2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

Mollymop5

Nyk, I'm going to give the kids beans so I can make my Billy can.
I love your posts they inspire me so much.I can't wait for the update to hear all about Billy

elantan

silly question i know but what time is a good time to go to the shops to get food cheap?

mini_huny_money

Mollymop5 wrote: »

Nyk, I'm going to give the kids beans so I can make my Billy can.
I love your posts they inspire me so much.I can't wait for the update to hear all about Billy

:rotfl: :rotfl: well I can't use an empty bean can!!!!! (not for the next few days!!!!)

Good tho cos Im eatin less......see below for more info unless you're eating

Temporary toilet.....:eek: no cistern, just a bucket to pour water down!!!!!!.....Don't mind for a number one but noooooo wayyyyy anything else:eek:

Have already made a visit to the local service station tonight to use their facilities

OOOps sorry probly way too much information, at least they don't charge and they are very clean, shower rooms and everything . Don't need those tho as the bath is installed, no hand basin tho

Mollymop5

mini_huny_money wrote: »

Have already made a visit to the local service station tonight to use their facilities

OOOps sorry probly way too much information, at least they don't charge and they are very clean, shower rooms and everything . Don't need those tho as the bath is installed, no hand basin tho

:T very MSE :rotfl: :rotfl:

mini_huny_money

redglass wrote: »

mini_huny_money wrote: »

The kitchen gets delivered next week, where the !!!!!!!! am I gonnae put it till it gets fitted on the first week of March.

When something like this happened to me a friend volunteered to store the units in her garage until I could move them into my teeny weeny house. It might be worth asking round - good luck!

Thanx for that redglass

kinda thought bout that but no one I know well lives near enough, there's probly enough room in my living room for the boxes and the sink and oven/ hob could go upstairs its just that I'll have to empty the bedrooms as the boiler that lives in a cupboard upstairs needs to be taken out and the workies will have to lift floorboards in the 3 bedrooms....It'll be fine though Ive lived for the past 3 weeks with a bath in my living room !!!!! and Ive got the weekend to get everything organised.......plenty of time.....

XXX

Frugaldom

CharliesAngel wrote: »

still can't work out how this is a challenge.... me and two cats live on £11 a week.... lol.....

Your first post states that you live on £11/week, which is £572 for the full year. Your annual budget break down is as follows:

Electric - 10 a month, i'm always at work (three jobs) no gas (£120)
Train to work - free through work
telly - free view, licence paid monthly, about 10 ish (£135.50)
phone - no phone.
no car.
i'm mortgage free as of last october (only borrowed 11k three years ago) contents insurance 4.43 a month (£53.16)
council tax is 137 a year, so paid a year in advance.. there's a wierd reason why it's that low, i'm yet to find out but have suspicions that the house is within 'private estate' land going back hundreds of years... (£137)
Water 14 a month (£168)
1.50p a week on food - yes that's right! fresh bread, beans, fruit, cat food from deep discount stores - meals are either beans on toast, pasta with sauce, tuna and cheese, waffles beans and cheese... u get the idea! (£78)
i don't buy presents because everyone knows i'm tight so we trade in favours like diy or gardening instead
i make my own (potent) wine and invite friends over rather than go out.

The above adds up to £691.66 and I cannot, for the life of me, work out how you can keep 2 cats and yourself for £1.50 per week.:eek: I'm assuming that, as you work 3 jobs, the cats must live outside and there's somewhere in the budget for worm/flea treatments or vaccinations but even if I add on the cost of standard minimum veterinary treatments it doesn't amount to much over a year. Electricity - I think I pay about £10 per month just on standing charges and VAT! Please, please share your secret. Even if I owned my house and paid only a token council tax, it would still equate to more than double your expenditure per person per year.

Sorry to sound so incredulous, I'm just stunned at £1.50 per week including 2 cats :eek:

whitewing

Morning All!

Billy whitewing all present and correct. (Rice pudding tin)

Burlesque_Babe

Elantan - there was a post a bit back by Nyk with rough times in it for cheaper supermarket stuff. For me, Tesco is 5pm and then 9pm and Asda is around 1pm and then 7pm.

£15.98 today for me today. Got loads of dinner left over so last night's chicken and coconut curry with rice has all gone in a pan in the fridge. I'll add some chick peas and maybe a few boiled potatoes to pad it back out again and it becomes chicken biriani!

Janey51

By the end of today I will have an empty evaporated milk tin so will await instructions.

Janey51

CharliesAngel I am stunned at how frugal you are!
I have 3 cats and they aren't fussy but it costs me way more than 75p each to feed them. Even though they catch a lot of their own snacks, I still spend a fair bit on worming stuff and have to save a bit towards any vet bills.Luckily they have never had fleas!
How do you heat your house? You must have a free source of wood or your own coal mine
What about clothes? Do you just use the internet at work otherwise surely you must have a phone line

If this is your budget for a year, you need to be giving Master Classes in Frugality :T But that would give you 4 jobs so you wouldn't have enough hours in the day :eek: