2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

Janey51

CharliesAngel as I am a nosy person, I was looking at your other posts for clues as to how you manage to be so frugal.
Have you recently got rid of your car? (wish we could ..lol) because I see you paid car insurance in January.

Burlesque_Babe

Charlies Angel - £1.50 a week - am I reading that right?! Of should it be £15.00 a week? Where do you get your flour so cheap for the bread? Iuse the Value stuff so get 3 small loaves from a 30 odd pence bag, but with potato waffles costing around £1 a box and cheap beans 14p or so, I'm fascinated! Do you grow your own vegetables etc?

whitewing

Nyk,

Big slapped wrists for you! DS has had to go off to school not knowing what is going to happen to Billy. Apparently, I must find out before I pick him up!

bails

Charlie's Angel, I too am very intrigued by your figures so please tell us more! Janey, the £1.50 feeds Charlie as well as the two cats; I have two cats as well and simply can't see how that is possible so please do reveal all! How on earth can CT be so low anywhere, that's incredible! I am truly perplexed by your figures...

Frugaldom

It's Friday the 8th of February!! :eek:
Has everyone forgotten?
Are you all pretending not to remember?
It's exactly one week since the start of the Frugal Fitness Club and it's now time to find out if we measured up to the original challenge! :eek: :eek: :eek:

I haven't measured yet but have been keeping up to date with the number of extra calories I have burned over the past week, thanks to my trusty on-board computer system on my exercise bike./ Oh, alright - it's a battery attachment that counts time, distance, calories etc same as a pedometer :rotfl: Over the period of 7 days I have increased my calorie burning by umm... brb :rotfl:

Sorry about that, I couldn't see my signature to check my calorie count. Anyway, it's 4700 extra calories burnt off over the past 7 days. Between now and the 15th I plan to burn an extra 1000 per day and it's all for FREE!

Billy Can - how many of us now have billy cans with labels stuck on them? I'm going to add a piccie of mine just to prove that this isn't a joke.

Thank you to everyone who is showing a keen interest in how Charlies Angel can live on so little. I lay awake for ages last night trying to figure that out and then between DD and myself (she visits for breakfast!!) we decided Charlies Angel must live in a cabin of some sort, burn local wood, work places that provide free meals and free transport and arrive at your door on your birthday etc with a potato peeler, mop, paintbrush and garden spade. Her 3 jobs could be: ticket collector on the trains (free travel), hotel work (free meals) and shelf-stacker in a discount food store (can get really cheap reduced to clear last thing at night food). They heat their water via back boiler on their log fire, have only one main room with a shower room and a small cooking area, only use a microwave and grow their own veggies, herbs and fruit. summertime, they use the local stream for clothes washing and to bathe. The only thing that struck me about this was that the above would be fine if it was remote, however, they would need to live near a railway station and be within a Freeview area. (We don't get Freeview or any other digital signal here and we aren't particularly remote here.) any other suggestions welcome as I would LOVE to find out how it is done, although I already showed the figure was not £11/week

andromache_2

nykmedia wrote: »

The first thing he has asked me to get you to do is to save the next empty tin you see or use. It doesn't matter what was in it, although he reckons that most people settle for baked beans, spaghetti or tinned tomatoes. I'll be interested in hearing from everyone about this as, amazingly, mine was a baked beans tin! OK, whatever was in the tin has probably been eaten, so completely remove the lid and make sure there aren't any sharp edged. Wash it out, remove the food label and then get a piece of paper to make a new label. On this, you should write his name - in BIG BOLD CAPITAL LETTERS - write the name BILLY! You now have your billy can!

Let me know as soon as you have yours and then I'll let you into the secret of what billy can do for you...

OK... I have a tin which used to have flageolet beans in it (I got it reduced cos it was a bit battered but I hope Billy won't mind )... pray let us into the secret

elantan

thanks karen mustve missed that one

whitewing

I don't know if I'm being overly sensitive but it looks to me that you are having a go at CharliesAngel. It may be that CA is spending so little on food as growing or sourcing their own, and maybe trading favours with friends.

Anyway, I am happy that my free 750ml sample of Lenor Infusions Black Diamond & Lotus Flower has turned up today with £2.50 worth of vouchers in it (from the freebies board). Looks very classy. Unfortunately I can't smell it because of my stinking cold.

Frugaldom

Hi whitewing, sorry if it looks like I'm having a go at CharliesAngel, but I have issues concerning the need for absolute honesty when posting on a public forum. My own possible over-sensitivity found their initial posting a little offensive.

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

The 'lol' comes across, to me, as their finding it funny that many face a real challenge living on £4000 over the period of a year.

elantan

i have been giving this thoughts on and off since this started now i know you have answered all the questions but i was wondering does that include pensions, savings for isa's etc? ...i know it doesnt include mortgage and council tax travelling expenses to work.... but does include gas and electricity food tv license etc etc ..i honestly take my hat off to you all..i am trying to get things in order so i can do it next year but i just cant see how i am gonna