2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

Burlesque_Babe

bails wrote: »

You could use olive oil in place of the butter in the mash, works well (haven't tried it with other oils) and you don't need milk then either.

Don't have any of that either I'm afraid but cheers anyway. Years ago I had a tiny bottle of truffle oil which I used in mash. It was delicious but not very MSE!!! :eek:

Now officially having a bad day and head hurts

broke_mum_of_three

Just had a thought that now that number 112 has joined us, welcome to summertea, that us 112 and our families will be living on approximately 1/2 million pounds nows that what I call amazing!:A

sweetpea03

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Hello everyone

Im another one following this thread with growing interest

Thanks for the mention Nykmedia ...

Im not doing the challenge -although i have decided to become "tighter than a ducks doo daa":rotfl: .... i just can't bare to spend at the moment... and am looking at reaching the end of my 2nd week of Jan GC having only spent €10.86 in total

so i think i need to go right back to the begining of this thread and read again and see if i can get to grips with what is included in the £4000 and see if i can give it a go...
may take me some time to get my head round it...but i will be back

:hello: hello Mrsmcawber! Lovely to see you here your tip on the grocery challenge for 48p lidl bread flour has really helped me out this month!
Hope to see you here again soon & have fun reading the thread, hope you'll be able to give the challenge a go, it sounds like you're well on the way already

fizzel81

today is not my day.
had my court date through for hearing on procession of my house (army quarter) i was feeling so positive untill i opened that letter

i will be aiming to stick to this challenge, though if its ok i will not be including th court costs in my 4000 that will come with this

bails

Oh dear, a few people not having such a good day so have one of these from me :grouphug: Tell us what's up if you want to (and haven't already) and we'll see what we can do to help, even if it's just nod in sympathy. This challenge is for the good AND bad days, whether it's moneysaving or not x

slowlyfading

its not money savings, its just uni problems in general am having a break from writing an essay - got 1748 words and need 2500 but am slowly running out of things to say then i have another 2 essays to write, and a million and one other things to do at the same time! just think it has got on top of me today.
Am going to write a list of things I need to do, and then see what's a priority and whatnot. thanks for the support guys, it is much appreciated. xx

MRSMCAWBER

Ok im back...

Probably gonna get this round my neck :rotfl: - I don't think i can join in :sad:

You see, as our rent, gas, electric, water come straight out of hubbies wage (army accomodation)....
we have a mortgage, but that is paid for by the tennant at the moment...

So i really only have control of the "housekeeping" side of things -any other things are all set up DD out of hubbies account

Pants... will just have to follow you all and stick to keeping my shopping as low as a snakes belly :rotfl:

mumzyof2

Hello all well i have paid all my debts just now. Think it totaled £444.00! I got my statment thorugh from c/one and it was £130 min. I payed it this am online for £130. I rang them up just to get total and realised my min payment was only £90! because i had been paying £5 here and there last month i forgot they would of deducted it off min payment lol so rang bank and they stopped it going through sp £130 will be back in my account by tomorrow so il [pay £90 then. also i forgot to pay littlewoods as ive just had so many debts to pay i thought id payed it..so just paid that now. £27.20 and i only have £80 left once that reaches my account, My debt for virgin media is only £68 once the £53.00 i have just paid clears..and i have just paid £100 moorcroft so thats a debt CLEARED and 02 arrears which has been cleared and that was £90! 02 put tariff down to £20 where we get 500 mins and 200 txts..also virgin media have given us talk unlimited to house phones all day everyday.as long as we on know longer than 59mins! So iam actually having a good day not bothered i just spent £444.00 on debts..oh and i payed £50 to oh's account for bills that aint due till end of month sooo happy...

had some 3 gammon steaks to use up so put them in a casserole with carrots peas n onion and having that with crusty bread for tea...
got my breadmaker on also
about to hang washing on airer and not the dryer!

I just want to say thankyou to nyk...you have changed my life and make me think differently b4 spending! Im so scared to spend now and even if one item is £3 i think its too much :P

tryingtodobetter

I have had 2 NSD days now but that's down to fact that the only place I have been is to drop the children at school and pick them up.This is because I am currently writing a 3000 word essay and a 1500 report they are both due in on Monday:o At least they stop me spending:j

Frugaldom

Congratulations to everyone whether you are having a good day or a bad day. Bad days are to be expected as we've all had plenty of them pre-living on 4k challenge times. Think how much less stressful these bad days will become knowing that you'll have fewer money worries or more savings stashed away. If you are having a bad day, try to get back that smug feeling! You know the one, they 'I told you so' one because you know that with good comes bad but you are so in control of your finances that you'll eventually overcome almost any problem. 'Pah' to problems... they are only sent to interupt the good times and make us appreciate more.

Now, what to do about writer's block if you are 1000 words short of an essay... what's the essay about? Maybe we can all chip in our virtual penny's worth and send some inspiration your way Give us a few key words and see what surprises spring to mind.

Fiz, sorry to hear about your house dilemma, but perhaps there will be a blessing in there somewhere and you just haven't spotted it yet. If you already know that you really must move out of your house, then any delays caused by whatever reason will give you that little bit longer to search for alternative accommodation and that little bit longer to organise finances so you can raise the deposit. I'm sure things can be worked out. Surely, in this day and age, nobody would see a mother and her children out on the street.