Live on a tenner a week ???

pigpen

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Adopting Christ-like qualities

I already have those .. walk on water, raise the dead and I look mighty fine in sandals...

Or I could be a necromancer..

pigpen

Andypandyboy wrote: »

You can really feed 9 people on that amount?

You cant spend what you don't have!!

meritaten

thinking about it - I can easily stretch Sunday lunch intended for 4 people to many more...............use my food slicer for the joint (its incredible how many slices you can get by using one of these versus an ordinary carving knife), putting on a few more spud and doing a few more veg. I think the most I have done was 9 or 10 and it could only have cost pennies more than the lunch I had originally planned.
(anyone else have family that regularly invite themselves to Sunday lunch at short notice?)

HOWMUCH

As a type I diabetic I can only have sugar free cold drinks and if I go any where and just fancy a cold drink I will ask for water. I don't expect everyone to have sugar free if they do great I'll accept their offer. It's just the same as the tea/coffee issue. I don't drink tea but DH does and he likes Yorkshire Tea Bags as does DD. I don't like cheap coffee and would struggle to drink it. So is it the same with tea bags? So we may not be talking pence like some people have mentioned in the comments.

Spendless

Ilona wrote: »

I now have a large (160) box of tea bags, given to me by another reporter. These too will be given away, to another friend.

Woudn't you keep a handful back so you've got some in to offer should a tea-drinker call?

I have a friend who can't drink caffeine as it interferes with her medication. When DH stays away with work, I ask him to fetch me back the de-caff coffee sachets and the herbal tea-bags from his hotel room to keep in for when she comes round.

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meritaten I go to my youngest DDs every Sunday for dinner late afternoon and have done for the past 12 years .

I would be quite happy to cook for myself at home but DD insists that I go as she says its a couple of extra spuds and veg and the meat will always streeetch around.She has 6 in her family and with four strapping boys to feed its surprising how far a joint will go My contribution is usually pudding and a victoria sponge cake along with HM biscuits.

I also, if I see a bargain offer, will throw in a chicken mid-week for her although I don't have to.If I am her house and she's running short of milk or butter for example I will often just nip to the local shop and get her some as both her and her OH work long hours.

Sunday evening dinnertime is sometimes quite riotous at her house with 6+Granny all nattering away about last week and the coming week and catching up on things.She would love for me to move in permanently, but I value my independence, and like there being times when I just have silence in my house, and I am able to just potter around.One day maybe but that day is far off at the moment :):):) Bless her she is a good lass and we are quite a close-knit family

Ilona

Spendless wrote: »

Woudn't you keep a handful back so you've got some in to offer should a tea-drinker call?

Yes, I suppose I could do, although it may take a while to use them. I last had a visitor six months ago, before all these journalists landed on my doorstep. I am not in with a crowd who pop into each others houses. Most of my friends are couples, they have other couple friends, and each other. I know I am welcome at their houses, but they have much more going on in their lives with family etc, they don't have time to visit a singleton. Not complaining that's just how it is.

Ilona

JIL

I do have teabags and coffee in, but I have been to houses where they have said sorry I would offer you a cuppa, but I have no milk.
I work with people who only drink, fruit tea, green tea or squash.
I also note lots of people follow the kon Marie book, get rid, send it on its way.so if you don't use teabags yourself, then give them to someone who will use them.

so Ilona its your house, your home, your guests, your call.

moneyistooshorttomention

I'm in the "Make guests feel welcome" school of thought - so I do keep in drinks I don't use myself (ie tea and instant coffee). So they are there in the cupboard - along with my own real coffee and fruit teas.

To me - its part of what you do - ie having in their choice of refreshments and keeping the house warm/comfortable/etc enough. I would tend to assume people would be put off visiting me if I didn't do so. I know I find it offputting visiting houses where there is nothing to drink/I'm cold/fur-shedding animals are allowed to sit on seats humans will want to sit on. I would feel bad at sending away guests thirsty, cold and covered in animal hair.

Must admit I've not forgotten a meal many years back in the house of a friends parents - where the main course had been a bit on the "flimsy" side and her mother turned round and said "Oh - DO people want pudding?". Fortunately - her own husband responded with "Of course they do".

pollypenny

I think I'm careful with money, but I wouldn't dream of making a guest feel uncomfortable.

OH always wants the heating turned down , but even he wouldn't have a guest feeling cold.


Yes, gods, we'll be making them take their shoes off next! :cool:

Living on £10 a week? Only if one was desperate.