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[economymode]

New thread, complete with tenuous title, to help us keep track of finances this month. Come be a Scrooge with me!

[Fluffycloudland77]

£49 in Aldi for xmas shop.
£2 in Iceland for aunt Bessie Apple pie and ambrosia custard for dh.
£3.99 on alma seller in home bargains for dh that he will pay me back for because I object to branded painkillers.

phew.

[CremeEggThief]

Hi All, hope you're all well and as sorted for Christmas as possible. I just have to get a few things tomorrow and fill up DS's stocking tomorrow night. It will be our first Christmas just the two of us, but I'm hopeful it will be okay, as nearly all of our previous ones were just the three of us. Then we're off to see family in Ireland on the 27th and will be away until the 4th of January.

Hope you all have a lovely Christmas :o.

(First NSD for a while today).

[AdoraJingleBells]

I got my turkey, plus fresh Veg, fruit and salad and parma type ham. OH added some office supplies, whisky for a gift and champers To take To a party, DDs added a teddy bear each which they'll back- a few random bits and the whole came To yet another £120, then I spent £8 on a cream for my rash-alérgica to dog slobber

Are your wood burners clean burning over there? Here we get horrendous smog and old fashioned wood fires were banned a few years ago. Hasn't stopped peo

[AdoraJingleBells]

ple using them.

Sorry, had a case of sausage finger

[Fluffycloudland77]

Well dh used the shower with the shower saver device fitted and never noticed, if I tell him of course he will say he knew something was wrong, so I will keep quiet as it has saved us loads of water.

Nsd for me despite online sales

[AdoraJingleBells]

NSD here too, vet delivered puppy food but we haven't paid for it yet.

Well done with the shower thing Fluffy, he doesn't need to know.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas.

[roguepixie]

Merry Christmas everyone. I hope your day is filled with happiness and joy and that the year to come is prosperous, healthy and happy.

Love Roguepixie xxx

[Alibabaandthe40nappies]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Have a lovely day

[Fluffycloudland77]

Merry Christmas!

[Helenagrace]

Happy Christmas!

Just warming up with hot berry punch having just returned from eating bacon sandwiches on a VERY breezy beach this morning. On our way back I realised that our local shop is open!!! What on earth could people be buying!?!?!

[Mum2Fergus]

Merry Christmas everyone! Well , no surprise in a NSD today lol wll need milk and bread in the morning, dinner will be courtesy of Mum

Avoided online sales today which is good for me! Need to get back to serious budget now...house purchase due to complete (fingers crossed) soon so want to be sure to have some contingency funds.

[Fluffycloudland77]

£55 on turtle mats in their sample sale.

It was that or murder dh and the cat for crimes against a clean house.

[economymode]

Hello and a belated Happy Christmas from EconomyVille .

EconomyBoy got given far too much for Christmas by my in-laws. I know they like to spoil their grandchildren, but it also makes me slightly cross, as half of the stuff he won't even play with, or I'll have to exchange for something more suitable. Yep, I am being ungrateful, aren't I?

Nothing spent here since xmas eve, but I am now browsing the sales online...

[economymode]

PS, anyone know where I can get a nice, cosy dressing gown online? What with EconomyBaby due in the next month, I think I'll be needing one. Tried M&S and John Lewis, but they all seem a bit grandma like.

[Fluffycloudland77]

M&s men's dressing gown for me I'm afraid. Long sleeves so warm wrists

[CremeEggThief]

Wow, economy, didn't realise you are due so soon! Seems no time at all since you shared your good news :).

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas. DS and I are off to Ireland in the morning until the 4th January, so I'll wish you all a happy new year now, as I'm turning off my data while I'm away. It's staggeringly expensive!

[Helenagrace]

economy my DH got me a lovely fleecy one last year with a hood from BHS. I went mad when I saw the bag because their stuff is awful usually but it's really lovely.

Off for our free day out at Kew Gardens today. Taking lunch so, apart from train fares, it should be an NSD. It's chucking it down though

[AdoraJingleBells]

NSD's here the last two days, but today I need to pay for the dental X-rays and then dental treatment for DDs. Might need a coffee too if we're out too long.

Helen hope you enjoy Kew Gardens.

[Fluffycloudland77]

NSd today.

[Mum2Fergus]

Back to work today (but only today and tomorrow then off til 8th Jan ) so needed petrol, £49 and some pence for full tank-huge difference now the guzzler has gone!

Need some stamps tomorrow, fresh bread/milk then will redo fridge/freezer/cupboard contents list before shop over w/end.

[Alibabaandthe40nappies]

Hi everyone, hope you all had good Christmases?

NSD here since christmas eve, and just £2.50 today on milk and bread on our way home.

Massive shop coming tomorrow, £124, but that will last for two weeks except we will need more fruit, milk and bread.

[AdoraJingleBells]

Ali we had a lovely Christmas, thanks, how was your's? Just the four us and and loads of turkey scoffed by OH in the freezer now.

OH is having a night in the clinic, he has a digestive thing that he doesn't take proper care of. He's okay but they couldn't let him home after the mega pain killers. DD's missed the dentist today as I was trying to get at least one bit of the kit we have here to actually phone BUPA and let them hear what I was saying. Never mind, the clinic have spoken to them now.

I feel a slice of Xmas pud coming on

[roguepixie]

Hello All, I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas? Ours was lovely - made all the better because I have spent a fraction of what I usually spend at Christmas . Strangely, none of us has felt deprived at all!!!! .

Have had a number of NSD's - I think we are about 5 days in with no spend, which is brilliant.

Have just done an online food shop which is about £100 (don't want to go over this) - this is the first food shop since December 21st and will last us into New Year.

Adora, I do hope your DH feels better soon as is able to come home. Digestive problems are awful.

[AdoraJingleBells]

Thanks Rogue

Glad you had a good Christmas, and without breaking the bank. I spent more on the actual Christmas dinner than usual because of splashing out on a whole turkey, but still less than previous years overall. Need to get some bread and salad today.

[economymode]

Glad everyone enjoyed themselves!

Fairly spendy today as I braved town: £46 in primark on some new pjyamas for after the baby comes, vests, socks, tights etc. Not sure how it all added up, but it did.

Then £17 or so in Boots on dummies and formula powder (learnt our lesson from first time round), breast pads and other unglamorous items.

Then £33 on 3 maternity bras - thought I'd just get cheapo ones for now, then wait and see how breastfeeding pans out before getting better ones.

My sister treated me to lunch (cheese and tomato toastie, the king of lunches!) and I waddled into.town, so only had to pay the bus fare back.