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Simple living in the country - back to basics

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  • themadvix said:

    @KajiKita, yup, totally get where you're coming from - if Sensible September works for you, then go for it. (Bizarrely, 'Sensible' makes me baulk and dig in against it, so I'm sticking with 'frugal (challenge) September!' I know it doesn't alliterate but it just gets me motivated!)
    thats why I am going for Soaring September (soaring towards my dreams!) 
    DON'T BUY STUFF (from Frugalwoods)
    No seriously, just don’t buy things. 99% of our success with our savings rate is attributed to the fact that we don’t buy things... You can and should take advantage of discounts.... But at the end of the day, the only way to truly save money is to not buy stuff.    Money doesn’t walk out of your wallet on its own accord.
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6289577/future-proofing-my-life-deposit-saving-then-mfw-journey-in-under-13-years#latest
  • greenbee
    greenbee Posts: 17,694 Forumite
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    Cheery - use the rugs wherever you can rather than keeping them in storage! Until the floors were finished here, I had various threadbare rugs, underlay and carpet offcuts that people donated to stop cold from the concrete floor. I still have a couple of threadbare rugs upstairs, as I like them!
  • Cheery_Daff
    Cheery_Daff Posts: 17,076 Forumite
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    Yes, I'm definitely going to cover the study floor, and we may even end up with some in the dining room end of the kitchen, which is also usually cold. It's been nice and cool over the summer buy will just be plain old freezing in the winter 😂

    Just had Jack Monroe's tinned spaghetti recipe for lunch. Goodness knows how we ended up with so many tins of value spaghetti 🙄 Mr Cheery doesn't like it, and I'll eat it on toast once in a blue moon but don't ever really WANT it, so it's all just sat there, about 13 tins of it 🙄

    Anyway, sauce finned off, microwaved for 1.5 mins, grated cheese mixed through, and then I added a bit of salt and a grind of what I thought was pepper, but it turned out Mr Cheery had topped up the pepper grinder with dried cumin 😂 It was actually pretty tasty, and might be the way to go for using up the rest of the tins on working from home days. Had it with some slices of pepper for a bit of crunch.

    Back to it I suppose, not feeling very motivated today!
  • Cheery_Daff
    Cheery_Daff Posts: 17,076 Forumite
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    Ooh, Mr Cheery has found us a potential washing machine on Freegle... One person has already replied, but it only went on a couple of hours ago and we've sent a nice friendly message being really flexible about when we can collect it...

    So all fingers and toes crossed!
  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
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    Fingers crossed cheery,  washing machines are one of those things we really miss when they ain't working 
  • I went back to college a few years ago and was often frying up a pork chop, onions and making stew at 6am
    I had a fellow college student  stay with me a few nights each week (For free on my couch as he had no money) and he would think I was bonkers. 

    However taking a hot flask of nutritious food to school and a thermos of fabulous coffee each day so helped my budget and my energy levels.
    I can only drink decent ground coffee (I tried that downgrading brand exercise and cheap coffee makes me shudder)

    Spicing up the JM spaghetti seems the only way forward ! 
    DON'T BUY STUFF (from Frugalwoods)
    No seriously, just don’t buy things. 99% of our success with our savings rate is attributed to the fact that we don’t buy things... You can and should take advantage of discounts.... But at the end of the day, the only way to truly save money is to not buy stuff.    Money doesn’t walk out of your wallet on its own accord.
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6289577/future-proofing-my-life-deposit-saving-then-mfw-journey-in-under-13-years#latest
  • themadvix
    themadvix Posts: 8,671 Forumite
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    Fingers crossed for the washing machine!
    Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days

    'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway


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