Austere April - Frugaleers continue to the next quarter!

[Leilandri]

Come and join us for another frugal/thrifty/down-right stingy month!

Another nsd 11/12, although unfortunately I had a little free time this afternoon and have eaten half the chocolate in the house.

NSD 7 not too bad. Tomorrow will be a LSD as only £1 to pay for toddler group. I shouldn't need anything Friday but sat I am out to lunch with a friend and need to do our 6 weekly Costco shop. Big kids are with their dad though so only ds2 here and he doesn't need any paid entertainment yet!

£105 at Aldi today but that includes wine and some snacky stuff/treats for next weekend. Nothing else spent.

I'm sat here having a sneaky coffee before school run and the waiter, looks like a newby, gave me someone else's change, I haven't asked for my bill yet! Had to tell him it wasn't my money otherwise my coffee would give me indegestion.

Tomorrow will be an NSD then OH is away again so it'll be costly school runs & mucho petrol.

Well, I sold all my old stuff on eBay. Quite pleased because it was stuff like curling tongs etc that dh said wouldn't sell.

Just got to package it up and ship it out now.

Well done on the ebay success fluffy. Getting more money coming in any which way is just as good as saving.
We've had lots of work done on the house over the past couple of years, hence being on this thread . It's almost finished now so we're trying to get it as finished as we can at minimal cost before next weekend (did I mention we're having visitors??). So things like touching up paintwork, putting pictures back up, finishing some roman blinds I started 2 years ago(!) etc.
We've a big CD storage problem (we're old, we still love our CDs) and have found some good shelves on the ikea website. Now we're waiting until dh has a meeting close to ikea to go to and then he'll get them en route. It's a 70 mile round trip otherwise so save some fuel.

I managed a NSD yesterday but today spent the last of my £25 food budget!!

I will still need some bits for the weekend but hopefully two NSDs over the next 3 days.

NSD yesterday. Today had to top up petrol to full tank (the light came on!) so that was £60 or so. Then £2 for car park at hospital for blood tests. Brought packed lunch today as did DS. So doing ok! Tonight BBQ ribs from aldi, rice (ran out of potatoes) and frozen stir fry veg.

having a shite month. Only just got to 3/16. aaarggh

Back at work this week so have achieved 4 NSDs in a row...but I am sure I will make up for it at the weekend! Weather is looking promising for the car boot - we postponed it from last weekend as rain was forecast.

Would have been a nsd but had to pay a fiver for a nursery trip next month.

First NSD since the 4th April :).

I'll read through later. Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Has every one seen

this

Free national trust weekend? There's a list of properties taking part on there somewhere!

Will have proper read through later but I just wanted to mention that for a limited time Quidco have 5% cashback on Amazon purchases. Also Tesco have 25% off when buying 2 cases of wine, some are already half price, when you spend £50. This can take you below the free delivery threshold so I've made a joint purchase with a couple of friends. 6 bottles of £10ish wine for about £20. Planning on doing lots of at home entertaining this summer as it's cheaper so will be nice to have some wine already bought. Hope everyone is enjoying a frugal weekend.

Anyone know if Costco sell bread flour?

I think they do, it might be cheaper on amazon though.

Ring them and ask. The staff are friendly in mine.

aldi sell resonably priced bread flour if that helps

No also near me, we're heading to Costco tomo so I shall try there, I've looked at amazon before but it worked out more expensive than the allinson flour from our local asda and tesco by about 10p a kg, and I don't have room to store a massive bag. Hopefully Costco will have a solution!

I don't think so. They don't in the one in Milton keynes.

Oh :(

NSD (so far!) today. Yesterday's total was £6.24, £2.50 of which was DS's pocket money.

16kg of bread flour for £12.79 from Costco it's called Manitoba.

Spent £50 in asda yest and £150 in Costco today no more shopping for 2 weeks!