Every thing rising in price which is not joke, rather than moan about it I gave a lot of thought, how to save money. Tumble dryer, a washing line as taken its place. To reduce the amount of times I use the washing machine, socks and underpants get hand washed each morning. Food I have now stopped Wiltshire food being delivered, and now cook my own, but only use frozen veg to stop food wastage. The garden not going to get bedding plants but plenty of wild flower seeds for the wild life and some colour to enjoy. Certainly not going to cut out things I enjoy like a glass of wine each evening, and a round of golf.
good for you
We shouldn't have to be cutting back like this. If our government wasn't wasting millions on keeping illegals who have come here for a better life it could go the the poorer people in our society. Their better life is at the expense of ours.
Spot on as always Jacq ! :upvote:
why not plant veggies then Hugh :?:
I planted some dwarf french beans in a pot yesterday and am keeping the pot in the utility room until the weather settles. I plant some every 10 days or so. Usually we have tomato plants in the garden from last year's seeds but I haven't seen any pop up yet.
When we used to have an allotment we had two huge asparagus beds and I really miss them. I have felt like sneaking in and stealing some!
We all have quite large gardens around here crabbyobob and most of us have tried growing our own veg but our soil is terrible. Growing dwarf french beans in pots and runner beans I may give that a try.
I'd love to grow tomatoes, I tried once using a grow bag, but I managed to co.ck that up !
There is no doubt that home grown tomatos taste better than bought but how many do you eat? They come in a glut at a time they cost coppers and will cost more to grow than they do to just buy. IMO look at growing them as a hobby rather than a way to save money.
Quote from: Alex on April 23, 2022, 12:57:52 PMco.ck
No profanity filter here. Hardly any point is there?
My kitchen garden is in the process of being planted out. Potatoes, Beets, Carrots, Onions and Peas. The greenhouse has 4 Tomato Plants and a couple of Cucumber ones.
The cost of living must be the most talked about topic at the moment & will be for a long time I fear.
We've just changed our Yorkie's grooming session from May to June & to every three months instead of every two months afterwards.
Parsely Box has been kicked into touch & the unused TVs & set top boxes have been switched off.
The Alexa devices & CCTV camers use about 150 watts in total & I'm not going to stop using them.
Probably what we'll save is fairly trivial so it's more of a doing something feel-good factor.
If there's anything to feel good about.
You could be saving quite a bit by not using parsley box. I know with Wiltshire Farm food a roast beef meal cost £4. A beef joint at Aldi cost me £6.99 which as given me 4 meals so far and still plenty left. I could be saving £20 a week on food. Have to wait and see how much I am saving by not using the tumble dryer.
I never dry from wet in the tumble dryer. In the winter the washing goes on the clothes horse in the spare room and I finish off the almost dry stuff a couple of items at a time. Very quick, only in the dryer for a couple of minutes and come out dry and usually wrinkle free..........No ironing them. :yahoo:
Quote from: hugh on April 23, 2022, 03:58:21 PM
You could be saving quite a bit by not using parsley box. I know with Wiltshire Farm food a roast beef meal cost £4. A beef joint at Aldi cost me £6.99 which as given me 4 meals so far and still plenty left. I could be saving £20 a week on food. Have to wait and see how much I am saving by not using the tumble dryer.
I didn't use Parsley Box on a regular weekly basis but as Tesco say, "every little helps" & Parsley Box was a bit of an extravagance.
Tip for the dryer
Put a dry clean towel in the tumble dryer, it absorbs some of the moisture.
Quote from: klondike on April 23, 2022, 01:15:59 PM
There is no doubt that home grown tomatos taste better than bought but how many do you eat? They come in a glut at a time they cost coppers and will cost more to grow than they do to just buy. IMO look at growing them as a hobby rather than a way to save money.
No profanity filter here. Hardly any point is there?
I do eat quite a few tomatoes, I like those little piccolo ones.
As to the 'profanity' - it's habit :grin:
It used to amuse me to cheat on PF and claim I was a "trustee". I eventually got an email from Chris asking me to stop doing it following a set to with you know who....
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Hi, can I ask that you stop circumventing the censored word filter by using foreign characters. I have cracked down on rule breaking by others who have been disrupting the forum, but I can only do that if everyone else is abiding by the forum rules.
• No swearing. Don't 'hide' swearing by replacing certain letters with others or inserting spaces.
Thank you.
And you, encouraged me to do it.
I remember, vividly, a thread where quite a few of the posts featured the Cockwell Inn. Lol :grin:
cough....
I like the way he said ' cracked down' on those who disrupted the forum, he should have banned them altogether.
Quote from: crabbyob on April 23, 2022, 05:55:05 PM
cough....
Yes. Iirc I'd put a little page up where you could type in your message and have it converted to trustee status and told you about it just before that email arrived.
Quote from: klondike on April 23, 2022, 06:31:54 PM
Yes. Iirc I'd put a little page up where you could type in your message and have it converted to trustee status and told you about it just before that email arrived.
You sent me a list of profanity beating code to replace just any one vowel in a word & I could then type Cockwell Inn, or cock well in if I'd wanted to. :shocked:
I thought it would have had some use with the state of everyone's finances at the moment.
I paid £1.35p for a loaf today & god only knows what will happen if energy prices double again in October.
I've decided not to worry about it too much, I worried enough about money in the eighties! I'll line dry when the weather is good, 2 loads today, second almost dry, and finish off on the clothes horse. Perhaps we don't need to wash our clothes as often as we do. I'd hate not to have a daily shower though! We rarely use the dishwasher. Our son has offered us help if we need it, but I don't intend it to come to that.
OH cooks mostly from scratch, and we can eat fairly cheaply if we choose. We'll hang on to the car for now, and my gym membership. OH will still enjoy a glass of malt. Neither of us buys many new clothes, we already have warm sweaters, fleeces and throws, so the heating will be used more sparingly. We've booked and paid for a short break in June, fortunately we don't covet expensive holidays. Being retired, I have plenty of time to shop around. The instant coffee we like is £4.50 in Sainsbury's, £2.99 in Lidl.
Some households have saved lots during lockdown, there's billions more in savings than pre pandemic. https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/tv/martin-lewis-warns-anyone-savings-23742162
However I'm aware there will be severe hardship amongst the poorest, and help must be available for those in genuine need.
Quote from: Diasi on April 24, 2022, 05:18:48 PM
You sent me a list of profanity beating code to replace just any one vowel in a word
I went higher tech :grin: I also included an option to
strikeout as that can be amusing sometimes but as that is included in the editor anyway but disabled by Chris for reasons unknown, I didn't bother to add any everyday words to [censor] here for no obvious reason and I am banned from PF where such a thing may be useful I dropped the page.
I dug it out https://favourites.letschat.club/trustee.php
It only works with the WSYSIWYG editor
Quote from: GrannyMac on April 24, 2022, 06:56:53 PM
However I'm aware there will be severe hardship amongst the poorest, and help must be available for those in genuine need.
Little sign of that being the case in the budget. This is one of the reasons I think this will be a single term Tory government. Regardless of what caused problems like this the government of the day always takes the blame. If they do nothing to alleviate the problem they deserve to imo.
Quote from: klondike on April 24, 2022, 07:38:38 PM
Little sign of that being the case in the budget. This is one of the reasons I think this will be a single term Tory government. Regardless of what caused problems like this the government of the day always takes the blame. If they do nothing to alleviate the problem they deserve to imo.
That's the problem as we then get a government that, in addition to not alleviating the problem, would have made it far worse.
You know that. I know that.
There is a generation of voters that hasn't seen an old Labour government. As bad as New Labour was it couldn't hold a candle to those. We will get it and it will be another single term government. Unless the Marxists take control of it and we are all saved the inconvenience of voting ever again where there is any doubt of the outcome.
I fear you're right klondike. They'll only believe it when they see it..Feel it. Perhaps with a different leader but at least Good Ol' Reliable Keir is a known quantity but Lady Rayner is a squid of a different ink. Like Boris, she'd appeal to a lot of the people that Starmer doesn't.
Can't stand that Angela Rayner woman, and all that rubbish today about her crossing/uncrossing her legs, what's that all about? assume she is wearing her knickers in Parliament?
well..........
Quote from: zoony on April 24, 2022, 09:17:01 PM
Good Ol' Reliable Keir is a known quantity
...and how long before he becomes history? It's a democratic party I'll have you know and the membership gets to select their leader...
Quote from: Jacqueline on April 24, 2022, 10:05:52 PM
Can't stand that Angela Rayner woman, and all that rubbish today about her crossing/uncrossing her legs, what's that all about? assume she is wearing her knickers in Parliament?
She bragged about doing it to try & distract whichever Minister was speaking, presumably when she was pissed at the HoC bar, & now she's whining because it's been mentioned in a newspaper article.
And it didn't work anyway as I never saw any Minister being distracted by her.