(Sure, I do know at this time is the thirtieth and July has 31 days however it’s close to sufficient 😛)
Thank goodness for a a lot cooler week, even put a cardigan on one night however nonetheless so dry aside from a half hour bathe on Tuesday night. Not a lot point out of rain within the 10 day forecast both.
I am trying ahead to watching on TV all of the sports activities on the Commonwealth Video games which began yesterday- and on on the proper time to look at – being in Birmingham and so good that Para sports activities are going to be blended in reasonably than at a totally totally different time.
I beloved the World Athletic Championships through the month however as they had been in Eugene, Oregon watching reside would have concerned being up at 1a.m. By the point they’d a catch up programme on BBC I might typically already heard about any British medal outcomes on the radio information!
We had been speaking about watching sports activities when Son and DiL had been right here on Sunday and so they mentioned they’d simply realised the following Olympics in 2024 are from Paris so once more the timings shall be proper for seeing them reside. They had been two of the fortunate individuals who bought tickets to look at some occasions in London in 2012.
And onto my traditional spherical up – no extras earned so simply the 2 pensions and small bits of curiosity on financial savings had been my revenue and fortunately July is a month with none giant payments due – though the way in which
electrical and diesel costs are rising there are giant payments each
month!
Saving to spend?
Years in the past we saved our pennies
in lots of locations to easily survive. These days I save my pennies in some
locations so I can spend them in others.
So I make no apology for my frugal month notes even when I do not should be so frugal anymore.
- At all times sending put up by second class reasonably than first
- Mixing complete milk half and half with water – 2 pints turns into 4 pints on the value of two.
- Hand-crafted bread
- Cucumbers, Aubergines, Tomatoes from the greenhouse
- Beetroot,Courgettes, French Climbing Beans from the backyard
- Dried Basil leaves for winter
- Jam made utilizing an overlarge courgette plus apricots from the cabinet
- Bundle of 8 good greetings playing cards from boot sale for 50p every
- At all times washing the automotive myself
- Washing dried exterior all month
- Washing Soda for garments washing with a minimal of Ecover laundry liquid
- No garments, footwear and so forth purchased all month
- Private spending restricted to swimming and second-hand books – primarily 50p every from boot gross sales
- Co-op meal deal = Freezer Filler £5 – (Blended Veg, Rooster Burgers and Rooster Breast Fillets, Alphabeti potato waffle/chip issues and 2 Vienettas. I am stocking up for summers smaller guests.(Some folks will in all probability tut about this being over processed meals like they did final time I discussed the Co-op freezer filler deal however because it’s solely a a few times a 12 months factor, they will tut as a lot as they like!)
- No automotive journeys aside from boot gross sales/purchasing and swimming/purchasing, household visits and WI within the next-but-one village.
I’ve a date for the becoming of the water meter subsequent month, which I do know will cut back each my water and sewage prices. On this little bit of Suffolk we pay for water to Essex and Suffolk Water firm which is owned by Northumberland Water (?) and pay Anglian Water (owned by a French firm?) for our sewage. Hopefully then the first ought to inform the second that I now have a meter because the second shall be then based mostly on the primary reasonably than on Council Tax band…….should you comply with!
Martin Lewis, the Cash Saving Knowledgeable, was on the At present programme on
Thursday calling for assist for poorer households with the potential rise in
vitality costs. It is predicted that the typical vitality prices for a house with fuel and electrical
could possibly be as much as £500 a month – how on earth can folks handle that? I haven’t got direct debit for electrical however learn the meter and pay just for what I’ve used each 4 weeks.(which really labored out at paying two payments this month). The heating oil tank is simply over half full so will want 500 litres in August. The oil fired boiler solely comes on in summer time when the new faucet is used so I attempt to solely use it for showering/washing myself and if I do need to activate the new faucet within the kitchen for laundry one thing that may’t go within the dishwasher then I catch a complete jug filled with chilly earlier than the new arrives and use it for one thing – soaking a messy pan or watering the Chives out the entrance of the home.
Plenty of card making bits and one other load of books have gone off to the
charity store this month due to the library van being lacking for therefore
lengthy. It is made me learn a number of and kind others which were sitting
there for years.
| GONE! |
Additionally gone out of the house are a couple of bits of baking gear that I do not use and a bundle of previous put up playing cards and birthday/Christmas playing cards have been recycled as card to put in writing purchasing lists on or into the recycling bin.
I have been which means to examine on how lengthy I must preserve self employment particulars in case the tax man desires to see them. We each filed our final tax returns for the 2015-2016 12 months and I believed it was 7 years however it may be 5, both manner I will quickly have the ability to eliminate folders filled with campsite and so forth paperwork which have moved home 3 occasions!
What is going to the bills be in August? I’ve seemed again at my accounts for August 2021 (once I had a dentist go to, purchased new pairs of shorts and electrical propagator and had the boiler serviced) Dentist and boiler service shall be in September this 12 months however my half 12 months subscription for the Radio Occasions is due. I shall preserve that because it’s my solely journal buy and I do like discovering out extra concerning the TV programmes I get pleasure from (it really works out at lower than £2 every week – a lot, less expensive than most magazines).
There’s one large expense that is a particular for August and I will write about that when it occurs.
That is about it, I shall be again on Monday.
Sue
