2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

Burlesque_Babe

I'm also a stardrops girl - I get mine from my local Asda.

Well, the bread from the freezer is now all gone so the breadmaker is doing its stuff as I type. Chucked a bit of stale grated cheddar in so should get cheesey bread.

I'm on my last squirt of hairspray......

kelly-jelly

Was contemplating the £4000 a year challange but then I calculated that I live on under that amount a year anyway because my monthly debt repayments are so high - lol

Good Luck to all involved x;)

skintwellie

Hi Guys,
Have read through the posts and will be checking out some of the sites mentioned. Have had a bit of a hmmmm day today. Son wanted(!!) to go shopping with me as he wants to eat more healthily in 2008. We drove to the nearest small town 8 miles away and visited all 3 supermarkets in order to save money. Still spent a whopping £56.00 (of which £6.49 was for his razorblades!). Next week it is definitely back to Asda for me. Spent half an hour cutting the dog's treats into thirds to make them last longer. Then I made lentil and potato bake for tea (cost less than £1.00 to feed 3 of us) with a large salad. Even grumpy son ate it and said it was 'nice' which means it must be delicious as he is a confirmed meat eater.
Put my 'copper pot' into the Coinstar today and ended up with £14.21 which has gone into my £1,000 target for Christmas 2008. However, I'm a bit cheesed off as several months ago I got an invitation to join Simply Bingo' with one of my comping mags. I joined with £10.00 and Simply Bongo added £10.00. I'd played a couple of games and yesterday decided to 'waste' the rest of my stake. Whilst waiting for the bingo game to start, I idly had a go at the slot machines and won £20.00. Whoaa! I asked for a cheque to be sent to me for that amount and decided that would go into my Christmas account as well. Today I got an email saying that my winnings had been forfieted because I couldn't draw any money out of my account until I'd paid at least £40.00 in!!! oh well.
Anyway, I think I will be over my weekly budget of £86.00 this week (also over by £5.48 last week), but determined to be in monthly budget by 31st Jan (£344.00)
Love to you all.

tryingtodobetter

I was just wondering if anybody had Martin's new book? What is it like? Is it worth spending some of my budget on?

oops_a_daisy

Skintwellie - if you put £40 in then withdraw £60 you should be able to get at your winnings without having to risk gambling it away. Pop over to the gambling and introductory offers threads and post up a question on there just to double check xoopsx

LollopyBear

Today went as planned and only spent £5 on my train ticket. I'm getting a reputation at Uni now as during break and lunchtimes I ask for a mug of hot water from the cafe (this is free) and then pull out a tea bag from my pocket and top up with a little milk from the side. I don't think the cafe staff like me though!

For my lunches I've been using up the cheese and crackers we have left over from Christmas. They're surprisingly filling!

mini_huny_money

taka wrote: »

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...

hya Taka

Am in central Scotland and the only place I can find stardrops is Morrissons. Its great for everything even takes curry stains out of whites!!! and the odd spill of red wine......am messy...... . was rereading some old threads the other night and some folk have used it as a replacement for washing up liquid....not too sure bout that one though. Theres a stronger one too, which really takes the grease off anything. Its a milky looking liquid.......just remembered......called Starclens. I need to replace both soon

sashacat

I use stardrops too, have done ever since I read about it on the old style boards. I get it from Home and Bargain, which is very cheap.
I am doing this challenge monthly and, after all my DDs have gone out I have £193.32 per month. I have done really well so far this month but today I have renewed my buildings insurance which I pay as an annual lump sum as it is cheaper this way. This means a whopping £89.85 has gone from this month's total. I have been really careful but now have only £64.10 left for the whole month. I am determined to live on that until 1st February! I am finding that I am watching every penny though and eating from the freezer, but I need to get petrol soon....panic!!!:eek:

rosieben

Our local Morrisons is quite small and they stock stardrops, usually hidden on the bottom shelf of course, as all the high profit stuff is at eye level

Burlesque_Babe

mini_huny_money wrote: »

. . was rereading some old threads the other night and some folk have used it as a replacement for washing up liquid....not too sure bout that one though.

I used it for washing up once when I'd run out of washing up liquid - does the job a treat.

I've just said 'pooh' very loudly. I pulled the breadmaker plug out for a second to put it in the adjoining socket so I could plug in the microwave and the breadmaker didn't remember where it was in the programme - so it went back to the beginning :rolleyes: I've stuck it on the Quick programme which would be about where it was on the full one and i'm keeping everything crossed something edible emerges.

Pooh.