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How much have you spent this half term?

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RosieLemonade · 19/02/2021 08:29

Sunday - £15 Fuzzikins from Jack Valentine
Monday - 0
Tuesday - 0
Wednesday - £8 on ice cream
Thursday - £2 parking £5 hot chocolates £3 brownies
Friday- 0

Usually I would spend a good couple of hundred!

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Candyfloss99 · 19/02/2021 08:57

Made a few hundred selling a coat and a bag on ebay 😁

Mumdiva99 · 19/02/2021 08:59

I've saved money but we haven't had as much fun.... we sometimes get a cheap Premier Inn for a few nights this holiday. We pick a city/town with things to do.....local museum, castle, maybe go to the cinema or see a show, eat in a local restaurant etc I've been eyeing up Glasgow as our next place to go to which would mean a long train ride up. We would also normally see the inlaws which is a night or two away and a additional expense when with them.

I know what I would rather be doing.....

NerrSnerr · 19/02/2021 08:59

Nothing apart from usual food shopping.

We'd usually go swimming and have lunch at the gym afterwards, go ice skating and maybe meet friends at an attraction. Saved us a fortune staying home, going for walks and playing minecraft.

MrsHuntGeneNotJeremyObviously · 19/02/2021 09:02

About £20. Bought DD a concealer stick in boots and the rest she spent on sweets for the week. DD has a mental clothes shopping list on the go though, so I suspect I won't get away with just the £20 Smile

Scarby9 · 19/02/2021 09:02

£26.80 on topup fruit and vegetables.
£10 something on batteries
£2.10 on a take way coffee
I will be spending about £45 on petrol later today - but that will be the first purchase for nearly 4 weeks - pre-Covid I would usually fill up every 3-4 days.

middleager · 19/02/2021 09:05

£15.
Yes we've made savings, but it's been so dull.
Mine are teens and miss seeing their mates, playing sport. I miss going out with them to the cinema and meals.

badlydrawnbear · 19/02/2021 09:07

Last week: about £20 online order from The Works (board game, marble painting kit which was shit, bath bomb and body lotion making kit, book, colouring book
Monday: £7ish on craft materials on Amazon
Various amounts of extra food like sushi, baking ingredients etc that I don't normally buy, but it was a lot less than what I would have spent taking them to places for lunch

IceCreamAndCandyfloss · 19/02/2021 09:10

About £20/30 extra on the food shop delivery on treats and different things. Usually buy a few bits from Amazon but so close to Christmas still we didn’t need anything game/craft wise.

Nothing out and about as only go for exercise as had nothing essential to go out for this week non work wise,

Blubell281 · 19/02/2021 09:13

Nothing, nothing at all! Been for walks everyday but there's nothing to spend any money on. We'll have a takeaway at the weekend.

123HereComesTheSun · 19/02/2021 09:15

Nothing apart from usual food.
Have been taking hot chocolate & home baked snacks out with us.

Silver linings hey? Grin

MoneySuperMeerkat · 19/02/2021 09:16

I've just checked back and last Feb half term we: went to the theatre (kids theatre), farm park, trampolining, out for lunch twice, Chessington (theme park was closed but mine love the zoo/aquarium) and then finished the week visiting friends a few hours away - spending the night at their house. Honestly I don't even know how much all that cost but it was in budget and we had so much FUN!

OverTheRainbow88 · 19/02/2021 09:16

£4 duck feed
£2 ice cream
£2 car park

We are having a whale of a time 🤣

BiddyPop · 19/02/2021 09:20

Tuesday €146 on groceries (I only needed milk...but the teen came with me...)
Tonight will be the weekly takeaway
That's it
Dh also spent €70 on bike servicing that was brought forward because dd had problems with her bike

Normally I would also have had €10 per day "lunch money" and €150 sports camp costs, and likely some other stuff. (This time last year, dd did a 1 day individual training camp which meant a family weekend in London at relatively short notice...so quite expensive but I am so glad we did that now both for her sport and for ourselves getting a break - and that we'd not been organised enough to Book the ski trip we had originally wanted when so many people came home sick from that).

lucysmam · 19/02/2021 09:26

About £30 on snacks/treats from the local shop, and wine for me. Oh, there were loo rolls included one night too.

Other than that; £3.50 on a bag of citric acid so dd2 could make some bath bombs, £2.49 on fly castors for the praying mantis, and just shy of £90 on my normal food shop (but I won't need a shop next week).

Planning takeaway tonight.

Normally we'd be out to eat, visit local attractions, town for a wander in the shops. It's nice to have a healthy bank balance, but it'd be much nicer to actually be able to do the things we like to do.

PandemicPalava · 19/02/2021 09:28

Saturday - £5.75 special iced biscuits for dd
Monday - £0
Tuesday - £0
Wednesday - £0
Thursday - £7 then £4.50 chips and drink at English heritage site
Friday - £0

JaninaDuszejko · 19/02/2021 09:33

Last Feb half term DH and the DC were visiting MIL in a big city and had lots of lovely days out with their beloved Grandmother. This year DH and I have been working in the attic while the DC have gone a bit Lord of the Flies downstairs. I'd rather we were seeing MIL and spending money.

SpringSunshineandTulips · 19/02/2021 09:36

Monday £0 -walk in the woods
Tuesday £0 - walk to the park
We’d £0 - stayed home due to weather
Thurs £0 - did nothing
Today probably £0 as will just do a bike ride or something. Same for the weekend. So haven’t even had to buy petrol. The only positive of COVID is saving money but I would love to go on a day out, or out for a meal or something. So much.

user1494055864 · 19/02/2021 09:37

I spent £14 on an air bed from Amazon, as my teens had a movie sleepover downstairs this week and one of the beds must have a puncture as it kept going down, so I bought a new one so they could sleep downstairs last night as well.
We walk round our village every day, but don't buy drinks out. So just £14.

frumpety · 19/02/2021 09:40

@Xiaoxiong can I ask where you got your litter pickers from ?

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RosieLemonade · 19/02/2021 09:40

I'm worried I have become a bit addicted to buying a drink on every walk.

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CMOTDibbler · 19/02/2021 09:44

Nothing. DH did order a 'dim sum by post' for ds though.

autumnboys · 19/02/2021 09:44

£50 per child on the item of their choosing to compensate for yet another week at home.

We’ve been to Greggs, but we’ve been doing that since September for whichever children have been at home (Ds1 at 6th form, so only in twice a week since Sept) so I don’t think it counts.

TenThousandSpoons · 19/02/2021 09:46

£13 on 2000 v-bucks
£5 on ice creams from ice cream van
£22 drive thru McDonalds

Xiaoxiong · 19/02/2021 09:56

@frumpety just off Amazon - we got two kids and one adult sized one. Ideally a second adult carries the bin bag!

Mayvis · 19/02/2021 09:57

£20 on a private outdoor sports lesson.
£10 on Robux.
£5 on baking ingredients.
£10 on new books from Amazon.
£2 spends in Sainsbury’s.

I’m not including the weekly food shop or takeaway. Far far less than usual. Far more boring too.