Put away your purse & become debt-averse

Blackcats

I tried the recipe too. Yummy. Thank you very much.

Baileys_Babe

Foxgloves I was an avid reader of your blog, I also enjoy your writing on here.

I love chicken and mushroom supreme and rice, also a child of the 70's.

With regards to voting we signed up for postal votes many years ago, 1 of the things I like about it is the fact I can find out which parties and candidates are standing and do my own research. Instead of relying on which parties contacted us.

PurpleFairy26

Nice work on the vouchers thanks to your small things posts, last year we got a JL card. We've already had a decent amount of vouchers and a few more due any day now. Just paid off this months chunk now I've been paid. It's a lovely feeling isn't it.

foxgloves

Greetings Campers,
Have really enjoyed today, a quick pop into town, a picnic at a lovely place in a neighbouring county, a quick stop at Wa*trose to pick up a free yoghurt, then a couple of hours of really zen gardening.
This morning, I bought a new eye shadow. I like make-up & wear it pretty much every day, but I have a really pared down make-up bag these days. Foundation, eye shadow, black eyeliner, mascara & lippy. That's it. The top drawer in my dressing table now contains useful things like tissues, candles, matches, hair clips, a poetry book, etc, instead of a heap of 'make-up fails'.....colours I bought on Spendy Splurges which I barely wore & ended up in the bin once it had dawned on me that I really didn't like. Can you feel a Debtisode coming on? That eye shadow purchase this morning reminded me of a time way back in the Spendy Years when I decided I could avoid this Drawer of Make-up Colour Doom by buying a really good neutral eye shadow which would look good in all seasons, with all hair colour changes & all lipstick options. Sounds sensible so far, yeah? So off I trotted to my expensive cosmetic counter of choice (think department store & women in white coats). I started looking at all those useful neutral shades. This is a long time ago, I think their eyeshadow were about £11 each. I was deep into my overdraft by mid-month, so no way should I have been spending that kind of money on a single eye shadow. Then, up came the assistant to see if I needed any help. She said "Oh haven't you got lovely big eyes, & aren't they a nice green?" She then picked two colours & said "Let me show you how these would look really great on you". The colours were a vivid purple & a bright shimmery white. They were lovely. But as curtains or a rug. Not on eyes. But the flattery got into my purse & I bought BOTH colours. The compacts looked pretty in my make-up bag, but blend as I might, I could NOT make that colour combination work without looking like I was about to audition for a circa 1982 tribute band. Much later, they went in the bin. Another absolute waste of money, which if it was the second half of the month, would almost definitely not have belonged to me.
Today I re-bought my favourite neutral shade. It always looks good, lasts ages & was under a fiver.
More of my relationship with this particular cosmetics counter another time. Mr F has just brought me a glass of wine & a lovely chip, so I think his culinary efforts are almost ready.
Talk to you soon,
F xx

HairyHandofDartmoor

Another great Debtisode Foxgloves, I'm trying to imagine you with green and white eyeshadow (which is hard as I don't know what you look like :rotfl:) and it does sound a bit bizarre. What a waste of £22 :eek:.

Keep the Deptisodes coming and I hope Mr F has cooked a fine meal .

foxgloves

He cooked a very nice meal, HHoD, accompanied by a fine bottle of red from A*di, the quality of which belied its sub-£5 price tag. Two glasses & I was singing. I'm a cheap date these days!

foxgloves

Anyone who has been following my diary for a while will know what a believer I am in the concept of shopping from home, rather than endlessly paying out for more stuff, when you could actually supply something that adequately 'does the job' from our own stores. Well, I thought I'd been beaten on one particular item until today:
I have a large tropical plant which is desperate for re-potting. It's struggling in a way too small pot & I really don't want to lose it. Mum bought it for me as a gift a couple of years ago, & you'll maybe remember I lost my Mum 7 months ago. As it is a conservatory plant, it really needs a decent ceramic pot, as it will be on show indoors all year. I'd rifled through my extensive pot stash in the shed, but nothing suitable. Due to lack of work expenses being paid again this month (grrrrr), I only put £20 into the 'household items' pot for June & because I'd be sad if Mum's plant failed to survive, I'd resigned myself to spending it on a large ceramic pot at the garden centre.
Have now found a perfect Shopping from Home solution! Was just taking something out to the bin earlier & spotted that one of my big container plants out the front has gone v straggly & is dead at the back. Was checking it to see if I could take a few cuttings when I noticed its pot - a nice large blue ceramic one, the perfect size. Yay!!! My household £20 is safe for now. I shall take the cuttings tomorrow, when I've planned a mega gardening day, & Mr F says he'll help me with the re-potting one night this coming week. I think sometimes, that if we don't rush out & buy something instantly, a non-Spendy solution can often present itself. Really glad I didn't spend that money.
And more shopping from home shortly, as my stash busting cardi will be finished today (just about to steam it & add buttons), then I intend to choose some nice colours from my yarn stash to knit my friend some pretty socks for Christmas....... there, I've done it, I've mentioned the C-word at May BH. Enjoy your weekends all,
F xx

Kantankrus_Mare

Loving the "shopping from home" stories foxgloves.

Was thinking of you just this morning when I popped to the plot. It was raining but the greenhouse still needs watering. Ive made a lasagne for tea and picked some of my cut and come again salad leaves to make up a salad to go with it. Had rest of salad bits at home. Cant wait till cucumbers and tomatoes are giving us free food as well!

I looked at my leek bed which is looking a bit sorry for itself. Donned my wellies and dug them all up. Stripped off outer leaves and ends to feed compost heap and fetched them home. Gave them a good wash and chopped them all up. Now have the base of a pasta dish for tomorrow which includes stilton and spinach (both of which I have languishing in the fridge and also will have enough for a leek risotto which Mr Mare (that doesnt sound right :rotfl: sure he would rather be known as The Stallion) does better than me.

So there you go.........I was thinking "foxgloves would be proud of me!"

foxgloves

Hi Kantankrus,
Awww..... I miss growing leeks. We had a couple of years where our allium crops were devastated by onion leaf miner pest, so we've had a rest from them, but we will resume growing garlic this autumn as long as heavily mesh it.
I'm also looking forward to cukes & tomatoes being ready. They are forming fruits, so I'll start feeding them this week. My first sowing of lettuces will be full size for cutting in a week or two & the lambs lettuce isn't far off. I'm currently picking rhubarb, loads of coriander & other fresh herbs, mustard, cress, radishes, rocket & sorrel. Today, Mr F is doing tip runs (about a million 'yays' to this!!!) & I'm going to get my greenhouse veggies finalised...... Chillies & peppers to pot up, a big tub to be planted with basil, lemon basil to pot up, tomatoes sideshooted & tied in again & the rest of my squash & the beans to start hardening off. Just got to make some bread dough first & sort laundry, but otherwise it's a big gardening day for me.
Always happy to hear how your allotment is going. A busy time of year for us. I can't wait till it's just maintenance!
F x

crazy_cat_lady

Foxgloves - my kids have asked me if they can take over maintenance of our garden. :eek: Too much time spent with Judgy Granny methinks who likes to 'helpfully' point out everything I don't do with my own home and garden.
We'll see how that goes.