Judiciously June frugal thread now including Christmas bargains.

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Everyone is welcome.

Yesterday was spendy coz of cleaner £36 and painter £100. Got a guy in for two days to finish up the painting of our dining/kitchen. It looks much better and we can tidy away all the rubbish that's been lying around waiting for dh to complete the job! Oh and £3 on sainsburys ham.

To be fair, dh has been v busy with work working till past midnight every night...

Today should be NSD.

NSD yesterday and today. Under £60 for last week's shopping. Not bad at all.

£4.95 in the 99p shop.

£15 petrol.

Aldi voucher in the mirror & daily record tomorrow. £5 off a £45 spend.

£2 on huge water soaker things for the kids in the pound shop as last year's ones fell to bits

Oh and £1 on a 4 pack of dime bars....yum. should last 2 days in my work locker lol

Nsd I make that three in a row!

LSD £1 on parking and £4 on milk and washing powder I still buy the big box powders as they work out a lot cheaper than the concentrated liquids and capsules.

I do too fanta and they last forever!

Hello, I hope you don't mind me joining!

My home situation could be changing very soon and I'll be going straight back to being completely skint.

May try and turn myself into an extreme couponer!

I was bad today and spent 3 quid on sweets in the local sweet shop... I do not have three quid to spend on sweets! I have tuition fees to pay for soon!

Welcome marble

I'm washing clothes on cold with laundry gloop, I can't tell the difference from when I washed at 40c.

Whites & coloured towels go through at 20c. Again no change but I use bio powder on them.

I don't know if its saving me money, the ceiling fan runs all night so that's balancing it out.

NSD today - haven't spent anything all week in fact!

Meeting friends for coffee so will probably spend £5 on that and then on Friday we are going to see McBusted! Dread to think how much I'll spend but I'm really looking forward to it.

Just joining in so you can all give me the kick up the backside I deserve. Somehow I have managed to spend £200!!! in the last 4 days, on not a lot really. (petrol, shoes and haircuts for the kids, goodness knows what else)
The most annoying one was food in a service station. We got stuck in a traffic jam on the motorway for 45 mins, on what should have been a 25 min journey. I had no food or drink, it was soooooo hot, and dinner time, so ended up having to stop and buy the kids food and drink. Cost £14!

Give me a kicking and I promise to stop spending this week.

marble welcome

I made my homemade soup for dinner tonight and very nearly had a disaster! I assembled all the vegetables, stock and spices and it was all bubbling nicely - then I went to add my 'soup and broth mix' from Tesco which is a lovely mix of lentils, peas and pearl barley, only to discover that they required 8-10 hours of soaking. Don't judge me - I put it in anyway and boiled it all furiously for about an hour. The peas were still bullets so I picked those out everyone ate it all

A bit spendy for me today because I had the dentist (£23, but this was less than the £47 I had budgeted)! Also £11.68 in Lidl on some top up shopping.

Fluffy - interesting about doing cold washes - I always chuck everything on 40, so will investigate how cold I can go!

That's really good news, Adora. :)

Welcome to Marble.

£3 today- £2 on a birthday card and £1 donation for my colleague who's fundraising for charity.

Oh, well done for all the NSDs. I haven't had one for over a week.

Welcome Marble

Busy day yesterday. Meeting in London, £10.20 onparking, plus I think about £14 on the train fares, but all to reclaim from work. Lunch £6 eaten on the train.

My printer had run out of black, so inserted one of the cheap cartridges I bought from Amazon and, not only would it not recognise that one, but it upset all the others. Problem was I needed birth cert copies and photos for theatrical performance licences! So at 8.30 when the should have been going to bed, whipped out to Tesco. £10 on 2 sets of passport pictures (scanned so I can print the next lot myself). £23 on Tesco fake ink cartridges, £6 on 3 reduced packs of photo paper. Finally a cauliflower cheese for my dinner.

Today £6 for lunch. Need a packed lunch tomorrow, plus one for DD1 who is going to the seaside on a school trip.

Need to get diesel to drive to Newbury tomorrow, but work pay for that.

Received my work expenses, £1,702 and paid straight off my credit card. I have £900 ish left in the bank, but £1,409 left to pay off the credit card. It was swollen this month my some of the costs of my parents staying (mum paid for shopping specifically for them, but we used extra bread/milk/meat etc. so still had extra costs), plus I had one large old bill which I cleared on my card, plus some Christmas shopping. I have now stepped away from the Christmas bargains thread

I'm waiting for DS I get back from his show before I bundle him off to bed.

(Delay in posting due to DS's arrival)

Nothing to do with money saving but I've lost 9lb. I'm really pleased but still have a long way to go.

audit I can't believe how much you ran up in expenses! Good to see credit card coming down though. I'm avoiding the Christmas bargain thread this month. Mot cost £130 and I have some other expenditure this month so can't do unplanned spending.

oh help I sympathise. Dh needs a tooth out. It's a complicated job and to be done in hospital but nhs won't do it as they say it can be done locally even though the 2 dentists that have seen it rather than just read a description of it have said they won't touch it. So it needs doing privately or wait until it gets worse.

Hello newbies! All welcome.

Finally did checkout smart right and got £2.20 back!

Pay day, have to pay off cc, buy tax disc and save some money for the summer hols, hopefully will squirrel away £300.

NSD yesterday! But we have birthday celebrations tonight and tmrw so a bit spendy. (32 btw!)

I'm looking forward to doing a 6month review! Feeling quite pleased with the bank balance and our ever changing focus about money.

Welcome marble!

How are you getting on ilovepixnmix? Haven't heard from you for a while xx

Welcome new people. I was hoping for a nsd today but remembered I have the dentist. Which I hate but have to be brave as dd is coming too.

welcome new people! I've had a NC from MissAis my hero (can't remember if I said already)

NSD yesterday - decided just to take stuff from fridge for my packed tea, meant lunch was basically the same as dinner, but it didn't kill me

It should be NSD today as well - working late, have everything in for dinner already.

55p on the mirror for the aldi voucher.

£1.18 from topcashback. I'm saving it in amazon vouchers for an electric egg boiler.

I cancelled my free trial of my credit tracker so I should get my £11 cashback for that soon.

574ejones Cold washes seem to work really well, someone else on here did it when their washing machine thermostat broke. Apparently you only need to wash on a high temperature if someone in the house is immuno compromised, so a chemotherapy patient for example or someone with open skin conditions. The EU made the washing machine manufacturers put 15c & 20c cycles on to reflect this but people aren't getting the hint.

£18 something at the dentist. Went to the library on the way back and didn't go to the café even though I was desperate for a drink!

£16.10 for prescription for DD's asthma pumps. She is 18 now and so I thought I would have to pay for prescriptions for her, which would work out expensive as she needs pumps every month. Apparently she can apply for a certificate as she has no income which means that she can get free prescriptions and also I can claim back what I have spent today