2022 Frugal Living Challenge

Elisheba

zafiro1984 said:

It makes me realise how lucky I am. Very small hamlet on a very narrow lane, less than 12 houses. When it snows dh clears the lane up to the wider road with a tractor, when there is a celebration - significant birthday, jubilee, Christmas etc we all meet up. Eggs jam, honey, veg, novels (I've just finished R Osman's 'The man who died twice') are left on a bench under the postbox for anyone to help themselves. We don't live in each others lives but help is there if needed.

That sounds just lovely @zafiro1984 Sounds like my idea of the perfect place to live 

Primrose

Having in early married life lived in a maisonette and a middle terraced house and endured rowing neighbours, loud "boom boom" music, barking dogs and toilets being flushed next to our bedroom wall all through the night,  wouldn,t swap from a detached property.
Life brings enough trials without being forced to endure the habits of noisy or inconsiderate  neighbours.  They really can make your life hell.

nmaria

WoW, 6 pint of milk gone up to £2.09 and UHT gone up by 4p a litre overnight. Really hope the farmers do get that increase

Elisheba

nmaria said:

WoW, 6 pint of milk gone up to £2.09 and UHT gone up by 4p a litre overnight. Really hope the farmers do get that increase

Urgh. That's a pain in the neck! 

Primrose

I think the sad reality over recent years is that farmers haven,t been getting their fair share of profits which is unfortunately why so many of them have gone out of business.  I suspect  itsprobably the supermarkets who'vecreamed off most of the profit.  They have hundreds of other lines to help boost their income.  The farmers only have their milk.

London_1

I think the big supermarkets think of milk as a 'loss leader' that encourages people into their shops. Milk and Bread are always at the rear of shops so you have to walk past other things to get to them and then get tempted to buy
JackieO x

Sweetlittledaydreams

Is everyone prepared for the heatwave? Will be saving money on gas because it will be cold meals for the next few days. Making the most of the sun to get all the laundry out on the line, I don't have a tumble dryer anyway but money saving opportunity for those who do.
Not particularly frugal but I got an inflatable hot tub during the first lock down, I've got it out now and have it set to the minimum temperature, yesterday the sun heated it up by another 4 degrees to 32'c so that was nice. Putting off doing the food shop for as many days as possible to try and save money because I always make impulse buys from certain middle isles! 
Roll on pay day in 3 days time.

nannygladys

I seem to be doing OK this month on the food front but the prices are definitely still going up, it makes you wonder when they will level out a bit. Fuel seems to have gone down a few pence around here but I bet it won't be long before that goes up again. And I was doing some paperwork sorting the other day and found an old pension!! I thought great I'm rich!!!! But when I got in touch it was £36 a year!!!!! I still haven't decided whether to take it as a lump sum  (no world cruise for me!!)
Nannyg

Primrose

Bad luck on the pension!  Just think what a lifestyle that would have biught you in medieval times!

at least our fuel bill is lower in this hot weather. We,re living on salads, tinned salmon or runa, mixed beans, etc!  

London_1

Take the lump sum I did for one of my late husband pensions, as it was only about £12 a month and they offered me £3k, which I used back in 2003 to get my kitchen updated. It was worth far more to get the kitchen renovated as I couldn't do it myself .

I just had a result in the local asdas as I popped in to look at the meat after dropping off my grandson to work and got enough y/s stuff to top my freezer off so no more shopping for me for at least a month now  

JackieO xx