Put away your purse & become debt-averse

cbsexec

Just wanted to drop in to say how much I enjoy reading about your day.   It does make me feel incredibly lazy though as you do so much.  I must try harder.   Haven’t watched Line of Duty but recommend Unforgotten if you like crime dramas.  Your garden sounds very productive but pretty as well - just right. 😀

Baileys_Babe

I'm another who has never had a tumble drier. I also enjoy the smell of line dried laundry @Deni_debt-free_dreamer

foxgloves

@cbsexec - Yes, I do like 'Unforgotten' too. I've watched all the previous series & am enjoying the current one. Am intending to watch last night's episode over lunch time today, but would like to have advanced a good way through my job list by then.
Nice to hear you enjoy reading my diary. I think it does help to keep me on the straight & narrow budget-wise & I hope it has shown that even very long standing bad financial habits can change.
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foxgloves

@Baileys_Babe - I don't know what tumble driers cost to run, but have read that they are expensive. I can understand people needing to get school & work uniforms dry quickly during winter, but I wonder if it is then tempting just to use it all year round instead of pegging out, even when the weather is better. I peg out from March through to November if it's not raining & will attempt February if there is a breezy sunny day. Laundry already churning this morning as it looks lovely outside atm. 
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ladyholly

I dont have a tumble drier or even a washing line. Dont ask!!! It is a bone of contention so all our clothes etc go on an airer which I put outside when I can. Even when my daughter was little and in terry nappies iit was all dried either ouside or on an airer,

scandimore

We never used to have a tumble drier but we just couldn't keep on top of the washing without one once our son was born. He has a variety of medical issues which make several changes of clothes a day necessary and we can't hang his stuff out. It isn't good for clothes at all in terms of fading etc but needs must. Other than that I use the line as much as possible, lake district weather allowing! Hoping for a la*eland airer once utility room is done, and we have space.
After a murky morning it is glorious here, hope you are all enjoying the sun too. Looking forward to hearing your musings Foxgloves.

foxgloves

Yes, Scandimore, there must be a number of medical conditions which necessitate a tumble drier. I have been very pleased with the heated airer you mention. I bought the taller one with more drying space, but I didn't buy the cover. I find that I usually have a sheet, duvet cover or similar to hang on it anyway, so I just chuck that over the top.
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foxgloves

Evening Frugalistas,
Useful day, assisted by glorious sunshine. Two more loads of laundry line-dried for free, checked online banking, sorted a payment from my Personal Spends to my 'just for points' credit card, made a fish pie, decluttered a couple of items, watered all the plant babies, potted on & staked Autumn-sown sweet peas. & rigged up an outdoor shelter for hardening stuff off. I also pierced the bases of 4 dozen yoghurt pots, filled them with compost & arranged them in trays ready for potting up cosmos seedlings tomorrow. Lovely to see the sunshine luring all the critters out. Have seen 3 butterflies today - a peacock, small tortoiseshell & brimstone, a couple of honeybees, 2 big bumbles & our gorgeous tawny mining bees are back! And those little black dots in the frogspawn are starting to wriggle.
I finished the meal plans & shopping list for next week too, but that was my lot for today as my garden efforts took up a fair bit of time. Tomorrow is a new day though, is it not? 
Hope everyone's seen some sunshine today, 
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foxgloves

Hello Sunbeams, Well I'm having a coffee on my pondside bench, having just split up a tremendous blackbird fight. Girl on girl! Mind you, I've seen the dude they're scrapping over & he's a stunner - not a feather out of place & can sing like an angel. I do go on, don't I? Right, so today's stuff. Supermarket shop inc wine, beer & chocolate egg supplies came in at a reasonable amount. Still got butcher's & fresh fruit & veg stall on Fri, but if we spend more for Easter week, it won't be a problem as I will make sure the following couple of meal plans are tailored to a low spend. Checked online banking for a couple of payments I'm expecting. One had arrived - a £159-11 rebate from cephlapod energy provider. Will decide tomorrow how to make best use of it. Postie brought some Easter cards plus gifts from family, so I really enjoyed opening those & have saved the box & bubblewrap for my wrappings stash. Did a survey, which put my earnings total over £30....intend to build it up again like last time before cashing out. Watered plant babies & potted up 5 trays of cosmos & 2 of calendula. Mr F off today, so mowed the lawn & dug out a big patch of dyer's alkanet which had colonised the back of one of my borders. The roots are like massive parsnips & if I wrangle them myself, my dodgy hand joints suffer for it later. 
Gold star on the zero food waste today. I had a use-it-up lunch, which got rid of 4 containers from the fridge plus an elderly pink grapefruit. Tonight is freezer dive night with jacket potato. I am having prawn & sweetcorn mayo with salad. Mr F has liberated a small wall's worth of containers of frozen leftovers & is happily planning the construction of another Epic Man Stew.
As I type this, there are tawny mining bees hovering around my feet.... they always look to me like little flying pieces of the finest copper-orange velvet.
Sexy Mr Blackbird has re-appeared. I think what's happened is that he has paired off with a mate, & the other female is kicking off about her advances being spurned......aka any city centre on a Saturday night!
Hope you've all seen at least a bit of sunshine & kept your pence in your purse.
F xx

foxgloves

P. S Forgot to mention for extra brownie points that I also sorted & ironed all that laundry I did on Mon & Tues. V boring indeed..... but had my halo 😇 on afterwards! 
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