Our £20,000 Life

Cinny91

Back from town and logging my spends to deter me spending anything else

£1.12 sausages for tea from the butchers
80p on a teacake for kiddo and a sausage roll for his dinner from
The bakers (no stop at the candle stick maker)
£5.80 in Wilkinson’s - Stanley knife blades, wire for curtains and test paint pot for the windows.
£10 on net curtains - looked in every charity shop but none were to be found :eek:

Going to my sisters this afternoon, will prep tea before we leave. Time to crack of with the curtains!

clearmydebts

The OP pot is looking good Cinny!

Cinny91

Thanks CMD small TT of £2.22 this morning so we’re ever closer to £200 :j

Aiming for a NSD today. First day back at nursery for LO and he’s very excited. I polished his shoes last night, trimmed any stray threads. I think they’ll do him fine for this term, still a fair stretch of growing room at the toes. Felt like a miser as it was like every mum we bumped into this weekend was either coming from or going to the big C of children’s shoes. But there really is no need to replace his current shoes.

Will be cleaning up a storm today while I have a few hours spare, also need to polish up our oil lamps and get them ready for filling now the nights are drawing in. Basically any job made easier without tiny helping hands is on the list

Been listening to one of my favourite books - Little Heathens. It’s about life during the depression, the level of frugality and ingenuity is amazing. Would really recommend it, it’s given me plenty of ideas on how to stretch the use of things and makes me feel quite shameful now if anything gets thrown or wasted.

Cinny91

Turns out if you’re making pizza, you need cheese. Who’d have thought that?! So yesterday was not a NSD. Frustratingly! I should have doubled up knowing I needed more onions and got them at the same time but I’m trying to work on “don’t spend today what you can spend tomorrow” :rotfl: so walked to town after dropping LO off at nursery and picked up a bag, and a bag of spuds too. Tomorrow won’t be a NSD either as I’m collecting the fabric for my sister and BIL’s Christmas present (£15) I just need to plan better, that’s all.

TT of £4.51, and it’s almost my payday

clearmydebts

Cinny91 wrote: »

Turns out if you’re making pizza, you need cheese. Who’d have thought that?! So yesterday was not a NSD. Frustratingly! I should have doubled up knowing I needed more onions and got them at the same time but I’m trying to work on “don’t spend today what you can spend tomorrow” :rotfl: so walked to town after dropping LO off at nursery and picked up a bag, and a bag of spuds too. Tomorrow won’t be a NSD either as I’m collecting the fabric for my sister and BIL’s Christmas present (£15) I just need to plan better, that’s all.

TT of £4.51, and it’s almost my payday

Yay to almost payday! I am with you on the needing to plan better. It saves so much time and money!

Cinny91

We’ll get there, CMD!

Cheap tea tonight of sausage pie. You fry two onions, put them in a pie dish, put sausages on top (6 or so) cover with a tin of chopped tomatoes, 1/3rd pint of gravy and top with mash. Cook in the oven for 40 minutes and serve with veggies. It’s from a ration cook book and really tasty! Obviously season as you go. I put a sausage casserole flavour mix into the pie this time, dissolved into the 1/3rd pint of water instead of gravy so I hope it turns out well.

Radish72

Tesco_points_addict wrote: »

Hello Cinny, long time no see!

Where are all the old 'gang', im trying to recall names: Birdie, Dinah, Gallygirl, clearmydebts, newgirly, taka (the iceskating queen), shrimpy, tallgirl, aboutmetoo, tilly, katsu, Radish, wantabetterlife, ziggy and loads more that my old brain can’t recall at the moment!

Can anyone point me the right direction for current diaries for anyone that I’ve mentioned, or if you remember anyone else from those times.

Its lovely to be back on here, looking forward to hearing everyones news

Hello TPA, welcome back


Apologise for hi-jacking your thread Cinny91


I haven't posted on my diary for about 2 years but last week became mortgage free


Gally girl and Tilly (also MF) are living it large abroad, so don't post as much


Radish x

Cinny91

No need to say sorry Radish, hijack away!

Sat down and made a list of what’s left to make for Christmas. 1 quilt, 1 cross stitch, 1 embroidery loop, 3 dog beds and 1 rag doll. The “to buy” list, not including LO and DH, is relatively small so I’m hoping to make steady headway on that over the next few months keeping my eye out for deals.

Filled our oil lamps for this evening. With the nights drawing in we can use that with the ambilights on the tv which means we don’t need to have the lights on. Will only really save a few pence, but still.

We currently have £255 in our bank, with my wages being paid in on Friday (£230) this is my second to last wage before I cut my hours down to 16 (£160pw) so I want to make the most of it and put as much as we can to one side. Hours being cut were my choice, planned before the debt went up, as to have an extra day at home in the week with LO. Looking forward to it, although the extra money would be more than welcome, as I’ll be able to lend a hand with nursery more often. So if I ever try and use “balance” as an excuse for spending money someone is welcome to come to my house and slap me. THIS is my balance!

Contemplating cancelling Netflix as I never use it, DH watches nothing on it and we only really keep it for my parents as a thank you for looking after O and asking nothing for it. If they use it we’ll continue to pay it, if not it’ll get cut. £8.99 pm is a very small price to pay for free childcare.

clearmydebts

Cinny91 wrote: »

We’ll get there, CMD!

Cheap tea tonight of sausage pie. You fry two onions, put them in a pie dish, put sausages on top (6 or so) cover with a tin of chopped tomatoes, 1/3rd pint of gravy and top with mash. Cook in the oven for 40 minutes and serve with veggies. It’s from a ration cook book and really tasty! Obviously season as you go. I put a sausage casserole flavour mix into the pie this time, dissolved into the 1/3rd pint of water instead of gravy so I hope it turns out well.

We more or less had the same dinner. Second night in a row for us but we love it:)

Cinny91

Can’t beat a family favourite! LO was unimpressed with tonight’s variation and labelled it “disgusting” and “‘orrible” hmm, probably won’t try that again!

Booked in for an eye test next week as it’s been 2 years since my last. Have a voucher to have it done for £10, and I’ve had my glasses made online for the last 8 years so I’ll stick to that while I can.