2021 Frugal Living Challenge

QueenJess

annieb64 said:

Check out the supermarkets  for sunhats-got DGS a couple from A**a. He's  a nightmare for losing things.

Ooh good idea! We have one very close.

2childmum2

The other trick with name labels - if you have more than one child and a name label company that allows middle names (i.e. 3 names) is to put one first name, the surname and then the second first name and then fold over the one you don't need -

eg  Annie Smith James

Works if you have a very common surname when it's likely there are more children in the school with the same surname as you. 

stymied

I don’t suppose you’re a yellow & grey uniform school are you @QueenJess? Coming towards the end of reception year with a Sept baby so lots will be grown out of xx

QueenJess

stymied said:

I don’t suppose you’re a yellow & grey uniform school are you @QueenJess? Coming towards the end of reception year with a Sept baby so lots will be grown out of xx

No, it's navy, red and grey.

stymied

Give me a shout if you don’t have any luck locally & if 5-6 won’t be too big. We should have grey shorts & trousers going spare.

mumof3.12kindebt

Good evening frugal friends, 

I haven't caught up on posts, but we are still frugalling. As much as possible. 

I hope everyone is well 
Hugs to all those that need / want one 

StrawberrySuze

Hi all, hope everyone is good 🙂

Not checked in for a while so thought I would!

Finished my new raised bed and will be planting it tomorrow, managed to get some top soil from a couple of people and now have free wood lined up for when I get my woodburner fitted; one of the people with soil has 10 acres of woodland, I will need to fetch the wood from the bit of the woods that he's been managing and cut it up but it will be free, I like that price!

I've planted spinach, salad leaves, basil, radishes and rhubarb so far, also aquired a couple of squash plants and some strawberries. My garden and pots are starting to look quite good, need more pots though!

Bought a really nice metal table and couple of chairs from g**mtree for my front garden, also bought some bark, fruit bushes and a yellow gage tree, they were a really good buy even if the birds end up getting most of the fruit! Went to a garden centre a few days ago but they were really expensive, I didn't buy anything.

The fence between myself and nextdoor neighbour is being replaced in the next few weeks so I have some laurel to remove, hoping I don't have to pay someone to get the roots out with a digger but it is very established and quite solid so not very hopeful.
Can't wait until it is done, just have a bit of brickweave to do on my drive; plant something where the laurel is and then the front garden will be done 😁 it's only taken five years.........! of course I will then want to do other things to it too!

My back garden just needs some slabs laying where I had French doors fitted; the house painting; a brickweave path building and then that will be done too!

I still have work to do in the house, this renovation feels like it's never ending.

Managed to buy a whole roast chicken for 49p the other day, I love a bargain! Still loads of food in my freezer so hoping to have a low spend June and pay off my debt, so nearly there 😊

Siebrie

With husband in Africa, dds and I eat food items he does not regard 'main meal': soup and bread, salads, porc, pancakes I'm already saving sooo much.

fionaandphil

I went to Ald* early this morning to avoid the queues and the heat.  They had so much bread and rolls discounted I could have filled a big trolley.  I picked up a large bag full and am now off to my mums to stick it in her chest freezer!  I hope you all have a good day.

zafiro1984

Our two offspring plus their other halves are coming to visit tomorrow, we haven't seem them since Dec 2019. Really looking forward to it. Both have very good jobs, (after being 'head hunted' one turned down a post with the gov as it didn't pay enough) so they have little idea on how or need to be frugal. 

So I put my thinking hat on and have come up with the following
1)Ham and turkey cold pie - I have plenty of turkey as I grow them for Christmas, ham is leftover and in the freezer, I'll use sausages split and the contents removed to separate the layers. Hot water pastry
2) pate - turkey livers in the freezer, plus a couple of rashers of bacon lurking in the fridge
3) scotch eggs:- own eggs from my hens, sausage meat with a chopped apple plus flavourings
4)Meringues, eggs from my hens, yolks turned into lemon curd,
5)Strawberries from the veg plot and frozen blueberries from last year.

So all I had to buy from L!d! was some salad items, fruit  and cream to do a fruit salad. I did indulge myself and bought some mars bars to make a mars bar freezer cake ( a special request from one of them as I used to do it when they were small 40yrs ago)  I already had chocolate, raisons, cherries and biscuits, plus the rum. 
Total cost was under £20, quite pleased and I won't have to go out again until next week

I wrote the above this morning and forgot to post it, I've been busy all day cooking and now I have to clean the kitchen for about the forth time today.