2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

Rafiki_2

Fiddlesticks!

I've just looked at my £76.50 per week and realised ..

£10 - weekly Christmas Fund 2008.
£9 - "Retirement Fund" (a leetle investment dabbling )
£25 - Mobile Phone package (don't ask - it looks dire but it's just fine)
£2.50 - Haircut (£10 per month)

leaves me with a delightful £30 for the remainder of the week.

Ohhh, this is SO going to be fun!! :rotfl:

I shalln't be rushing to wear my "dry clean only" suits ... Pfft

Aunt_Bessie

Evening peeps

All this talk of electricity got me thinking way (way) back to when I was a poor student.
We used to boil one kettle full of water ( the old whistling type pmsl) & fill flasks......the grey matter seemed to work better on copious amounts of coffee (& our Mums supplied us with that!)

I was just wondering which way would be cheapest with todays modern electric kettles.
Filled to the top & boiled once?? (...decant into flasks)
or only boil a cupfull, half a dozen times ??



xx

Rafiki_2

Protogenia wrote: »

"Poor you mumzy - have a look on freecycle and request a hoover if they are not advertising one or look in your local paper , yo should be able tp oick a second hand one up for a few quid."

Jeeeeez cant you tell I am typing in the dark to save cash!!

Nice idea! :beer:

:T

SarahNeedle1872

nykmedia wrote: »

I have charted the useage from Christmas Eve to New Year's day and now have the final answers to my own questions. Look at the differences in numbers of units of power used:

Day 1 (25th Dec) 63 night, 25 day (extra cooking etc)
Day 2 (26th Dec) 65 night, 21 day (freaked out, turned down temp on a night heater)
Day 3 (27th Dec) 57 night, 20 day (day still too high, switched OFF a convector heater, rearranged house and now have my computer in the living room.
Day 4 (28th Dec) 55 night, 15 day (Wey hey!! A saving beginning to show!)
Day 5 (29th Dec) 56 night, 14 day (Better, and the WM was on last night! Now stopped using groundfloor other than for cooking & eating)
Day 6 (30th Dec) 57 night, 8 day (TD was on last night and I didn't cook much today)
Day 7 (31st Dec) 56 night, 10 day (We were all up and about or watching TV until about 3am LOL)

Have now started a chart for 2008 and aim to get electricity useage down even further by keeping all doors shut, making more draught excluders, sorting out curtains for the silly long window that drops between 2 floors and getting to grips with the storage heater settings. Plus, still thinking of forking out on getting the chimneys inspected - could be worth it over the long term Anyway, I have HALVED my electricity useage in the space of one week just by checking the meter and adjusting stuff about the house - now looking at getting a better rate per unit.

This is great Nyk, u've inspired me to take a look at mine now..... I shied away from this challenge, but read the thread all the time as I'm intrigued how people are going to achieve.
I'm also on E7, but I know my bill is going to be big this time as I have been using the tumble dryer LOADS during the day!
I am gonna chart mine, and see what I can do.... our rented house doesn't have double glazing, so the curtains are sut a lot of the time, meaning the light is on. But I can make draught excluders etc

Thanks

Sarah x

mumzyof2

I have found a BAGGED hoover on comet for £19.99 but ive not had a bagged hoover in years! what are they like? How much are bags for them? would it cost me more money in long run?
I cant get hoover this week as i have £30 for week and if i go out and buy a hoover for £19.99 i have £10.01 left and i wouldnt be able to go on train to see my mum on saturday b4 she leaves to go home so im having a bad hoovering day tomo with this hoover i have been lent..and then no more hoovering till monday (hopefully oh's mum wil forget its here)

SarahNeedle1872

mumzyof2 wrote: »

I have found a BAGGED hoover on comet for £19.99 but ive not had a bagged hoover in years! what are they like? How much are bags for them? would it cost me more money in long run?
I cant get hoover this week as i have £30 for week and if i go out and buy a hoover for £19.99 i have £10.01 left and i wouldnt be able to go on train to see my mum on saturday b4 she leaves to go home so im having a bad hoovering day tomo with this hoover i have been lent..and then no more hoovering till monday (hopefully oh's mum wil forget its here)[/qu

I had a bagged hoover, but as the opening was quite wide, I just used to empty the bag into the bin and use the same one until it ripped. Must admit tho, I wouldn't be without my Dyson cuz of the hairy dog!

Sarah x

mumzyof2

SarahNeedle1872 wrote: »

mumzyof2 wrote: »

I have found a BAGGED hoover on comet for £19.99 but ive not had a bagged hoover in years! what are they like? How much are bags for them? would it cost me more money in long run?
I cant get hoover this week as i have £30 for week and if i go out and buy a hoover for £19.99 i have £10.01 left and i wouldnt be able to go on train to see my mum on saturday b4 she leaves to go home so im having a bad hoovering day tomo with this hoover i have been lent..and then no more hoovering till monday (hopefully oh's mum wil forget its here)[/qu

I had a bagged hoover, but as the opening was quite wide, I just used to empty the bag into the bin and use the same one until it ripped. Must admit tho, I wouldn't be without my Dyson cuz of the hairy dog!

Sarah x

well im just off to see if i can fix my old hoover (see if its blocked anywhere lol) il be back later

scorpio04

Protogenia wrote: »

I have done my Asda order for the next fortnight...however the money doesn't go out of my account until the day the order is delivered
Genia X

Just realised that Asda deliver here so might give this a go too. I like Lidl's but always buy stuff I don't need there. Could send son for staples that are really cheap from there though and do the rest by delivery - no temptation that way.

Lexxi

mumzyof2 wrote: »

Help wanted plz!!!

My hoover packed in to day..and i dunno how im going to afford one living off £30 a week? any ideas?

There's also gumtree that you could try, there are lots of things for sale on there or some people give things away. Or look at if it's more economical to rent least that way if it breaks they repair it. Or if you live anywhere near north manchester we had 4 on the last count!

My last one was a bagged one, bags were about £5 for 3 I think, unless you get a 'henry' they work better without the bag :cool:

mumzyof2

4 what????? lexxi