Judiciously June frugal thread now including Christmas bargains.

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Everyone is welcome.

I'd risk it personally adora

Defo risk it adora I use all stuff like that - evap/condensed milk, jam/preserves etc as long as it hasn't been opened then I ignore dates.

Have become very cavalier about dates in general these days!

NSD. Phew.

Waiting impatiently for DH to come home to eat dinner. Our empty-the-freezer meal plan is going well, haven't done top up all week. Will need big shop this weekend though.

£1.63 on a baguette to go with our soup and cotton wool.

£20 taken out to pay the cleaner tomorrow. Is it false economy that I'm spending the evening tidying up for the cleaner?!

Oh...and £212 for nursery bill.

NSD. Boss bought lunch. I thought what the heck and went along for the meal. A new senior person joined us so thought it a good idea to meet.

Going to London tomorrow. Essentially for a work thing. Hope to
Be able to claim it. Its not a v clear cut situation!!!

Cleaner has just said she's upping her prices. It's a new cleaner. Old ones are leaving and brought her along to sub. Not sure why I need to let her for 4h. It's a 3bed house. What do you guys think??

£8 in Tesco for lunch, fruit for snack as late meeting, plus ham for tomorrow's lunch.

On the cleaner front...this is only the second time I've ever had a cleaner so I'm trying to work out the hourly balance myself here! We're paying £20 for 2 hours every 2 weeks for a smallish 3bed victorian terrace. I feel that tidying every surface tonight allows her to get on with her job of cleaning rather than tidying! I think we'd have to pay for more hours for a real deep clean though. This is bathroom, kitchen, dusting and hoovering through.

I pay for 2.5 hours every other week for a 5 bed house. She does the kitchen, bathroom and downstairs loo, hoovers and mops all the floors. I make sure all the surfaces are tidy for her, and often clean alongside her, changing beds and washing towels etc.

£42 for my next block of Pilates lessons (6); £28.something on Amazon (DVD, clothes airer and Bissell stick carpet cleaner) and £49.60 on Sainsbury's online shop, using a £10 off £50 voucher. So, spendy day, but all necessary (well, apart from the DVD!)

The cleaner depends if you and DH can realistically manage the cleaning without the out sourced help. Is the price hike big, more than you feel it's worth?

Made it into the office with no stop in Tesco. But have no lunch with me, so I will have to spend at some point...

Slightly spendy today.

Need parking for hospital appt then parking in town to see friend. Going to buy us an m&s lunch.

Can I join please? We really need to start sticking to our budget so that we can afford to pay off the credit card bill we ran up while I was on maternity leave...

DH spent £50 on filling the car up but otherwise no one spent anything yesterday and I've just spent £12.80 on a scarf for a friend's birthday present. Hopefully no other spending today though!

NSD on Wed

LSD yesterday - only train into town and paid for round of coffees with friends who had treated me to ticket at a fantastic theatre show, so not bad for £16.80!

Got to do weekly shop today though. Will aim to bring it in at under £100. this includes cleaning and household stuff and workday lunches for DH and me all week too.

lilbup exactly the reason I'm hear to bring down credit card too after mat leave! Have two credit cards totalling €3714 limit €3500, aim to bring one down to zero and other down to €1000 firstly and transfer to a 0% balance transfer card in November and then eventually bring limit down to €750 and keep balance at zero.

Last week I got tax back which has helped to get on top of things. I bought ynab and going to use it properly. Have my wages from today sitting in one account but have enough in my current account to manage this week so my goal for this week is to leave that there to build a buffer.

Think we've enough meat in freezer to avoid buying any this week so should make for a cheaper week in groceries.

£6 fuel
£30 bay trees for the garden.

Welcome new frugaleers.

I really want to buy an iPad (I know not very frugal!) as our laptop is broken and will be nearly £200 to fix...anyway where's best to get one? I am thinking john lewis as they have the three year warrantee but was wondering if I should wait and try to get one at the airport. Dixons travel don't have any prices online any advice?

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00A6QA4MM This mini is £199.

I find mine really useful for ebaying.

Today should be an NSD, DD1 now laid low with this virus but doesn't need the Dr. I'll take her if teacher asks for a cert, depends if she misses any tests.

Welcome to all the newbies

I want a full sized one really, Currys have 5% off plus 1.75% cash back but only on delivery and we go on Tuesday. Its my birthday next week so all birthday money can go towards it

Or buy in tesco and get clubcard points...

Welcome all the newbies

NSD here today - I have been catching up with paperwork while DD revises for her exams and have resisted the urge to go out and into a shop.

John Lewis price match so find as cheap as poss pop.in store n price match they won't price match Amazon or eBay stores though

I've just bought it on amazon. Still get the 12 month warranty and will add it into my house insurance.

£2.05 on lunch today but will get this back on expenses. So far have spent a total of £41.78 on Ocado shop and £5.10 on lunches (which will be claimed on expenses) this week. Feeling pretty good about it .