BUDGETS.....who needs them....ME
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| 1851 | cheers Cat - which powder do you buy ? is one better than the other ? vampiriousmist - 2012-05-14 16:45:00 |
| 1852 | vampiriousmist wrote:
hi as for the vinegar for fabric softner, NO you dont have a smell it must be white vinegar and you must have washing machine on a full wash cycle it does not work on any other cycle otherwise the water does not go through the fabric softner thingy kob - 2012-05-15 06:02:00 |
| 1853 | holy Craparonni this week has been mad mad mad........the budget is out the window bla bla bla. kob - 2012-05-16 08:06:00 |
| 1854 | Bumping as it is such a great thread and more and more of us are needing something like this now days. kokopuff - 2012-05-20 13:01:00 |
| 1855 | thanks kokopuff thats so true kob - 2012-05-22 05:59:00 |
| 1856 | phewwww can take a breathe this week everything is back to being calm, everyone got through the hectic week and it was well enjoyed kob - 2012-05-22 07:51:00 |
| 1857 | bumping so I can have a look at more recipes in the morning :-) hammondsocial - 2012-05-23 23:23:00 |
| 1858 | kob wrote: Edited by toadfish at 5:59 am, Thu 24 May toadfish - 2012-05-24 05:58:00 |
| 1859 | bumping for happydayz2day kob - 2012-05-30 08:05:00 |
| 1860 | frig me it was that cold this morning that not only was no water coming out my taps at all, but when I got to the gym I had left my water bottle in the ute and it wasnt till I went to take a swig at it that I realised it was frozen solid, so to be that frozen inside the car it must of been -4 degrees i reckon, lucky im a girl guide and I have the jug full and a pot of water on the stove for washes teeth and dishes.......finally getting rid of my cluster flies today had the guys to look at insulation through the other day and he said the roof is packed so exterminator will put a bomb through this morning i did not realise how bad they were, but if your on a ladder and shine a torch through the man hole they gravitate to it, and believe me it was gross....money well spent i reckon I might be able to make up my spare bed in the spare room again cause they got through a freshly made bed between the top & bottom sheets plus got in the pillowslip between pillow and slip and cluster and breed YUK room has been empty for 2 months thank goodness, wouldnt put anyone in there so it would be nice to have it made up again, mind you i have in 2 months managed to store a shit load of crap in there as well, have a great day ladies and keep warm kob - 2012-05-30 08:11:00 |
| 1861 | $80 later and a full vacumn cleaner bag YUK but they are gone kob - 2012-05-30 14:33:00 |
| 1862 | Page 38 is an awesome read. Thanks people! Take good care of yourselves. Just reading this page makes me feel worn out lol Happy days & nights! lindylambchops1 - 2012-05-30 17:27:00 |
| 1863 | thanx lindylambchops, its great to share a day in the life.........even if you do only get to hear a turmoil day in the life, lol but sometimes life is like that and as they say if life gives you lemons put on a full circled skirt and dance with a tequila in one hand and a flower behind you ear, and enjoy every monute of it, ......... kob - 2012-05-31 08:10:00 |
| 1864 | well I have spent most of Queens Birthday weekend crook with the flu- even after the flu injection and my head has been glued to the new E L James trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey so it has got me through the weekend lol haha just great reading material, if you get the chance to read it do so, off to Aus soon for a well earned break so best beat this flu and kick it out the door kob - 2012-06-04 13:54:00 |
| 1865 | bumping so this great thread does not get lost, been going for too long with too much good information to lose akalea - 2012-06-19 21:24:00 |
| 1866 | Agreed, Akalea and others! Kob, my hours at work are being cut back and I wondered what you'd suggest I should stock up on while I still have the money. Thanks in advance! mamabecs - 2012-07-04 01:05:00 |
| 1867 | toadfish wrote:
Nice one! I have been using flowing soap instead of shower gel. (I do not like the scum that forms on my shower with soap.) May have to look into the use of cheap shampoo instead of THAT! mamabecs - 2012-07-04 17:06:00 |
| 1868 | mamabecs wrote:
My suggestion, for what its worth - is anything that you would usually use (not a treat) thats on a really good special. toadfish - 2012-07-04 18:46:00 |
| 1869 | Thank you, toadfish! The longer I wait to make decisions like that, the less money I will have -- and you are right. I could just pick one or two things and it would still help out. mamabecs - 2012-07-04 20:16:00 |
| 1870 | store cupboard item, such as pasta, rice, tin food, frozen veges maybe, that way your always ahead, cleaning products you can do without, but food you cannot, get a veg garden even a small one( an old tractor tyre) and grow silverbeet, winter cabbage etc these will all help with the budget kob - 2012-07-05 14:34:00 |
| 1871 | Thanks, kob! :) mamabecs - 2012-07-05 14:58:00 |
| 1872 | I hate waste - there I said it.... think thats often my main motivation for budgeting... hate wasting money when I don't need to.... hate wasting food. On Tuesday we had what i call a "Lazy Crockpot" dinner. I just placed skinless chicken thighs in the crockpot and emptied a can of Watties Butter Chicken sauce... voila... done - I wouldn't normally buy this flavour (prefer pataks for Indian) but they have changed the cans and i thought i had picked up my favourite - the Satay one. No waste and delicious. We went away last weekend and stayed at the Kingsgate $110 including 2 cooked buffet breakfasts (Good price i thought) - I brought the shampoos home and am draining those into my soap dispenser, I also brought the small box of sorbent tissues home... once they are opened they apparently have to be thrown out.... not on my shift...lol. Edited by toadfish at 6:36 am, Thu 12 Jul toadfish - 2012-07-12 06:31:00 |
| 1873 | ohh toady i love hotel freebees, i to take the soaps, shampoos and moisturisers plus the sewing kits......now i have a funny story we have just been away on holiday and we wanted to play a practicak joke on one of our team, we were truing to selotape money onto a pair of knickers (dont ask) it wasnt working and wallaa wo behold I pull a sewing kit out of my first aid kit, everyone pissed themselves laughinh cause they always say i have everything in my bag apart from the kitchen sink, but for airline purposes i had to take them out of my hand bag and put them in my toiletries, so problem solved, its like the shoeshine lits how oftern do you go out somewhere and you stand in something, its never when you home and have a wet wipe its always on the go, so those shoeshine kits go in the glovebox and are alwasy used...........cold mornings and nights make use of your library website, and my tip go through the whitcoulls or paperplus top 100 selling books then go to your library website and request them all, thats $25 a book pretty much that you save each time you take a good book out, more money for cupcakes lol kob - 2012-07-12 16:37:00 |
| 1874 | The pumpkin soup was a hit... My girls were like... Mum.... what did you do differently... its beautiful..... toadfish - 2012-07-12 18:33:00 |
| 1875 | Love the library idea, i do that - i remember when i wasn't working and Opera had a book and author on the show, i quickly jumped on line and beat the rush lol... I also buy womens mags for 20c at my local op shop, often only a few weeks old.... Edited by toadfish at 6:35 pm, Thu 12 Jul toadfish - 2012-07-12 18:34:00 |
| 1876 | in love reading especially at this time of the year, I cannot stomach paying $30 for a book that will take me a couple of hours to read (fast reader), so thats what I started doing, the library also has a purchase request online so I go through the books I want to read and if they are not listed I enter the name the author and the isbn number and they buy books each month so 9 times out of 10 I get the books they didnt have purchased as well, lots of people dont even know librarys are online, its such a great service, and boy are there some good books out there at the momnent,and our library seems to have quite a few series avaliable but not in sequesnce so ive made it my mission this month, instead of buying the missing books in a series to get it finished, I have either donated the book once ive read it to complete the library set ( if ive been that desperate to read it that i did buy it)or ive requested they buy the book as they already have 1, 2 & 3 but not 4, hubby loves talking books while hes driving so I download those for him off the same library site and he can take them either on his ipod or i can put them on cd or cds as most of them are and he can play them whenever,not really a mag girl but if something interested me then of course id buy it, have a great weekend ladies. kob - 2012-07-13 06:09:00 |
| 1877 | Yup, we are hard out budgeting. DH is taking a few weeks off to build our garage, and being self employed... no work... no money, so we are living off mine..... interesting.... Edited by toadfish at 6:46 am, Fri 13 Jul toadfish - 2012-07-13 06:44:00 |
| 1878 | Have a Chocolate Cake in the Oven for someone that is leaving at work.... we have been asked to bring shared nibbles.... i figured I would handle morning tea and it would be cheaper that way - I am lucky there are no other "Domestic goddesses" in the office, so they all think I am amazing, when as you know its so easy to through a few things in a bowl and mix... they probably would have paid $30+ for an Eves Pantry one.... Edited by toadfish at 6:49 am, Fri 13 Jul toadfish - 2012-07-13 06:48:00 |
| 1879 | I LOVE TRADE ME!!! I just got the most amazing solid Pine shelves, for a $20 Buy Now... the photo was much worse than they actually are and they look like they were custom made for my Lockwood. The big plan is to shelve out my Laundry, but its way down the list of things that need doing... Now I am as happy as larry.... they are PERFECT!!!!! I am using it for all my spares when I buy specials in Bulk and all sorts of other things.... Its amazing how small things can make you feel so great. For the first time since we moved in 3.5 months ago I feel like my Laundry (just off my kitchen) is not a diasaster zone.... All for 20 bucks!!!! Hubby is a builder and couldn't buy the wood for that..... Edited by toadfish at 7:30 pm, Sat 14 Jul toadfish - 2012-07-14 19:28:00 |
| 1880 | i know what you mean Toady, I have massis of jars and agee jars in the garage and washhouse, and my DH would love me to turf them all, but since taking on my job and wanting to keep the coolest job ever I have been cutting there costs by preserving and bottling so evertually and I do mean eventually LOL they will all get used.I have had to hide the 100 emtpy babyfood jars i have been given at work I think that would be over the top a little, but sometimes you get sick of doing something, and then regret being impulsive so I am trying not to do that. kob - 2012-07-15 09:39:00 |
| 1881 | Page 3.... Edited by toadfish at 6:38 am, Thu 19 Jul toadfish - 2012-07-19 06:34:00 |
| 1882 | The member deleted this message. kob - 2012-07-19 09:05:00 |
| 1883 | yer baby finally getting my insulation done, $3000 grand and getting floor and ceiling done, cant wait to feel the difference its a frosty morning here and minus 2 so I wouldnt want to be under my house today, check it out im excited. Was $4300 but got the government subsidyof $1300 kob - 2012-07-19 09:07:00 |
| 1884 | ill keep you updated they reckon 3-5 degrees difference in warmth so im hoping I cant light the fire today as they will be in my roof all day, so im freezing here, have a good day everyone kob - 2012-07-19 09:12:00 |
| 1885 | what does bumping mean???????? klitemnestra123 - 2012-07-19 12:16:00 |
| 1886 | bump means that your sending the thread back to number 1 so that its not lost in trademe syber space kob - 2012-07-19 13:02:00 |
| 1887 | well insulation is done 3 hours is all it took, 4 guys under the house and two in the roof, fires going so all nice and toasy in here, cant wait to feel the difference in the morning kob - 2012-07-19 13:03:00 |
| 1888 | massive difference this was the best thing ive done for a long time, if your thinking about doing it go for it, I noticed it almost straight away kob - 2012-07-20 06:12:00 |
| 1889 | Did you have nothing in your roof before? Brrrrr You must of been cold. I must look into that subsidy. We only need to do the underfloor, and with hubby being a builder, it will be interesting how the prices compare with us doing it ourselves (having got the materials at trade) and getting someone in and recieiving the subsidy. Edited by toadfish at 7:03 am, Fri 20 Jul toadfish - 2012-07-20 07:02:00 |
| 1890 | no we had absolutely nothing in the old part of the house, and only batts in the new part of the house which is our bedroom and spare room when we renovated about 6 years ago. But to get the subsidy we had to get both floor and ceiling donw which we were happy to do, and they added an extra layer to our bedroom roof as he said it was only a thin layer and wasnt really up to recommendations, so im a happy camper there was a major frost here this morning and the house was toasty and warm kob - 2012-07-20 12:55:00 |
| 1891 | Just had some exciting news I signed up for the twelve week challenge 12 weeks ago(obviuosly) and have particapated right through and feel really great, and because I was one of only two of us that stayed through the whole twelve weeks I got as a reward another 12 weeks free at the gym, so im delighted. Dedication pays off finally, toned alot quite a bit, but the scales didnt alter much, but energy levels are deffinately up and feel great kob - 2012-07-21 08:51:00 |
| 1892 | *bump* heulog1 - 2012-07-21 21:12:00 |
| 1893 | hi all just a reminder to check with IRD and see if your entitled to a tax rebate, I had a lovely surprise and got $500 back so was thrilled I know tht had alot to do with holding down 3 jobs last year and not knowing what tax code to put doen, but ill take the $500 and run with it. Alot of books can be brought with that Lol kob - 2012-07-26 16:20:00 |
| 1894 | we just got our insulation done under the subsidy in our house 30 years old. Such a difference. Would of gladly paid the full price - lol asue - 2012-07-27 13:31:00 |
| 1895 | I think it pays to know how to cook... saves money all around. I was trying to avoid was going to the supermarket and using what was in the cupboards as I still haven't been shopping since I spent over $400 to get the 50c off. (Have been to fruit and veg though and will need some bread soon. Edited by toadfish at 6:25 am, Sun 29 Jul toadfish - 2012-07-29 06:16:00 |
| 1896 | Page 5! Can't have that. My phrase this month is "No spend August" as hubby is still working on our place and not earning as such. Its a great tool. When anything comes up, I go no.... its "No spend August"..... Opened my mouth before i thought on Sunday suggesting Brekkie out with my daughter at our local cafe as everyone else was out.(we had an entertainment book 2 for 1 - but would still have cost us about $25 with coffee) Then I remembered whoops It's "No spend August" and Miss 19 made me beautiful scrambled eggs on toast, we ate it together and it was lovely to spend time just the 2 of us in our PJ's at home - for free!! Have a great day all. JB Edited by toadfish at 6:16 am, Tue 7 Aug toadfish - 2012-08-07 06:15:00 |
| 1897 | No spend August, still going well. http://www.reducedtoclear.co.nz/catalog/Personal-and-Beauty- The reduced to clear shop and the Y Not shop are great, as long as you don't get tempted by the luxury items. Edited by toadfish at 7:18 am, Sat 11 Aug toadfish - 2012-08-11 07:16:00 |
| 1898 | Just remembered I got Brocolli (2 for 99c) and a big cauli (on special $1.29) for my $8 over the $35. Off to pop my bubbles.... thanks to a handy dandy sealer, lasts me about 4 nights... if I can keep Miss 18 & Miss 19 away from it. Edited by toadfish at 5:26 pm, Sat 11 Aug toadfish - 2012-08-11 17:25:00 |
| 1899 | Bumping ...... dinkydi5 - 2012-08-17 16:30:00 |
| 1900 | No Spend August going great guns..... Treated my self with Flybuys this week. http://www.google.co.nz/imgres?imgurl=http://i-cdn.apartment Edited by toadfish at 8:47 am, Sat 18 Aug toadfish - 2012-08-18 08:45:00 |
