2022 Frugal Living Challenge

Ellie79

Morning all. Still under the weather here. Hopeful for negative tests tomorrow and the next day, just so I can even go for a walk. Had to send out for a couple of essentials, so not exactly spend free but very close! 

I've got very little taste/smell/appetite which at the moment is reducing the calorie spends, if nothing else. Who mentioned Porridge, that might be the exact thing I fancy to eat! 

Keep well all. Lovely to see so many comments, plans etc. Here's to a very rewarding 2022. 

Mortgagefreetobe

Morning all,

Sorry to hear you’re not well Ellie, hope you feel better soon. 

Day 4 of no spend for me and I have some library books to collect later as well. 

Yesterday I made broccoli and Stilton soup using up the remainder of Christmas cheese and I also made lamb hotpot using up leftover lamb that we had had on NYD. It was a real treat. We have so much Christmas chocolate left so I’ve put that out of sight and will give it to the kids over the coming weeks which will save us buying any sweets! 

I’ve left my purse at home every time I’ve left the house and it’s working very well for me. 

BookWormNotEvenSorry

Thank you for your well wishes.

NSD for me today and most likely all week, working from home all week so no shops to entice me in on my way to and from work.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day and hope those that aren't feeling well feel better soon.

Baxtersmum

Viking_mfw said:

DS1 (4) has got into the eating from the pantry challenge by inexplicably requesting porridge for breakfast the last 2 days. He is helpfully topping this with sprinkles his father had before I met him, bbe 2014.... 

I love this! 🤣😂

RateTartExtraordinaire

@Ellie79 Sorry you aren't feeling well. Fingers crossed you get better soon. 

So far in 2022 I hadn't spent any money but today booked in my MOT online with Kwikfit (cheaper than doing it on the phone!). I found cashback site offering 5.5% off and picked the cheapest day I could find which will cost £35 before the cashback. I did this last year and it worked out well. I haven't used the car as much this year, I had the tyres checked before Christmas and  hoping nothing big will need doing.

willow_loulou

My olio haul was amazing today, as I passed Lidl I popped in for green beans. I wasn’t going to but the olio veg I got was lovely but not quite enough and aldi beans are only 69p. I’m looking forward to cooking tomorrow. I can’t manage it today as I’m shattered and so sore still. But I’ve enough ready in the freezer to reheat 

mandy47

Spent £11.64 in aldi. Mainly fresh produce and bread.
 £4.95 on a new can opener.
We were supposed to go to a comedy night in May 2020. The date has continually been rescheduled and now is set for a date we can't attend. £50 refund by the end of the week.

Ellie79

I'm using up my yarn stash (even though I can hear pretty new yarn calling my name!). If nothing else this enforced period of rest is improving my crochet skills. Learned a new granny square so my challenge to crochet a blanket for my grandaughter is on its way. 

Making some soup with a gammon joint. The gammon will do some pasta salads and sandwiches and the soup will be my diet over the next 3 days. OH is nipping to A*di to top up packed lunch items for youngest for school, normally I would knock up some cakes/cheese scones to save costs but sadly not feeling up to it. Had to unearth the food processor to do the veg for the soup as anything else was just too tiring. Im supposed to be back to work tomorrow but I think not. Monday would be better. That way I will have had plenty rest and hopefully by then will be testing as negative. 

kimwp

Think I'm going to pop off this thread, it's a lovely community, but I was hoping for ideas on how to save money rather than chat about people's days and it's a lot of emails. You all seem lovely, all the best with your frugalling!

leftatthetrafficlights

Put in my leccy reading this morning- think it's going to be an eye watering bill 🙈 

With that in mind, I've decided that the wm will be used on 30min cycles from now on - we only wear our clothes for a day and both have desk jobs so there's no real need for a 1hr wash! 

Lunch was leftovers and tonight's dinner is going to be re-purposed leftovers! I was going to cook cauliflower but realised that I still have half a box of chilli lentils left so will make enchiladas with them 😊 

I've got a few pallets in the garden that we're planning on turning into a woodstore so need to find the crowbar at the weekend- if it doesn't work, we'll chop them up for firewood 😉