2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

mama67

Jumble-Bee wrote: »

well i am starting the careers advisor pg course this autumn and my face would be :T
but methinks i may be a one-off!


i have had a good weekend was at a wee jumble and they were handing out 2 free energy saving lightbulbs and a personal attck alarm

plus i was temping this weekend so have some extra cash, and when i stepped out of work i found................................................................

:j:j:j:j:jveggie roadkill!!!!:j:j:j:j:j

well, a lovely bag of lovely farmers market looking loose fruit and veg - it was in a carrier bag with snapped handles, and some idiot must have just left it. so i whipped out my bag-for-life and snaffled it. i got -

4 starfruit
1 large sweet potato
5 limes
2 oranges
9 tomatoes on the vine
17 lovely huge red chillies (gonna plant the seeds too)
and 2 things that i dont know what they are.....they are the size of a bulb of garlic and have a stumpy stem, with a reddish root vegetable skin (like a sweet potato or a turnip)??? anyone know??

does anyone else remeber the borrowers? it reminded me of pods advice that you ahould always carry a spare borrowing bag so that you dont miss out on any great finds!

oh and i asked my bf to marry me - he said yes to avoid the £100 and gloves, but then i told him i would need an engagement ring, and that the traditional value is 3 months of his salary.... but he said he would just call off the wedding the next day and owe nothing! curses.... he did say he might buy me gloves to humour me though:D

They sound like Jerusaleum Artichokes.

Just wash and trim don't peel and then roast as you would parsnips. Yum!!

HTH

Frugaldom

Jumble-Bee wrote: »

... oh and i asked my bf to marry me - he said yes to avoid the £100 and gloves, but then i told him i would need an engagement ring, and that the traditional value is 3 months of his salary.... but he said he would just call off the wedding the next day and owe nothing! curses.... he did say he might buy me gloves to humour me though:D

Gloves and £100? Am I missing something? Are we getting a frugal wedding? Ooh... that could be 2 if Bails takes the plunge :T :T :T

chardonnay_2

nykmedia wrote: »

Sad but true - our shores are completely littered by plastic bottles when the tide turns.

nykmedia where are you in scotland?

MarkyMarkD

Nyk I think that overall it was a good Mother's Day weekend, despite my incompetence in the kitchen. My daughter is 27 months old and her picture is on my avatar temporarily.

Marru My daughter is always headbutting me or my wife in the face. She doesn't seem to think before she leaps too often yet! She's always bumping her own head, actually, which isn't too good.

mumzyof2

Evening all well i popped into town today so spent £1 getting to town...it was 90p last week!!!!
I went into boots and they had huggies little walker nappies on the clearence shelf for £2.75!! But in size 4 my DD is size 5 but i thought for that price il try them as she has lost her puppy fat since being able to walk..got to till and they were £1.75!! So i picked another one up I would of bought more but have about £20 to last me till Thursday..if id of had more id of been at boots for 9am tomorrow morning. Hope there is some left on thursday but bet they wont be!

Does anyone know what they ask you when you ring lovefilm up to cancel?? I only registered with them to get my free trail and piggypoints but then i realised i had to ring them to cancel..Im now in my 2nd month and 2nd payment went out today of £3.99 I realy dont like speaking on the phone but it says on website you have to ring them

Total spent today

£1 on bus to town
£2 on bus on way back (paid for OH)
£3.99 lovefilm DD
£3.49 in boots
£4.60 on cigs (not doing to well today)
TOTAL
£15.08
Im totaly gutted i have spent that much when i only have at most £20 to last me till thursday!

Frugaldom

chardonnay wrote: »

nykmedia where are you in scotland?

I'm in the southwest corner, about 40 miles from Stranraer, but have also lived in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire & Aberdeenshire. (Also lived in Suffolk - where I witnessed the worst problems with snow ever! :rotfl: ). Depending on frugality (and birthday money), I try to make it to Leuchars in September

MUMZY - You NEED to phone them, they'll just ask for your details but please read all the details in case you have to stay a member for a minimum term. I'd strongly advise against joining up to anything just for the points if you don't like cancelling. If you get caught in a contract it could cost you dearly. Always read the small print.

BAILS - Your first grand of the year? WOW! :T :T :T

andromache_2

mumzyof2 wrote: »

Does anyone know what they ask you when you ring lovefilm up to cancel?? I only registered with them to get my free trail and piggypoints but then i realised i had to ring them to cancel..Im now in my 2nd month and 2nd payment went out today of £3.99 I realy dont like speaking on the phone but it says on website you have to ring them

Hiya mumzy,

I can't remember what they said when I rang to cancel, but they certainly didn't give the hard sell or anything - it was very straightforward. I wouldn't worry too much about ringing them, they'll be very helpful

About to update my signature with the new weekly total... it'll go down a lot this week cos I've paid for a ball ticket (ouch!), mobile bill and train travel, plus a bit of socialising, but those are the last major expenses for a while! Fingers crossed should hit the target overall :cool:

mumzyof2

Thanks NYK and Andromache i will ring them tomorrow..

fallen_angel_shelley

mumzyof2 wrote: »

Evening all well i popped into town today so spent £1 getting to town...it was 90p last week!!!!
I went into boots and they had huggies little walker nappies on the clearence shelf for £2.75!! But in size 4 my DD is size 5 but i thought for that price il try them as she has lost her puppy fat since being able to walk..got to till and they were £1.75!! So i picked another one up I would of bought more but have about £20 to last me till Thursday..if id of had more id of been at boots for 9am tomorrow morning. Hope there is some left on thursday but bet they wont be!

Does anyone know what they ask you when you ring lovefilm up to cancel?? I only registered with them to get my free trail and piggypoints but then i realised i had to ring them to cancel..Im now in my 2nd month and 2nd payment went out today of £3.99 I realy dont like speaking on the phone but it says on website you have to ring them

Total spent today

£1 on bus to town
£2 on bus on way back (paid for OH)
£3.99 lovefilm DD
£3.49 in boots
£4.60 on cigs (not doing to well today)
TOTAL
£15.08
Im totaly gutted i have spent that much when i only have at most £20 to last me till thursday!

mumzy- when you phone them just be addiment with them that you want to cancell, when i cancelled didn't get the hard sell of them

MarkyMarkD

mumzyof2 Don't get me started on bus fares!

It used to cost us £3.50 return from our house to the nearest big town. Then the bus company decided return fares were a bad idea, so it now costs £2.50 each way or £5.00 in total - that's an increase of nearly 50%. :mad:

At other places on the route it's actually cheaper to get an all day all buses ticket, rather than two singles. That surely can't make sense.