BUDGETS.....who needs them....ME
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| 1701 | kob wrote: whiskey13 - 2012-02-12 21:38:00 |
| 1702 | kob wrote:
brillant stuff destiny6nz - 2012-02-12 21:48:00 |
| 1703 | This message was deleted. makespacenow - 2012-02-13 05:16:00 |
| 1704 | Valentines Day: hasn't it become commercialised.........My hubby loves imperial leather soap but each soap comes inclosed in a box then a covering of plastic and then comes with a sticker either side of the soap, and each time he has to grab a new soap out of the cabinet, theres banging and crashing and swearing for Africa while he fiddles with the plastic etc, SO for V DAy yesterday I brought him too packs so 8 soaps and I removed the cardboard, the plastic and the stickers and placed them in the bathroom capboard ready for his next soap change, thats love !!!!!!!! he thought it was pretty cool anyway and thats all the matters ( and less mess for me cause he normally leaves the mess on the floor) lol kob - 2012-02-15 07:52:00 |
| 1705 | My tip for the night, make up a batch of crumble mix and place in the freezer in a glad bag, there is so much stone fruit going bad in the fruit bowl lately, as Im cooking tea I microwave the fruit ( minus the bad bits) let cool and with the heat of the oven I sprinkle on the crumble mixture and bake, cool and freeze this way I know im going to have a great freezer selection come winter time, if they last that long kob - 2012-02-15 19:24:00 |
| 1706 | can finally justify why I take from hotel rooms the shampoo bottles, shoe shine kits, and sewing kits, plus soap, coffee tea hot chocolate etc, At a wedding earlier on in the year, once of the best men had untidt shoes, a quick trip to the glovebox and I produced a shoe shine kit, our pools have just installed hot showers so the hotel shampoos & conditioners and soaps are the perfect size to fit into your tog bag to take with you, out at dinner the other night, one of the guys had a problem with his shirt button right at this midrift and all was open for a peak after trying to hide it for awhile I asked if he would like a needle and cotton he said thats will be no good cuae i lost the button haha I said I have that too, so they all think im the bomb and will have to print and laminate a pic of the kitchen sink cause they reckoned it was the only thing not in there, oh yer baking tonight I ran out of cocoa so you guessed it I used my stash of hot choc mix lol got to love it kob - 2012-02-15 19:29:00 |
| 1707 | This message was deleted. tehenga288 - 2012-02-15 19:40:00 |
| 1708 | Love this thread, so many great ideas. Thank you. lynv - 2012-02-17 18:07:00 |
| 1709 | Does anyone have a recipe for foot deodoriser powder please? I made some last year and now can't find the recipe. Searches online doesn't reveal it either! tramore - 2012-02-18 10:40:00 |
| 1710 | yes place baking soda into your smelly shoes, you can add some talcom powder as well if you want a nice smell, leave over night and dust off, same for carpets sprinkle this on carpets leave over night and vacumn off. 1/2 talc 1/2 bkg soda kob - 2012-02-18 15:46:00 |
| 1711 | You gotta love baking soda. whiskey13 - 2012-02-18 16:14:00 |
| 1712 | recon whiskey mix it with equal portions of malt vinegar ( mix in a big bowl)and give a good stir, it will overflow a little but this makes a great stainless steel cleaner for your benchtop sink or shower stall, it works a treat kob - 2012-02-18 18:47:00 |
| 1713 | Morning. Edited by toadfish at 6:13 am, Sun 19 Feb toadfish - 2012-02-19 06:07:00 |
| 1714 | whiskey13 wrote:
I do the same, but my Credit card is a Global Plus Visa, this way we never pay for a domestic flights and have had 2 trips to the gold coast in the last year for just the cost of the taxs. We shouted Miss 18 a flight home from Rhythm & Vines at Christmas, which turned out to be very lucky for her as they closed the gorge and people took about 8 hours to drive back. Edited by toadfish at 6:26 am, Sun 19 Feb toadfish - 2012-02-19 06:12:00 |
| 1715 | kob wrote:
I always bring home the little shampoo bottles and then empty them into our flowing soap dispenser, I was given the tip to use cheap shampoo as its cheaper than flowing soap. But now I get a litre of budget flowing soap for about $2.20, can't beat that... so long as the dispenser looks nice no one knows its budget. toadfish - 2012-02-19 06:16:00 |
| 1716 | I need to pull my horns in, I have noticed the weekly grocery bill is creeping up.... bottles of wine are sneaking in. I did however try something on my girls this last shop. toadfish - 2012-02-19 06:20:00 |
| 1717 | I still check my receipts, and there is often mistakes, I have to go back today as they charged me twice for one item (double scanned), and I am sure the wrong price for another. Think thats my pet hate with countdown, they have a big yellow specials sticker then it scans at regular price. I shopped on Thursday, so if it is the wrong price then everyone who brought it before that has been overcharged and just not noticed. toadfish - 2012-02-19 06:25:00 |
| 1718 | I made garlic salt last night as we seem to plough throu it here (even just with 2 of us) whiskey13 - 2012-02-19 11:47:00 |
| 1719 | Another wonderful thread jenner4 - 2012-02-19 17:53:00 |
| 1720 | bumping for falconhell. whiskey13 - 2012-02-19 19:47:00 |
| 1721 | bump tigerlilly16 - 2012-02-28 02:25:00 |
| 1722 | Has anyone any idea which of the cheaper shampoos and conditioners are any good? Really tight budget at the moment, and only buying essentials, unfortunatley have just about run out of spoo n cond. Had a look last week and the budget brand which I have never tried before is obviously heaps cheaper but dont want to spend my money on it if it'll make my hair really gross. It's not that I used to buy saloon quality/priced ones but tend to buy 'good' brands of supermarket ones if you know what i mean. I've got dryish curly blonde hair if anyone has any other alternate hair cleaners. TIA:-) dibble35 - 2012-02-28 08:53:00 |
| 1723 | This message was deleted. makespacenow - 2012-02-28 09:33:00 |
| 1724 | you could try this site I joined yesterday and have not rteally had a good look around but has cheaper than supermarket prices kob - 2012-02-28 12:09:00 |
| 1725 | i normally use panteen I know its a bit dearer but you do only need a teaspoon full so a bottle last me ages, I dont always use the conditioner either, probably a bottle costs $6 and lasts ages kob - 2012-02-28 12:11:00 |
| 1726 | dibble35 wrote:
Shampoo - about a tablespoon of baking soda mixed to a semi runny paste with water, massage into your hair, then rinse out. Conditioner - 1/4 cup white vinegar (if I only had malt I would use that) make up to 1 cup with water, massage into the ends after rinsing off the baking soda. Do as often as needed. cautis - 2012-02-28 20:42:00 |
| 1727 | cautis wrote: dibble35 - 2012-02-29 07:42:00 |
| 1728 | No it doesn't smell of vinegar. cautis - 2012-02-29 07:56:00 |
| 1729 | cheap shampoo-- lilyfield - 2012-02-29 07:58:00 |
| 1730 | I brought the Budget Brand Shampoo it was truly dreadful, made my hair really dry and knotted. The Budget Conditioner was really good thick and creamy crails - 2012-02-29 08:09:00 |
| 1731 | thanks guys, I ended up going to Pak n save this morn to get a few ingrediants i needed - i'm attempting to make tomato sauce wiith my surplus tomatoes, anyway they had VO5 on a really good special $3, i've tried it before and dont think I really liked it but we will see. dibble35 - 2012-02-29 10:47:00 |
| 1732 | I use sunsilk in the black container, just love the smell and we finally settled on this one that all 3 of us ladies in the house like. I only buy when on special and the smaller one can be 2 for $5 and the larger size on special for $5. Like KOB said, with this brand I only need the smallest amount of shampoo, and I found when I put some water in to swish the last of the conditioner out, the next day its got the same consistency as un diluted conditioner (Like it thickens on sitting) which has led me thinking to watering down the girls one secretly lol. toadfish - 2012-03-02 07:01:00 |
| 1733 | Reduced to clear at Countdown last night saw me bringing home 6 packs of 300g Leg ham last night, retail over $6 and I paid $2.15 dates says 5th March so 1 in the fridge and 5 in the freezer. Also juicies are on special, 2 for $7. Hubbie has swapped ice cream for these (100mls of fruit juice is much better for him) and we go through boxes...usually retail over $5 so have stocked up this week. Edited by toadfish at 7:04 am, Fri 2 Mar toadfish - 2012-03-02 07:04:00 |
| 1734 | lol talk about meals in minutes.......last night as I saw my hubby about to back up the drive I looked at the time and thought crap s**t how could the time get away from me it was 5.20, sitting at the pc doing bookwork passed away 3 hours, anyhow,thinking crap he will be starving what can I whip up in an instant, well New World here had 1kg flame grilled meatballs on special for $3.99 so I threw those into a frypan, open a tin of watties tomato soup $1.99 and threw into that some chilli flakes, garlic S&P and sweet basil when boiling threw over the meatballs quickly cooked half a pkt of spagetti noodles $0.59 and walla tea was done, fastest tea in history here I can tell ya, and then I was thinking how economical it was $6.57 plus a few herbs so say $7.00 and that fed two and could of easily feed 3 so there you go eat ya heart out Delia it doesn't happen everyday but sure filled the spot here kob - 2012-03-02 08:08:00 |
| 1735 | takning advantage of all the fruit ready to be made into jam, am loving it, giving it away, making the kids up boxes and keeping the elderly in jams etc just got to get my hands on some baby food jars, they are the perfect size for jams for elderly kob - 2012-03-03 10:45:00 |
| 1736 | kob wrote: dibble35 - 2012-03-03 11:06:00 |
| 1737 | Well got invited to a BBQ tonight, Pot luck type of thing, have been trolling thru the cook books trying to find some food I could take where i wouldnt have to buy anything ( no money at the moment). So made american brownies - super easy recipe and doesnt use anything out of the ordinary, I'm making Foccacia bread in the bread maker then shaping raising by hand, have some sausages in the freezer already and a few bottles of RTD's left over from camping trip. I did sneak out and buy a $4 rosemary plant for foccacia topping. I figure I can plant it and use it again and again, And as its a a friends birthday BBQ I thought i'd better take a present, I have a bottle of bubbly given to me at xmas, I dont drink the stuff so regifting it for her. dibble35 - 2012-03-03 11:14:00 |
| 1738 | hi dibble yes I have many many plum trees here & Imake heaps and heaps of plum jam which I use to barter for fruit, and have friends that have lemon trees, pears, apples, rhubarb etc etc so I normally do ok and there is the orchards that have specked fruit peacharines & apricots which you can pick up for a song, its just something that is little for a contribution to a meal kind of thing as I am a meals on wheels cook and cook them a hot lunch 5 days a week , its their dinner they need to get themselves and some of them struggle abit, I dont have to its just something i love to do for them as someone has to put a tender touch in for them kob - 2012-03-03 20:00:00 |
| 1739 | This message was deleted. hammondsocial - 2012-03-03 23:06:00 |
| 1740 | have you looked through the thread hammandsocial as there are heaps of cost balanced meals and already loads of cost saving ideas thoughout it, this thread has been going for over 4 years and has helped many people through temp and permanant hard times, and seen them grow into more sure & secure people kob - 2012-03-04 07:46:00 |
| 1741 | Yes I have lol and tonight I have discovered how to copy and paste :-) Last night I was trying to print the whole lot and 0ne page took 6 pages to print hehe heaps of fantastic recipes though!!! Cant believe Ive only just found out about the thread hammondsocial - 2012-03-04 23:03:00 |
| 1742 | Is there any chance I could get the post deleted with the email addy in it? Or if someone can tell me how to do it please. :-) hammondsocial - 2012-03-04 23:10:00 |
| 1743 | hammondsocial wrote:
I have voted to have the message with your email removed but think you need a few votes, so if anyone reading this can vote that would be gret. toadfish - 2012-03-05 05:39:00 |
| 1744 | done kob - 2012-03-05 07:39:00 |
| 1745 | my plum jam recipe, I also made plum & rhubarb and it tastes like strawberry......i filled my largest pot with washed plums or 3/4 plums and 1/4 chopped washed rhubarb added 1/2 cup of water just to give them a little liquid and left for 30 mins stirring all the time on low heat to stew, then a put it all through a sieve ( yes it took ages but was worth it), I then weighed it( remembering to tare the pot weight first) and added equal amounts of sugar, then I added 2 tablespoons of lime juice ( found lime works better for setting than lemon) reheat slowely to a boiling point and once boiling lower heat to a simmer and stir every 5 mins for around 2 hours or until your testa seperates without rejoining, if you dont know what that means, after two hours you put a tablepoon of the jam onto a saucer and leave to cool, once cool you run your finger through the middle of it and if the run through rejoins it needs longer cooking if it stays put then jam is ready to bottle in clean steriliszed jars, eating it as i type and its the bomb, made 12 jars during the storm on saturday and only cost me the sugar, total prize kob - 2012-03-05 07:45:00 |
| 1746 | crails wrote: lythande1 - 2012-03-05 08:19:00 |
| 1747 | toadfish wrote:
Thank you heaps, I posted it without thinking it through properly then I find out from reading other posts that your actually not allowed to post your email addy. Hope I dont get this thread into trouble, I still have a lot of reading to do hammondsocial - 2012-03-05 10:13:00 |
| 1748 | I read here some time ago a recipe for a carpet cleaner, using liquid washing machine stuff, made it, great, now run out and cant find the recipe! jean246 - 2012-03-06 11:56:00 |
| 1749 | I'm my own worst enemy sometimes (not often) I went to a budget advisor this after noon and we cut all my expenses down to the bare minimum eg food $50 a week, no haircuts, medical cut in 1/2, no personal cash at all, and after all my expenses I get left with $10 a week, was so depressed/pis*ed off about it I went and bought some vodka cruisers, $24 i didnt have!. But then i went home determined to start up my own garden maintenance business, work for myself rather than rely on anyone else.... any suggestions for a name for the business, need to get some fliers printed and sent out, TIA dibble35 - 2012-03-06 18:00:00 |
| 1750 | Weeds & Feeds gardening ? Because you do weeding and fertilizing dezzie - 2012-03-06 20:57:00 |
