Live on £4000 for a year - Part 2

sophiesmum_2

Today my mum bought me a gooseberry bush so have settled it in close to my existing two bushes so it feels at home:D I now have 3 goosegogs, 2 blackcurrant bushes, 2 raspberry, 4 rhubarbs and a small apple tree in my fruit section , and a stray blackberry bush that has crept in from next door:D
plus lots of strawberry plants in my big bin.
Has anyone tried growing plums?? I love them and would like to have a go but haven't seen any seeds or plants for them locally.
Wish the weather would warm up properly so we can get stuck in seriously with the gardening and producing:D

funkyfunkymonkey

nykmedia wrote: »

That'll mean you can join me in that part of the challenge too... my "2008 earn a grand on eBid" challenge :rotfl: Didn't I tell you my life was full of challenges? And these are just the fore-runners to 2009 and my first real attempt at financial self-sufficiency.

I just realised what you said, there, 750+ items relisted???? WOW! Well done! Hope you have seller+ membership. I'm off to start another thread, can't find a relevant one.

Yes, I do have the full membership, paid £100 for it - gutted as I see there is currently a limited offer for £50. I bulk uploaded a lot of books which is why 750 is not that impressive. I've only sold 8 items so I haven't made my money back yet.

I'll be up for your challenge, it will make me focus and we could do with the dosh

FFM

Frugaldom

Hi FFM, there are quite a few taking part this year and I compile a monthly chart of top sellers. They aren't as brave about incorporating totals into their signatures over there and I took mine off MSE as I had no room for it after joining so many other challenges. I think I need a reshuffle. :rotfl:

Sophiesmum, well done on the new fruit bush, hope it settles in well and grows many, many goosegogs. We used to pick loads of Victoria plumbs when we were kids. We'd stand on the backs of the ponies to reach them (I know!! :eek: I'd never have alllowed my kids to do that!) and throw them into laundry baskets for movinf them.

Does anyone else think back to their childhood and get a shudder wondering how on earth you survived some of the crazy things you used to do without parents knowing? :rotfl:

funkyfunkymonkey

nykmedia wrote: »

Does anyone else think back to their childhood and get a shudder wondering how on earth you survived some of the crazy things you used to do without parents knowing? :rotfl:

Wot, like picking blackberries along side the railway track?

FFM

Mollymop5

10 in a car on the way to a disco :eek: me being the smallest had the floor space behind the drivers seat!!!! shhhhh my ds might be about!

sophiesmum_2

funkyfunkymonkey wrote: »

Wot, like picking blackberries along side the railway track?

FFM

I still do that:D

We used to play on a tarzan swing which was set over a 50ft drop over a river full of rocks:eek: . I can't remember anyone ever falling off though:D

Frugaldom

Mollymop - YES! I remember those days too! A day to the safari park with a picnic, 2 adults in front, baby on the mum's knee, 4 kids in the back and 3 of us with pillows in the boot of a Volvo! :rotfl: And we used to travel in the back of a cattle float with the ponies and if they didn't load, we just rode them up the ramp and ducked at the top! :eek: None of this blindfolding and 4 man handling stuff

Friend fell off the tarzan swing and broke her arm, though, then fell off her platform shoes and broke her ankle. Another friend got swept a fair few yards down the river during summer swimming (on horseback!), one rode their pony ACROSS A FROZEN LOCH to the island in the middle and a couple of different ones used to be sat on the bull's back when he was being walked along the road! Our games were so frugal with no need for protective equipment in 'those days', animals never attacked, bad men never stole children and, basically, we never knew anything that happened outside of our own wee worlds because we were never near a television news channel. Hmm... I reckon there's a conspiracy; the minute you turn on the news, something awful happens!

My 'kids' don't know the half of it, but I would still rather they had grown up before 'paranoid parenting' spread like wildfire. Nowadays they think money can buy anything and if it doesn't cost, it can't be fun. How sad!

sophiesmum_2

nykmedia wrote: »

Mollymop - YES! I remember those days too! A day to the safari park with a picnic, 2 adults in front, baby on the mum's knee, 4 kids in the back and 3 of us with pillows in the boot of a Volvo! :rotfl: And we used to travel in the back of a cattle float with the ponies and if they didn't load, we just rode them up the ramp and ducked at the top! :eek: None of this blindfolding and 4 man handling stuff

Friend fell off the tarzan swing and broke her arm, though, then fell off her platform shoes and broke her ankle. Another friend got swept a fair few yards down the river during summer swimming (on horseback!), one rode their pony ACROSS A FROZEN LOCH to the island in the middle and a couple of different ones used to be sat on the bull's back when he was being walked along the road! Our games were so frugal with no need for protective equipment in 'those days', animals never attacked, bad men never stole children and, basically, we never knew anything that happened outside of our own wee worlds because we were never near a television news channel. Hmm... I reckon there's a conspiracy; the minute you turn on the news, something awful happens!

My 'kids' don't know the half of it, but I would still rather they had grown up before 'paranoid parenting' spread like wildfire. Nowadays they think money can buy anything and if it doesn't cost, it can't be fun. How sad!

We used to do the sitting in the boot thing too, 3 of us in the boot of a ford granada estate, It WAS the coolest place to sit;)

funkyfunkymonkey

sophiesmum wrote: »

We used to play on a tarzan swing which was set over a 50ft drop over a river full of rocks:eek: .

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I can't believe you did that!!!!!

FFM

sophiesmum_2

funkyfunkymonkey wrote: »

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I can't believe you did that!!!!!

FFM

I can't believe I did that!!!!:eek: but I was a bit of a tomboy back then.
I went walking there recently and the tree that the swing was attached to is still there, and when I looked the rope is still tied around the branch at the top but only about a foot of it still hanging.
We had a stick tied to the holding on end and used to hang on for our lives, there was a thinner rope attached to the bottom and if you didn't make it back your mates could pull you back in with that. I was 10/11 at the time, and thought i was so cool as my mates were all about 15:rolleyes: