Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

PennysIntoPounds

Mmm, lovely stationery. I bought my mum a set of two William Morris design pens in a matching box for Christmas and had to wrench them out of my own hands 😁

Suffolk_lass

On the other hand, my friend's obsession with stationery items now extends to 8000 (thousand, not hundred) colouring pencils

KajiKita

Suffolk_lass said:

On the other hand, my friend's obsession with stationery items now extends to 8000 (thousand, not hundred) colouring pencils

Wow … that’s next level! 😂 Does they ever use them or just admire them? 🤔

KK

Makingabobor2

Suffolk_lass said:

On the other hand, my friend's obsession with stationery items now extends to 8000 (thousand, not hundred) colouring pencils

Wow!!  That is just mad

foxgloves

Hello Saturday Savers,
Thanks for all your contributions. I'll answer properly tomorrow. Well, today's money-related mystery has had me doubting my own sanity! I realised last night that I had managed to lose the £50 gift card I received for Christmas. I looked in all the logical places but no sign of it, so I progressed to illogical ones, but still.no sign of it & by bedtime I was calling myself all the [insert multiple expletives] under the sun. Leisurely morning. Coffee, newspaper, crossword, book, crumpets. Pottered around doing a few jobs, fed poor cold birds (garden still iced solid white) & decided to resume the search. Having exhausted all sensible & vaguely sensible places, I moved onto the fairly hopeless ones, if I could connect them even very slightly with tasks I've been doing over the past week. Nope! Mr F convinced I'd binned it with the recycling (bin collected) but I always take our bins out to the wheelies & sort the rubbish by hand so I couldn't see how that could have happened. 
Sat thinking I'd have to lie to family member who will ask me if I found something nice to buy with her gift, when I suddenly thought of a final stupid place I hadn't looked & there it was!! What a relief!! Our approaches to the loss of this gift card last night were quite different. Mr F insisted I should still choose something nice for myself using money from the  Savings Pots. I said no way was I taking £50 from those during Project Surbiton Year when I'd been the numpty who'd lost it!
Back in the Spendy Years, I used to spend birthday & Christmas money at least twice, often 3 or 4 times, so my financial head really is in a very different place now, thank goodness.
Stay cosy, am under Mum's crochet blanket with my book. Mr F constructing a colossal cauliflower cheese.
F xx

PennysIntoPounds

Oh you meanie, where was it??!! You can't leave us in suspense like that 😂

badmemory

Over the last few years I have become an even bigger believer in a place for everything & everything in its place.  I have spent way too much time in the past searching round the house for car keys or garage keys or window keys, they now all go in the same place as do all those shop cards in their place & gift vouchers & gift cards.  My username is not something new I've always been as bad so I have learnt that it is easier to have systems in place than to have a meltdown cos I can't find something or have forgotten a renewal.  I mean who forgets that they are due to give evidence in court, that would be me & I made it with moments to spare & that was in my early 20s.

2Scratters

Happy New Year Peeps,

I have finally caught up with everyone and it has taken me days. 
Last year I had done some bits of odds and sods. The excess cleaning products and other left overs from their house clear out which took 4 of us siblings to complete I chose to have stuff to use up. Along with the excess of our own stored unrecorded under the sink. I had challenged myself to put away £1 per item. It would have cost more than that to purchase. From July to end of December I had saved £115  it was used for pre Christmas purchases of needs not wants. We never even bought a box of mince pies. There is still plenty of excess to go at and will be following the same vein. Win win.

I even had read about collecting 24 of each paper denomination which was also a success except for the £50 notes. I will use some of the scratted savings to convert into said notes for this year of 25 each. I will however be exchanging them at the bank as not a lot of businesses like them when the time comes. 

I will be aiming to purchase a vacuum pack sealer gadget for me to close down items better for the freezer or should I be really just doing it myself with a straw and the resealable bags.... I'll think this over. It's only £20 the one I have seen.

Here's to 2025  (Twenty twenty thrive)


2 Scratters xx

rtandon27

I have a feeling Foxglove's RL name is Scheherazade...

...leaving us all hanging...

...to be continued tomorrow!

Blackcats

Glad you found the gift card Foxgloves.  I'm intrigued to know where you found it.  Enjoy spending it on something good.