Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

PennysIntoPounds

Please don't yakk less on our behalf, it is always a joy hearing your news and views 

marionmgcars

I enjoy yr yakking 👍

rtandon27

Me three! (or is that four?)

themadvix

Me four (or five!)

foxgloves

Lol, you are very tolerant of my verbosity!
Hello Monday Money Savers,
Haven't done quite as much as I intended today, but the budget-friendly bits are as follows:
*2 loads of laundry, one of them a 30 mins at 30 degrees + extra spin for less heated airer time.
*Did Monday morning budget updates.
*Ordered 1st fish box of the year, being mindful to pay on my CC so as to defer payment to Feb's budget.
*Made tomorrow's packed lunch & breakfast.
*Made dough for tonight's pizza base & a batch of rolls.
*Froze half the loaf left in bread tin to prevent it going stale before we get it eaten.
*Shopped a sympathy card from home from a gifted pack of nice blank cards which have been v useful.
*Sorted my salvage bag from Christmas Day. Have added to my wrappings stash 2 gift boxes, 2 pieces of tinsel, a decent selection of ribbons & raffia, 5 gift bags, wrapping paper (including some which is suitable for birthdays) & an A4 cardboard envelope. Also cut up one of those re-usable Christmas tablecloths which has sustained a large rip but was otherwise in good clean condition & added to stash for wrapping.
*Did a few surveys.
Have a good week, all.
F x

Less_Talk_and_More_Action

I love your verbosity @foxgloves.  Your commitment to action is very inspiring to me as I feel I am capable of that but the habit has formed the other way with me,  so reading your posts as I unpick those habits and build new ones shows me that it is possible and patience in making small changes and taking consistent actions is so worth it.  

L x 

Blackcats

What a good idea about the re-usable tablecloth.  I've got a reusable tartan table runner that's got a tear in the middle but I think I can chop it up into napkins - is it a napkin or a serviette?  I'm sure there's some sort of definition of class/status depending on whether you have a napkin or a serviette or a square of kitchen roll 😉

PennysIntoPounds

I cut squares of kitchen roll into halves for mealtimes, no-one needs a whole square. Very mse but I dread to think what social class I'm in 😂

Baileys_Babe

In my head a napkin is fabric and a serviette is paper, no idea if this is correct. If anyone can enlighten me I would be grateful.

joedenise

Baileys_Babe said:

In my head a napkin is fabric and a serviette is paper, no idea if this is correct. If anyone can enlighten me I would be grateful.

That's my thinking too but don't know if that is right!