2022 Frugal Living Challenge

willow_loulou

I don’t do individual squares but just keep going round, it’s very satisfying and I think more enjoyable for me. 

I’m into felting currently, that’s extremely satisfying. 

annieb64

It also keeps you warm while you are making it.

marycanary

Debsnewbudget said:

I made a jam sponge in the microwave tonight. 

I was very uncertain that it would work but 5 mins cooking and 5 mins resting and it was delicious. 

Just grease a pudding basin, put loads jam in bottom, try and put some up the sides. Mix together a sponge mixture, add it on the top, put grease proof paper on the basin with an elastic band and microwave.
enjoy

When my children were little I would make this at least once a week during cold weather. I also used Goldern Syrup, lovely. Happy days.

cw18

willow_loulou said:

I don’t do individual squares but just keep going round, it’s very satisfying and I think more enjoyable for me.

annieb64 said:

It also keeps you warm while you are making it.

I did give serious consideration to doing it this way, especially as I don't like stitching squares together
But given my wrist is aching from my 'larger' square I think it's wiser to stick to larger squares to stitch together this time around.

willow_loulou said:

I’m into felting currently, that’s extremely satisfying. 

Not something I've felt inspired to try (I honestly don't think I'd stick with it long enough to get even half way decent results), but I do own a couple of lovely pieces.   During lockdowns the kennels I vounteer at (as a walker, but we weren't allowed in during lockdowns!) did weekly football cards as they couldn't run their normal fundraisers.  I entered those, and won a couple of vouchers to spend at the kennels shop/in online autions they were also running.    I got myself a felted robin (looks lovely on my shelves all year round), and a felted greyhound (who everyone said looked just like a hound that had been very special to the kennels).


During my childhood I learned to knit (and was still a fairly avid knitter up until 1990), do tapestries, cross-stitch (have a LOT of kits in the loft, but have done very little in the last 19 years), lace making (which I enjoyed, but would need help to get going again), and carding/spinning (great fun, and my Mum still has her spinning wheel).   My Mum also tried to teach me embroidery, but I never got the hang of that.   I used to watch her doing macrame with interest, but for some reason she never introduced me to that one....

London_1

It looks as though people will be reviving old skills and hobbies this winter.I love knitting and am lost without a pair of needles by my chair.I shall be starting this weekend to knit ten chocolate orange covers for the family as what started of as just four has now snowballed to friends wanting them as well and even grown up ones

I did a bit of Christmas shopping this morning and so far have cracked about half of it.I like to get it done and wrapped by the end of November if I can and as it was actually dry this morning I got stuck in. One thing I am hunting for is a chcoclate bar that a friend likes called Dairy Crunch I think its by Nestles but none of the big supermarkets seem to stock it I tried Poundland and no luck there either.is it not sold anymore I wonder ?

JackieO xx

Primrose

I don,t know about this chocolate bar JackieO but I did read in the paper earlier this week that a number  of food manufacturers are going to stop manufacturing some favourite products because of cost and other pressures.  My favourite Mini Cheddars were amongst those scheduled for the chop so I will have to stock up!  

joedenise

JackieO - have you looked on Amazon?  They do white Dairy Crunch and they do the milk chocolate ones but could only see packs of 16 of those so they might be more than you want to buy.

mandy47

London_1 said

I did a bit of Christmas shopping this morning and so far have cracked about half of it.I like to get it done and wrapped by the end of November if I can and as it was actually dry this morning I got stuck in. One thing I am hunting for is a chcoclate bar that a friend likes called Dairy Crunch I think its by Nestles but none of the big supermarkets seem to stock it I tried Poundland and no luck there either.is it not sold anymore I wonder ?

JackieO xx

Try farmfoods, I've seen it there in the past.

Pollie

Jackie O---if you can't find any, could you make some?

London_1

Pollie said:

Jackie O---if you can't find any, could you make some?

Got my Dd on the case at the moment but if she can't find it I may have to  

JackieO xx