Judiciously June frugal thread now including Christmas bargains.

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Everyone is welcome.

Charlie I would have my whole house CK too if I could afford it too! I have some of her handcreams which are lovely especially the bluebell one.

frugal win today. have budgeted for a new sofabed and have been eyeing one up @ Tesco's for a while. I checked it today and they have an offer on: spend £400 on furniture and get £100 off.

'My' sofabed is £399, so I bought the cheapest item of furniture I could find (a bookcase @ £15) as well, saving myself £75 off what I had budgeted for the sofabed! Hopefully I can sell the bookcase on Facebay as well.

Think it seems to be quite a good idea to buy 'out of season'. I suppose right now shops are focussing on garden stuff, so they have the 'indoor' stuff on offer.

Spent £17 in Booths today but £10 of that was cash back, which I will probably need for a prescription tomorrow. Really hoping the GP can sort my hay fever out!

I'm waiting for the garden stuff to be reduced, can't be long now.

Prescription antihistamines are the dogs danglies. They work really fast.

NSD.

£1.20 on pain-au-chocolats this morning.

Went out for lunch. As we were waiting for the others DH asked me if I thought his mum would pay? I said she had suggested the wives (inc. her) should. So he slipped me £100 before they arrived. Our share of the bill £100!

So taxi there £10.30, taxi back they wanted £14 (same company) so I queried it, and they charged the same. (I query with every taxi company as we say the name of the road we drop into, but it is a mile long , when they collect from the restaurant the address is actually around the corner so they charge more )

Father's Day lunch was £40. Dh ate for free. Kids ate v well so it's a good price.

Spent the rest of the afternoon baking banana muffins, and making homemade pizza. It was yums and reminded me why we eat homemade pizza... The others just aren't the same!!

Have a good week ahead. Tomorrow full day of meetings and interviews, followed by a hurried train ride to London for an annual dinner invite. I'm hoping it's not posh because although I will be dressed up kinda, I'm not in black tie!!!

We've spent a lovely weekend with some friends who are just as (secretly) frugal as me so lots of frugal wins e.g. Picnic rather than lunch out, battered sausage rather than fish from the chippy (a first for me, it was strangely delicious!), coffee and cake rather than lunch out today. Ok so still money spent but the cheaper option wherever possible.

NSD for me yesterday and today. Having lunch at home today.

Yesterday DH bought car stuff, plastic mats I think, and dinner out for 3 of us because he feels guilty when 1 DD has something to go to and not the other.

I must confess to a well deserved treat on Friday that came out the grocery budget, £7 on lunch by the lake.

Will catch up later, hope everyone's DH/DP/DF is having a good Father's Day.

Cheap tassimo pods on ebay

lunch by the lake sounds lovely.

had takeout for fathers day so a little extravagent as most expensive restaurant. did rest od weekly shop £16, add to £11 in lidi yesterday hoping have got enough to last week when added to contents of freezer

Extremely frugal Father's Day here. Less than £5 on gifts for DH and DF, and homemade cards that went down a treat. It was DD1s birthday and everything had already been budgeted for, so the fancy tea covered the menfolk too A lovely day all round for very little expenditure.

Can I join you please?

We have lost our tax credits due to DH going onto commission so we've declared the highest amount he might get to avoid being overpaid which means we've lost our allowance but might not necessarily get the amount back in wages.

This puts our outgoings and incomings equal so no room for manoeuvre (I've had to reduce the food budget to make it equal, it wasn't just a good coincidence!), any commission he does get I think we'll put into the credit card debt.

Our money month starts on the 17th so I thought I'd start here today in preparation!

Well, It hasn't been brilliant for the last few days, but could have been worse!!!

DH was out most of the day yesterday, so we're going out for Chinese tonight for a Father's day treat. It's got an 'all you can eat' menu which is brilliant value, and we can just get little top ups for the DSs, and let them try something new without worrying about the waste.

DH got a 3 month prescription card 2 months ago, which has proven to be a huge saving for us as the GP is trying him out on new medications.

I read a tip once about saving with food budgeting. If you budget for food pretty well, but still have a bit of wriggle room, set aside a budget for every week, but shop every 8 days. On the last day just eat leftovers, store cupboard stuff, etc. It tends to be doable for just 1 day. Then after 7 weeks, you will have one 'extra' lot of food money which you can pop straight into savings.

How do you get the flag?

I forgot, gifts for Father's Day were about £6/7 and cards were home made. He got Lindt chocolate. We used To buy it frequently but it's now just over 3 quid a bar here
Is it that much in the UK?

DH made me laugh last week , he asked if any food prices are remaining static.

Here's the flag linky

DP enjoyed his ginger beer and we had some goodies from M and S - £11 pounds.

And bought more Lego off ebay for DS, £45 inc delivery. It was a bargain, brand new in box, when used ones are going for over £65. I am saving this one as DS had already said that he wanted it but knew that it was a Christmas sized present.

£2 on playgroup and £13.19 in sainsbury's on stuff Tesco didn't deliver. I'm going to cook some meals this evening so to save time in the week and stop me popping into sainsbury's as that always cost more than I plan.

I want to lose some weight but I'm going to try opting for healthier snacks, or cutting them out completely and smaller portions. I'd probably have more success with SW or WW but I've done both before and it ends up costing me a fortune in classes and food.

We had a pleasant father's day. Df got a card, that's all he wants and I spent less than £10 on dh but they were thoughtful gifts that he appreciated.

Off to post office now to send back some clothes that convinced me to diet and an ebay sale.

£13 on food, I'm trying low carb for a few days to see how I feel on it.

£1.30 of that I'll get back off quidco click snap & checkout smart apps.

I've done the final bit of my current account transfer from halifax to M&S so I should get a £100 voucher in the next month. I can get a nice light fitting then for the landing. Most rooms have bare bulbs still dh said the neighbours must think we have no money, I told him they wouldn't be far wrong.

£9 in Tesco on lunch, plus salad for dinner plus should be enough for lunch tomorrow as well.

Cecy welcome

Adora that lindt chocolate is £1.89 for 100g here in the UK, which is a lot!

£22 in Tesco on some household bits I didn't get on Saturday. DD had another maths exam today so I can spend ages browsing while I wait for her. Once she has finished her exams, I hope to not be spending quite so much in Tesco.

I missed the bit about Lindt choc, Poundworld sells it!.

Aldi moser Roth 85% choc is nicer though.

Yep, that's what I paid £3.40 for. This place is turning into rip off central.

£2.64 in Tesco tonight.

Welcome to Cecy.