Stampeding through a sensible, scrimping September!

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Thought I'd do the honours

With kids back at school and autumn weather drawing in we all need a very sensible September. I'm putting up my thermal curtains and refusing to put on the heating until October. Who's in?

Some frugal wins today...the cleaner cancelled so £20 saved and friends gave us the end of their veg box as they're off on holiday, however this has left me stressed as the house is a mess and I have guests tmrw, Saturday and Sunday and I'm currently making veggie biryani, veggie soup and tonight's dinner simultaneously as I don't want anything to go to waste!

Also hopefully a frugal win...tried to do a meter reading by text but got one back saying that I'd need to ring as the reading was too low or high (please let it be low!)

Other than that it's been a NSD.

I love having a clean car too! We have a great local car hand wash and they do inside and out for £10 which is usually an end of term treat - we do lots of visiting in the holidays so it's nice to be free of the old banana skins and sticky sweet wrappers!

Spent £11 on Christmas presents for niece and DSD at dotcomgifts sale. Am pleased with how little everything cost.

£2 something on seeds in Holland & Barratt buy one get one half price. I have them on my cereal otherwise my nails split/break

Other than that, nothing. Pay day tomorrow and I still really want a takeaway and now also want to take my car for a wash and hoover for a£10 ....Thanks ladies! !

Pay day for me tomorrow too and I've seen a bag that I NEED

£35 at sainsburys. Tu is having 25% off and so got the kids their Halloween costumes. And a pair of black trousers already marked 50% down! with 25% off...

Bonjela as my sore is really hurting.

Wish me luck. Three days of hell at work from tomorrow. I'll hopefully survive till Sunday.

We didn't have chilli. I glanced at the reductions in Morrisons when I picked up dc and found a pack of two pork steaks for 35p.

Chopped them up and casseroled them with onions, 3 chopped rashers of bacon, chopped apple, chopped potatoes, green beans that were close to being chucked away, garlic, rosemary from the garden and some cream that needed using up plus a glass of water . Delicious even though I say so myself . I love inventing recipies as I go along though it can have some terrible results!

£8 in greengrocers because he showed sold me runny honey in addition to set honey

£1.50 for oats

And £4 on a salad and bottle of water, large coffee was free because waiter was embarrassed at having messed up the order resulting in a very long wait.

My car is usually clean inside and out but only because a pristine car is one DH's ushoos. He cleans and polishes both every weekend because of fecking FIL who is half a world away. He can't check up on you now DH, he really can't

Mmm pot noodle what flavour? I love a Bombay bad boy

Only ever chicken and mushroom! Damn it, I'm home alone which means I can't now nip to the shop to satisfy this sudden craving as dd asleep upstairs = frugal win (grudgingly)!

Just sent dh to shop for wine!! Very un frugal. i want a pit noodle now...

Text him!

£26 in aldi. I have £20 of ocado stuff in the freezer so that's £46 this week for food for us, £6 is the cat but its still £10 more than I wanted.

Too late i have wine

I've been so busy, working every evening I can't remember what I have spent!

Today, lunch with colleagues, one leaves tomorrow £13, cold tablets £11

Yesterday lunch, about £6, bus fares, taking DS to secondary school open day £2.90. Ordered flea spray for the house. We have 2 dogs who never have fleas, but the kitten was too young for the spot on stuff. Now she seems to have exploded with them, as has the house. DD1 looks like a dot to dot £30 (I'm buying loads so I can spray everywhere and have some left). I have sprayed the house twice with a supermarket one without success. I hope this works.

Tuesday I think I bought lunch, so about £5.

I also ordered DH the new iPad he wanted for his birthday. Not very frugal at all.

Also found out I need to buy DS and DD1 black jazz pants and black polo neck jumpers for a parade. They also want them to have black split sole dancing trainers (about £30 each just for shoes!)

I may compromise by buying DD1 the shoes, DS can wear his black school shoes which look like trainers.

£108 on food shop (that's with £30 off code) which should last us until the end of October with £20 per week top ups. Not bought DD formula and nappies for the month ahead yet but we have plenty at the moment.

Rubbish pay this month as I'm almost on stat mat pay only. I've only got £20 left after my share bills, food etc paid .

Going out for dinner tomorrow with DH for my birthday, his treat of course

Hi audit, we had an awful flea infestation one summer after our poor cat had died (apparently this makes fleas much harder to deal with as there is no focus to eradicate from i.e. the cat!) good ol' MN recommended a spray called indesit. Worked wonders but still needed patience - fleas are a bugger to get rid of but at least cold weather doesn't agree with them!

Oops - indorex. Think indoset may be dishwashers...!

Thanks Six I googled for recommendations and have ordered one called Acclaim.

They reckoned a can would do an average 3 bed house (ours is 5) so I ordered 3! I'm fed up with being bitten.

We spent a lot on useless supermarket treatments including flea bombs where as well as spending a fortune on the treatment we also had to vacate the house for 3+ hours at a time only to return home and be bitten to pieces again! Expensive treatments are worth every penny!! Xx

Oh dear some very spendy posts this evening! Be strong ladies. ....! I think the takeaway is off due to extension costs stacking up. Ah well...we are going to dps parents next sat so I will hint for a Chinese there. ...

Might get kids to wash my car at the weekend and keep my purse shut. Washing the car is a big treat for them anyway.

spotty - what bag?

I'm fond of a pot noodle when I'm ill....also like the 20p value super noodles....expensive tastes, me.

I think lots of us get paid around this time!! Soon be scrimping!

DS sent me a message on his way home from the theatre to say he had lost his Oyster card. Fortunately I found it buried in the bottom of his bag. I wasn't looking forward to paying another £10 fir a new one, plus having to pay more expensive fares while waiting for it to arrive.