Finally got around to doing the year end accounts and I am very pleased with the results!
Overall we spent less money on day to day expenses this year than last year -- and this in the face of the Cost of Living crisis! This means that we are getting better at making/producing/doing stuff for ourselves with less outside inputs...
Between the hens and the ducks, we had 1343 eggs in total in 2023 -- and when you work out what we've spent on bought in feed -- which of course has gone up in price since last year -- we are spending less per egg than it would cost if we bought them in the shop, so that's a good win.
Our biggest expense is electricity -- it runs our air source heat pump -- but hopefully by the end of this winter, the numbers will show that the insulation that went in last February/March and the new heat pump that we had installed in May have greatly reduced our electricity consumption (plus we are actually warm this winter for the first time since moving here!)
Further along these lines, this morning I mended a bedsheet that had a tear in it. It took me less than an hour -- at current UK minimum wage of £10.42, there's no way I could have earned enough money to buy a new sheet with the wages I would have earned in that time, and I've now got a perfectly good useable sheet!
(Sorry, no pics. I was going to photograph the mended sheet, but how do you photograph a sheet without folding it and then you wouldn't see the mend which would defeat the purpose of the photograph! :) )
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