Resorting to a Photo of Shopping...

Thanks everyone for comments yesterday. .....the boring boot-sale photo and today because I'm short of blogging topics, I'm resorting to a picture of shopping .......another boring topic! but curiously fascinating to so many people - including me although...................

I looked at 2 minutes of a frugal youtuber unloading her frugal shopping before deciding that I'd seen enough of someone saying she was frugal while buying things that aren't (in my opinion anyway!) Of course they might be vital to her existence, even coca cola!

I don't know who the youtuber was as I couldn't find it again. I really shouldn't watch even 2 minutes of these as mostly they make me cross!

My shopping ...............

Everything from Aldi again. Vegetables were salad leaves, purple sprouting broccoli, celery, mini potatoes(British from Norfolk - well done Aldi), baby plum tomatoes. Fruit in season British apples and pears . Into the fridge -  4 pints milk,  extra mature cheddar, Shropshire blue and 'salad' cheese (aka feta). For the freezer 2 packs of sweet potato fries, petit pois peas and fish in batter. For the store cupboard - wholemeal bread flour, cashews, multi grain crackers, ground coffee, jar of olives and stock cubes. Total spend £30.89.

............with no coca-cola!

Sorry folks, seems I'm getting cranky and boring!

Boot-Sale 'Treasure'?

 It was a frosty morning on Saturday for the car boot sale but nice and dry and sunny, it was good to be out early.  I didn't walk all the way round this week as my back was telling me I've not done any back exercises lately.

All I spent was £1. The pack of dishcloths and pack of Christmas serviettes were both from the same house clearance man and cost me 50p. The book was 50p and is another to add to my collection of country poetry.

I'm still using my own knitted dish cloths, but they don't last forever and I'm out of craft cotton to make more, so 4 cloths for 25p is handy.

 I noticed diesel at the Co-op garage as I passed on my way back from the boot sale at £1.57 a litre and on Sunday when I went over to the coast another petrol station had it at £1.66. It was around £1.37 - £1.43 ish a couple of weeks ago so has gone up but not by the amount that heating oil has shot up. Government are going to help with heating oil costs for the most vulnerable - that's doesn't include me, I'll just be hoping for prices to drop before I need to fill up again in September. 

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Wash Day?

 Is Monday still washing day?

This is one of the pages in my scrapbook--------------

I came across some old sayings about wash day

They that wash on a Monday

Have all the week to dry;

They that wash on a Tuesday

Are not so much awry;

They that wash on a Wednesday

Are not so much to blame;

They that wash on a Thursday

Wash for shame;

They that wash on a Friday

Wash for need;

And they that wash on Saturday

Oh, slovens are indeed.

Wash your clothes on New Years Day and you'll be 'Washing for the dead' or washing a loved one away, meaning someone in your household will die in the coming year!

Why is wash day on a Monday? One story says "the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower on a Sunday and the first priority of the women after the voyage was to wash all the clothes, thereby setting a schedule from that day forth that continued for centuries".

I was reminded of this old song that used to be on children's radio 'Listen with Mother' in the late 1950s

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