2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

andromache_2

I'm VERY impressed with all the frugalites joining the February health kick! It'd be unhealthy for me to lose a whole foot but I am getting a bit 'soft around the edges' and could do with doing some more exercise... hmm... might get hold of a skipping rope from somewhere... that's pretty frugal as gym equipment goes

Good luck everyone x

Penny2myName

liuhut wrote: »

Can you put me down for 271....has any one noticed that one leg and arm measures different to the other, I've never noticed before!!!
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Yeap, i had half inch differences on mine.

tryingtodobetter

Having a really bad day today, I had to force my DS who is 7 to school today he was shouting and crying that he didn't want to go. My heart was just crumbling but I had to make him otherwise I fear it will be a regular occurance. I was going to post my figures for last month today but I just can't be bothered to be honest, no exercise done either. Feeling rather like this

liuhut

tryingtodobetter....my DD was the same this morning, I bet he was fine as soon as you had gone, that the feedback that I get about my DD.....I think that they are ready for the half term tbh.

Frugaldom

nykmedia wrote: »

Look what I found via another site

>>> A FREE TAPE MEASURE <<<

:j :j :j

As per an earlier post - no excuses for lack of a measuring tape. At worst, you can temporarily use a ball of string/thread/twine/non stretchy wool and a ruler Please do not use elastic or IF YOU DO then remember to use the same pressure on the stretching during all subsequent measuring :rotfl:

Janey51

tryingtodobetter wrote: »

Having a really bad day today, I had to force my DS who is 7 to school today he was shouting and crying that he didn't want to go. My heart was just crumbling but I had to make him otherwise I fear it will be a regular occurance. I was going to post my figures for last month today but I just can't be bothered to be honest, no exercise done either. Feeling rather like this

Awww....hope you aren't feeling too bad now. Bet you that your son has forgotten all about it by the end of school.
Kids...what they do to our emotions

nimbo

Is it too late to join this???

£4K should be a breeze!!!!

(If i don't eat haha)

Janey51

Hi nimbo

Oh dear. Are you sure you are ready to be hit by frugalism? Its becoming recognised as a notifiable disease now..;)

Frugaldom

tryingtodobetter wrote: »

Having a really bad day today, I had to force my DS who is 7 to school today he was shouting and crying that he didn't want to go. My heart was just crumbling but I had to make him otherwise I fear it will be a regular occurance. I was going to post my figures for last month today but I just can't be bothered to be honest, no exercise done either. Feeling rather like this

Thankfully, mine are past this stage but there were some days they made me feel like an absolute ogre for 'forcing' them to go. It started at nursery but the occurances of the screaming ab-dabs reduced to rare occurances well before secondary

Is bribery allowed? It's never too young to take up frugal hobbies, so you could always explain that school helps make it more fun on days off, and then organise a frugaling expedition to find skeleton leaves, twigs, pebbles and whatever else kids can find, then have a frugalart hour at the weekend and make pictures. Just glue whatever you can find into a collage and make a picture frame from cardboard. If you can't get out and about, try the garden or, if the weather is vile, use the house - pasta shapes, scraps of paper, cotton wool, cut up a magazine, anything at all. Even try the papier mache banks (listed on my free hobbies thread.) Here's a picture of some of the banks made by fellow MSE'ers

flowerofthewest

nykmedia wrote: »

HOW COULD I FORGET THE BUM PART??? :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Added it into your list. I got told there are 2 measurements to use for this potentially expansive area of the anatomy, one measurement around the hip bone area and one around the 'fuller' areas

Hmmm . . . Looks like I'll have to measure around the "fuller" area as don't think I've seen my hip bones for around 20 years. :eek:

Still haven't found a tape measure and only have a 6-inch ruler so am going to buy a proper tape measure tomorrow.