2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

lingojingo

FunBrum wrote: »

My washing is blowing like a ships sails...hope the pegs will hold!

way too windy here to hang washing out - back door nearly blew off its hinges when I ventured out just now!

sophiesmum_2

Morning everyone,

Janey hope your tummy is better today, can't have been much fun at the time but has given us a giggle this morning:D

This afternoon I will be cooking a roast dinner for my oldies who don't get invited out to family. I am a manager in sheltered housing but used to be a chef in a former life:D , anyway now I regularly cook a tea on Friday evenings and a sunday roast tea, I do it in my free time which I don't mind and me OH and DD eat with them for free. It has had a good effect on my food budget as I now have two complete meals a week I don't have to cater for. I also get to make stock, and soup etc with the left over veggies and stuff. Today we are having roast chicken so there will be 4 large chicken carcasses turned to stock later.:D There will be almost 30 eating today:eek: but I do have a little band of volunteers to help with the spud bashing and veg peeling;)

Have a good day everyone:D

Marru

redglass wrote: »

skintwellie wrote: »

My dog managed to completely trash it when she was a puppy (doors, floors, walls, carpets, cupboards and various items of furniture became her teething toys!)
Been there, Skintwellie! My sofa (wooden arms, IKEA, bought in more prosperous days) still bears the toothmarks where my dog used to lie on it and nibble the armrests. They were just handy for his jaws so he enjoyed himself to the full. My mum's dog scratched the wallpaper off the wall in a damp corner of the kitchen - Mum wasn't happy!

Hi Redglass and Skintwellie,

Are they Labradors by any chance?

Marru

Aril

Hello fellow frugalites!
And how are we all upon this fine and frugal day?
I have had to muster all my frugal willpower [or should that read won'tpower:D] this week as the material girl popped out of her box unexpectedly and ambushed me. There was I innocently nipping to the supermarket to top up on milk for work [so was legitimately near the shops] when I made a fatal tactical error and glanced sideways into the window of Oxfam where I spied the most gorgeous jumper. The material girl can be very persuasive and all I could hear was "you needs that jumper....you wants that jumper...your wardrobe would be complete with that jumper and I'd never bother you again". How many times have I responded to that argument over the years I wonder:D Anyway to cut to the chase I did the sensible thing and thought I'd think about it over night. When I got home and checked in my drawer I found not only one but two jumpers of exactly the same colourway so phew I kept my Venus flytrap purse [with credit card with Snitch like apsirations] deeply buried within my rucksack under various clutter and saved myself £6.99. But oohhh how easy it would have been to add another identical jumper to the collection without checking first:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Quick gnatbottom stake update. Mr Frugal and frugalmite did magnifecently with Mothering Sunday....20 daffs for the price of 10 and a card making kit for half price [plus erm some Turkish Delight that I'd asked for and chocolate] so well spoilt there but all done in a canny costed out sort of way. However, today I am triumphant as have inched ahead....as I type Mr Frugal and frugalmite are off collecting a drill from freecycle that I spotted to replace the trusty one that blew up last weekend after 20 years of trusty service. Phew my head's that big now that we'll have to open the double doors to get it through.:D:D
Happy frugalling!
Aril

Janey51

Hey Aril Even more frugalistic....the daffs are all out in the local park...
Not that I'm for one moment suggesting anything underhand

MarkyMarkD

FunBrum I have been to Port Sunlight but not Bournville, but I understand that they are similar ... in which case it must be a lovely place to live, and like you say very reasonable rent. Excellent work on buying the flat and renting it out too - especially because your daughter is occupying it. I presume that you've told HMRC that you are running a rental business?

lingojingo My parents phoned my brother this morning, and passed on the message that next door's barbecue (with a huge heavy gas canister weighting it down and - get this - park-style bench had been blown through the fence into their garden! That's near Manchester. Sounds like the wind is even fiercer up north than here in the Midlands.

sophiesmum Your cooking roast lunch for everyone sounds great - you deserve the bonus of free food out of it! Well done! I'm making Mother's Day lunch for my wife and my parents which was going great until I went out, leaving the timer on ... but the oven not switched on. Came home at quarter to 1 expecting it to be nearly ready and had to start from scratch. Roll on 3.30!

redglass_2

Hi Redglass and Skintwellie,

Are they Labradors by any chance?

Ours (mine and Mum's) were mutts - or as I now prefer to call them, frugalhounds.

CharliesAngel

penny2myname, nyk - thank you for your thoughts and best wishes.. my mum will know who you are, they know i'm addicted to this site!

I'm off for a bath and back up to the hospital...

xx

sophiesmum_2

Right the roast dinner for my oldies is now prepped and cooking away for a 4pm serving so chance to have a bit of a browse on here.:rolleyes:

First week of my challenge and so far have spent :
Car insurance DD - £26.28
bits in asda - £2.40
Work shoes - £10.00
Electric - £10.00 (don't actually pay for electric but for sake of challenge I am putting £10 per week from budget into my sealed pot:D )

Total spend week one £48.68 happy with that so far:D
My food cupboards and freezer are both well stocked and food budget benefitting from the meals I cook for the oldies so should be able to keep food costs to a minimum for a while:T .

Janey51

I have been given a present from 2 very good friends....a Terramundi :j
Its a beautiful drippy lilac colour...IYKWIM

I think they must have got the hint as the word "frugal" peppers my conversation on a daily basis
I have wanted one for ages but couldn't bring myself to part with the cash.

I am racking my brains to think what special thing I could use it to save for as I have so many savings pots already