

As with everything in life, it's horses for courses. There are those who scrimp on everything, sit in cold houses to save on heating, and die, leaving many thousands of pounds.
There are those who save money on many things so they can spend lots on some things that make life enjoyable e.g. a top of range car, or nice holidays.
There are those who have limited income and have no choice but to be frugal just to have a decent existence.

I always used to equate the word frugal with hair shirts, open toed sandals and knit-your-own-muesli. Reading posts on this site has shown how wrong I can be - there are truly Fifty Shades of Frugal!

Caterina

Hi all,

Just a quick one as I am still abroad and with feeble connection.

Ivyleaf, JackieO and Icey77 I will see what I can do re. meeting, the Age Exchange in Blackheath still exists and I would be happy to meet there on a Tues or Thurs before 3 pm. Watch this space, I will resurrect the old meetup thread as soon as I get back in London.

Lovely seeing that the debate is going on!

armyknife

Well thank goodness the thread has sorted itself out and a line has been gone, because I was about to choose the nuclear option and post......

Some of you are acting a lot like men! :gasp:

[Deleted User]

Storms in teacups are like summer lightning pretty spectacular while they're happening but all noise and no real harm, we're all pretty steady here really, just ruffled feathers! Glad you didn't go nuclear..........

Nargleblast

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Storms in teacups are like summer lightning pretty spectacular while they're happening but all noise and no real harm, we're all pretty steady here really, just ruffled feathers! Glad you didn't go nuclear..........

.......because nobody likes fallouts....

armyknife

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Storms in teacups are like summer lightning pretty spectacular while they're happening but all noise and no real harm, we're all pretty steady here really, just ruffled feathers! Glad you didn't go nuclear..........

Well the only other place I post on is a rather, um 'robust' place, I dare not post a link to it here, but there's no shrinking violets there and typically the nuclear option is the 2nd or 3rd option in most if not all 'discussions'.

But it's been useful as I've developed an especially thick internet skin as a result.

fuddle

Nargleblast wrote: »

.......because nobody likes fallouts....

love it! :rotfl:

and there you have one of the 50 shades. The prepper humour.

armyknife

Back on topic, my mini oven, which I turned upside down because the main element went, it still going strong and saving me the money I'd have forked out on an inferior modern one.

I think that counts as frugality?

[Deleted User]

Darned good idea and it works! what's not to like?

thriftwizard

And I've taken my new-to-me but elderly Japanese van out on its first "business" outing today, to a fairly posh do close to me that I hadn't been expecting to do, but they had a couple of stallholders drop out at the last minute due to illness & I happened to be free and now have the van, so could step in. Glad to report that it went very well! And that a friend whispered in my ear that her fairly new, rather smart little car actually only does a shade over 40mpg, and I'm getting about 32mpg across a variety of different trips, so it's not as bad as I'd feared. And we went to a local beauty spot in her for a picnic yesterday and had a lovely time, which we could never have done in my little car. Horses for courses, indeed, and a lesson to me not to be judgemental...