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NSD - No spend day
LSD - low spend day

We are a friendly and supportive bunch, recording our spends, frugal wins and frugal fails daily/when we can. Lots of good tips on discount vouchers, household cleaning and maintenance, cheap meals and more!

Ds is two today so going to soft play. Pre paid £7 for him and friends dd. They sell cake. And wine

Happy birthday littleTeacakes! :)

Yesterday:
£3.98 unlocking the remaining quizzes on my favourite app :o
£1.50 bus
£3.95 cafe

Meant to order presents but fell asleep

Just transferred Christmas present budget to my current account, let the fun begin!

Have decided on a farm set for dd, tractor & trailer for ds, set of wooden musical instruments between them, a tent for their new playroom, frozen duvet set for dd & DVD & books for her stocking so far. Must pay my portion of present for my parents. Have duvet sets for all dhs grandchildren sitting in basket online waiting to find out what oldest boy would like & that's done too. They're also getting book tokens which I got from shop and scan & will buy hoodies or something similar also.

Once those things are purchased will work out what's left & who is left!

Pay day today. ...just paid cc and something towards a John Lewis interest free purchase. .. £440 left "all" for me....sounds a lot but I have a lot to squeeze out of it (and my professional fees of £211 to pay eventually! )

I got paid £50 more than I was expecting

We didn't either. We had a crap Christmas. I had to abandon my car on Christmas Eve due to the floods, managed to get home where we had a powercut for 24 hours. We live in the middle of nowhere and couldn't even go out for dinner as we didn't have a car! Dh managed to pick up take away in his van but it ruined our Christmas Eve!

LSD today £1.48 for milk to last into the weekend.

I'm not feeling particularly Christmassy at the moment, I don't think I will until we have the tree up and we have a few things settled financially and also workwise.

But I am going to try and make things nice for DS even with the lack of cash. We're going to make his entry for the christmas card comp at school which will be fun.

I want this to be a frugal christmas but one to remember for reasons other than who got what and how much it cost. Some of the loveliest memories are of long walks with my mum to collect holly and braken and stuff to make decorations - my mum was poncetastic on a budget I realise - beautiful stuff that cost pence!

Hi all baby James arrived last thur by c section we r home and doing well, his big brother is besotted, days n nights spent feeding :)

Congratulations East and plenty of and for you too!

collie That advent calendar sounds wonderful, I have got a cheap chocolate one but the idea of an activity each day sounds brill. I've got some card and lots of paint etc so could make it pretty easy.

I'm going to see what christmas films I can download I bet there are some old ones but good ones I've forgotten. I think a walk to see the lights will be good also and the baking of course.

I've got loads of body shop christmas burning oil that I've overstocked on (hence why I am probably now in debt ) so have been burning a little each day. One thing I always do is something my mum always did was make cloved oranges. I get a big bag of cloves from indian shop (this has lasted 3 years now) and some cheap oranges and a bit of old ribbon (left over gift ribbon or recycled is good) tie it round the orange parcel fashion then stick the cloves in making a sort of pattern as you go. This lasts hung up for most of christmas and smells delicious. I also put a handfull of cloves in old pot pourri to freshen it and give the christmas smell!

Going to now have a look at that advent calendar thread for some ideas...

Congratulation East it's always lovely to think of babies at Christmas time, your DS sounds lovely with his new brother!

Congratulations east!

congratulations East lovely to hear baby is well and big brother is taking good care of him

Congrats East love the name James.

So have spent £4 on coffee for me and friend, was my turn to buy.
£2 in Greggs on an delicious bacon cheese twist thing and more tea, that was an early lunch!
£46 in Morrisons but got £6 off in vouchers so actually £39 and my week 4 Christmas saver thing so all good.

Congratulations east! Welcome to the world baby James

Thanks guys just done first online food shop ever had a 25% off first ocado shop did it as bits during night when feeding so who knows what we are getting!! Brought alot of offers n easy meals found they do a rib eye steak on a 3 for £10 deal which is one thing we treat ourselves to every now n then so got 2 plus a whole chicken in that deal.

Congratulations East, James is a lovely name.

Happy Birthday little Teacake.

chocolate Could you shop at Aldi? Or Lidl? It doesn't work for everyone but I cannot believe the prices in normal shops these days.

£3 bottle of champagne for Christmas (used tesco orchard voucher).
£2 cheese in the co-op. I resisted the marked down long stem roses.

Aldi £5 off voucher in tomorrow's Mirror & Daily Record I'm buying 2, one for this week & one for Dh's turn to pay next week.

Congratulations east! how lovely...

nsd for the second day forgot my purse whilst rushing around for work this morning and now husband is going for bread, Yey! FRUGAL WIN :)

Congratulations East

Scraped the wing of my car in the car park today other than that, which could be spendy if I get fixed. ...nsd other than train and car park.

Must start kids xmas presents. Been holding out as last year they announced their xmas list very late! I could start stockings thou, but we have so much tatt already I can't bring myself to get more. ....