REALISATION DAWNS!

I am not known for my brilliant mind, nor my good looks come to that. So some things come a little slowly to me, take the whole ‘being frugal’ business for instance. I had been thinking change your shopping habits, make little sacrifices, buy more basic goods and make them in to more fancy stuff yourself, like making my own pastry instead of buying the ready made stuff.

Then there is the whole ‘living greener’ issue. I’d been thinking buy green cleaning products, recycle, compost, turn lights off.

It never occurred to me that there was any connection between the two!

But today the light went on!

These two life stances are actually one and the same thing! Let me show you what I mean;

1. By down sizing my spending habits I am buying less, which means less packaging, less miles travelled by the products I didn’t buy, less energy spent in making the product, which is all green!
2. By not buying that fancy bottle of perfume I like, I’m not only saving a fair sized chunk of money, but I’m also saving my bin from all that extra packaging.
3. By making my own pastry, I’m also saving on packaging, the ready made stuff comes securely wrapped in plastic, as well as almost costing twice as much as it costs me to make it myself. Okay, my pastry may not be as good – yet, -but it is a small sacrifice I am very willing to make.
4. Now we get to the really nifty stuff… By making my own frugal cleaners I am saving on packaging, as I use basic kitchen ingredients to make my cleaners which I would have already bought anyway, and as this stuff is safe enough for us to eat, it can’t cause any damage to the environment when it gets washed down the sink! You might think that making my own cleaners is time consuming, but you would be very wrong, it takes no more time than pouring the purchased cleaner from the bottle, so that’s a bonus you don’t normally get. Add to that the fact that making my own works out at a fraction of the cost of purchased cleaners, echo or otherwise, and I’m in a win-win situation here!
5. By recycling, I don’t always mean taking it to the special bins. Now before I discard a product or a bit of packaging I look at it twice. That empty egg box would be perfect for chitting my potatoes, or as a bio-degradable seed pot (thus saving me the cost of seed pots too!). That empty jar is the perfect size for storing my dried sage or thyme. That old kettle that blew a fuse would make the perfect plant pot for my mint to stop it spreading more than I want. Those old tights with the holes in will store my onions perfectly, or tie up my tomatoes (saving me the cost of string), or could even be made in to a rug if I save enough of them from going to the allotment. The inner tube of the toilet roll is perfect for seeds, again. Those envelopes that came in the post are perfect for writing out my to-do lists on. Those plastic carrier bags with the holes in, cut them in to strips and use them as weather proof plant ties, or crochet them in to another shopping bag, one that won’t tear so easily this time. Look at everything twice or three times, and try to think outside of the box.
6. I used to run around the house turning lights and equipment on stand-by off thinking “save money, save money!” and it got a little stale, if you know what I mean, but now I’m thinking “Save money, save the planet!” and it doesn’t seem so altruistic any more.

Being frugal and being green are not mutually exclusive, they are mutually Inclusive! Who would have thought it?

REALISATION DAWNS!

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I am not known for my brilliant mind, nor my good looks come to that. So some things come a little slowly to me, take the whole ‘being frugal’ business for instance. I had been thinking change your shopping habits, make little sacrifices, buy more basic goods and make them in to more fancy stuff yourself, like making my own pastry instead of buying the ready made stuff.

Then there is the whole ‘living greener’ issue. I’d been thinking buy green cleaning products, recycle, compost, turn lights off.

It never occurred to me that there was any connection between the two!

But today the light went on!

These two life stances are actually one and the same thing! Let me show you what I mean;

1. By down sizing my spending habits I am buying less, which means less packaging, less miles travelled by the products I didn’t buy, less energy spent in making the product, which is all green!
2. By not buying that fancy bottle of perfume I like, I’m not only saving a fair sized chunk of money, but I’m also saving my bin from all that extra packaging.
3. By making my own pastry, I’m also saving on packaging, the ready made stuff comes securely wrapped in plastic, as well as almost costing twice as much as it costs me to make it myself. Okay, my pastry may not be as good – yet, -but it is a small sacrifice I am very willing to make.
4. Now we get to the really nifty stuff… By making my own frugal cleaners I am saving on packaging, as I use basic kitchen ingredients to make my cleaners which I would have already bought anyway, and as this stuff is safe enough for us to eat, it can’t cause any damage to the environment when it gets washed down the sink! You might think that making my own cleaners is time consuming, but you would be very wrong, it takes no more time than pouring the purchased cleaner from the bottle, so that’s a bonus you don’t normally get. Add to that the fact that making my own works out at a fraction of the cost of purchased cleaners, echo or otherwise, and I’m in a win-win situation here!
5. By recycling, I don’t always mean taking it to the special bins. Now before I discard a product or a bit of packaging I look at it twice. That empty egg box would be perfect for chitting my potatoes, or as a bio-degradable seed pot (thus saving me the cost of seed pots too!). That empty jar is the perfect size for storing my dried sage or thyme. That old kettle that blew a fuse would make the perfect plant pot for my mint to stop it spreading more than I want. Those old tights with the holes in will store my onions perfectly, or tie up my tomatoes (saving me the cost of string), or could even be made in to a rug if I save enough of them from going to the allotment. The inner tube of the toilet roll is perfect for seeds, again. Those envelopes that came in the post are perfect for writing out my to-do lists on. Those plastic carrier bags with the holes in, cut them in to strips and use them as weather proof plant ties, or crochet them in to another shopping bag, one that won’t tear so easily this time. Look at everything twice or three times, and try to think outside of the box.
6. I used to run around the house turning lights and equipment on stand-by off thinking “save money, save money!” and it got a little stale, if you know what I mean, but now I’m thinking “Save money, save the planet!” and it doesn’t seem so altruistic any more.

Being frugal and being green are not mutually exclusive, they are mutually Inclusive! Who would have thought it?

THE ALLOTMENT TRIALS.

I’m not the most productive of bloggers as I’ve said before, and have been away from here for a quite a while. I have never been much of a diary keeper, so this doesn’t come naturally to me, and when I’m busy, I just don’t think about it!

So what have you been up to that has kept you so busy? I hear you ask.

Well for starters we finally got to the top of the waiting list for an allotment and took it over half way through April.

Considering we have been waiting for this allotment for over three years, we were surprised to find the plot hadn’t been worked at all for over five years, and had the resultant seven foot high bramble covering to prove it! But I’m not going to even try to figure that one out, though I have my suspicions. Suffice to say, our plot and the surrounding plots were so over grown, we had to be shown where we started and ended, and then had to cut our way through to it!

The clearing of the brambles, although I did do some, fell mainly to my husband who revels in that sort of work. There were times where I felt as if I was Wily Coyote, and he was the Road Runner, running rings around me! It took two weeks of working five to six hours a day for me and three to four hours most days for Hubby, before we could actually say we had levelled the site. We did find a beautiful Rosemary bush that has to be four foot wide and just as tall, but pretty much everything else was bramble.

By the time it was cleared enough to start putting plants in it was the beginning of May, and I was desperate to get stuff in the ground, but I had made the mistake of showing Hubby some of the things I wanted incorporated in to the plot, like a greenhouse, shed and pond. I on the other hand, needed bramble roots dug out and beds made up quickly, so I think I can safely say there was a slight conflict of interests!

Now bare in mind, I haven’t had a garden since I was a child, and have forgotten more than I ever knew in the first place, so this has been a real learning curve for me, and Hubby doesn’t have green fingers, he has black ones! So planting and nurturing is my job, Hubby will happily build me anything I want, but I have to get the food coming out so he maintains his interest in the project.

So I turned to Ebay and bought plug plants by the ship load. The plants started arriving, and the beds weren’t ready! Everything was rushed, the plants have been put in too close together, but they are growing anyway, apart from the odd disaster here and there which I will tell you about another day.

I have utilised Freecycle unashamedly, obtaining dustbins to plant my potatoes in (saves digging them up when they are ready!), roof tiles and big bits of wood for edgings for the beds, old bits of carpets and cardboard boxes for the paths, composters and even a water butt.

The work has been exhausting, but at last we are beginning to eat some of our labours, as in lettuce, peas, radishes and strawberries, so I can build our meals around what is available on the plot and hopefully save money that way. So yes, this is going to be half a frugal posting and half a gardening posting.

That sort of sets the scene for you, the actual stories of my battles both won and lost so far will follow, in the course of time. (Well you know what I’m like with my blogging!)

I’M HAVE A CONFESSION, I’M NOT A FRUGAL SHOPPER.

After the previous post about how I manage to save money here and there, I felt it only fair to make this admission of guilt. I am a spontaneous shopper, so if I see something that isn’t on my list, but still peaks my interest, and if it’s within my budget, I will snap it up on the spur of the moment.

I did this a few months ago at our local garden centre, where, in the fancy gifts section I found a small block of deodorant crystal, reduced (of course) down to £2.99. Seeing as I normally pay about £1.19 for my normal deodorant, (though I do try to buy this when it’s on ‘buy one, get one free’), this was considered by me to be an extravagant purchase.

I had, however, read about these crystals in the past, and was curious to see if it really could do everything it claimed, especially in the light of an article I read online revealing all the dangerous chemicals that are used in the manufacture of my regular deodorant, so I snapped the crystal bargain up, thinking that it would last about a month.

I seriously doubted that this little block of crystal, (about the size of a complimentary soap you get in hotels, but twice as thick,) would last more than a couple of weeks, and I seriously doubted it could stop some of my cheapo tops from smelling after only a few hours of wear. I mean, it had no perfume to it, all I had to do was wet the end and rub it over my skin. It is all just so simple it couldn’t possibly work, could it?

I have to admit I now consider this crystal to be my top bargain purchase of the year, and I rate it even higher than my new allotment, which I will tell you about in another post.

The crystal not only stops all body odour, dead, but it is still the same size as when I bought it (except for a small chip where I dropped it in the sink once). I can wear any perfume I like, because having no smell, the crystal doesn’t clash with my perfume choice, and it has now lasted longer than the price equivalent in my ex-normal deodorant, and I still haven’t found one single draw back to it, (apart from it being a bit slippery when wet of course). When it is finished there will be nothing to throw away or recycle, and the packaging it came in was a piece of brown paper tied with a bit of raffia string. How much more echo friendly can you get?

I suspect it will be a very long time before I have to buy another one of these for myself, but I will definitely be buying more to put in Christmas stockings this year for others!

Some of the ways I try to save money

The recession is going to hit those of us who are already on benefits first and the hardest, so how does a family who are already below the breadline tighten their belts even further?

There are many blogs and websites out there already covering some of the problems being faced, or will soon have to be faced, by millions of people who have grown up in a world where when something breaks, you throw it away and buy a new one. Very soon they are going to discover they can no longer just go out and buy a replacement, no matter how many ads encourage them to do this.

So, periodically, I thought I’d write about some of the things I do to save money, and hopefully give someone else a chance to save a few pennies here and there too.

So where to start?

Well yesterday my husband, who has become quite expert in filling out forms over the years, helped a friend fill out his council tax form, who in turn gave my husband a nice professional hair cut in payment. See? If you have a skill, offer it in exchange for a skill you don’t have. Okay I hear you say, why don’t I cut hubbies hair for him? Well the truth of the matter is, hubby doesn’t trust me to do it properly, and after the first time I did it for him, I don’t trust myself not to just start cutting at the nape of the neck and carry on straight through to the adams apple! (if you get my drift!)

This morning after my shower I cut my own hair. Yep I actually do that.

It is the third time I’ve done it and the first two times worked out so well I feel like I’m becoming an old hand at it (got to wait for it to dry to see if it worked as well again this time, but so far it looks good.).

Now I know many women will shudder in horror at the thought of cutting their own hair for fear of messing it up, and I was one of them, no honestly I was, but it got to the point where my hair was a total mess, and there just wasn’t any money to spare for the £30-£45 my hair dresser charges for a cut and blow dry. And then I read online a tip and in desperation I tried it, and to my amazement it turned out better than anything my hair dresser has done in the ten years I’ve been using him!

“So what do you do?” I hear you ask, well to start you wash your hair, but don’t dry it at all, to do the cut you need it to be dripping wet. Now tip your head forward until your nose is pointing towards your knees, (I generally sit in the toilet for this bit) and comb or brush your hair forward. Make sure your head is really tipped forward or you may find your fringe is cut way to short, depending on the length of the hair you are working with, mine is about shoulder length. Then choose a line to cut and start, keep brushing and cutting until you feel you have the length you want. This cut provides a lovely layered cut that frames the face, and yet keeps the length long enough even for my husband’s tastes. (It’s the old story, he likes long, I like short lol).

Today we woke up to snow. Yes it is actually snowing here in London, heavy enough to do Scotland proud, and has been doing so for nearly four hours so far! So what am I going to do about heating the flat? The first thing is shut all the doors to the rooms that will not be used, so I won’t be wasting the heat where it isn’t needed.

The next thing I am going to do is have a baking day. My husband loves chocolate chip cookies, so I’ll make up two batches of those (it always has to be two batches as the first batch disappears as soon as they are out of the oven!), and some bread and may be even a cake. The heat from the oven should provide enough warmth for the rooms I have left open; and the food needs to be cooked anyway, so today is the perfect day for it. I’ll also whip up some extra cookie dough and freeze it for quick cooking when husband finishes this lot.

Why do I make my own biscuits? Well for one thing, they taste nicer than the shop bought ones, they are cheaper too, and they don’t have any hidden ‘nasties’ in them either. So it’s an all-round win-win strategy.

Here’s the recipe, in case anyone wants to try making them, I use a mixer, but it’s an old recipe so I’ll write it as it’s written.

Chocolate Chip Cookies (one batch)

100g/4oz butter or margarine, softened
100g/4oz Demerara sugar (or brown sugar)
1 egg slightly beaten
½ teaspoon vanilla essence
50g/2oz sultanas
175g/6oz self-raising flour
50g/2oz plain or milk chocolate chips

Heat oven to 160c (325f, gas mark 3 (gosh you wouldn’t believe how long it took me to look up the alternatives!) Lightly grease two baking trays. Cream the butter or margarine with the sugar until very soft, light and fluffy. Gradually add the egg, beating continuously, then beat in the vanilla essence. Stir the sultanas into the creamed mixture together with the flour and chocolate chips.

Drop heaped teaspoonfuls of the mixture, sufficiently apart to allow room for spreading, on to the prepared baking trays and flatten slightly with the back of a fork. Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until golden. Leave the cookies on the trays (I normally have to fight hubby off at this point!) for a few minutes then cool on a wire rack.

Makes 30

So total saving for today will have to be an estimate, but…
£30-£45 for a hair cut.
Heating for the day approx £3
Biscuits bought would cost 79p a packet, one batch of home made = two packets = £3.16
Margarine – 16p
Sugar – 22p
Egg – 14p
Vanilla essence – 3p
Sultanas – 12p
Flour - 5p
Heating of oven - £1.20
Total expenditure today; £1.92 compared to the £36.19 I would otherwise have spent!

Now I’m off to do some baking!

Another day…

I found a lovely balaclava type hat on line, that looks more like a chain mail helmet than a crochet balaclava.

I also found, at a local store two odd balls of Wendy Fusion wool. It’s a random coloured wool, and the two balls aren’t even the same random colours, but I love both.

So I have fused (excuse the pun) the two finds together to make the helmet.

Only one problem. I have frogged the helmet six times now, and still it’s too big! I’m down to 66 stitches around the brim, where I should have 99, and still I think it’s going to be a little too baggy, but I’m going to persevere with it now as it is.

I had almost finished the shawl last night, (only 72 stitches to go) when I ran out of the yarn I was using.
Only one little problem.  I intend to make two shawls, in two different colours, for my aunts, and the wool only comes in bags of six balls, so I had to buy twelve balls of wool to do a grand total of 144 stitches!  How silly is that?

Today I dashed back up to the shop and bought the wool.  I was very lucky as I got the last bags of each colour I have chosen to work with!  The Gods must have been smiling down on me for me to be so fortunate.
Never mind, I already know what I’m going to do with the left overs, a wheelchair lap-gahn for my cousin.  I have even thought I might try and add a small bag to the  top of it so she can put her bits and pieces in it.  I got the idea after seeing her struggle to turn and get something out of the bag hanging on the back of her chair at Christmas.

The first shawl is now finished and I think it’s beautiful.  It’s soft, simple yet elegant, and it has the perfect weight to it so it hangs perfectly without dropping off every other second.  I tried to get hubby to feel how soft it was, but he didn’t seem to be so impressed, but then he’s a man.  The second shawl is just under half done, so it won’t be long before I’m doing the lapgahn.  Did I mention it was a doddle to crochet? lol

I’m off to check I still like the lapgahn pattern.  I have an idea in my head to what I want it to look like, so if it isn’t the same I’m going to hunt out the pattern I’m thinking of and just make it shorter.

Have a wonderful day.

I have been lazy with my writing.

Well I have been very lazy with my writing since I sent the book off to the publisher, but I haven’t been very lazy in other areas of my life…

I have been very busy crafting, loads of yarn in the New Year sales has inspired me to start work on next Christmas’s gifts…

Oh and I’ve made myself two pairs of slipper socks.  I loved the pattern, but after I’d made the first pair I decided I wanted them to be a bit longer in the leg, so did another pair.  They were very quick and easy though, so I don’t feel a bit guilty about the time I spent on them though.

My friend Lucie has given me a whole heap of old knitting and crochet patterns mixed in with recipes and magazines.  Some of the patterns go back to the 1950’s!  There are some beautiful baby patterns in amongst them, and seeing as my brother is expecting his second child in April…  What a hoard!

Yep I feel another project coming on… lol.

On the writing side though, very little has happened, but I am seriously thinking about doing some short story contests which have a deadline in February.  I just hate doing short stories sooo much though, much prefer to waffle on at my own speed and not be restricted by a word count!

I joined a new group online, which is called ‘Pass it forward’.  Basically the idea is to find some way to do someone a kindness, and if they try to repay you, tell them to pass it forward to the next person they see in need of help.  They have a wonderful story about a Macdonald’s drive thru in the US, where someone paid for the car behinds order at about 8.30 am, and the car behind paid for the next person’s order etc.  The line wasn’t broken until after 3pm that afternoon!  But a kindness isn’t always money based, so I felt happy joining.

Upset the hubby a bit on Wednesday, by replacing the electric kettle which no longer boiled, the DVD player that had the broken remote, the thermos flask that no longer kept anything hot and the telephone that no longer had a dial tone that was recognised by the switchboard.  He paid me back, but he was not happy with the expense, a whole  £44.47!  Yep I love the January sales!!!!

On Wednesday KitKat made her first solo kill.  Boy am I proud of that kitty!  Boy did she make a fuss about it!  Boy did she want a lot of treats for all her hard work!  Worth every second.

Right I’m off to work on the shawl I’m making as a Christmas gift with the lovely soft yarn I found in the sales.

Life has been a little dull…

Full of things I should do, not much of what I enjoy doing.  You all know the feeling.

There is one thing that suddenly occurred to me recently though.

When I was a girl in the ’60’s I heard a piece of music, though I didn’t know what it was,  (it was, however, very ahead of it’s time as it was one of the first electronic compositions to get in to the charts, and it wasn’t until the 1980’s the next one got in to the charts (I think it was either Paul Hardcastle or Frankie Goes to Holiwood)).  Well I heard it again recently, while I was writing and I loaded it on to my computer, and just last week it dawned on me why I like ‘Euphoria’ music sooo much!  I mean, there aren’t that many 50 year olds walking around who like electronic dance music is there?  Hell even my friend Kim who is nearly 15 years younger than me can’t stand it!  I can even remember the very first time I heard this music; it was on the TV series of Lost In Space!  Of course the miserable one hates it! He says it’s too repetitious.  lol

What is it?  I hear you asking.  Magic Fly by Space.  Check it out if you like that kind of music.

Catch you soon.

A day of nothing much

I did manage to get the second glove for my daughter knitted, but apart from that…yuck!

It’s rained for most of the day, and it’s been very cold, but I can’t really use that as an excuse can I?

I did make one not so interesting discovery though.

Last week I found a lovely gold coloured nail varnish, which I thought would be perfect for my Christmas wearing, so I tried it out and found it to be nicely coloured and not too heavy, yet very hard wearing.  Almost perfect I hear you say, and that is exactly what I was thinking too, until I came to take it off today…

My nails are now stained nicotine yellow!  Despite having used under coat with the varnish!  YIKES!

Now I’m going to have to rethink my nail varnish for Christmas and go for a nice solid colour that will give total coverage just to hide the yellow staining!

As I usually wear the lighter coverage colours, you know, the ones where you can still see some of the nails natural markings through it, this is going to be a BIG change for me.

I’m thinking of a nice Christmassy red, but I have to be careful with my choice of red as I have that nasty thing that cut off the circulation in my hands and feet, and my fingers literally  turn blue-grey, like dead meat.  If I use a red that doesn’t have a touch of blue in it, the varnish looks black on me when that happens.  Don’t ask me why it happens, but I have seen it, and it’s not pretty, trust me!

I suppose I could go for a nice Christmas tree green, now that would be different!  I can just see my families faces if I did that!  Ooo it’s tempting just to see the looks!

Okay, I’m off to find a pattern for something to make for my eldest Daughter.

Catch you all later.

Oh how I miss the writing challenge!

I know I should be relieved it’s over and that I managed to get passed the 50k mark, but now I wake up each day missing the need to get to the key board.

It’s not like I don’t have a whole heap of jobs that have been sitting on the back burner waiting for the end of November to arrive, I even have 1000 emails waiting for me to look at them!

(I know, I sign up to a lot of information emails like ‘Frugal Living’, ‘Slow cooker recipes’, and numerous free knitting, crochet and cross stitch pattern sites, and as they didn’t need my immediate attention, they got dumped in a file and are now waiting patiently for me!)

It’s not that I’m missing the writing as such, as I’m still editing the novel. And it’s not that I’m missing the challenge to achieve something to a deadline, as now I’m making Christmas presents like no tomorrow. What I’m really missing is being in a completely different world where I don’t know what’s going to happen round the next corner. I miss the fantasy.

So perhaps I should start plotting the next novel now, with a view to starting writing in the new year. What would my proof readers think about that I wonder?

Mind you, if you asked my husband he’d tell you I live in a world of my own anyway! (And I have a sneaking suspicion he may be right, but I’d never tell him that!)

I was quite pleased with myself today though. I started and finished the right hand of a cabled fingerless glove for my youngest daughters Christmas stocking. Tomorrow I will make the left one, and then I’ll have to get my thinking cap on to think of something nice to make for my eldest daughter. (But seeing as she sometimes reads this blog, there’s no way I’m going to reveal what it is I have in mind to make for her!).

The fingerless glove is pretty cool though, it starts just below the elbow so should keep Vicky’s arms warm when she’s riding her bike, and I made it in her favourite colour, purple!

I was impressed with the pattern (and my translation as it is an American pattern). Anyone who is interested can check it out on the free pattern section of the Caron website.

Actually I impressed myself too, as it seems that now I can speak UK crochet and US crochet, UK knit and US knit. Anyone who has seen a pattern from across the pond will know that the two countries use completely different terms, that are just similar enough to confuse everyone!

Bit like the languages themselves really, I mean just look at the two completely different meanings each country has for the word ‘fanny’! Real offense can be caused just through lack of understanding.

And what about grits! Who in their right mind would eat the stuff you put on the bottom of a budgies cage?

On that note I think I’d better love you and leave you

Night all.