An Avalanche of Austerity for April - Mumsnet frugaleers continue!

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Thought I'd start a new thread for April

possibly whereabouts in Devon are you, if you can say without outing yourself!

I deliberately didn't take DH so we avoided the aisle of dreams in Aldi, and also the beer aisle, and the trolley wasn't even completely full. I was .

In other news I have just done an Approved Food order and saved something like £50 on general stocking up.

£10 yesterday of fuel.

I'm really excited as my sister and bil are coming for lunch today. They live a few hours away so we haven't seen them since Christmas. So I've got a food shop being delivered instead of going to lidl just to make life easier

Enjoy spottuteacakes
I may just have spent almost €80 in Littlewoods sale on my credit account ... 4 pairs jeans & twin pack of black trousers for work. I will only keep all 4 pairs of jeans if I love them. Replenishing wardrobe for return to work in two weeks

Got back super late last night... For work reasons... Paid parking £12, train to London with family £44, lunch £60, cakes £10... Scary... Think I will return the dress from last week.

Is it me, or is Aldi actually getting quite expensive? I am finding it has crept up and as you don't get any price promises with them you are never quite sure about the value.

Aldi prices have gone up in the past 3 years but it depends what you buy, if you put your receipt into mysupermarket.co.uk it puts it into perspective.

Any upcoming free days on your book?

I have just done a Sainsbo shop for next weekend via Mysupermarket.com as I do wonder if they have got more competitive lately. They have given me a free delivery pass too, so might as well use it.

The Austerity Housekeeping book just had a free day on Amazon, but it's due another one on Good Friday - look from about lunchtime onwards. Interestingly there's a new development on the book front. Ch 4 SuperScrimpers emailed me yesterday after having been quiet for a while, and offered to link to some of my material on their relaunched website (which is very good, by the way, worth a detour), so that might spread the word a bit.

BTW I had an epic storage fail recently. I had written 2/3 of my Austerity Parenting book and managed to lose the BOTH backup copy and the USB stick with it on. Never normally do things like that, so slightly demoralised. May actually have inadvertently laundered the USB stick a while back, thinking about it. Domestic Superwoman I am not.

Sorry, meant to post link to SuperScrimpers site;

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Let's try that again. Need coffee.

[[https://www.superscrimpers.com]]

OK, wasn't me, must be gremlins at MNHQ. Link does actually seem to work.

Boffins book, free next Friday

Cheers.
And it's also free on all the bank holidays in April and May, from lunchtime on each day for about 24 hours.

Check out my blog post on cheapie cinema trips as well. I did this the other day just before going off to the Lego Movie, which was extremely enjoyable (I went with low expectations). The popcorn was Vair Tasty, if I say so myself.

Cheap cinema trips and home made popcorn

A tip - if you do print off Tesco club card vouchers for Cineworld, check your spam filter, as the vouchers have a nasty habit of being swallowed up there, apparently. Do not spend the 30 minute delivery window panicking you will not have them in time for the film, like we did

If I can gird my loins and rewrite the Austerity Parenting book, what would everyone like to see in there?

This post was one of the original bits of text.

where should my baby sleep?

£71.38 tesco delivery. Under budget and got lots of yummy food

Well I used 2 x €10 off €50 in aldi today & spent another €35 in tesco-€10 on shampoo & conditioner as I've gone to being a redhead so gotta mind it with good shampoo.

That's us sorted for about ten days except for a few bits on the butchers, I will be using my €10 off €50 Lidl shop next week but hopefully that's all I'll spend there.

I hate grocery shopping but I hate it more when dh does it so catch 22 situation.

Used a voucher in debenhams to buy ds a lovely outfit & dd a nice tshirt, I LOVE spending vouchers!

£85 on sandals.

I know what your thinking Adora, and yes they are dipped in gold

I will be more frugal with other purchases .

£5.99 on Gap jacket in charity shop
£3 on jumper in charity shop
£7.99 on new mixing bowl

c.£20 on food for our guest who is allergic to everything

about to go out for a walk hopefully and we'll have a drink in a pub but I'm off the booze as on antibiotics and she is allergic (!) so it will be a cheap one

Oh fluffy post a pic!

In the yellow

Gorgeous and totally worth it

They are fabulous shoes there's no doubt