Live on £4000 for a year - Part 2

bails

Ha ha, actually I was off wondering how good a friend it was, and if they'd thought 'well she won't know how much it was because it'll be mixed in with all the other by the time she breaks it'....; where did that cynical moment come from I wonder?

I might go and count up my shrapnel - which remindes me, I've still got something to show you...

System

bails wrote: »

'well she won't know how much it was because it'll be mixed in with all the other buy the time she beaks it'.

:rotfl:hmmm that sounds like something one of us lot would do...

BlueFleur

Jumble-Bee wrote: »

:rotfl:hmmm that sounds like something one of us lot would do...

Is it bad that I'm thinking of including a piggy bank (with some small change) in Xmas gifts for my brother?

bails

When we were in Brighton last week, OH came across this in one of his cupboards - I was literally jumping up and down in joy! How perfect is that?! :T:j It's not such a great photo but it really is lovely, made by a friend's mum for him apparently.

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj10/shrapnelqueen/NoahsArkmoneybox003.jpg

Bluefleur, not bad at all - instead of giving my friends who've just had babies more stuff to clutter up their homes, I'm decorating a piggy bank for the baby and putting in a cheque to open up their first bank account, then when they're old enough they can use it for something they want.

System

are you going to save coins up two by two?

System

i painted a glass jar for my friends birthday last night, for holiday savings (to go with a fake tan set)

eeeek small child and her dad just peered in my window, hope they didnt see me all hung over and draped on the couch (thatll teach me for sticking a rocking horse in front of the window, lol)

bails

Jumble-Bee wrote: »

are you going to save coins up two by two?

Ha ha, that's a great idea! Maybe £2 coin by £2 coin...

MSHAWX

I've just been out with the camera taking photos of the snow with the idea of making own Christmas cards - dont laugh -I know its a long way off. I have been so busy I need to catch up with working out how much I have spent in the last month so I can update my sig. I know it will be less than usual because I've rarely been out and about. There's enough to do outside here - we are fencing and sowing at the moment.

MrDT

Spent a few quid yesterday, perfume for my grandmother's birthday, a few little bits of shopping... and a big night out

Night out cost just over £40, a vast improvement over the usual £70! Pleased with that Since I only go out drinking once every three or four weeks or thereabouts I don't think my alcofrolics pose any real threat to the 4k challenge.

I'm suffering today though

CharliesAngel

Afternoon all..

nyk i'll gladly be 'team shrink' lol but will definitely have to have a chat with myself first after having fallen off the wagon with a thud this month...

oh and i don't actually practice what i read..! so it's a bit rusty, although pavlovs dog's and stereotactic subcaudate tractotomies spring to mind lol.. that's where they used to chop bits out your brain... took me ages to learn that one for an exam :rotfl: i'd be no good as a doctor...

bought far too much cr*p from B&Q to finish off my spare room... lining paper, polyfila, paint (eek), flooring and a nice lampshade in purpley blue tones.. oh bug8er and a rug that 'fell' off the shelf at me... also purchased enough compost to refill seven hundred hanging baskets... i only need to re pot one plant lol.... so if anyone wants any....

i bought a car and saw all the lovely countryside.. def feels very spring like in between the snow.. took the car to the garage to get the battery sorted and i got the part for 3.87.. the rest they gave me on the house! :T

righty... i've packed oh's stuff cos i'm throwing him out. that didn't last long did it?! And now i'm on chicken feeding duties for a week.. i'm not sure i have room for all the eggs and veggies in the fridge after my as*a delivery... :rotfl:

anywho... hope you're all having a fab day, and have spent considerably less than i have!!!

CA x