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Pilsbury

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 5645
Location: East london/Essex

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 1:55 pm Post subject:
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, ï¿½16 a month.....

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 2:03 pm Post subject:
Grass cutting, moving furniture for a friend, not going to the pub for a night?

alice

Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Posts: 2820

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 3:13 pm Post subject:
Well, I have heard there's good money to be made down the docks, doing favours for sailors.....

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 3:14 pm Post subject:

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?

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 3:22 pm Post subject:

Thinking more about this - if you can't lay your hands on ï¿½20 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.

foggy

Joined: 21 Feb 2012
Posts: 343
Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 12 8:41 am Post subject:
ï¿½20 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...

foggy

Joined: 21 Feb 2012
Posts: 343
Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 12 8:42 am Post subject:

colour it green wrote:

sell the lamb chop whiskers in a fund raising event?

by pure coincidence I shaved off my side burns the morning you posted this!

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 12 8:43 am Post subject:

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.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 12 8:43 am Post subject:
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.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 12 10:39 am Post subject:
I too have seeds you can have. Pleasse PM me your address and I'll get them in the post to you.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 12 10:41 am Post subject:

sgt.colon wrote:

I too have seeds you can have. Pleasse PM me your address and I'll get them in the post to you.

Ditto.

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 12 3:23 pm Post subject:
Ditto

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 4148
Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 12 4:51 pm Post subject:

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!)

foggy

Joined: 21 Feb 2012
Posts: 343
Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 12 11:13 am Post subject:
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.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9891
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 12 11:27 am Post subject:
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! well done on getting the lottie

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