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

Willowtree222

I do like that film. Happy Saturday. Any chance of a Saturday saunter today? it's windy here so a only go out if I need to day. I'm out of tea bags so have to go out!

HairyHandofDartmoor

Happy Saturday to you Nicnak . The weather is a bit gloomy and wet at the moment, it was chucking it down overnight.

HairyHandofDartmoor

I'm meeting my stepdad for coffee this morning. I need to get more bananas and cheese and DH wants more hot chocolate. After that I'll see how I feel.

Two of our customers have gone on holiday abroad before Christmas (they're obviously doing better than we are ). But the good news is that another customer has said they're going to renew and should pay in a few days :j. That should cover our remaining bills for December and pay for a frugal Christmas :T.
We will also be able to afford to get the car repairs done that our garage recommended when we had the mot .

DH has also asked DS2 for his keep for December, so that can go in a pot, not sure which one yet.

I need some more trousers for volunteering as my current ones are practically falling down :eek: as I've lost weight, so hopefully I can afford to get some when the customer pays .

Have a good Saturday everyone .

jwil

Great news about the customer :T :T

HairyHandofDartmoor

Thanks Jwil .

beanielou

Hope customer pays soon.
Happy Saturday

HairyHandofDartmoor

Thanks Beanie .

doingitanyway

Buying new trousers because they are dropping off due to healthy weight loss is a good problem to have
Enjoy your coffee with your stepdad.

elizabethhull

HairyHandofDartmoor wrote: »

I need some more trousers for volunteering as my current ones are practically falling down :eek: as I've lost weight, so hopefully I can afford to get some when the customer pays .

Have a good Saturday everyone .

Lovely to have lost the weight, at least I hope I'm right in thinking it's lovely (I've lost 13kg this year thanks to the side-effects of Tramadol and I really needed to!!), but of course if you need new clothes it's aggravating.

A friend of mine who never buys any new clothes, turned her deceased brother-in-laws socks into mittens, and re-used deceased sister's pants and bras ! She complains bitterly about current charity shop prices but is a master of re-using, and getting the most out of. She slits open toothpaste tubes to get another fragment out !
But she has some excellent ideas, like she buys a pint of s/s milk because she knows I don't care for skimmed, then decants it into a lot of little pots, which are then frozen, and defrosts one when I'm due to come. Now that's really sensible.

Happy Saturday all, it's very dull & dismal here but not cold.

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elizabethhull wrote: »

…. She slits open toothpaste tubes to get another fragment out !
But she has some excellent ideas.....

Actually, I think the toothpaste tube idea is an excellent idea:j. I once saw a penny pinching programme on TV where someone was slitting open tubes of this and that. You'd be surprised how much is wasted by just tossing the tube when it seems empty. I used to use their tip of rolling/folding over a toothpaste tube (the old fashioned metal ones not so much the plastic ones as it doesn't work the same) when it was nearly used up. You can still squeeze some out that way. I used to do this before I had debts, I've always hated waste.


I have chapped/rough hands a lot of the time, they always seem to be in water or detergent and I get through hand cream in industrial quantities:o. I've managed to get lots of handcream out of tubes by slitting them open. You'd be amazed how much handcream is left in a tube after just squeezing it doesn't produce any.