2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

sweetpea03

wornoutmumoftwo wrote: »

Well we're on a loaf a day (about £7 a week x 52 weeks = £364 a year)

Anyway, I'll justify it by spending a little of the christmas money my hubby gave me, I also got two cook books for christmas (one scottish recipe book and a slow cooker one) so I'm hoping to be very economical this year. :A

Thats about the same as us, hope you enjoy using your breadmaker when it arrives & that it saves you lots of money

Your cake tasted great by the way.

Your cuppa was pretty good too!

hopeless_spendthrift

sweetpea03 wrote: »

As I'm trying to use up what I have already in I made this cake today using the walnuts & dates left from xmas, would anyone like a slice with a cuppa? :coffee:A few years ago the nuts & dates probably would've got thrown away if they weren't eaten over xmas


And heres my bag of bread rolls that I made earlier, they only cost about 24p of flour + a little bit of oil, yeast, sugar & salt



Your chicken meals sound lovely Protogenia, I have never been able to face cooking a chicken carcuss which is a bit daft, i may try & give it a go sometime during the challenge to get a meal or two extra out of the chicken like you

YUM! Sweetpea! I would love a slice it looks deeelish! Well done!:T

Jacks_xxx

hopeless_spendthrift wrote: »

Not weird, but very resourceful Jacks! :cool:
All the best with it all!
Thrifty

Thanks hon. We DO eat some fairly random combinations at times!

Love Jacks xxx

sweetpea03

Thank you hopeless spendthrift! There's a virtual slice heading right your way

Jacks_xxx

sweetpea03 wrote: »

As I'm trying to use up what I have already in I made this cake today using the walnuts & dates left from xmas, would anyone like a slice with a cuppa? :coffee:A few years ago the nuts & dates probably would've got thrown away if they weren't eaten over xmas


And heres my bag of bread rolls that I made earlier, they only cost about 24p of flour + a little bit of oil, yeast, sugar & salt



Your chicken meals sound lovely Protogenia, I have never been able to face cooking a chicken carcuss which is a bit daft, i may try & give it a go sometime during the challenge to get a meal or two extra out of the chicken like you

OOh how LOVELY sweetpea! Like Worzel Gummidge I like nothing better than a cup of tea and slice of cake (as my hips will testify.:p ) and yours looks very yummy indeed!

Love Jacks xxx

hopeless_spendthrift

hypno06 wrote: »

Hi Thrifty and welcome to our mad world!!

I am sure you will be given a number before the end of the day!

Good luck with the challenge, and don't be afraid to answer questions......we are quite nice people

Thank you Hypno - I feel better already!:D

Miss_Pink_3

wornoutmumoftwo wrote: »

Well we're on a loaf a day (about £7 a week x 52 weeks = £364 a year)

Anyway, I'll justify it by spending a little of the christmas money my hubby gave me, I also got two cook books for christmas (one scottish recipe book and a slow cooker one) so I'm hoping to be very economical this year. :A

Your cake tasted great by the way.

Was that the 'Ma Broons'' cook book? We got that as well.

Frugaldom

funkyfunkymonkey wrote: »

I won't be including postage because I operate my Amazon sales as a business - the profit is classed as income and is taxable, so postage, envelopes, paper, ink etc would be the same as work expenses.

FFM

As per above, I work via eBid and am registered self-employed, so none of that has anything to do with my actual annual household expenditure.

Today I have spent £2.50 in total - £2.05 on onions and cheese (half price mature cheddar) and the 45p change I stuck in Phil the Pig 'cos I felt sorry for him being sat there, all lonely, saying 'feed me pennies, mum' :rotfl:

£4000 per year during a leap year is £76.50 per week, of which £30 per week is my grocery shopping. Let's start making things even more fun because it isn't all as simple as that! In this 'game', every penny you spend makes an impact. :cool: My grocery allowance is £30 per week, which is equal to £4.2857142 silly number per day, so for January, my ACTUAL figure is £132.85 (31 days in the month) then for February is will be £124.28 (29 days). Here's where the silliness becomes an obsession...

My grocery challenge figure is set at £120 for January. If I can keep to that, I have instantly 'made' £12.85 in real savings. I'll explain how I work these savings into my plan after completion of week 1.

HINTS AND TIPS - Try to do something energy or money saving every day. Today I have started changing the lightbulbs to my old energysaver ones. When I moved into my last house, I switched to energysaver lightbulbs but kept the landlord's old bulbs and switched them back before moving here. I'm now starting to do same on this house without having to buy new bulbs Don't forget you can get 4 x free energysaver bulbs if you are in receipt of any benefits nor tax credits... it's on MSE somewhere, will find the link later

wornoutmumoftwo

Was that the 'Ma Broons'' cook book? We got that as well.

Yes, excellent book, made my steak pie recipe from it yesterday.

Miss_Pink_3

nykmedia wrote: »

As per above, I work via eBid and am registered self-employed, so none of that has anything to do with my actual annual household expenditure.

Today I have spent £2.50 in total - £2.05 on onions and cheese (half price mature cheddar) and the 45p change I stuck in Phil the Pig 'cos I felt sorry for him being sat there, all lonely, saying 'feed me pennies, mum' :rotfl:

£4000 per year during a leap year is £76.50 per week, of which £30 per week is my grocery shopping. Let's start making things even more fun because it isn't all as simple as that! In this 'game', every penny you spend makes an impact. :cool: My grocery allowance is £30 per week, which is equal to £4.2857142 silly number per day, so for January, my ACTUAL figure is £132.85 (31 days in the month) then for February is will be £124.28 (29 days). Here's where the silliness becomes an obsession...

Hahaa!!! Thats what I've done too!!! My daily January grocery limit is £4.15 including phone bill. My weekly grocery shopping is £29.09. That 9p will come in handy one day. Anything left from it will either go towards the phone bill or my mortgage pig. I think she's starving abit now, especially as the spends have gone down.