We are the Marvelous Frugaleers - Mindfully Managing our Money in May.. Come join us!

[Laska42]

So here is a new thread for all the Magical May Frugaleers!

All are welcome to come and join our friendly supportive group if you'd like to take control of your finances in May and beyond..

We are working together to support each other, live within our means, pay off those debts and save for the life we want!

Good luck everyone for another month

Don't worry Ipsos I wasn't dismissing it at all. I'm quite cross that I signed myself out that's all. I think my old company pension is worth £4 a month?.

One of my family has a work pension with a lump sum, he could buy my house outright with the lump sum!.

Call me Fluffy. Everyone else does. It makes me smile because I'm not fluffy irl.

Well nsd for me. Tomorrow should be too. Dd's got to dress up as a mini beast tomorrow, we've gone with butterfly as we can easily do that without spending

Laska our lidl have one similar in their advert for 15£
Have you also checked baby stores? That's where we got ours and we only paid around 20ish for one

Bought wedding shoes today on zelando, 50£ but that's all budget for... Hoping I can fit them...
Spent the night in dds room, holding her hand in bed... Little terrorist, so many new things happening that sleeping is difficult...
Collie glad for ds is okay....
Regarding pension I have one trough work that's quite good because I work in the public sector and for dp we pay in 200£ or month on a private one, which he then get tax credit for

Shors m.zalando.dk/esprit-hojhalede-sandaletter-hojhalede-sandaler-beige-gold-es111l00m-b11.html

Italian they look great, but I can never walk in high heels.

Today £19 in M&S on lunch, dinners and a few bits. £9.90 on a case of beer in Waitrose (so I didn't go to Tesco or Sainsburys and get suckered into buying stuff)

£6.50 on parking, £2.50 on the Dartford crossing but can reclaim

Welcome new people!
Those of you needing pegs I had the same problem until I bought wooden ones. They are lasting really well, much stronger than plastic and also better for the environment.
NSD today - two in a row and tomorrow should be too.
Meal plan:
Tomorrow - curry to use up odd veg with chickpeas plus samosas and naan from freezer.
Sat - stir fry tofu with more odd veg!
Sun - risotto (I do it in the oven too - so much easier)
Mon - chilli plus extra to take for dinner when we go camping on Tues.
Wed - whatever we can get from shop near campsite. Hopefully it'll be warm so we can have nice bread, cheese, olives etc.
Thur - pasta with tomato & basil sauce from freezer when we get back from camping.
Also need to get croissants and snacks for camping but should be a fairly cheap shop.

Have just realised its my dads bday on Sunday oops! Will have to panic buy him something tomos!! Find him quite tricky to buy for really will probably get him a t.shirt in m&s

June is full of bdays as well, i have my nephew, my sil and my best mates bday all within a few days of each other!! Hoping can get them something nice in London, am so happy the train strike has been called off - phew!!

Made a nice spag bol in for dinner in the end, was quite frugal as used quorn mince, a tin of lidl chopped toms, 1 onion, bit of garlic and also added a tin of morrisons savers tomato soup!! Added some water, stock, marmite and tomato paste and ta daa very yummy sauce enough to do at least 5 or 6 portions.

£20 massage. ..3p on 5 doughnuts and 5p each for 3 packs of kingsmill rolls

£3.70 on my debit card today, for bread, milk and tea.
Yesterday was £18.69 (£17.80 on travel for work and 89p on a chocolate bar) and Tuesday was £4.12 (£1.10 bus fare to the doctors, £1.38 in Lidl and £1.64, sending my notice to end my tenancy by recorded delivery).

I will catch up with the thread tomorrow.

NSD and again I manged to have about £3 left in the food budget this week.

Will try to catch up soon. Hope all is well with everyone.

Bargain pass!

Aiming for nsd.

Italian love the shoes I can't do heels either.

Spent £15 on Tuesday for lunch and parking. Wednesday nothing. Yesterday, another £15 on lunch and parking but did sneak off to the beach for that lunch... I was near there and after a long meeting I thought, sod it...!

Need shoes.

Got a house full of kids today as inset day.
Got a 36 refund of clothes in sainsbury but then spent 22. Also spent more but will reclaim that from beavers
Trip to the park may be on the cards before my house is trashed which will be £3 for parking

If it works I'd do the Indian thing. Sounds interesting.

Do you use the issu app too?.