My Quiet Life in Suffolk

Pinched this idea from a vlogger........ Things I don't buy at all or not very often.  Not buying some things leaves money for buying ot...

 I like colourful food. I thought that I'd done a post about colourful food not long ago but when I searched it turned out to be back in...

 Until the time comes when everybody has their own card-reader, the only way to pay for 'treasure' at boot sales is with good old ca...

March Income was the usual two pensions and interest on savings.  The main expenses in March were for the car windscreen excess payment, ser...

February has seemed like a very long month this year - I think because of the weather, the floods stopping outings and the general dullness ...

 Hibernating is very good for the bank balance, as is eating from the freezer, and spending was nice and low.  Income was the usual State an...

 All my library books have now been finished although I still have the huge book about the Great Bardfield Artists to look through.  What to...

 Why didn't I know there was a 'new' charity shop in Stowmarket that had been there since last July? An independent, not part of...

 This is what happens when you use cash rather than card as much as possible and then every now and again empty all the small bits from the ...

Thanks to everyone for comments yesterday, sorry I didn't get round to replying and thank you to Debbie at Rustic Pumpkin for more infor...

 ..................already.................and the 2023 Strictly Come Dancing launch show is on TV tonight so we know it's Autumn. This ...

 I'm now doing a very low spend September as there's plenty in the freezer and in the cupboards and no big expenses due this month. ...

After the huge expenses of  March, April was slightly better.....thank goodness. One year after moving in I've finished garden expenses...

Thank you everyone for comments on Thursday when two posts got published by mistake and Big apologies for not replying..  I was so pleased t...

 It was interesting to do the Aldi/Morrisons comparison last month, in fact so much fun that I thought I would do it again! Aldi and Asda i...

In the news was Ovo Energy electricity company who had linked to a website with ideas for saving electric and keeping warm. People were HORR...

What a gloomy day yesterday was here in Suffolk. I think the rest of the country had decent weather but Norfolk and Suffolk got drizzle and ...

Thanks for comments about the second vaccination yesterday. The lady said a lot of people have had more side effects after the second. By ch...

A lady called Zoe Morrison got a mention on a TV programme last Thursday evening "Going Green: Saving Money." They said she was a ...

  Phew...........what an 'interesting' month.  I decided to move and within a week  the house was photographed and ready for selli...