Live on £4000 for a year - Part 2

bails

Sorry to hear that DdraigGoch, hope you can get your finances sorted and definitely stick around x

mumzyof2

NYK Have you got a link to the small greenhouse you bought? Just so i know what im looking to buy

bails

Is anyone else having problems with the site? I don't seem to have any issues with other websites but this one's been playing up for a few days...

I think I might give bingo a miss tomorrow. Today's had to be written off due to lack of sleep so I need to catch up with lots of jobs before it gets out of hand. Good luck to everyone who's going to play!

redglass_2

bails wrote: »

Is anyone else having problems with the site? I don't seem to have any issues with other websites but this one's been playing up for a few days...

Yes, Bails, I had trouble with it last week (couldn't get onto it for a while). Nyk suggested I log out and then log back in again. This has partly solved the problem but it's still a bit odd when I log on - I get a weird effect where the site appears at the side of my screen instead of in the normal way. I then have to fiddle around to make it appear 'in a new frame'.

Frugaldom

Good morning to all and a special hello to Ddraig, hope your frugal financials behave themselves for the future. Just keep popping in to say a quick hello to let us all know you are surviving

Mumzy, it's a 3.5m greenhouse, I can't post a link as I got it on eBay. I also went via topcashback and got a little bit back that way, too

[It isn't very frugal if you have debts, I need to add that part. I have extra savings this years for several reasons - no debt, quit smoking, saving £2 coins, interest beater, sealed pot and this challenge, so I used up all my £2 coins - £62 in total by time I bought growbags and a few plants.]

Bails/Redglass, I switched to Explorer for this site, thinking it was my AOL playing up. I think, however, it may just be that it's so busy on here that the servers are struggling to cope. I guess it doesn't help when every other google search we do suggests we come here - it's where I ended up when searching for homemade flykiller! :rotfl: That'll teach me for not searching the MSE forums first!

Yet another sunny day here! My visits to the forums will become fewer during the better weather as I can always find loads to do outdoors - anything other than sit indoors! Pity my wireless connection didn't reach that far but we have walls on this house like Fort Knox! I got all the broccoli planted out last night along with another tray of carrot seedlings. The peas have sprouted and I got a gift of a chilli pepper plant, apparently it's called 'Big Jim', but I'll need to Google it and find out more. I have stacks of pepper plants growing now and stacks more seeds. As soon as I catch up with the post and package today's mail I'll be out potting up more herbs.

I took the bull by the horns and have booked the day trip on the paddle steamer! That means I need to raise an extra £29.95 before the 2nd June or else deduct it from my ciggie savings! Keeping fingers crossed that we do ok at the market & carboot next weekend.

have a good day everyone. I'll be popping backwards and forwards to get a few free bingo tickets. Good luck to everyone who takes part today.

Frugaldom

No posts?? :eek: Is that good or bad, I wonder?

Perhaps everyone's playing free bingo during lunch breaks. If I hadn't read the post on the interest beater thread, I think I'd have given up free bingo as a bad joke. :rotfl:

Still 9 more days to go this month and my grocery budget is tightening by the day. I don't mind so much as I have been bulk buying any bargains I see and probably have enough of some things to last me through to the end of the year. I only hope the veggies grow! I have enough of this month's budget left to get some eggs, milk and cheese, which should take us to 1st June.

Going back to get more free bingo tickets, then to start preparing some pots for next weekend. MUST make an extra £30, must make an extra £30, a £30 free bingo win would be nice!

Sun is still shining, but it's getting quite windy! Great for the washing, I guess. Just finishing cuppa and then I'll make a start on potting some herbs.

Oh, did anyone else take up the offer with the Cahoots accounts? I just got notice that the are increasing their interest rate. My quit smoking savings just got better and means even more interest in the longterm garden & livestock fund. :j

tryingtodobetter

Had a lovely day so far been to the Gym, which was paid for by my sister and a friend as I drove. Then we all went to the library and I got some books on growing your own veggies Best news of all is that our savings have grown agian and we are 3/4 there for this year, New Zealand here we come!!! :j

Hope everyone else has a lovely day and GOOD LUCK to the bingo players (I can't be bothered this week)

dfw844

nykmedia wrote: »

Hi folks, I disappeared back out into the garden for another couple of hours and then came online to do some important research - about gardening and self-sufficiency. Got sidetracked by the following site: http://www.selfsufficientish.com/

It has some great tips for all types of gardeners, even those living in flats!

Brilliant Nyk, thanks so much for that, I think I'm going to start with peppers! I've got windowsills, but I'm scared of window boxes as I live on the 4th floor above a road, and I worry they could fall off and hurt someone. Indoor plants for the time being then.

xx

Frugaldom

dfw844 wrote: »

Brilliant Nyk, thanks so much for that, I think I'm going to start with peppers! I've got windowsills, but I'm scared of window boxes as I live on the 4th floor above a road, and I worry they could fall off and hurt someone. Indoor plants for the time being then.

xx

Peppers are brilliant, and you could try some little cherry tomatoes and whatever herbs you use most of for cooking. I just save the seeds out of whatever I have eaten, so I have Co-op tomatoes and peppers growing. I wpouldn't advise a 'Big Jim' pepper plant on a small window sill, though, as I just checked 'him' out on Google following getting one in a pressie and err.......... MAJOR BIG peppers!! :eek: :eek:

back to garden - herbs all planted, now going 'foraging' for something to make a miniature pond to attract the frogs that will eat the slugs.

bails

People have hijacked The Stables! 'Stay down, there's a robbery!' :rotfl: