Finally Debt Free After 34 Years, But Still Need to Live Frugally

HairyHandofDartmoor

My step count has grown as DH forgot to buy the milk and post a letter for DS2, so I walked up another hill and I'm now on 11,821 steps, 42 floors and 42 active minutes . Although I feel lazy compared to Sun Addict :rotfl:.

I was robbed in the shop because I paid £1.54 for four pints of skimmed milk :eek:. It's only £1.09 in Mr T :mad:. I'm never going there again :eek:.

That was the only spend of the day however.

I'm cooking a mince and curry concoction at the moment, so I'd better go and stir it :eek:.

redofromstart

12.8 for me but only 16 floors, its very flat in this county.

How much for milk?!

HairyHandofDartmoor

That's a lot of steps Redo. I can't avoid hills here, there's one in every direction :rotfl:.

I couldn't believe the price of the milk, I said "How much?" to the shop assistant and she gave me a fishy stare :rotfl:.

badmemory

I love the way if the weather is particularly windy or the air pressure is very high, when I go upstairs (normally it occasionaly doesn't count as my ceilings are not high) it actually counts 2 flights instead of one! I love my charge 2. It is much easier to charge than the charge HR. I have given the HR to my son who, whilst definitely not fat, has a large protruberance on his front caused by too much sitting. I also like that it reminds me to get off my backside at 10 to the hour if I haven't done my 250 steps. I've increased my daily steps to 12500 (so I do 5 miles) anyone needing a giggle should see me at 23.55 trying to get those last few steps in.

I do most of it indoors - my carpet is getting worn out! Do I care? H*** no it's my carpet. It's my carpet & I'll kill it if I want to, kill it if I want to - sung to "It's my party & I'll cry if I want to". Well it's no fun if you can't have fun with it.

HairyHandofDartmoor

Another Fitbit fan Badmemory. Who needs carpets anyway? All those steps are good for you :rotfl:.

It does count floors as a certain number of feet and it helps that I have two steep flights of stairs in my house. Plus Devon is very hilly . When I climbed the Cairngorm mountain with my sister her Fitbit said she'd climbed about 400 floors :rotfl: (I didn't have one then). We could hardly move the next day :eek:.

It is very quick to charge and it stays charged for several days.

HairyHandofDartmoor

Today is my big grocery shop at Mr T. My budget is £74 for five people for a week with only one top up shop allowed. Last week I only did one top up shop apart from milk yesterday, so I'm getting better .

Have a good Wednesday everyone .

[Deleted User]

You're all making me tired with all your walking.

I have a fitbit too, can't tell you which one it is as I'm useless like that lol but I do love it.

Scandalous how much the milk was!

Have a great day Hairy x

[Deleted User]

All this talk of Fitbits makes me want one but as it's a 'want' rather than a 'need' I might resist the urge to check out prices;).


When I say it's not really a 'need' I may be a bit wrong because if it can also serve as a watch (and I may have got the wrong idea as I'm very untechy:o) I'm in dire need of a watch. I've always bought cheapie watches and once they go wrong they can never be repaired:(. My last one died and I've been resorting to a wind-up one from decades ago which I still had lying around:o. Even that is playing up, probably just needs an internal clean but I don't want to spend much on it as it's an old fashioned school children's type of watch, really basic.


Will have good think before rushing into anything;)

System

HH how did the shopping go ? I think all your walking is great and charting your progress helps.

HairyHandofDartmoor

Deleted_User wrote: »

You're all making me tired with all your walking.

I have a fitbit too, can't tell you which one it is as I'm useless like that lol but I do love it.

Scandalous how much the milk was!

Have a great day Hairy x

Thanks Purplemum

carbootcrazy wrote: »

All this talk of Fitbits makes me want one but as it's a 'want' rather than a 'need' I might resist the urge to check out prices;).


When I say it's not really a 'need' I may be a bit wrong because if it can also serve as a watch (and I may have got the wrong idea as I'm very untechy:o) I'm in dire need of a watch. I've always bought cheapie watches and once they go wrong they can never be repaired:(. My last one died and I've been resorting to a wind-up one from decades ago which I still had lying around:o. Even that is playing up, probably just needs an internal clean but I don't want to spend much on it as it's an old fashioned school children's type of watch, really basic.


Will have good think before rushing into anything;)

My Fitbit, which is a Charge 2, does tell you the time and date, as well as steps, floors, heart rate, how many miles, how many calories and even how well you slept! What's not to love? :heartsmil:heartsmil:heartsmil

Mine was about £100 :eek: and DH got it from Argos (best price he could find) for an anniversary present .

So if you have a birtday/anniversary coming up Carboot, you could drop a few hints .