An Avalanche of Austerity for April - Mumsnet frugaleers continue!

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Thought I'd start a new thread for April

I should know by 13.30h whether I have won them or not!

Nicename, friends of mine have trained as hypnotherapists and life coaches and made absolutely zero money back.
One trained as an acupuncturist and made that back, but she was already a physio.
I suppose if it was me I would look at massage therapy as that seems to be a constant and you can practise from home with little outlay other than couch and oils. I might specialise in stress relieving massages. One of my friends took it all very seriously and trained as a Tisserand aromatherapist and she was off the scale amazing, and built a good reputation really fast, I think. So that might be a good place to start, although I bet you need £££ to retrain?

PS My aromatherapist friend said you can make a lot more selling the oils than giving the massages if you are business minded.

Essential oils are VERY cheap if you buy them trade. I can see how you could make a good profit on them.

I knew a masseur who said that it wasn't a long term job because it really took it out on your hands.

Nicename, I can see how the hands thing might be an issue. I suppose there is a balance between your hourly rate and the number of hours you have to work to feed yourself. Too low and you have to work very long hours and knacker your hands, too high and you will get few clients.

I always thought how brilliant it would be if as a postnatal person you could turn up somewhere and have some clothes advice and the ability to buy a few key super flattering pieces or accessories, a destressing treatment, a mini facial and a hair tidy while someone watched the baby for you. Would there be a business in that?

I bet the French get that on their equivalent to the NHS

Well boffinmom did you get it?

£15 on a scratch post for the cat.

£15 credit off John Lewis for messing up the shoe delivery.

So, zero spend in a way.

no, bids went a bit mental at the last moment.

Always happens boffinmum bloody autobids!

Nsd today operation spring clean here

We don't bid until the last 15-20 seconds so it could be people us.

Nsd as forgot my purse which meant I couldn't buy any paracetamol despite a horrendous headache. Luckily my colleague had so super strong pain killers and I floated through the rest of the day

4.20 on a swim for me and ds. 7.50 in Tesco on batteries and Sun cream. 2.62 in aldi.

Hi all, NSD here but bought some reduced fish yesterday and made 7 portions of lovely fish pie for the kids for less than 7 pounds in total! Thrilled. Hope they eat it now! Still can't quite work out how to send my document to you guys, will keep trying

Returned my m&s dress as although it's lovely it's white, and I have very grubby 3 and 6 year olds. I realised how I reacted v badly to them when I wore some beige trousers on the weekend and was constantly telling them not to touch me. Not good. So decided to return. £40.

Paid for full tank of petrol £64. So I guess I spent £24.

Then took ds to beach and bike ride. Spent £5 on hot dog, bacon roll and two lollies. Only the hot dog was mine.

Oh and £33 at harvesters as we are bashing kitchen down. Had food in fridge but no real way to get ready in time when I was still at the beach at 5. And dh had to collect dd. Tomorrow we will have fridge stuff....

Was it One Pound Fish, gogogodaddy?

Six for five pounds one pound fish

That cracked me up and I feel tipsy even though I haven't touched a drop!

So here's a new incentive for being frugal. If anyone's planning to get a mortgage soon, from 26th April, lenders will want to see the last three months bank statements to check out how much you spend on average (I.e. Looking at if you will be able to afford repayments). We're hoping to apply soon so I need to get DP in line too!

Pfft we'd be lucky to get a mortgage on a beach hut . sobs quietly into value tea

I bet they don't even give mortgages on beach huts. No kitchen sink=no mortgage afaik.

One day spotty, I never thought we manage it. Now we've just got to pay for the fucker.

Beach huts here go for £20-35k. Seriously....!