Live on £4000 for a year - Part 2

mumzyof2

nykmedia wrote: »

Hi Mr DT, I think you are probably one of the [strike]most[/strike] more sensible [strike]nut jobs[/strike] people I have encountered on forums! :rotfl: You're young, free, single, no debts and saving to buy a house within travel distance of work. Now, in your position, what would I do, given the same invite you've received from your mates...

Hmm... :think:

DOH! IT'S SATURDAY! GO HAVE SOME FUN! (But DON'T taste any more of the cider when you get back home!) And if you need a genuine 'excuse' for going out on the town, umm.... it's the Queen's official Birthday? (Just spotted that in diary :rotfl: )

Sorry Mumzy.

hehe i think he has decided to stay in..maybe when he read my post he found it correct and true :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

slowlyfading

Go out! i would, if I had any money!

DdraigGoch

MrDT, you've gone and done it now! I've signed up to your cider thread, you bad boy you!:rotfl: I think I may have coined a new term for food - "pre-alcohol" :rotfl::beer: I was about to venture back into wine making, but you saved me from kits and equipment purchasing. Thank you, MrDT :money:

Janey51

Nyk on the oil front The Rayburn provides all our hot water, dries clothes and does 95% of the cooking so full use is made of this wonderful brown monstrosity in the huge kitchen we have. It also warms cats,cuts to a minimum the use of a tumble drier and heats the bathroom which is directly above it. Like you, we have no mains gas so it is the only option. We try to get by with 4 tankfuls a year but we only use the central heating when it is way below freezing. The last fill was in March when oil was 42p/L.
In winter, the temperature is only about 15 in the kitchen unless I put the Calor Gas fire on at the other end...it is 25' long with high ceilings.
One summer we did turn the Rayburn off but the electric bill went into orbit. We do turn it off if it gets really hot :rotfl:
This year, we will pay nothing for logs as we have found a good free supply and we just have to split and stack it all :rolleyes:
The electric is £27 a month which I have managed to knock right down by the well known frugal use of night vision and romantic T lights :rotfl: At this time of year we hardly use lights as it is light until 10.30pm as we are so near the Arctic Circle :T . Washing goes onto the line and aired off round the Rayburn.

MrDT

Hehe looks like we're turning into a forum of cheap drunks... Excellent :T

I've decided it's too late to think about going out now, so I'll have a nice relaxing night in instead Memories of feeling terrible all day last sunday are fresh in my mind too lol so that has kinda put me off a bit too :rotfl:

What I would have spent tonight has been set aside to buy even more beer for wakestock, so hopefully the clever-dumb balance in the universe is restored and I won't be seen as too sensible for my years

Oh, and Mumzy has promised to buy me a house as soon as she wins the lotto, so as soon as she gets that sorted I can stop saving my deposit and go back to being a waster

Janey51

I am gutted! Just been checking my bills from the local Co-op and realised that when I bought a 3L bottle of milk for the knock down price of £1.19 it had gone through the till at FULL PRICE!! of £1.99!!
Nothing I can do as I have already frozen it in 2pt containers and chucked the carton away.
AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!

mumzyof2

MRDT - I didnt win tonight..im gutted lol

MrDT

mumzyof2 wrote: »

MRDT - I didnt win tonight..im gutted lol

Me too. I was expecting a free house

mumzyof2

Pmsl!! Ya nutter

Frugaldom

Janey51 wrote: »

I am gutted! Just been checking my bills from the local Co-op and realised that when I bought a 3L bottle of milk for the knock down price of £1.19 it had gone through the till at FULL PRICE!! of £1.99!!
Nothing I can do as I have already frozen it in 2pt containers and chucked the carton away.
AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!

Janey, take the receipt back to Co-op and point out the mistake to the person who served you when you bought it. They'll ask you to sign a slip of paper but they should refund you the difference no problem. Also, £1.99? Our Co-op is now charging £2.09 - ANOTHER price hike!

Mr DT don't get too carried away, I didn't say TOO sensible for your years :rotfl: I mean, who sets about turning a bunch of frugalers into homebrewing winos AFTER admitting to plastering his kitchen with partially fermented scum? :rotfl:

Edited in: I finished weeding the veggie patch, planted more salad leaves in my window box, watered the garden & have counted 14 out of my 18 standard tomato plants have flowers open. I ate the first strawberry, picked more salad leaves and then got a bit bored, so baked a tray of sponge cakes & have just finished icing them. DS is demolishing them already! I'm doing a few click throughs just now but popped on to eBay and treated myself to a 3 pack of muslin straining bags for the wine. Total impulse buy, I'm blaming Davie Tesco but I guess £1.75 inc P&P is a small price to pay if I'll get even more of the wine out of the fruit and into the containers rather than on the floor. Now going to edit an earlier post, assuming nobody quoted me, of course! :rotfl: :eek: