Five OS Pleasures in your day today

Primrose

Today's:
1. Visiting local grower to buy their fresh asparagus.
2. Leisurely amble round a garden centre afterwards, logging the price of their vegetable seedlings and realising how much money I've saved by sowing my own.
3. Getting lawn cut and camelia bush trimmed back.
4. Finding forgotten container of Sequested Iron in garage so able to give all my azaleas a good dose of fertiliser.
5. Lots of insects on my strawberry blossoms.
6. Lovely sunshine and realising it's the one thing the Chancellor can't tax.

lillibet_dripping

Morning all - can I play please!

I have lurked on this thread for ages and really enjoy the pleasure you all get from the simple things in life. Since becoming an mse/os'er, my life and in particular my outlook on life has changed so dramatically.

At the turn of the year I realised that I couldn't face another year living from credit card to overdraft just to buy groceries. I used the two weeks Christmas holidays (I work school hours!) to really sort out my finances. I am still waiting for the new bank a/c switch-over to finally kick in but I have been so much happier these past few months.

Some general OS pleasures:

1. Getting finances under control
2. Moving money between accounts to pay off the high interest debts first
3. Meal planning (I half-heartedly did this before, but now I have spreadsheets galore to show the prices in the different shops:eek:)
4. Having separate envelopes for different spending categories - even down to £7.00 for the window cleaner:T
5. Only going out with cash - all the debit/credit cards are left at home now
6. Really getting the vegetable garden productive again. Forward planning the sowing dates so that we have lettuce all year round and not a glut in August:D

I can honestly say that I have found that elusive 'inner peace' for which I have been searching for so many years and it's all down to you fab people on these threads.

Yesterday's OS pleasures:

1. DD1 having 2 friends sleepover (they are all still asleep:rolleyes:) and having the house filled with girly giggling (takes me back!)
2. Enjoying library book (oh yes, have discovered online library reservations - no more expensive bookshops for me!) on Transition Towns
3. Watching my two springer spaniels enjoying swimming in the river.
4. New crops peeping through the fields
5. Saving money on grocery shopping yesterday and making a PAD to my debts (this is soooooo addictive!)
6. Sitting in the garden early evening, smelling BBQ's all over the place!

Phew, thanks for reading this long post - I promise future posts will stick to my 5 daily pleasures!

x

mineallmine

Morning all,

Welcome Lillibet, great to have newbies. Hello to all our regulars and lurkers. I feel much better today, it's sunny and I've enjoyed reading everyone's pleasures.

Mine:
1. Seeing a friend yesterday and chatting so much. It was great.
2. Feeding the cats, now they're all settled. And one just popped by to say thanks.
3. A nice cup of tea this morning.
4. A good night's sleep.
5. Getting some extra thick curtain lining from Argos (one is like parachute material!) to help block out the sun and keep in heat (for the winter months). Hopefully won't need the fan on quite as much.

Right, I've been on here too long. Am off to get some bits and then enjoy the weather. :A

SunnyGirl

Hi everyone & special hello's to all new posters :wave: My five for yesterday are

1. A sunny day - I never tire of it :j

2. Seeing a plant that I thought had died have lots of little buds on it.

3. Listening to the boys play on the trampoline & laughing at their antics.

4. DD telling me that she has wonderful parents - She's doing Child Care at college and is seeing what it takes to bring children up well. Money & expensive stuff doesn't come into it & she realises that :A

5. My friend calling round with her dog - we laughed at her dog & mine tearing around the garden after each other with tails wagging ten to the dozen :rotfl:

I hope that everyone has had an enjoyable weekend & blessings aplenty.

sunflower76

This weekend:

1. Sunny weather :T
2. Getting the lawn mowed and the borders weeded
3. Clearing out the shed and Freecycling some more junk
4. Getting lots of fruit and veg from the market
5. Having a long chat with the butcher and getting lots of meat from him
6. Making another fab curry from The Curry Secret book DH bought me for my birthday
7. Baking quiche today and preparing HM burgers for tea
8. Buying a UV nails kit in the hope that i can give up the salon and finding that it's quite easy really
9. Having a not so poorly doggie this weekend, diet changes fianlly working
10. Catching up with all of the chores yet feeling quite relaxed about doing them

frugalswan

1) Walking to Mr Ts and actually taking my time looking at the ys stuff without the OH there
2) Getting the floor all cleaned and shiny (aka testing my new mop )
3) Getting the majority of the ironing done.
4) Aching quite considerably from yesterday's yoga session. Flexible today, flexible tomorrow, I hope!
5) Going to make a healthy spaghetti bolognese for tea
6) The smell of freshly cut grass outside
7) Enjoying the sunshine
8) Finding some bargains for office wear - got a suit for £15!!
9) Renewing to myself to be OS everyday and to make the effort. (I have to do this from time to time)
10) Seeing the allotments on my walk to Mr Ts and vowing to have one one day!

I know that's ten, but there have been a lot of OS pleasures for me today. Have a good day, everyone

x Frugalswan x

scousewife

Hiya everyone
Sorry not been able to post for a couple of days as been a busy bee. As ever lovely reading all your posts & welcome lillibet dripping - a pleasure in itself reading about how you have overhauled your finances & changed to an os way of life - keep up the good work. :T

Anyway here are mine for today, Friday & Saturday;

1) The lovely weather allowing me to walk the long way round too & from playgroup & chat with a friend along the way.
2) Collecting my £2 Surestart bag of fruit & veg from playgroup & being able to plan some meals for the week ahead using the veg.
3) Going to playgroup is a blessing in itself as its run by Surestart its free & gives me some much needed adult talkin time & ds some let off steam with other kids time.
4) Having an early night and a good 12 hour sleep. Went to bed with ds at 8pm & woke up refreshed at 8am the next day - If only ds would sleep so well without his mummy next to him!
5) Catching up with my washing and ironing while dsd kept ds entertained.
6) DH allowing me to have a lie in this morning and he cooked me sausages for breakfast too.
7) Throwing together a simple packed lunch of items from the cupboard/fridge; butties, biscuits, fruit & crisps.
8) Heading for the park with our picnic, blanket & football and having a lovely family day with dh, ds & dsd.
9) my thoughtful df keeping the leaves from her cauliflowers & passing them onto me for my bunnies who were of course very grateful.
10) Generally being very blessed to have a wonderful family, a roof over our heads & full tummies.

Hope you have all enjoyed your weekends x

SunnyGirl

Good evening My five for today are:

1. Moving Sunday dinner to lunchtime so that everyone had the afternoon free - including me :j

2. Getting some reading & sewing done this afternoon without rushing in & out of the kitchen to check on dinner.

3. Getting the washing dry & ironed as it came off the line.

4. An anticipated pleasure of an early bath soon.

5. My DD putting my hair up into a different from usual style :T I'll do it again definitely.

Edted to add: Just spoke to my Mum & she's braised the cauliflower leaves with celery in some stock & herbs to go with their dinner - another pleasure realising that I've probably been learning how to be Old Style for years without realising it!

BlimusOreilly

Hello everyone

Here's my OS pleasures for the weekend:

1) Collecting still-warm eggs from the chicken house - the hens are back on the lay again.
2) Finding as many different tubs, pots and loo roll tubes as I can to plant seeds in - it's great stepping up the level of recycling our household does.
3) Catapulting toy dinosaurs with DS2 and the joy it gives me hearing him laugh hysterically.
4) A sunny weekend when the forecast threatened rain.
5) Getting together with friends where we all bought lovely dishes of grub and ate and chatted together.
6) Giggling uncontrollabley after testing my friend's home-made apple sherbert. Major sugar rush!!
7) Beaming with pride watching DS1 being a flag-bearer in the St George's Day Parade.
8) DS1 & DS2 having a water fight in the back-garden. DS1 had a green bucket on his head as a helmet - sooo cute!
9) Making a gorgeous rhubarb cake and rhubarb crumble from some marked-down rhubarb.
10)Joining DH at the end of the garden with a glass of cider watching the dark red sun go down.

meat_n2_reg

Hi All,

my five for today :-

1. going for a walk through local wood full of blue bells with family.
2. planting hanging baskets
3. cream sponge from safeway covered with strawberrys
4. fixed sat nav on PDA
5. getting some time to read

Cheers Steve