Frugal blog: Savings on car and other...

By Value hunter on May 28, 2018 | In In real life, Common sense, Frugal thinking, Dear diary

The ford focus washer pump saga continues...
A new one was ordered in, came in at £14 instead of the £10 quoted, then sat on the side waving at me every day, until eventually I crakced and thought I'd take it on.

Removed front wheel (wrong one first as focus forums told me it was on passenger side, it wasn't!), removed inside wheel arch cover, removed and emptied washer tank (hidden inside of wing), removed old pump, then put everything back in reverse order. In total, about 45 minutes work.
Roughly £70 per hour garage labour plus £14 part = £84
Frugalways cost = £14 for part.
Saving of £70.
It appears to be working fine again, but knowing my luck, it will fail when it starts to rain.

Breakfast skipped again, as is normally the case in holidays. Saving one meal cost per day.
Dinner consists of cucumber and cheese/spring onion butties.

I've been looking for compost for my "no dig" front garden patch - it was an old driveway full of weeds, concrete, plaster and bricks. Need around a 3 inch coverage to rake over the top, then old carpet back on top. About a tonne would be good but prices from local farmers are £45 a tonne bag, bit pricey.

Hit a carboot yesterday, just the usual tat, being sold for way over the odds, fascinates me to watch for things...

Sold from cars which are less than two years old
Sold from cars with private reg numbers...
Pre packaged things bought specially for sale (ie. non carboot sale)
Toys with broken/bits missing, not good enough for sale on bayE, so they slap a £15 price tag on them and "do a carboot"
Enquire about a price and they inform you "they are [insert ridiculous high price here] in the shops!" - Who cares? You are not selling them in a shop!

You can tell a lot about people looking at the tat they've bought and are trying to sell. Disheartening when gifts they've been bought are being sold, some people have no scruples.
Most of the old toys believe it or not, are available cheaper at toy fairs...

Jobs need doing: Washing the focus - outside tap needs fitting out the back - fence needs fixing (starting to rot) - half pallet of bradstone needs moving from back garden (although to where and what can it be used for is anyones guess) - sort out compost

A happy Monday to you all...