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Pilsbury
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 4480 Location: East london/Essex
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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Cancel sky movies!! Wondered why my bill had rocketed this month and it turns out the 6 months free we got at Christmas ran out, £16 a month..... |
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Lorrainelovesplants
Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 4833 Location: Cornwall
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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Grass cutting, moving furniture for a friend, not going to the pub for a night? |
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alice
Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 2773
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I have heard there's good money to be made down the docks, doing favours for sailors..... |
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Nell Merionwen
Joined: 02 Jun 2008 Posts: 14650 Location: Beautiful Derbyshire
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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| alice wrote: |
| Well, I have heard there's good money to be made down the docks, doing favours for sailors..... |
folding their sails and carrying their kit bags? |
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marigold
Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 12123 Location: West Sussex
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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Thinking more about this - if you can't lay your hands on £20 when you need it you should probably mosey over to the MSE forums and have a look round. There are loads of brilliant ideas for saving/making money.
Some forums are friendlier than others - Debt Free Wannabe and Old Style are good. DFW will help even if you are not in debt - doing a statement of affairs and keeping a spending diary are useful for getting to grip with your finances and squeezing a bit more out of your budget. |
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foggy
Joined: 21 Feb 2012 Posts: 343 Location: Devon
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 12 8:41 am Post subject: |
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£20 borrowed from a friend. She gets paid the same day as me too, so no excuses.
We're squeezing all we can out of our budget & check MSE regularly, have spreadsheets etc. It's just all very tight this month. Am working extra shifts next month, so August won't be so bad!
Now to fill up the allotment on the cheap... |
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foggy
Joined: 21 Feb 2012 Posts: 343 Location: Devon
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 12 8:42 am Post subject: |
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sell the lamb chop whiskers in a fund raising event?
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by pure coincidence I shaved off my side burns the morning you posted this! |
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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 33052 Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 12 8:43 am Post subject: |
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| foggy wrote: |
| Now to fill up the allotment on the cheap... |
I have quite a lot of seeds left from the ds seed-swap. I will dig them out if you pm me your address. |
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Nick
Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 27097 Location: Hereford
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 12 8:43 am Post subject: |
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Don't think we have any seeds lying about, but if I do, what's on your wish list?
I'm sure we had a seed swop running, too...
Eta cross posted. |
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sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 4302 Location: Just south of north.
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 12 10:39 am Post subject: |
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I too have seeds you can have. Pleasse PM me your address and I'll get them in the post to you. |
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mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 23444 Location: mid-Wales
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 12 10:41 am Post subject: |
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| I too have seeds you can have. Pleasse PM me your address and I'll get them in the post to you. |
Ditto. |
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gardening-girl
Joined: 25 Feb 2009 Posts: 5147 Location: Somerset.
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 12 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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Ditto
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oldish chris
Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 2813 Location: Comfortably Wet Southport
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 12 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| foggy wrote: |
| Now to fill up the allotment on the cheap... |
Whats this allotment like? Typically he first few weeks are spent trying to make it look vaguely like an allotment. Plan on putting in stuff in the autumn - Jap. onions, spring cabbage etc. No further expenses until August?
(Dissenting opinions welcome, I've got a bare patch on my plot!) |
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foggy
Joined: 21 Feb 2012 Posts: 343 Location: Devon
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 12 11:13 am Post subject: |
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Hi Chris,
It's a field at the moment - so fences being erected, land being dug etc.
Can't see much getting planted before autumn.
Thanks everyone, pms being sent now!
Foggy. |
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colour it green
Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 7286 Location: Devon, uk
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 12 11:27 am Post subject: |
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I imagine its a bit late for any planting then - but you could start saving your pennies towards things that want to be planted when dormant - say rhubarb.
prolly have some spare seeds going when you are ready - and if you want some gooseberry bushes, you can have them now!
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