Live on £4000 for a year - Part 2

MrDT

BlueFleur wrote: »

:T I paid off a credit card today :T

Well done BlueFleur!!! :T :beer:

Frugaldom

Well done Blue! There really is some great news on here this [strike]morning[/strike] afternoon (sorry, didn't look at clock at first. :eek: )

Postman delivered my May edition of Easy Living. This is the first delivery from my free magazine subscription via iPoints and it has a free sample of something and a recipe magazine included.

I'm becoming less and less inclined to spend. I completed a hm birthday card for family member and got that off in the post this morning, but I also had to buy a bag of sugar, so that's a total spend of £1.14 today. Most annoying about the sugar as I'm supposed to be going shopping tomorrow. Now wondering if I can go another week before doing a main shop. The freezer just keeps filling up with more and more pre-cooked meals and baking! I must be doing OK in the frugality stakes because the lady in my local grocery store said she reckoned I must still be on my budget challenge and asked how it was going! :rotfl:

Charity week in the online auctions is slow, to say the least. It finishes tomorrow night and I only have about 5 bids so far. I have managed to sell a couple more wooden items though and it all helps. I just need a few kicks up the ****side to get me in gear to start making some more items for my 'start a cottage industry' challenge (on MSE). Bails, maybe you could see what some of the folks on there are up to? Home-based work is so much more enjoyable, IMO, when you can still be part of a social network of some sort, albeit a virtual one
Now I come to think about it, I'll probably need therapy if I'm ever expected to live life without it being part of a challenge! Anyone studying psychology?

bails

Good idea thanks Nyk, I'll check it out. My main problem is not over-earning so I lose my benefits until I'm well enough to come off them - trouble is, noone seems to be able to give me a definitive answer as to what I can earn! I've been waiting 4 months already for a Disability Advisor at the Job Centre to get back to me (repeated phonecalls getting me nowhere); finally have an appointment on 28th! And to think the government supposedly wants us to go back to work... Oops, accidental rant over

redglass_2

Lovely to hear so much good news from everyone! I didn't do the betting but I've had a truly frugalicious day: a free bathroom cabinet (Freecycle), loads of free firewood from a skip ('Help yourself to whatever you want' said the charming young man - if I were twenty years younger he might have regretted those words ) and some delicious dried bananas reduced from £1.49 to 29p in Mr M's (they've gone straight into the ever-evolving mix that is my dried fruit stash). AND I've cancelled the DD to the RAC...! That little lot will keep me happy for days on end. :j

Frugaldom

I have one comment to make regarding this combined with the grocery challenge and OS recipes....

We're going to need a bigger freezer!

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sophiesmum_2

hi Everybody,

Bails sorry mouselet didn't make it:sad:

Spend day today as me and OH have had a little flutter on the National, have also used some free bets but have some horses in sweeptake and a couple of little real cash bets.:o Well it is only once a year;)
So spends for today £10 on Grand National and £3.49 on a cooked chicken from costco for tea tonight.(will also be enough for OH sarnies, and a curry and casserole for freezer, and stock for soup.

bails

OMG, I've just got a card out of my card box to send to my friend and noticed that at some point in my life I had the [STRIKE]downright stupidity[/STRIKE] audacity to spend £3.10 on it :eek::eek::eek: I can only asume it was when I was on £30K+ and had lost all sense of perspective :rolleyes: Now you find me digging it out early enough to send with a 2nd class stamp I bought before the price increases And while I was in the drawer I spotted a couple of unfranked stamps rescued from a recent letter...ah, how times have changed, and definitely for the better! :T
I'm getting an ickle bit excited about the National now - don't want to watch it (hate it when the horses fall) but would be lovely to win something!

Frugaldom

Good luck everyone who has a bet on... here's hoping there's no carnage!

Frugaldom

OK, race is over, I can breathe again. The pie-man obviously had too many pies, but my nameless wonder (Slim Pickings) came in 4th, so I should have something left in the account. Baily and Hedgehunter finished safely, so I am happy about that. How did everyone else do?

bails

It was awful, I had it on in the background and had to turn it off as my heart was beating so fast, from fear not excitement! I didn't win anything and my Q hasn't tracked yet, but hopefully it will, too soon to put a ticket in... I just hope all the horses are okay, not confirmed yet.