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I'm a Chorley mum-of-4 but I only spend £300 a month and gave away most of my inheritance
Lancashire Post
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yesterday
Meet the super scrimper who refuses to spend a penny on anything non-essential, furnished her entire home for free and grows 85% of the food she eats - saving herself £600 a month.
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Hi, I'm Sharon and I'm a frugalist. I spend my life trying not to spend any money. I like to
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get things for free. The majority of the things in my house are free. I get free food and I have
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my own hens. I rent land, which means I also grow my own vegetables. You know, I also give away
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things. People give me things. I get called a penny pincher, you know. But I love it though. This is a
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great lifestyle and I always wanted to live the dream. The good life, as you put it. And I think
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it's great. Raising animals, looking after animals, growing your own, making my own, making my own bread.
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Just living as frugal as possible. Very, very little money spent. And I'd love other people to do the
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same, to be quite honest. I'd love to be able to teach people how to do it because it's a great
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way to live. Biggest freebies that I would say I got was the sofa. I got that for free. It was
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nearly new. Somebody was just moving house. I managed to strap that to the top of my dad's car
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and drive home with it, wobbly, all the way home. I managed to get myself a king-sized divan bed for
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free. Again, I had to take that bit by bit home. That was for somebody who was moving out the house.
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It was quite new. Everything else has either been from relatives or from friends or sitting on free
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sites. And sometimes I make things as well or repurpose things. I have three cars. Two of them
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were my dad's. One of them is kind of like free because there's no tax on it. It's tax-free,
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cheap to run, which allows me to go up to the farm and grow my own vegetables. It's just finding a way
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of just acquiring things cheaply, you know, either free or being given away. Clothes get handed down
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to me by my daughter or go to jumble sales. I just like the feeling of being able to get things for
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free. And, you know, it just gives me a good feeling that, you know, I've been able to do it.
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I have a flock of 14 hens. Obviously, that's free food straight away, isn't it? I make my own cakes.
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I try and make as much food as I can as well. I sell the eggs to my sonny, text me into work.
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My friends buy the eggs. Other people bought the eggs near the farm as well. So I use a lot of
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these free apps, giving away free things. This particular one's called Trash Nothing. It's
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absolutely great and it's all local things as well. So for example, something here, someone's
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looking for something like a, there's a box there for free. Just check out where it is and you just
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email the person and you could have it within the day. And it's also good if you want to get rid of
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things yourself as well. So you're not going to the tip. So that's a really good app called
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Trash Nothing. There's also the Olio app and I use this quite a lot. This is a food sharing
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app. So for example, you've got a list here of the local people. You see the food they're
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giving away today. They're giving away bread. They're giving away bakery items, onions.
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So basically click on what you want, onions, see who it is, send them a message to say you
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want it. Look at the area where it is. And there you go. Just go and pick it up.
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So you request this. They'll ask you to watch your video, watch the request. You watch the
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video. And once you've got your rewards, you just go and pick it up. I live with my son,
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but there's only me to feed. So I'm not a great big eater anyway, but what I do make
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is from fresh and nine times out of 10 with the things I've made from the Olio app. Now
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sometimes with the money I get from my son, I'll go down to the local spa and buy things
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for 30p than reduce sales because you'd be surprised what you can get from there. And
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I'm just trying to save as much money as I can. And, you know, the free items I've made,
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you know, I freeze them to make more things, make more meals somewhere down the line.
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