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Saw April was getting very full so thought I'd start this off early!
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Have been putting head in sand on our house renovation costs. ..a bifold door arrived yesterday and we are waiting for a kitchen quote. ..I do wonder if there's any point in me stretching the food budget atm? ? But it makes me feel like I am semi in control so will keep it up. .until I get my shiny new kitchen and have to fill it up with lots of food!

£46 in lidl including £5 off voucher
£26 tesco including £10 dress for dd and £9.50 present/cards for my sister so total food £53.50. Forgot two things will ask dp to get.
£40.01 petrol

Did my first proper shop in 3 weeks... £120. Eeks!!but, I have my kitchen! All done! Or rather, mostly there... Just paint, and a bit of skirting boards and coving.

Taking kids to birthday party soon so hopefully dh will get on with stuff... It's wonderful moving the kitchen back to its rightful place...!

NK5BM3 congratulations on the new kitchen.

Yes, Dad is now on antibiotics and has woken up a new (or at least the usual old) man! Fortunately the doctor gave me the antibiotics which saved me from an 11pm trip to boots. As soon as the doctor left I ate some of my (cold) dinner and had a much needed glass of wine.

Big Sainsbury's shop this morning £70.02 after £31 of savings plus a £20 money off voucher. DH asked why I was using Sainsbury's (I usually use Tesco and he thinks I should use Waitrose) so I explained they had offered me a £20 off £60 shop. He agreed that was a good reason!

My Tesco delivery saver has expired instead of automatically renewing because my credit card was cloned. The change to a new card number stopped the delivery saver renewing. I explained that I intend to be an offer tart for a while, seeing who will offer me money off for my custom

Audit pleased your dad is on the mend, and hope your mum continues to improve.

£98 in Tesco this morning - got loads though so am hoping that will keep us going for about 10 days or so.

I was sorting out an old handbag the other day and found £50 of ASK vouchers which I had bought with my Clubcard vouchers on the scheme where you quadruple their face value so I had spent £12.50 of vouchers to get them. They run out on Tuesday so we are all going to have a lovely free meal there tonight

fantasea what a great find!

We're back from a lovely, sunny outing. Knackered! £9.10 on ice-creams for five of us.

Well done for the new kitchen nk

£30 on taking the cat to the vet.

Thanks Creme t'is a weight off, only changed over yesterday but DH is hoping To get 2 weeks out of a tank of fuel instead of only 5 days.

Fanta glad you found those vouchers before they expired, hope you all enjoy your meal.

Audit good To see both parents are improving.

We're heading out to DH's office because our t'internet isn't working at home, plus he needs To buy moré supplies and we need a kettle at home.

NK great to hear that you have now a brand spanking new working kitchen. Any chance of a photo?

adora so glad you got a good deal with your car and you managed to get rid of the gas guzzler.

Fanta enjoy your meal. I love finding things just in time. It's the universe telling us it loves us

audit what a stressful time of it you all have had. Glad that both your parents are getting better. COngrats on your DS by the way. This dancing lark sounds like you spend a fortune on it, but maybe its an investment instead

Welcome to the new people as well.

I wonder how possiblyorange and cutieorange are doing?

Today, I set up YNAB for my parents. I will be on their case to make sure that they use it.

Spent just over £21 on presents for DS' twin friends' birthday and some fish fingers.

I'd love to put a photo on here... How does one do it? I'm usually posting on an iPad. Can I do it on an iPad?

Had a couple of friends pop round for abit of kitchen envy. One lot of friends are having a huge extension done,,,and another lot then said.. 'Erm what can WE do with our house?!!'

Next thing is sorting out the front door, the flooring downstairs and the back garden. Never ending!

Glad to hear your dad is better now audit. Hope your mum is doing well.

Congratulations on your kitchen nk5bm3.

3 in gift shop at a museum today. Getting on for 10 in pub this evening.

Oh how do we do home improvements without spending

Just back from ASK having had a lovely free meal there for the 4 of us, so happy I found those vouchers in time

NK I would love a new kitchen! I don't have an iPad but from a laptop there is a section below where you type your post which says 'Images' and there is a 'browse' so I think you click on the 'browse' and select your picture from there. I am not very techie but I think that is right.

Adora 2 weeks out of a tank of fuel sounds great!

Goes so fast all the post, but congrates on the new kitchen nk
Glad you found those vouchers fanta always nice with these findings.
Spent 10,49 euros on creme/powder for future dd libility cord, that the midwife recommended. Here in NL, you dont have national insurance, but you have to take out your own health incurance, in ours we have my pregnancy covered and so fare, the stuff we have gotten for "free" have defn been a lot higher than what we pay for this extra cover, so happy we took it.
Hoping for low or no spent day tomorrow, but lets see. I am in doubt with my hospital bag, so might spend some time redoing it tomorrow. Other than that, we are ready to greet her, only 20 days left :D

Italian 20 days - now that has gone fast . I remember with my hospital bag, I couldn't leave it alone, packing and unpacking, adding bits in etc. I was booked for an induction as I went 2 weeks over, so no last minute panic for me, just an extra 2 weeks to fiddle with my bags - I had enough for about a month in the end, a suitcase(!) and a holdall . What bits are you in doubt over?

£49.90 in Tesco, after using about £6 in vouchers, £2.50 on a chippy tea and about £11.80 in Lidl.

Sounds like most of us are having a good weekend :).

DS1 has made a case for parental support for a smartphone with data use. Does anyone know the cheapest way of sorting this?

BTW I swapped the kids' rooms around this week and had a good sort out, and the house is feeling so much better!

BoffinMum - do you know where would he mostly use data?
if you have wi-fi at home then he would use that
I would not think he needs more than 2GB data per month in case someone shows you different tariff
I don't know if this is the best place to choose but it will give you some idea how prices are changing if you change requirements depending on the provider:

www.whistleout.co.uk/MobilePhones

Apparently he just wants to use social media like his mates - snapchat and so on. At the Kommt he has a super cheap Tesco mobile, entry level, but he rarely makes calls.

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