Ahhhh the silence and some free cycle!!

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Ahhhh the silence and some free cycle!!

Well after the boring changing of the bank accounts I picked up a freecycled small three drawer chest of drawers and hit Lidl! Only spent £25 but need to pick up yoghurt's and cat food, children's toothpaste and some fruit not a great deal of fruit apples maybe and whatever is cheap! - should get away with only spending £30 this week Ahhhh bread flour - sold out at Lidl - Over a pound a bag at other stores so plumbed for the 99p stuff - only 1kg rather than the 1.5 bags but no choice. Will keep monitoring!!!! Roo is at the beach - I sent her off on her own for some fun am sure she Will be fine -very sensible three year old - not really away with friends - mine not hers so I have enjoyed a lovely cup of coffee and some uninterrupted blog reading. Have admin for work work to do later so will be busy and bored senseless. I do hope I get some sort of other job/direction soon this current post is sucking my soul away!!!!!!

The freecycle item was much like the ret of my furniture - nothing interesting all rather bland- all second hand hand and given to me/ free cycled. Its every where!! I have alot of that cheap mock pine effect stuff. None of it has cost me a bean however so I am not complaining. It has no character, personality - it is all bland and very plain but gives me somewhere to put the books, photos. I don't really have Nick knacks anymore they were deemed non essential during one of the my house moves and as such boot sold, gave to charity. I would love a dresser however to collect and display my own particular brand of crap!!!

One day maybe when I am resettled again.... shame I will say tarrah to the kitchen - excellent space and lots of room for a dresser.......... ho hum soon I hope

5 comments:

Rebecca23 March 2011 at 14:50
Could you revamp the furniture by giving it a coat of paint? x
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Linda23 March 2011 at 15:21
There are some brilliant ideas for revamping similar things to yours and on obtaining and doing up cheap dressers on the moneysavingexpert forum - http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=2733101

Good luck. xxx
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Fran24 March 2011 at 00:59
I agree with the other two readers above, if you 'shabby chic' the furniture it would look great, and no feelings of guilt because you haven't paid a fortune for it in the first place!
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Elizabeth24 March 2011 at 03:36
I would love a dresser too, somewhere to store and display all my random gatherings.

See if you can find some half-used tins of paint and give the furniture a spruce up. Something colourful might lift your spirits.
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Eeek24 March 2011 at 16:39
Yes I have a decorating plan!!! I aim to add some colour to the magnolia that engulfs my house!!!

This is really to help with selling/renting.

Garden soon... will have to see what happens next week and beyond regarding renting the house out............ who knows eh???

Have a pine cupboard in Roo's room. not sure what colours to used on it - am thinking pink type aging may post pics of the horrors and get ideas!!!!

Cheers Eeek
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Once upon a time the end was in sight and financial freedom from my little debt of under 5k was nearly within my grasp! December 2012 if not before with the benefits of frugality however our friend Dave had other plans!!!!

I was made redundant from my job with a pish package I took what I could find till a full time position. Finally taking a 10k salary drop.

In 2009 I invested in property buying my house with a 15% deposit. n 2011 after three years of home owning and negative equity to the tune of 12k I have finally sold and now have jack bloody buggery shite. What smarts is that I gave up time with my small child in favour of seeking security for us. If only I had done the opposite....... rented, claimed top up benefits and saved my hard earned cash .... quality of life for me and weeny girl for three years would have been be better and we would have a cash sum in the bank and no debt.

You play frugal, play independent, watch your consumption, don't do frivalous sofas or new cars, no nights out at the pub type debt just what you have to! After a double whammy from the government - house market slump and Local Authority redundancy compounded by rural living what is a single mum supposed to do???? = Suck it up, Keep smiling, and use a brush instead of a hoover.