Heck i think i spoke to soon ..Well that's gone and done it now..our laptop started bleeping and wouldn't turn on! we have a computer repair shop on our street so i bobbed in this morning so see if Ali could tell me what it was all about, yep the processor has gone, he said it would be £70 to repair and wouldn't recommend it being done as usually they only last 3 months before it happens again...the problem i have is there is allot of stuff stored on said laptop and it needs removing?? bobbed back and he said he would transfer all data to a memory stick for me for just £10..so i think i will get that done and worry about another laptop in the near future, as i don't necessarily need it straight away i just want to blog, read, eBay etc....oh what to do?? my son has a laptop so i will be borrowing his if i can prise it away from him for 10 mins here and there lol i do have internet access at work so i can pop on now and then so its not the end of the world..yet .. ha .. remember the lovely replacement cooker had delivered? yep, still doesn't work right so back to the shop i go again this morning, i really do need to get this problem sorted- its all money this month, lets hope from tomorow being the 1st of November that i can get back to saving and frugling away, no spend on groceries this week, i will need milk and dog food at the weekend but that's it, found a 50p in my purse so that went into the 50p jar i have started..£20 goes into the retirement pot, now i only started these a matter of weeks ago, but already it is adding up £20 a week for a year is £1040 i am 34 so in another 26 years when i am 60 this will be about £27.000 hopefully with interest a little more- a nice retirement fund.
Anyway friends back soon.
AFM xx
Wednesday 30 October 2013
Whatever Next?
Well those two weeks passed very quickly i must say ! Since my first post i have been down to the Isle Of Wight to visit family and friends, some of who i haven't seen for almost 11 years, it was lovely to catch up and i enjoyed myself thoroughly - being spoiled by my Mum was great, Lemon Meringue Pie i here you say?..ooh yes please :) indeed a long 5 days of family and food was just the tonic i needed. Not very Frugal i hear you say? well my Mum had bought me a show ticket so i was going down primarily for that at first, compaired to over £200 on Mr V Trains National Express coaches came in at £24.00 so ten hours later i arrived in Southampton, £11 boat fare and i was there.
My parents drove me back to Lancashire on the Sunday and stayed for a weeks break, so no spend there for travel fare, and the boat price was paid for me too..Happy days. Well seeing as my parents were up we really needed to get a new oven, £200 pound my dad says? it will be bloomin tat!! so we went off in search, there are no gas show rooms any more so as previously found it was a hard task indeed...
We found one in Currys was £400 with a hundred off was on sale for £300, it was a bigger sized oven, and so the decision was made to buy it. After a 10 minute discussion with the sales adviser we walked out with nothing! that's right nothing!! Yes that's correct Mr Foster three hundred pounds, delivery will be Twenty Pounds and we will install it for Seventy Pounds...WHATT!!! so in all my £300 pound cooker was going to cost us £390, way over budget, we were originally only wanted to pay about £200, already this had gone up to £300, and couldn't go any higher. Dad was getting irate with the sales adviser and asked if we could collect ourselves from the store? Oh no you cant do that. why? health and safety sir!! well that was it ... Off we went again, finally we found a local store called "Washking" originally i didn't bother to look in as their shop name states they only ever used to sell washing machines, i was wrong and again spotted a very nice silver and black fancy looking larger sized gas oven, again it was marked down from £400 to £300, yes we will take it, same day delivery great many thanks.
That was last Wednesday, it was delivered in the afternoon, all excited and ready to use it we burnt it off as per the instruction Manuel stated, and proceeded to made two shepherds pies, one meaty and one quorn, prepared the veg to go with it and put it on to cook. Now usually when i make a vegi shepherd pie it bakes in the oven for about 45 mins, now that blooming oven was on for 1.5 hours and it wasn't even bubbling!! oh deary me, next morning i was straight onto the shop and explained what the oven was doing! basically nothing! no problem they said they earliest we can get a replacement to you is next Tuesday the 29th..well it arrived yesterday and i am happy to say fingers crossed it is working fine...phew i can now plan to get all my batch cooking done this weekend as the freezer is low and i am having surgery on the Tuesday so easy home cooked and nourishing meals will be needed.
Sorry for the long post my friends.
AFM xx
My parents drove me back to Lancashire on the Sunday and stayed for a weeks break, so no spend there for travel fare, and the boat price was paid for me too..Happy days. Well seeing as my parents were up we really needed to get a new oven, £200 pound my dad says? it will be bloomin tat!! so we went off in search, there are no gas show rooms any more so as previously found it was a hard task indeed...
We found one in Currys was £400 with a hundred off was on sale for £300, it was a bigger sized oven, and so the decision was made to buy it. After a 10 minute discussion with the sales adviser we walked out with nothing! that's right nothing!! Yes that's correct Mr Foster three hundred pounds, delivery will be Twenty Pounds and we will install it for Seventy Pounds...WHATT!!! so in all my £300 pound cooker was going to cost us £390, way over budget, we were originally only wanted to pay about £200, already this had gone up to £300, and couldn't go any higher. Dad was getting irate with the sales adviser and asked if we could collect ourselves from the store? Oh no you cant do that. why? health and safety sir!! well that was it ... Off we went again, finally we found a local store called "Washking" originally i didn't bother to look in as their shop name states they only ever used to sell washing machines, i was wrong and again spotted a very nice silver and black fancy looking larger sized gas oven, again it was marked down from £400 to £300, yes we will take it, same day delivery great many thanks.
That was last Wednesday, it was delivered in the afternoon, all excited and ready to use it we burnt it off as per the instruction Manuel stated, and proceeded to made two shepherds pies, one meaty and one quorn, prepared the veg to go with it and put it on to cook. Now usually when i make a vegi shepherd pie it bakes in the oven for about 45 mins, now that blooming oven was on for 1.5 hours and it wasn't even bubbling!! oh deary me, next morning i was straight onto the shop and explained what the oven was doing! basically nothing! no problem they said they earliest we can get a replacement to you is next Tuesday the 29th..well it arrived yesterday and i am happy to say fingers crossed it is working fine...phew i can now plan to get all my batch cooking done this weekend as the freezer is low and i am having surgery on the Tuesday so easy home cooked and nourishing meals will be needed.
Sorry for the long post my friends.
AFM xx
Monday 14 October 2013
My first ever post .. Hi i'm A Frugal Mrs, welcome to my blog.
So its been a rainy and blustery day in Lancashire today, the weather has really set in now and winter seems to be in full swing. A quick visit to Aldis this morning was needed For some flowers, this is the best place i have found to buy them from, two big bunches comes in at £2 each more than enough for
the crematorium and my purse strings, similar bunches at Tesco are at least£3.50 each, so a good £3 saving there.
A visit was due as it was the first passing of my Nan in Law's anniversary I must admit i thought the crem was very untidy, the fallen leaves were piled up, wind blowen flowers and the chilly air made the place feel very dark and miserable but few bunches of bright yellow flowers soon cheered up Mary's spot, a quick sweep up and a tidy around soon made everything look better.
It was back to work this afternoon for me and the OH, and as i am writing this at my work desk all i can think about is getting home and getting warm, boy its cold today, we are still trying to cut back by not having our central heating blasting out all hours of the day, so it will be an hour of the electric heater that hardly uses any electric and plenty of home made blankets to keep us warm and toasty. Our gas oven is still on the blink and after weeks of making do and using the grill and hobs have resorted to thinking about buying a new one. Cheapest we can find brand new with delivery at the moment comes in at £200, money that we really could do without spending as the annual car tax is due, Christmas is round the corner and our Home insurance is ready for renewal.Do you always shop around when it comes to renewing your insurance policies? we saved £70 last year from searching the internet, now that's money well saved! We pay for a whole years car tax as it saves us money in the long run, its just not appreciated at this time of the year.. that's another £170 odd pounds we need to find, i wish we had a money tree lol
Well thats it from me today folks, see you soon.
AFM xx
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