weekend brainstorming with family

Well my daughter attended a car boot sale on Saturday and came back with an interesting idea to make a bit of extra cash, we are going to make some clothes, it has been a long time since I have done this but there is a huge market for reasonable priced large sized clothes, these were the first items sold at the car boot. In fact my daughter described it as a frenzy!! So I am now on the look out for discount fabric, I will update at later date whether we make any money out of it lol. Another idea which came to mind this morning was making coffee tables with old doors a table top, I spent a couple of hours this morning checking out average price for such a product and found I may be able to make a reasonable profit. Now I have to find the old doors, um maybe I should keep an eye out for new developments in my area when they strip the houses bare to turn into flat, again we will have to wait and see if this makes any money. I am currently busy making fire bricks for my wood burner made out of an old gas bottle, with price of fuel going up, up and up again I felt I had to find a way to heat my home which wouldn't leave me with another winter wondering which is more important food or heating which I know I am not the only one at the moment. I used to collect wood but legislation has now made this impossible and illegal, which forced me to think of new ways to heat my home, I now run up and down the road in the evening before collection day and take every ones old newspapers to make fire bricks, I haven't tried the bricks yet but I hope they would as they are very labour intensive, what this space lol

daily life

Like everyone else at the moment I'm struggling to survive, this blog is about my day to day life of just that and my various attempts to escape the poverty trap.