Time to Batten down the hatches - everything has gone up!

bank_of_slate

Everybody's feeling it, we are back having to use our overdraft each month!
...Linda xx

boredofbeingathome

My OH's petrol bill was in excess of £350 last month..not including parking tickets and miscellaneous stuff to do with the car. as someone quite rightly said soon we will not be able to afford to go to work. He has now made arrangements to work on his day off, so he can afford the petrol money!

I also put the council tax on 12 monthly, the extra £30 a month can go to the petrol, and i am taking part in challenges on old style..see my sig, i have no shame in buying all the basic stuff, shop at Aldi, Netto and the market..also having a bash at growing my own things, and am walking if i don't need to use the car. I need mine for work and hospital appts for DD2.

I write down daily the electric and gas used and make sure i update these online..i have also capped my prices until 2010, we are now £130 in credit(have requested this back) and have reduced the DD.:T

I am trying all ways to make extra dosh, through Amazon and e bay..i think it just has to be done..and i feel like i am teaching the kids a valuable lesson in eating well and budgetting..just wish Mr.B was as savvy as them at times!:rotfl:

BOB X

Scarlett.1974

It's truely scary how much everything seems to be going up at the moment We're in pretty huge arrears with both the gas & electric but I just can't afford to increase the DDs any more right now (currently £40 electric and £58 gas :eek: ). We're all trying hard now to get our usage right down during the summer ......... not using the tumble dryer at all, only washing with a full load, turning off lights/appliances, bathing once a week...... okay, am joking about the last one

We're hardly using the car at all, just for the most essential journeys. We'd probably get rid of it completely only H needs it for collecting and dropping off his son at the weekends..... a journey not really possibly by public transport (and would cost a fortune anyway).

I've ummed and ahhed about typing this next but, but it might help someone so will accept the backlash <gulp>..... non-smokers, look away now (you have been warned) - if (like me ) you just can't give up the evil weed, then go onto roll ups. They *do* take a little getting used to but the savings made are well worth it. I KNOW smoking is totally non-MSE, but you know, we're only human at the end of the day