2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

sweetpea03

whats stardrops whitewing!?

thanks for the tips everyone, I'm going to take a look at that recipe site Rafiki, it sounds interesting

Just updating on todays spends so far :eek:

Bills - £16.00
Electric - £23.00
Food - (showing online in bank now) £36.07
Clothes - as new sunglasses for ds3 in charity shop 50p he has been told to take some for eye appointment next week & we don't have any.
Other - 50p vegetarian cookery book also in charity shop, this should hopefully help our food budget if we eat veggie 3-4 times a week

So a total of £76.07 from my budget of £94.23 leaving £18.16 left but I want to save as much as I can from whats left each week for pressies & clothes, don't think we'll need anything else this week except milk at the weekend unless ds3 has any unexpected school trips

rosieben

Stardrops is a cleaner, useful for floors, worktops, all sorts of things; its an Old Style staple and its very cheap, I pay about 74p. Saves filling up your cupboards with dozens of different expensive cleaning products - this one will do so much! there are OS threads about it, I'll try to find one

You’ll find all sorts of ideas for money-saving in the Old Style Index; sorry if I'm preaching to the converted but I wondered if there may be newbies who dont know of it so the links are below; have a browse; it wont all suit you but you might find something that will, and just using one of these ideas could save you quite a few £££s over the course of this challenge!

This is the Save Zillions on cleaning costs index
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=47563

This is the complete OS Index
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=235198

tryingtodobetter

I love stardrops so cheap and sooooooooooooo useful :j :j :j

Frugaldom

Hi Rosieben, don't worry about preaching to the converted, we all need a little reminder sometimes My house wouldn't be home without Bicarbonate of Soda and Washing Soda Crystals

fizzel81

stardrops is a all purpose cleaner for under 70p (and a little go's along way)
i will update my spend on sig when i get bank statement for direct debits that will have gone out this month i useally use internet banking but last time nationwide told me a few times my details wasnt right so now need to re register (all the longer i wait to re register the less i will spend as i will worry i wont have much there lol)


my housing issue:
i was married to a soldier, when we split last feb i got 93 days to leave the house, my council wont house me till its gone court route for reprocession, im waiting for this to happen, untill this has happened im not a proirity for re housing as me and the boys have something, when it go's to court and a procession order is made for the house then thats when they will do something and i will get housed.


im really looking forward to this challenge,and I AM going to complete it, im on a cupboard,fridge and freezer mission to give jan a kick start as a very very little spend month

princess_leia_3

Spend for me is £3 today - some fruit and I had a craving for nesquick banana milkshake this morning so I had to buy that too....along with some irresistable mini iced donuts on BOGOF
(I can blame these moments of weakness onto being 7 mths pregnant!!!And my mind is not really my own :rotfl:)

I have never used stardrops but I do use Tesco value bio washing powder to clean my hob and oven and its magic :cool:

taka

Still haven't worked out where to buy stardrops... nowhere near me seems to sell them Tescos, Sainsburys and Waitrose are all stardropless near me. I live in Edinburgh...

Protogenia

Your nearest Morrisons may sell Stardrops...I like the shine it gives to shoes and the inside of our car. x

sweetpea03

Thank you very much for the stardrops info & links rosieben & fizzel I will be having a read of the links tonight, I love the old style forum, everyone is so friendly but there is so much info I sometimes don't know where to start! so the links will be very handy I don't have Morrisons here either but will try & hunt some Stardrops down, there is an shop which sells old fashioned cleaning things quite nearby so I will have a look there first

taka

Thanks Protogenia! May just give my local store a phone 1st as its a pain to get to!