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From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future
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Thanks rt - at least LG has maintained the reasonably good behaviour, and they were so excited to meet up with their chum and have an hours boinging on an trampo-lee-nee. It's not an activity that would immediately have sprung to mind for me to take LG to 'solo', but going with a chum made it a whole heap better for both parties, so I'm glad that our chum thought to text to ask if we wanted to come along.
We then took our picnic to a little market town across the way. We don't visit very often, but it's a nice wee place - very touristy, and there are alot of campsites/caravan parks etc etc in the vicinity. We snagged some free parking - which I now see has been limited to 40 minutes (fair enough), so we ate our lunch with a nice view, and then went for a pootle up the main street. It's somewhere that many, many moons ago I used to work, in an accountants over a bank. Naturally, the bank has long since gone, but the door to the offices I worked in was still there. LG didn't really believe I'd once worked there, I'm sure. We bought a postcard from the newsagents and wrote and sent it off to 'Aunty'. The 2 post boxes in the town had been 'Yarn bombed'. I think the theme was possibly space. We posted the card in the box outside the PO, which had still to be collected today I think. The town itself hasn't changed overly much - the chinese takeaway is still in the same location, as were the 2 Hotels, and the co-op, but it's been through cycles, of bust then regeneration. Currently it seems to be doing quite well.
Today's excursion has cost about £14 + fuel for the car, but that's still a 'cheap' day out - even if it does rank amongst more expensive for us. But the feel-good factor, from being with friends, was well worth the outlay 😁
Greying XPounds for Panes £7,305/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
Grocery Spend August 2025 £242.43/£300
Non-food spend August 2025 £15.55/£50
Bulk Fund August 2025 £13.50/£106 -
I totally forgot to mention, when I was in MrL today, I went for a quick look on the 'Food Jumble Aisle' - the one that has all the branded offers WIGIG, and the 'leftovers' from the country promotion events. Stuff is rarely ever priced on this aisle in our store. Today there were some dried beans, called 'Carioca' (I think - having researched they are brazilian beans that are pinto or pinto-like). The bag was 1kg in weight. Anyone got any ideas how much these cost? I suspect I may have to wait, on the off chance they get YS'd at some point, but I just wondered if anyone else's store is better at pricing things up.
Greying XPounds for Panes £7,305/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
Grocery Spend August 2025 £242.43/£300
Non-food spend August 2025 £15.55/£50
Bulk Fund August 2025 £13.50/£104 -
@Greying_Pilgrim - our local international store has bags of beans for between 2.50 and 5 pounds - I have no clue why they have that price range when they are all 1kg!4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)New projection - 14 YEARS 8 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 16 mths)Psst...I may have started a diary!2
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