Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

Sun_Addict

Yes I do remember Linco beer shampoo. Here’s the ad for Badedas 🤣🤣

foxgloves

Right, well, @Sun_Addict, I can tell you that he definitely did not appear in my garden in his flares or indeed anything else after a bath in this stuff. I think we should have asked for our money back! 
F

2Scratters

I watched the back end of a product Savers programme the other night and it was on about dehumidifiers. The one I had purchased earlier this year came out tops. (Meaco) Made me feel better re the money spent was justified.
 We actually put it in our bedroom the other day as our front bedroom was feeling quite cold/dampish. We live in a bungalow with suspended floors which are notorious for damp. (our bit of damp we have in there does come from the roof as it is due to be replaced/updated in 2024) I put the dehumidifier on for the afternoon and did empty the 3/4 full collection tray. The room temperature difference felt shockingly warmer and the damp feeling had defintely improved. 

2 Scratters xx

ladyholly

Mr LH loves said bubble bath although he uses the shower gel as we don't actually have a bath. I am glad to say we have never had that man in the garden. I might be slightly worried if he appeared. 😂

PennysIntoPounds

Wonderful work all round, the good quality trinket dish sounds especially lovely

I always thought 'Last of the big spenders' referred to someone spending lots, as in 'spending money like it's going out of fashion', every day's a school day on MSE!

Blimey @Sun_Addict that's, um, certainly not an advert you'd see these days

joedenise

Used to love the Linco Beer shampoo in the little barrel!  It was great for taking on holidays because it was quite small!

Blackcats

Gosh that man lurking in the garden whilst the lady of the house is having a bath - eek.  What with him and the man breaking in and delivering the chocolate "all because the lady loves milk tray".
The Linco beer shampoo was a special treat and was indeed very bubbly.  As a teenager I regularly dyed my hair with the sachets of Shaders and Toners.  The colour didn't last very long although applying them made a horrific mess in the bathroom.  I always felt that "light ash blonde" never fulfilled its promise on my hair.  

foxgloves

@Blackcats - Oh I LOVED Shaders & toners, even though most of them were very brassy or ginger-toned. My favourite one for ages was 'sherry gold'. Then I moved onto the stronger slightly colours in the triangular boxes before hitting the permanent home dye kits a couple of years later. The funny thing is that my Mum was strict about anything involving popular culture/street fashion - anything regarded as 'common'. I wasn't even allowed to have my ears pierced until I was 16, yet for some reason, I was allowed to colour my hair from the age of about 12. I was allowed to wear make-up, which I loved, but not for school. 
F

foxgloves

Hello Sunday Savers,
I think we had the best of the weather on our trip down to meet my sister, b-in-law & nephew, as back here it is raining quite hard & the cats are wishing they hadn't slept through the nicest part of the day.
Lovely morning with my family - I have so little family, & we meet up only rarely as live 120-ish miles apart. Successful presents exchange (+ hamper) so no parcels to post, which is an added advantage.
Now, I am primarily popping on here to give a shout out to the benefits of Personal Spends. We really enjoyed exploring a lovely big Christmas department this morning & I found a decoration I love. It was £13. Now there's no way I could justify buying it from the House & Garden Pot because it was completely unnecessary. We have oodles of decorations. But I wanted it & as you know, 'Stick it on a credit card' is no longer a budget heading in our household (although it very much used to be, back in the day). One of the things I most like about having a Personal Spends allowance each month is that it is a pot of money for me alone, from which I can buy exactly those little bits & pieces (or save it for a bigger thing) without ANY guilt or needing to justify using funds from a savings pot. As I have said before (mostly to people who have been contemplating whether to set up monthly personal allowances to contain spending on 'wants'), there are only 2 rules with our monthly Personal Spends 1) We can spend this money on absolutely anything we want......but 2) When it's gone it's gone. 
So as someone who now budgets properly, plans spending & does think about purchases (even though I know I came to this a lot later in life than many), it  was lovely to be able to see an amusing & unusual decoration & to spend £13 on it completely guilt-free because that is what our Personal Spends are there for. I shall stand it on my piano when the decorations begin to come out, which won't be until December.
Well, the afternoon has taken a crepuscular turn already & the wind is getting up. It can't be too cold outside though, as the radiators haven't yet been on since we got home. Am planning to curl up with my book shortly. Tonight's meal involves nothing more onerous than chucking 2 jacket potatoes into the oven, as Mr F cooked enough chilli on Friday night to feed us today as well. 
Wishing all my readers a peaceful Sunday evening, before getting off to a good positive start tomorrow morning.
Love F x

Sun_Addict

Your mum sounded just like mine. I wasn’t allowed to have my ears pierced because it was common. I wonder what she’d make of my navel piercing 🤣 Eating or drinking in the street was also common in her opinion - I still wouldn’t do it to this day.