What OS habits you can't stop once you are better off?

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[QUOTE=Susan1962;
I'm going to use an old purse to keep my "housekeeping money" in. When it's gone, it's gone. Somehow having it in cash makes it more real for me and if there's a specific amount put aside I'm less likely to overspend.[/QUOTE]
I still do this over 50 years later I keep my 'food purse' money separate from my ordinary cash and only use it for food and nothing else (see below in my signature )anything left over at the end of the month gets puts away into a single account at a different bank than my normal one and is used for holiday spending money when I go away with the family in August.Sometimes its only a pound or two and other times its more.Gets you focussed on how much you spend

Quote <<can't bring myself to throw away food. I learned from 2 grandmothers who had coped through WW2 how to turn leftover/extra/unused food into all sorts of things. I get really upset at people wasting food - I grew up on a farm and my parents still farm. I have vivid memories of "shawing" turnips in snow storms with hands so cold you thought the would never be painted again and hand picking potatoes out of cold muddy fields not to mention daily 3 am starts when we had a dairy. it's maybe irrational but I feel that food being thrown out is an insult to the people who have worked so hard to produce it, deliver it and bring it to the public.>>>

Spot on scottishminnie I think you are a reincarnation of my late tiny Glaswegian Mum.Everything I know about reuse,repair and recycle came from her.She would be horrified at the amount of stuff wasted today I think.To her what didn't go in the kids, went in the dog Nothing was ever wasted at all.She even(because we had a large garden ) used a mix of dandelion leaves to make a mix in a bucket that when rotted down went on the garden as fertiliser I can remember the smell it was awful but 'free' and worked as we ate an lot of fruit and veg. We had chickens for our eggs and when necessary they were eaten.My late dad said never name an animal you are going to eat,so the cluckers had no nicknames :):) Foraging became an art form and Mum always had a bag of sorts around in her pocket and a keen eye when we were out for anything edible :):)I learnt that you never pick berries below knee height (because of dogs etc cocking their legs and certainly not near a road where there were passing cars .Mum was a smart lady who saw even back in the 1950s that pollution would become a problem.She always said humans will kill the planet with their litter and rubbish.Not far off when you see the amount of junk chucked on our green and pleasant land

By the way it must be a Scots thing as my two children used to say 'Mum you could write a book about a 1001 winning ways with mince' :):),versatile meat I think

because of age and worn out joints I do tend to grow things in small pots in my conservatory though not my garden anymore, herbs are really easy to grow and cost a fraction of what they cost dried and in those tiny pots in the shops

JackieO xx

Susan1962

JackieO wrote: »

By the way it must be a Scots thing as my two children used to say 'Mum you could write a book about a 1001 winning ways with mince' :):),versatile meat I think
JackieO xx

I Have to agree JackieO, as I'm also Scottish. My dad worked on a farm and come hell or high water I had to walk to the dairy (3/4 mile uphill) carrying big screwtop bottles (like the giant laundry bottles with a handle you get now) and fill it with fresh milk. It was AMAZING!! We had nastursium leave (I think) from the tiny garden at the front (the back was for potatoes and carrots of course) in salads and a leaf a day to keep the doctor away. Lovely peppery taste.

Also in the summer walking along the old railways line picking rasps and blackcurrants growing wild.

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Something I don't think I'll ever get over is a YS / chazzer bargain.

I am trying to stop spending but grossly underestimated the thrill I get from spending relatively little on an item I consider to be a treat.