2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

FunBrum

nykmedia wrote: »

: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

Me too nyk.

Have made H/M soup out of the chicken that was roasted yesturday and there is also enough chicken left to make a curry for tomorrow. My BF has also made H/M fish cakes for this evening...yummy!!:D

Had to buy a new quilt today but managed to get one from Wilkinsons for £14.99. My BF gave me half towards it so my spends today are:

£7.50 Quilt
£0.89 Cooking oil
£2.87 Milk, bread & onion
£1.54 for book that I sold on Greenmetropolis:T

My cousin phoned me today to say that I had earned £175 in commission for referring a friend to him for a mortgage. He's a mortgage adviser

This challenge is really getting under my skin....I love it!:j

sweetpea03

Mollymop5 wrote: »

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

I've just registered & had an email back with the link to the book offer & its £4.45 for P&P Thanks DG I may send off for them to give as xmas pressies

My cousin phoned me today to say that I had earned £175 in commission for referring a friend to him for a mortgage. He's a mortgage adviser

Wow thats brilliant FunBrum, well done you!

Frugaldom

FunBrum wrote: »

Have made H/M soup out of the chicken that was roasted yesturday and there is also enough chicken left to make a curry for tomorrow. My BF has also made H/M fish cakes for this evening...yummy!!:D

:rotfl: I must learn to differentiate between all the abbreviations n here! First time I read this, my brain thought you'd made ham & mushroom soup... from a chicken! Reminded me of that old advert for stockcubes :rotfl:

Got to admit, I did the same - NYD we had roast chicken, I saved the extra (we had chicken curry tonight) and past 2 days we've had chicken, veg & rice soup. A chicken always stretches 3 days in this household if you count the soup and/or stew

I'm off to see about those 2000 points on pigsback now, seems worth risking a fiver for £20 :T

Can anyone tell me how the 'earn an extra £10 a day for a month' challengers manage to do that? I lost the thread again

redglass_2

Liloandstitch, I think you can load the Oyster online at the tfl (transport for London) website. I have done this in the past but as I rarely go to London I don't know if the system still applies.

I'm not in the challenge but I'm reading this thread with great interest - I think you're all terrific!

andromache_2

keren29 wrote: »

£5.00 for me today. Registered and deposited the minimum with Foxy bingo. It means though I get 2000 piggy points with Pgisback which means I can get £20 of Boots vouchers to spend on a few presents throughout the year.

Ooh, thanks for this! I registered and won one of the jackpots so I'm £28.50 in profit even before the piggypoints! The way my budget works, though, is that all this 'extra' money (including the money saved in Boots with the vouchers I'll get) will go towards paying for travelling this summer; I'm being very strict with myself with my actual budget! So that's, ooh, 5% of my flight paid for :rotfl:

shazrobo

hi all, decided to go to netto's for my shopping this week, and spent £38.19 which included some energy saving light bulbs, that they had on offer

debrag

redglass wrote: »

Liloandstitch, I think you can load the Oyster online at the tfl (transport for London) website. I have done this in the past but as I rarely go to London I don't know if the system still applies.

I'm not in the challenge but I'm reading this thread with great interest - I think you're all terrific!

yep you can regster & top up here - https://oyster.tfl.gov.uk/oyster/entry.do

debrag

keren29 wrote: »

nyk - Oyster is the name given to a pre-paid kind of travel card in London - it can be used on buses.

Also tubes, Trams, DLR (docklands light railway) and some overground trains

juliejay

Thanks Nyk thats really good advice. I've been working away at my budget planner and feel much better about the bigger picture now. Its quite a shock when you actually look at how the money just goes without you doing anything. A lot of the stuff I've got will last a while butI had forgotton the kids had gone onto school dinners. Its an extra £60 a month but they seem to love them so I'll stick with it for a bit. Had some good news in that we got a cheque back from the Yorkshire for reclaimed bank charges (thanks Martin!) for £175. Put that straight into the holiday fund.

Ephemera

Wooo... three days without spending money...pretty much a record for me! :money:

363 days to go... :T:rotfl::T

Good luck to everyone xxx