Marvellous Money Saving March.

[CremeEggThief]

Hi All,
Thought I'd start a new thread for all regulars and anyone else who is interested in saving money in March .

Moneysavingexpert & hotukdeals need

spotty that's why I hang washing out overnight in the summer

Adora I'm very envious of your dishwasher, ours is crap!.

Our neighbours don't seem to ever clean their barbecue grill so it reeks of stale rancid fat being burnt off. I've never smelt anything like it, they have it up against a fence & last year had a small fire on it which lead to a mildly entertaining marital dispute.

Why pay for an oven & then cook outside on a gas barbecue? It makes no sense. Maybe I should plug the halogen oven in on the extension lead & call it a barbecue? I reckon it'd reach the patio easily.

Congratulations to your DS, Bantam.

We'd be lost without our Fluffy and her fantastic tips .

£ 4.80 to DS and that's it for today. Stuffed after a big veggie Sunday roast and contemplating a quick snooze. I love Sunday!

NSD

Have made the fish pie . Very non frugal i agree ... .. . its in the oven now but uses lots of expensive ingredients and took ages to do .. No wonder its always so costly when you have it out..

Never mind, its Sunday, we have only had Dr Soup and toast so far today.. DH seems a fair bit better today and i want to feed him up..

I have already had a white or two ( well, I had to open some forthe fish pie sauce you see ..

However I didnt buy the kimono .. (A good point, and taken Fluffy, thanks )

....and i wont be buying the ebay handbag as its already gone up to £41with a couple of hours left to go on bidding... Too much for me for a 2nd handbag ....nice as it is ..

No time to read back today .. will catch up with you all tomorrow now.. hope you have all had a good weekend

Need thanks for the tip, I'll have a look.

£14.56 on McDonalds, we had a mega dancing rehearsal 12 to 5.30, so I decided to grab a takeaway.

£4 for DD2's pants

NSD. Had friends over which was really pleasant and the weather was glorious! Great that it happened on a Sunday too.

Made lots of food too so will have some leftovers over the next few days which always helps.

Am so tired. I need a nap. Have had my dinner so off to have shower and pray that the kids will sleep early. I'm ready for bed already!

Hi all, hope everyone has had a lovely wend

Today has ended up being mega busy, my dad came over this morning which was lovely. Trip to the park and coffee after which my dad paid for.

This afternoon dd had her swimming lesson and then we went to the garden centre. I had a flash of inspiration for my mums mothers day gift and bought a few different plants (primroses, pansies etc as well as some bulbs) also a nice ceramic pot and potted them up for her. It looks lovely. Spent £18 in the garden centre and I reckon £12 was on the gift, also bought s few plants for myself, some bulbs, a seed tray and some sweets!!

Then spent rest of the afternoon sorting out all my pots and planting. Am growing all of my summer flowers from seed this year which is a first so should save money on all the plants I normally buy.

My dad bought my dd some frogspawn over, have been googling what we need to do to keep them alive, apparently I may have to buy some de chlorinating tablets and start boiling lettuce

Very quick tea of scrambled eggs and beans as ran out of time and energy to cook anything!!

Ok, well after being reasonably good, it has all gone to pot. I renewed by live traffic subscription for the sat nav earlier in the week (Friday) for £40 which is a really good deal considering the traffic where we live (near Heathrow)

I tried to install it on Friday night. Put the satnav in the car yesterday and it claimed to have no maps as the map subscription had finished £60 to replace. That in total is £100 or £2 a week, which is still fantastic value, and I probably save that much by not being late collecting from holiday club or nursery and paying fines.

Unfortunately, the new map is bigger than the memory, so had to buy a micro SD card, £5.54

Laska
I am making the bbc one much simpler and cheaper. I use white fish & smoked fish But I cook the fish for twenty or thirty minutes with onion and milk. Then use the cooking fluid to make white sauce this gives it flavour without wine & cream. Yours looks like a luxury version!
I can't drink or eat white wine or chanpange anymore as allergic...

Had a win today discovered instamatic camera I bought last yr not working so brought it back to curry's and they longer do it.... So I got €100 gift voucher which I plan to use towards new Hoover when ours finally gives up on us! ( never liked the camera & film too expensive!). So happy days.

£8.56 food and cleaning stuff.

8/3
£77.91 Tesco - included huge packs of loo roll/Vanish etc so not too bad.

Bought an emergency birthday card today at the garden centre. Couldn't see prices anywhere but when I got to the till it was over 3 sodding quid! Had to get it today as it's already late but def need to visit the card factory to stock up!

Er, hello? Is anybody there?!

Looking like a nsd. Have made lentil and chickpea soup for lunch. Dinner is pilaf but I haven't got enough pilau rice so using white, that'll be ok won't it?? Please say yes...

I'm in full spring cleaning mode. Just found 18 medicine spoons and 9 calpol oral syringes in my cutlery drawer have also cleaned all the light switches and sockets. Yuck.

spotty I got asked at pharmacy yesterday if I was ok for dosing syringes & spoons for my ds's antibiotic, I could mentally see the collection of them on shelf underneath medicine press!! Incidentally that trip to doctor & antibiotic cost €59.94[unshocked] !

Sat spent €46 at butchers this was meat for week plus some veg, €28 at shop for €20 diesel, paper, salad items & treats for playdate butchers was spendy but worth it for convenience.
Sun €36 in lidl, we were down to last few sheets of toilet roll & I've decided that anything other than 10pk of expensive toilet roll from lidl is a false economy.

We will need to do a small shop in aldi maybe potatoes & I'm not sure what else with ds being sick & my sister visiting I don't even know what we're short of!

I found a similar number of calpol syringes not long ago spotty! I was a bit because they haven't come with syringes for that long have they?!

we were supposed to go shopping in town today but I don't think there is enough time now, I need mothers day cards and a first birthday gift so going to see what I can find online.

Spent £10.80 in waitrose on Easter hunt chocolate and stuff for DDs birthday cake. Remembered to grab a free paper and then lost it on the way home...

dh was giving ds paracetamol yesterday & told me we were on our last dose, and the nurofen was almost out too. I was as I bought a large stock of both off chemistdirect in Oct/Nov last year, worried me that we were medicating the children too much. I looked in press after he had finished 4 New bottles inside!! [Angry] at dh, he didnt look properly.

Lsd as dd is at home with a v high temp thing. I find that the paracetamol/lbuprofen runs down really quickly now both kids are on 10ml...

£10 amazon stocking up on green & blacks choc and a random sticker book to get free delivery.

Hello all, just got back from Lidl spent £35 which I am really pleased about seemed to get lots for that included in that was some Easter stuff for dd, a cheap bottle of red wine to use for cooking plus lots of fresh stuff and tins.

Was disappointed that I couldn't find any big boxes of washing powder though, will have to pick that up in Morrisons next week, should have enough to last till then.

Think may have found dd a new bike, her current one is too small. Its second hand (obv ) £60, didn't think that was too bad. Will take dd down later to have a look at it and see what I/we think. Can sell her current bike, its quite a decent one so hopefully might get £30 - £40 for it.

Am also going to sort out some clothes of hers to sell in a min, am using up annual leave this week and planning on getting lots done!!

22p 5 cans of soup in tesco thanks to an orchard voucher.
£1.35 dh milk
15p sanitary towels
23p paracetamol.

Free Mother's Day card in wh smiths on the O2 priority app, if you order a free payg sim today you'll get it in time for a free card. You won't need to top it up just download the priority app.

Big spend day for me.

£80 on grocery shop, but that includes all our meat, because the supermarket I went to has a good butcher on site (normally I do an online shop of about £55 then maybe another £20 going to the butcher). Also included two bottles of wine, so really £80 probably isn't bad.

Then £40 fees to DS's pre school. And another £5 on another violin string.

Will have to buy bread later too, so that's another £1.40ish. But that's it, no more!

Oh and yy to getting through calpol/neurofen now dd is on bigger doses, plus dd doesn't like anything but the real stuff so can't get the cheaper own stores range.

Hope your dd feels better soon pass

I thought calpol was free on the minor ailments scheme? It's cheaper for the nhs than seeing a dr & being given a Px.

It is fluffy nowhere round here does minor ailments though

I have asked in a few chemists about the minor aliment scheme and they just stare at me blankly is it a particular chain of chemists that does it?

Hotukdeals or bitter wallet said boots.

It's unfair to make parents pay in some areas and not others.

I thought that was only in Scotland(? Or some areas anyway)
They won't prescribe calpol in our pct anymore either.

I don't mind tbh, expected costs of having DC etc...