Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

Moorviews

Oops, naughty Soot! I have a container from the animals in residence chain store which is very good for that sort of thing. The lid clips down really easily and stays firmly shut without smells escaping. Very handy for the kind of revolting natural chews that my dog enjoys. 

I can see I am in good company regarding the kind of presents that I appreciate most. What I loved most when I stopped having my hair dyed was not having to spend all those hours sitting in the salon, or spend all that money. I did do the home dyes for years but I got too much grey for that to work well. I look after my own nails too and only wear nail varnish for special occasions. 

DawnW

Another spa day refuser here. I am far to fidgetty for all that! I manage to get my hair trimmed about once a year and that is it

ladyholly

I did go on a spa day once. Never again! A waste of a day.

foxgloves

If you ever hear I'm on a spa day, it will actually be 'Spar'.
F

Sun_Addict

I’m not able to sit still long enough for a spa day either. I colour my own hair because I hate sitting in the hairdressers for more than an hour plus the cost is a factor. I occasionally have my nails done but usually only for holidays. 

I’m glad you had a nice birthday with some useful presents. 

foxgloves

Yes, salon hair colour definitely used to feel like it took forever. I don't miss those long appointments.

Well it's already raining here, so apart from my daily greenhouse checks, I can't see much in the way of garden progress happening today.
I've already mixed up a sourdough & left it to prove & will need to divide up all that leftover gammon this morning. There is a lot left so Mr F has suggested having some with eggs & home made jacket wedges tonight so we will bump a meal from our meal plan into next week, always a saving in itself. No Monday laundry because of the rain, but I intend to change the bed linen because tomorrow looks to be dry & I can peg out for free line drying.
I would like to do my regular Monday morning budget updates & to cash out my April PA survey earnings - not nearly as much as usual, but I didn't put as much effort in, so fair enough. I also need to put away my birthday presents &/or press them into immediate use, which I will defo do with a lovely new handwash & hand cream. 
So while not a hugely productive day planned for today, I think it will be a pleasant one & a nice pampery bath should round it off nicely. 
I must say it feels much less scary visiting the utility, where the smart monitor lives mid-morning & seeing 'Gas use today 34p' rather than some of the hideous figures popping up over winter. Let's all give it some serious welly now with building up our credit for winter.
Well, I can see the bottom of my coffee mug, so it must be time to move.
Enjoy your BH, all.
F x
P.S Soot has been ejected from the pantry 4 times already this morning. It's clear I will have to spend out on a large cat-proof container, grrrr.

Sun_Addict

Soot is a naughty boy 😆 My old tom cat was the same, he worked out how to open boxes of dried food. I had to put his food in a high up cupboard he couldn’t get to in the end. 

The sun is coming out here so you might get out in the garden after all. 

themadvix

When we bought our house it didn’t have a kitchen door (because of the tightness of the space rather than a fancy open plan layout). Arrival of cats saw a bi-fold door to keep them out, then latches on inside and out to keep cats out. Any given chance, ginger cat leaps into wall cupboard where his treats are stored (there is no room whatsoever for him, but he’ll wedge himself in somehow). Fortunately we keep the sacks of food in our outside store room - but when he gets in there he’ll quite happily dive into the bag and have to be pulled out by his rear legs! Some cats just have to have food!!

carolbee

We use the big round boxes that the fat balls we put out for the birds for a myriad of uses. No cat thieves in residence here at the moment.

EssexHebridean

Fat ball boxes make great stores for all sorts of things although we discovered that they can't be left outside as they do go brittle and then the handle falls off and spills the contents everywhere...(don't ask me how I know...) . We have a rectangular tin with a lift-off lid which was originally bought for cat food (pouches, kibble and treats) and that now does duty for our supply of fat balls for the birds (Oh the irony - HRH The Cat would be turning in her grave!) with the lettering stating "cat food" turned to face to wall. 

We got some garden time over the weekend too - in our case mostly pulling out a positive mountain of three cornered leek though which runs rampant near us and would smother everything else if given the chance! Fingers crossed your turf takes OK - that would be a handy saving there if it did wouldn't it!