Is frugal the new normal?

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A simple diet doesn't give me indigestion, that makes me very happy and not the least bit bored with it and decidedly more comfortable!

fuddle

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Today has been particularly frugal.......it's been raining all day and I haven't been out!!!

A whole new dimension to is frugal the new normal... has been this week with the rain!

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BAH HUMBUG!!! (but not you, just the rain!!!) xxx.

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Is it frugal or downright money pinching to re dye faded jeans? I do it regularly as they have no physical damage or thin patches but just fade through the summer and then look tired. It really keeps them in use until they DO have thin patches and then I pop them in the rag bag to use as patches on the not so thin ones!

Mr_Singleton

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Does anyone else feel these days that the enjoyment in food has been somewhat diminished by ALL the health recommendations, guidelines, latest ways of showing what is and isn't healthy on packaging, papers published one day saying if you drink red wine etc. it will give you something nasty and the next that if you don't drink red wine etc. it will give you something nasty?

Yes, completely agree.... I just ignore it all. Its only seems that we've needed to be told what to eat in the last 40 or so years. I stay away from everything processed, buy and eat everything as close to its natural state as possible. Wouldn't touch anything that has a heath claim on it.

If anyone wants to know more about this sort of thing then there are a couple of books by Michael Pollan that are worth a read. "The Omnivores Dilemma" and "In Defence Of Food"

Mr_Singleton

suki1964 wrote: »

I hope you aren't implying I'm looking for my mothers money are you?

Take it as you will but fact is that the number of children taking advantage of elderly parents/relatives has rocketed in the past few years.

Some very somber reading....

Take your pick...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1540982/Elderly-most-at-risk-of-theft-by-own-children.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3184508/Grown-children-stealing-millions-elderly-parents-frustrated-waiting-inheritance.html

http://money.aol.co.uk/2015/08/04/boom-in-adult-children-stealing-from-parents/

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Does anyone else enjoy a frugal Halloween? we grow pumpkins on the allotment and I use the biggest one to carve into a 'Jack o'Lantern' to go in the window. I don't go out and buy sweets or chocolate biscuits but I do make chocolate cupcakes and decorate them with orange icing and chocolate chips to make faces and make biscuits and sometimes cut bat or ghost shapes from the dough. We hang an old sheet with a newspaper head on a wire coathanger in the apple tree on the front lawn and I put tealights in jamjars all the way up the drive so the youngsters can see where they're going and I hang solar and candle lanterns in the bushes and on steel lantern hooks too. I sit in the front room with the light out so I can see anyone coming up the drive and usually manage to open the door before they ring the doorbell, beautifully spooky and I enjoy it all as much as the kids do. It costs me the ingredients, the time and a few tealights and gives much enjoyment to our young folks in a village with very little provision for their entertainment, does anyone else play too?

lessonlearned

Suki - is your mum well......

The reason I ask is that the type of food spending she is doing is what actually alerted us to the fact that my aunt had developed Alzheimer's.

She shopped locally and one of the shop owners got in contact with her children to let them know her shopping habits. They knew she lived alone and yet she was buying in enough food to feed a small army.

We all knew my Aunt was getting forgetful and a bit scatty - but the problem was her dementia escalated very quickly. she went from being charmingly eccentric to having full blown alzheimers within a matter of weeks.

Mr_Singleton

Opps!, Opps! and thrice Opps!

moneyistooshorttomention

lessonlearned wrote: »

Suki - is your mum well......

The reason I ask is that the type of food spending she is doing is what actually alerted us to the fact that my aunt had developed Alzheimer's.

She shopped locally and one of the shop owners got in contact with her children to let them know her shopping habits. They knew she lived alone and yet she was buying in enough food to feed a small army.

We all knew my Aunt was getting forgetful and a bit scatty - but the problem was her dementia escalated very quickly. she went from being charmingly eccentric to having full blown alzheimers within a matter of weeks.

I was reading those posts and thinking "This does sound rather like my friends mother - that is living with them" and she is getting dementia at a pretty rapid rate by the sound of it:(. It definitely is amounting to one of the symptoms in her case - ie buying and re-buying foods that she already has plenty of in stock. That is one of the things that is a very "fine line" to draw - because many of us buy stuff in on a pretty rational basis (ie with every intention of using it up to try out new things) on the one hand BUT for people who have a pretty "fixed" list of foodstuffs that they regularly buy = then it does seem to be one of the symptoms:(