Live on £4000 for a year - Part 2

Marru

tryingtodobetter wrote: »

sophiesmum wrote: »

Marru did you ever get the part for your easiyo??

I have a spare easiyo that I got in the charity shop for 10p if you need a part from it let me know and I will send it on.

Only now saw your message - we were posting at the same time. You are ever so kind! THANK YOU! I will send you pm tomorrow. I am still trying to get to bed before midnight.

Marru

mumzyof2

Evening all, I have just updated sig as had some DD's come out of bank this week..so im all up to date. I need to buy some papers,filters and rolling machine for this baccy my mum got me tomorrow Pay £10 to bank overdraft and i think thats about it

mumzyof2

Marru wrote: »

tryingtodobetter wrote: »

Only now saw your message - we were posting at the same time. You are ever so kind! THANK YOU! I will send you pm tomorrow. I am still trying to get to bed before midnight.

Marru

oooo 2 minutes till midnight and your green light is still on :eek: xxxx

sophiesmum_2

Morning fellow frugallers:D

Plans for today will be to finish cleaning the house then go and pick my rhubarb and make some crumbles (sorry marru:rolleyes: )also need to pick some chives to add to cottage cheese, and see what salad stuff is ready.
Need to move my peppers into bigger pots too, lots of little peppers forming so looks like they will be a good crop - I love pepper plants they are lovely and colourful when they start growing.:D and really easy to grow.

Having yesterdays soup for lunch but need to make a loaf later. Also have some sweetcorn, chopped celery and sliced tomatoes left from tea yesterday,so need to come up with something to use them up - could end up with omelettes or fritatta for tea;) with any salad bits that are ready to pick today thrown in.

Not planning on going anywhere - saving my petrol and hoping for another no spend day:D

Catch up with you all later.

Frugaldom

Good afternoon my little virtual frugal friends, it is yet another warm and sunny day here and I can only suspect we'll end up having the wettest July, since there's been only about 3 wet days over the past 5 weeks! Even at that, the wet days cleared up pretty quickly, so watering is a must for the garden just now. This will teach me to be more prepared for next year's planting and get things sown earlier.

Marru, hope you caught up with some sleep and aren't too excited about your weekend away - you need to be refreshed and alert for next week and portray a model of perfect, err... studentness. Don't give up on all of mankind, please? I don't want to believe they are all the same :eek:

Mumzy, What are we going to do with you? Papers? Filters? Rolling machine for tobacco? Overdraft to pay? :rotfl: Can't you think of something you would really, really love to own and start saving for that? I was smoking about 20 a day first time I quit (for 2 years) and that paid to keep a horse in a nearby livery yard. You could have a pony for your kids! (This has nothing to do with the fact a friend I spoke to last night (my last houseshare, to be exact) just got her tot a pony! )

Sophiesmum, you are always so ultra-organised sounding! If only I could follow your lead and get off my (ever-expanding) b*m from computer and catch up with general stuff instead of weather watching to decide what I'm doing. I'm guessing it'll be garden this afternoon, housework & baking can wait (again!).

Now for some less frugal news - our local bank, HBOS, which wasn't open all the time to begin with, has just announced another change of hours! It will only be open 3 days per week here and 2 days per week at the branch in a neighbouring village, so this is NOT looking too good for those who rely on it, especially in the wake of recent Post Office closures along with the Post Office card account service being under threat. My question is, are we best getting used to dealing strictly without cash or strictly cash only? Cash only looks an impossibility, as there will soon be nowhere to pay the cash into in order to pay domestic bills. I feel like we are being forced into a cashless society and if that happens, they would be as well microchipping us all at birth and we'll be wirelessly updated to pay in or deduct our 'credits'. And I thought the friend who was totally paranoid about all this kind of stuff was just being silly! But think of the savings - no bank staff, no coins to produce, no plastic, no printed bills, no cash machines, and our microchips could be fully trackable via the thousands of satelite 'masts' used (allegedly) for the traffic and GSP devices!!! OK, scaring myself now!!! :eek:

Hmm... on second thoughts, I may save like mad and invest in microchip technology and data cards. Personal ID cards are only a few steps away from developing into implants and they've been doing it with animals for years now!

Marru, I may, yet, spend time analysing the stock markets and taking a few gambles. Pity the stakes are so high, though.

mumzyof2

Good afternoon all.

I have been to morrsions and topped up what i need for this week and spent £4 something (i will update later) and also £1.80 on bus!

Think im doing pretty well this month i hope to come in under £300.

cottage pie for tea tonight

NYK - I want a new kicthen table so i will try and save for that and also want to decorate whole of my house and just get general household furniture for my house.

Some insect keeps eating my tomato plant (just one leaf on one plant) and my step dad said rub a bit of dove soap on to the leaf and it will keep them insects from eating them so will try that..what does everyone else think?

Frugaldom

mumzyof2 wrote: »

...Some insect keeps eating my tomato plant (just one leaf on one plant) and my step dad said rub a bit of dove soap on to the leaf and it will keep them insects from eating them so will try that..what does everyone else think?

Hi Mumzy, I use cheap saver washing up liquid diluted in water and this seams to work on the roses that used to have greenfly. I never thought of trying it on my peppers and tomatoes! Something has nibbled 'Big Jim' (my pepper plant!!!! :rotfl: ) in the middle of the night, so I'm off to give him a spray right now. I did think of getting up in middle of the night and switching light on to see if I could catch the culprit, but this sounds a better option!

sophiesmum_2

mumzy if you have an empty spray bottle, put a tiny bit of washing up liquid in it fillit with water and spray the plant with that, usually gets rid of greenfly and other small insects.

Nyk frightening vision of the future there but not many steps away from being possible:eek: Bad news about the bank situation,us townies take things like that for granted, I have 6 banks and building societies within ten minutes walk of home. Having said that I do everything online and haven't been inside one for years:o except on work business.
Have to confess to being a [STRIKE]bit of[/STRIKE]total list/spreadsheet addict which is what keeps me organised. I also get bored quickly so like to keep busy doing stuff.

Had a change of plan with leftovers - celery was nuked and added to the veg soup - now having for tea, tomatoes were nuked and had them for lunch with grilled bacon and scrambled egg, and the sweetcorn is in the freezer:D so nothing wasted.

sophiesmum_2

Ooops nyk beat me to it, that's what happens when people are talking to you when you are trying to post:rolleyes:

Marru

mumzyof2 wrote: »

Marru wrote: »

oooo 2 minutes till midnight and your green light is still on :eek: xxxx

Unfortunately so. Didn't get to bed untill 25 minutes past as it took me so long to catch Kasper. He plays this game with me every evening so I should've learned by now to pop him back into the cage when I get the chance instead of leaving it to the last minute.

Sophiesmum - I am so sorry but I have decided that first opportunity I get I will move near you. I will pay you monthly allowance - name your price - to be able to come and eat at your place. My mouth is watering!!!

Next part of the post will have some bad language so for those who find this appalling please skip to the next post.

Happy bloody Fathersday weekend! DD's dad called to thank her for his Fathersday cards and as it happened we managed to get into an argument and then he hung up on me (after I did shout - I must admit). He doesn't want to take DD out on his own, he always wants to involve me. I have been asking him to take DD to the Santa train in Longleat this year and he said that because I didn't consult him last year he doesn't want to do it this year. Last year when I made the arrangements we weren't speaking to each other and I didn't even know if he wanted to have anything to do with either of us. Now he wanted me to go with them and I said I don't want to as we are not together anymore. Why can't he take his daughter out without me running the heard? And then we got into the usual argument that it was me who chose to move this far. That bloody man drives from London to Newforest to take his dogs for a walk but can't drive from London to North Somerset to take his daugher out!!! What did I shout before he hang up on me? I told him to take his finger out of his bum. Yes I said bum as DD was standing next to me.

Ok thanks for that - feeling better already. Will go now and take the Dog and DD for a walk and have a fantastic time. Unfortunately no NSD today as bribed DD this morning and need to go and buy the bribe (25p).

Bails I will be picking up another lot of jumble tomorrow at noonish. Can we stop at you on a way back? Lunch is on me.

Thanks for listening,

Marru