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Making savings before it's too late
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*ears word beginning with P meaning point in a skywards direction AKA up....
Where are these 1p books to be found?0 -
fantastic thread - thoroughly enjoyed reading each post - i too have fibro, ibs and chronic fatigue syndrome and feeling the pain having pushed myself too hard over christmas
you've all given me some great ideas for saving cash over 2018 - just need to put them into action now x0 -
Used to get Asda but they are terrible for not having items in stock and subbing ridiculous things for them. I can go back and give them another go though. Milk is ok as I freeze it, so can space out the deliveries as from next week. A start!!0
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*ears word beginning with P meaning point in a skywards direction AKA up....
Where are these 1p books to be found?
I think they're referring to books from Amazon. A noticeable number of "older" books are 1p plus postage - ie about £3 each. Right now, for instance, "Vegetarian meals in minutes" by Rose Elliott is one of them.0 -
fantastic thread - thoroughly enjoyed reading each post - i too have fibro, ibs and chronic fatigue syndrome and feeling the pain having pushed myself too hard over christmas
you've all given me some great ideas for saving cash over 2018 - just need to put them into action now x
Having a health issue along with being brassic isn't much fun0 -
milk freezes perfectly. I get 4-5 litres at a time, I don`t want to shop too often, so I decant and freeze in halves as there is only me. If I go to the shops then I spend, I see things that I `need`, so I don`t go
I think my hair is too blooming expensive for the time taken, £45 plus tip but she is the best hairdresser I ever had. My hair only takes half an hour but I come out looking like judi dench. I think I will try and stretch the time interval from 6 weeks to 7
Another saving for me right now is on wood pellets, I started winter last year with my `just in case` stash of a tonne in 10kg bags, all of which I bought and manhandled myself, 25 bags at a time. It was mild last year and I went into winter this year with 40 bags remaining. I am backing this up with my huge candle stash, one reason being that I need to reduce that and second reason is to stretch the pellets, which is working. If it is a mild winter then I may get through without buying any pellets
One thing I will not compromise on is my food, I have eaten almost fully organic for very many years and I also eat meat and fish but not an awful lot. The meat is organic grass fed and very expensive but stretches quite a way. The fruit and veg is via an online organic company and I have recently started a weekly veg box with them, I used to get individual items but I get carried away, cakes, expensive yogurts etc. Recently every week it is a veg box, a few bananas and 6 eggs. My freezer is full of fruit. Doing it this way is saving me about £15 a week. I will stop the veg box after the hungry gap, when my allotment starts producing again0 -
Yes sorry.....1p books from Amazon.
Really cold here tonight but nice and cosy, like you Kitty I am working my way through my candle stash for extra warmth. I am keeping leftovers to turn into new candles at some point.0 -
One of the items on my list of ways I'll be trying to save next year is 'Use up the alcohol we already have'.
Well, having stocked up for Christmas, and had a load of people round, we've actually made a net gain in the quantity of alcohol we possess - everyone brought wine, but we didn't drink it all!!
Tomorrow I'll go through it all and make a list of what we've got - hmm, think I'll start another thread, along the lines of 'No more buying unnecessary toiletries' - 'No more buying unnecessary alcohol...'
I know for sure we've got some very strange stuff - some Chinese vodka that OH was given on a business trip, and some elderly advocaat for starters. 2018 could get very interesting!!No longer a spouse, or trailing, but MSE won't allow me to change my username...0 -
thats a point trailingspouse, made me think. I have various ales and ciders cluttering a shelf in the shed, I don`t drink them, so I think I will use them in cooking. I`ll bring a cider in today because I have a small piece of christmas ham that I want to defrost and it will cook well in cider with a few herbs. I am freezer diving, my freezer is massively full, and I have a small chest freezer in the garage, now 2/3 full. Mostly allotment fruits, butter, meat, fish and sd bread
My immediate mission is to get stuck into using food stash and today I use up some flour making a peasant slow fermentation bread, I have all the ingredients, organic flour plus an ancient blend of pea, bean and cereal mix flour. Half of each in my loaf. I need to make two, so I make the most of my hot oven. Same recipe as normal bread but much less yeast and slow risings in the fridge, start this morning and will bake tomorrow, in tins as it will be a soft dough
Entertainment is important, I am watching dvds at the moment, on a laptop, on battery, comfy on a lap tray, while sitting in my recliner. I have very many dvds, most from charity shops and many from newspapers many years ago. One a day and exercise, no gym but cycling as often as I can, not when raining or too cold. At the moment, knitting while listening to penny vincenzi on audible or spinning when my eyes start swimming, which means I need to stop myself nodding off0 -
Im treading the same path as Kittie, paid off the credit card early it is set to pay in full each month but wanted to start January with little going out as possible over the month,so will be running down the store cupboard and freezer.
Will be following a very simple menu over the next year DH hasn't had the best of Christmas where his blood sugars are concerned.
I also need to clear my workshop I have an old leather top desk I've been stripping and restoring and need to get that finished by March before work gets busy or pass the project on as it's been a work in progress for more than a year now, last year my free time got caught up with house and garden work.0
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