2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

liuhut

LollopyBear wrote: »

. I wanted to make a soup with the bones/carcass but DH felt that it would be taking things too far. Babysteps, babysteps. He'll come around eventually.

You know my OH said EXACTLY the same thing on Sunday...what is it with men :rolleyes:

Miss_Pink_3

liuhut wrote: »

You know my OH said EXACTLY the same thing on Sunday...what is it with men :rolleyes:

My OH was hard work, but I think I had a break through last night!!! A motorbike newspaper he gets every wednesday and probably has done for the last 10 years of his life at least, he picked up looked through it quick and said 'I don't really need that this week!!!!' OMG!!!! I almost fainted!!!!!

sweetpea03

Hi DdraigGoch, not sure how you'd go about getting free beer lol but maybe you could read the guardian website http://www.guardian.co.uk/

I know its not the same as buying a paper but it might save you a few pennies

Frugaldom

LollopyBear wrote: »

I wanted to make a soup with the bones/carcass but DH felt that it would be taking things too far. Babysteps, babysteps. He'll come around eventually.

:eek: I always make stock from chicken, beef or ham so I have a plentiful supply in the freezer. If you boil everything up and simmer it for a while then strain it, it freezes perfectly well in plastc milk cartons. It's ideal for cooking and easy to measure if a recipe calls for a pint (or half a litre) of stock then lift out the appropriate size container. Tinned soup or packet soups are banned from our house unless there's a really, really exceptional offer on the Heinz tomato soup

Frugaldom

BrickingIt wrote: »

I had sausage and mash last night. The sausage was 1.5 inches long and had bacon wrapped around it. I didn't ask any questions. It could very well be the first bl**dy bit of money saving my OH has ever done:D .

Hi Bricky, what you doing over here? oh, and mind yer language. Should I take that as an indication you may have managed to stay off the cigs today? :j Hope so, you're supposed to be my quitter buddy!

LollopyBear

Miss_Pink wrote: »

My OH was hard work, but I think I had a break through last night!!! A motorbike newspaper he gets every wednesday and probably has done for the last 10 years of his life at least, he picked up looked through it quick and said 'I don't really need that this week!!!!' OMG!!!! I almost fainted!!!!!

Wow! What's the secret Miss Pink?

Liuhut - I'm glad I'm not the only one struggling with man issues

Frugaldom

Hello all!

I am having terrible problems trying to respond to posts here because the site keeps timing out on me and I am forever losing everything I have typed, so I'll apologise now for any posts that appear out of place.:mad:

Glad to hear your son's heart tests came back OK, Sweetpea

I'll slowly update this post so it doesn't disappear in the time out... I am such a slow typer :rolleyes:

As the days, weeks and months progress, budgeting becomes a way of life. Frugal living is quite a fulfilling existance if you are not materialistic but can be equally fulfilling even if you are. This is Day 3 of a 366 day year, we are 1/122 of the way there... as a person on the £4000 budget, I should have spent £32.78p Hmm... I have actually spent £5.99 but it really doesn't matter, I have another 363 days left to go!

A special mention for Juliejay
This is a game of numbers. If you started with a target of £5000 over a 366 day year, then you would expect an average spend of £95.62 per week, not a maximum or a minimum spend, but an average spend. If you get to the end of week one and find you have spent, say, £200 then so what?

YOU HAVE NOT FAILED! In fact, YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED in finding one of the main features of this cyberdoshing challenge! LOOK! >>>>>

£5000 less £200 = £4800 to last you 359 more days means that you have just reduced your average weekly spend to £93.59 and now it's time to readjust your overall budget accordingly. It's simple once you get used to the idea and it gets to be rather fun when you start looking closely at how a single purchase can affect your entire annual budget. :cool:

DdraigGoch

Just found a bargain - register with Good Housekeeping and get £25-worth of books FREE!

This is the url: http://www.goodhousekeeping.co.uk/index.php?module=roles&func=register&phase=registerform

Hope this helps with not only the reading but the present cupboard too

[Gosh, I'm so chuffed I can help at last! :money::j]

DG

wornoutmumoftwo

I've registered with Good Housekeeping, thanks for that.:beer:

Mollymop5

DdraigGoch wrote: »

Just found a bargain - register with Good Housekeeping and get £25-worth of books FREE!

This is the url: http://www.goodhousekeeping.co.uk/index.php?module=roles&func=register&phase=registerform

Hope this helps with not only the reading but the present cupboard too

[Gosh, I'm so chuffed I can help at last! :money::j]

DG

It says just pay for p&p.Wonder how much that will be.