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The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes
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Suffolk_lass wrote: »Oh dear, it's like an ear worm, calling to me. I am off to make courgette curry(!) if only to distract from cake
Y'all can make cake from courgettes........ jus' sayin'.........
Greying XPounds for Panes £7,005/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
Grocery Spend July 2025 £294.82/£300
Non-food spend July 2025 £97.53/£50
Bulk Fund July 2025 £9.10/£100 -
Mmn - there's one in the freezer as it goesSave £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
My new diary is here0 -
Good Morning :hello:
Well, we have limped (financially-wise) to the end of the month. However, I despise 'wishing away' my life, so it IS only financially-wise. Otherwise July has been interesting and delightful and we've even managed to make some memories
And shoe-horn some smidgens of cake
Tea last night was meditteranean pasta. We HAVE eaten too much pasta this month
But it used up bits and pieces that I had - including a 'valoo' mozarella ball from mrT. So........
Tea this evening will definitely be a 'cobble'. I may well have to buy 'something' to make it work. Either a tin of tomatoes or some form of GREEN VEG! :rotfl:
I did the money shuffle yesterday, so at least bills are paid moving forward into August. You know how much relief I get from just achieving that each month
However, I am ill-shod and my slippers are just about done and I'm sure my shoes have sprung a leak......... *sigh* Ho hum
Anyhoo, onwards and upwards! Let's see what the day has instore
Greying XPounds for Panes £7,005/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
Grocery Spend July 2025 £294.82/£300
Non-food spend July 2025 £97.53/£50
Bulk Fund July 2025 £9.10/£100 -
Can I please have some custard with my cake?Mortgage at 01.01.14 £119,481.83:eek: today £0 Emergency fund £5.5/5.5k & £200/200 cash.:jWeight 24/02/19 14st 7lb now 12st determined to stop defining myself by my mistakes. Progress not perfection.:T100%through my 1% mortgage challenge. 100% through my pb challenge.0
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in_need_of_direction wrote: »Can I please have some custard with my cake?
YES! Because I do have cornflour, turmeric and sugar :j:rotfl:
Oh, and thinking about being ill-shod in the 21st century, do not enquire after the state of my socks.......... I walk so much, I am very hard-wearing on them. Can't afford the 'ultra-professional' walking socks and rarely find 'will do' in my budget range. The last lot were actually 'C0$tc0' (?) ones - 40% merino wool walkers, £4 for 3 pairs or £5 for 4 - can't recall now. Wish I'd bought the blessed stock up from the discount warehouse when I spotted them
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Grocery Spend July 2025 £294.82/£300
Non-food spend July 2025 £97.53/£50
Bulk Fund July 2025 £9.10/£100 -
Hurrah for making memories.
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One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.0 -
Spent the whole day craving cake after all this and ended up baking carrot cake last night...:oDebt Totals July 2019::
[STRIKE]£350 Natwest Credit Card [/STRIKE]/ ]Now £0 (paid off and closed 04/2017) £15,500 postgrad loan from parents/ Now £7,000 £5,000 sister loan/ Now £0[STRIKE]£500 train ticket loan from parents [/STRIKE]/ Now £0 (paid off 16/02/18)[STRIKE]£2,000 Overdraft[/STRIKE] Now £0 (paid off 09/03/18) £1,967.83 Barclays 0% card Now £0 Total £7,0000 -
Mmm, cake
I was thinking about socks too last night Greying. I spend most of the winter in two pairs, and all my 'outer' socks are wearing through now. Mind you, most of them are cheap rubbish The only ones that have lasted have been a pair I knitted myself! But the other pair I knitted myself I finally consigned to the dustbin last week having darned them SO many times they were more darn than sock - I think from memory I didn't use sock wool and they just weren't very hard wearing...
Hey ho. Another pair on the needles but given that it takes me an average of around a year to get on with finishing each one, I may need to make some purchases in the meantime :rotfl: 0 -
OMG - GP you are a very very BAD influence!:D
I had crisps for breakfast and cake for lunch!:o
I've never done that before!:eek:4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)New projection - 14 YEARS 10 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 15 mths)Psst...I may have started a diary!0 -
Silver_Queen wrote: »Spent the whole day craving cake after all this and ended up baking carrot cake last night...:oOMG - GP you are a very very BAD influence!:D
I had crisps for breakfast and cake for lunch!:o
I've never done that before!:eek:
That's it, blame me! :rotfl:
CarrotsticksCarrotsticksCarrotsticksCeleryCelery lettuce
Greying XPounds for Panes £7,005/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
Grocery Spend July 2025 £294.82/£300
Non-food spend July 2025 £97.53/£50
Bulk Fund July 2025 £9.10/£100
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