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

UncannyScot

Just caught up with your excellent good news
Really happy for you and yours that you can now relax and enjoy working on a more frugal and money saving lifestyle, debt free... :T:T:T:T

:beer::beer::beer:

HairyHandofDartmoor

Thank you US, very nice of you to say so

It is going to feel like a new lease of life for us

HairyHandofDartmoor

When I was at the shops earlier and saw all the halloween stuff it reminded me of how I used to struggle to afford to give the kids a good halloween

We used to buy a pumpkin and DH would carve it, we'd put a tealight in it and pop it on the doorstep to attract trick or treaters. The kids used to love answering the door in costume and dishing out sweets to the 'monsters' on the doorstep

We only used to buy the pumpkin, sweets to dish out, some cheapo green and orange cupcakes, and let them buy a cheap scary mask each. But any extra expense used to hurt us when we had such enormous debt repayments

It was fun at the time, but now I'm glad I don't need to buy halloween stuff and keep jumping up to answer the door

System

I don't like Halloween , my kids never bothered about it , I never answer the door on the night , how awful of me .

mummytogirls

The kids will have loved the effort you guys put into Halloween HHOD. Im not a massive fan, my kids love it though!! xx

HairyHandofDartmoor

Cumbria_lass wrote: »

I don't like Halloween , my kids never bothered about it , I never answer the door on the night , how awful of me .

I don't answer it now, although to be fair local kids don't usually ring unless you put a pumpkin out

I only did it to please my kids who loved it. The things we do for our kids, rolls eyes.

Hiddenidenity

I hate halloween. We spend the rest of the year teaching the smalls about stranger danger etc then we allow them to knock on strangers doors and ask for sweets or similar. Not for me at all

I will make halloween 'party' food for dinner and will do something halloween like for their breakfast. This year they are going to the halloween disco at school too.

Now bonfire night I love! I don't really like fireworks but we do have a fire and good food :rotfl:

beanielou

Not keen on either it has to be said :rotfl:

HairyHandofDartmoor

My kids were always keener on halloween than bonfire night, for some reason :undecided.

That's another thing we used to spent £20 a year on :eek: a small box of fireworks and some sparklers, which we used to let off in my parents' garden whilst drinking soup out of mugs The bonfire never used to light because it always rained the night before :rotfl:

Fun times, but think of the money saved now they are all grown up :T

atolaas

I don't celebrate Halloween either. It's an American tradition. I'm not an American. We make a big fuss of Bonfire Night instead :dance: