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dannyboycey wrote: »I also do this. Once a month, on a Sunday morning I cook a shedload of meals and put them in those foil trays you get chinese in. You can buy a stack of these for next to nothing in our local shop.
Ooh. This sounds so much more practical than my freezer bag and lunch box habit! I shall be on the lookout.Hurrah, now I have more thankings than postings, cheers everyone!0 -
I made some great homemade pizzas last night. Enough for 6 meals.
Eaten them all already.
So it's not always good to make all this good homemade food as you also need great self control!0 -
Austin_Allegro wrote: »Got to take issue with that! I've got a Brompton (which I bought VAT free on the Government's Cyclescheme) and regularly use it to climb Muswell Hill in London, one of the highest points in the capital. I would recommend the six speed rather than the three speed though. It doesn't perform much differently from a 'normal' bike to be honest - last weekend I rode mine to Reading (about 45 miles) much of it along muddy paths. As for looking like a right plonker...well, that's all subjective isn't it!
Those sort of Govt schemes tend to be something for big firms to administer, which is a pity as they are all run very quietly for a few people's benefit.
I don't know London at all, but I would say you aren't a tiny, slightly overweight woman approaching 50 who hasn't done ANY exercise for 30 years though.
I did find when I used the bike that I'd have odd moments, when I had to sit down and recover. Somebody saw me once and came over as he said he'd seen it happen - he said I'd been cycling and suddenly I went completely grey and he thought I was going to die before he even saw me get off the bike; so he'd stopped to come over as he assumed an ambulance was needed.
With the bike failing - and my scarey episdoes, with the very steep and constant 1-in-4s all around me, with the nearest next town being 18 miles along tiny, narrow, winding, unlit Cornish roads with no proper edge/potholes ... cycling wasn't going to happen. And I can't be alone in this.
Cycling, when young and fit, on proper roads, mainly flat, in inhabited areas, is completely different to being out in the wilds, alone, in the dark, with horizontal driving rain in one of the country's windiest regions.
So cycling just isn't an option for everybody.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I made some great homemade pizzas last night. Enough for 6 meals.
Eaten them all already.
So it's not always good to make all this good homemade food as you also need great self control!
Oh definitely. For the same reason I stopped buying stuff for packed lunches - it was a false economy as the whole lot disappeared before I even set off for work.
Now I take boring food and if I really need chocolate, I buy it then and there.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »For me, at least, it's not like that. I don't feel I'm missing out on anything, I just make sure I spend money on things I value, and don't waste it on things I don't. So we don't buy ready-made meals or processed food, which saves quite a bit even though we buy organic and fresh foods. We don't buy lots of "stuff", but do go away quite a bit, to Israel and on holiday in the UK. We are, between us, earning a respectable living, and happily spend less than we earn. What's wrong with that?
The only thing we really feel without is a home of our own! Any sacrifice now is worth that.
I wouldn't not cook if I had all the money in the world (though we might eat out more). Weate out more in italy because it was cheaper. We haven't gone on 'holdays' on the last five years but we did live in Italy for 2ish years of that. DH goes on LOTS of work trips, if we want then I can pay flights and the rest of the trip would be free for me too.
Of course I'd LIKE o be able to spend more but although I'm not going to deny we do do without a lot its ok, its fun, little things mean more, for example DH worked outside London, somewhere it was quicker for me to drive him than it would have been to train him, so we did that, we even got to meet for lunch, and joy of joys, he's working at home tonight instead of in London, so we get an extra night togtehr this week. Even better, the employer 'prvided' a big fillet of steak for supper tongiht!:T
some times in making choices instead of having it all I think you weirdly get more back. The have -it -all society hasn't had us living in utopia, but the things we chose in our choices are things we really want or that really impact on our lives.0 -
Yesterday I was told to go get and read a book. The person assumed I'd be off down town to buy the book at a shop.
Instead of going all the way into town (waiting for a bus, finding the shop, finding the book, finding the bus stop back again), I went online, found the book at the nearest library, then drove over there (2.2 miles).
Bus fare: £3
Time to town/back inc finding shop/book/queueing to pay: 1.5 hours
Book cost: £7 new, or £2.76 inc postage from amazon (1p + standard postage)
Car fuel: £0.50
Car running cost: £0.50
Book cost: £0
Time for trip: 25 minutes
Saved time AND £9 of money.
Plus, I don't now have a "precious belonging" that I cart about, cluttering up the place. Feeling I paid good money for it so shouldn't just take it to the charity shop as I need to get "value" from it
Sometimes saving money is a better solution for reasons other than the money.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Instead of going all the way into town (waiting for a bus, finding the shop, finding the book, finding the bus stop back again), I went online, found the book at the nearest library, then drove over there (2.2 miles).
I joined the library just the other week. Its only a 2 min walk from my flat and I'm gutting I didn't join yonks ago! Not only does it have all the latest books and DVDs it has PCs and all the regional and national papers! I can take a stroll down there to catch up on the news for free! I only joined coz I read this website. http://www.changeyourstate.com/home. not sure where i found it and thb i haven't followed the plan.. but I like its ideas!£2019 in 2019 #44 - 864.06/20190 -
butterfly72 wrote: »I joined the library just the other week. Its only a 2 min walk from my flat and I'm gutting I didn't join yonks ago! Not only does it have all the latest books and DVDs it has PCs and all the regional and national papers! I can take a stroll down there to catch up on the news for free! I only joined coz I read this website. http://www.changeyourstate.com/home. not sure where i found it and thb i haven't followed the plan.. but I like its ideas!
This one was "the usual" - lots of kids books, cookery books and Catherine Cookson novels.
Nothing technical/A level subjects.
There was one PC in there (update: just checked online and apparently there are 4) ... with a bloke sat awkwardly at it. The layout seemed that he was in everybody's way. The total room size was about 30'x20'.
I didn't spot any newspapers. I went in, asked for the book, the girl knew the author and exactly where the book was. I was in/out in 5 minutes flat. Very efficient.
Update: reading the blurb, there seem to be no DVDs or CDs or newspapers at that library. I think big libraries are only in city centres.0 -
butterfly72 wrote: »http://www.changeyourstate.com/home. not sure where i found it and thb i haven't followed the plan.. but I like its ideas!
As it was a library, it wasn't any of the latest versions either. I seem to have got the 1971, original version to read. Which was originally banned and changed in future editions.0 -
that book is absolutely brilliant, the sequel is crap though.
it's easily one of my favourite books, love the black humour in itIt's a health benefit ...0
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