Marvelous Frugaleers - Just Jiving through June

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Welcome new people.

Evil I live in the South East so I feel your pain.

Popping my head in, I have had an incredibly busy week.

2 NSD in a row, then fuel for the car and the horse box yesterday at £60 each. Today was £60 at Aldi. DH has taken £20 from my purse for the pub quiz.

Hello to the lurkers that have de-lurked.

Congratulations evil!

I'll try and have a look on Monday.

I counted £107 in change, then I ran out of bags . It's amazing how quickly it builds up.

£3 yesterday on tips, boss paid for dinner. £88!

Today £5 for a BBQ in aid for a local homeless charity.

Well done evil
My spends this week have been reasonable. Lunch from deli counter tues €5, €20 to babysitter wed which proved afterwards to be not required but didnt know that at the time, €50 diesel Thursday-have a long journey for ds hospital appt so will need diesel again before next payday.

€5.78 on a phone cover on eBay too for my new phone.
Over past few weeks I've bought a lot of things I'd held off on for a long time - radio for car, New tyres, phone, dress & shoes....now that's all done I need to refocus on my credit cards once more!

I also got the Tesco cheese invite

Yesterday spends was 2 x 4pack Ovex (glamour life we lead!), £1 radox, 60 coke.

Today, 2 x £10 for class teachers collections, covers 8 teachers.

Flight opens up online tomorrow where I get to add baggage (and pay for it!) hopefully not too expensive as I'll have issues with just hold luggage!

Argh, I'm so resistant to the idea of working out my expenditure or meal planning . Can someone please tell me how daft I'm being.

I'm planning to meal plan for this w/e (baby steps ). Our usual MO is to shop randomly, but not to buy a lot of food for meals somehow, then to scrape through with top up shops.

Out

You are being daft.

Now go and do a 2 day menu incl snacks and a treat.

Remember, shops are the enemy of bank balances.

Thanks Fluffy and collie . I'm on it

I have seen some other threads starting new ones before the old one had filled up - I think that confuses me more!! I reckon we are o.kay until we get to page 39 at least

Feeling so unmotivated today, need to do housework, sort out filing, pop to Lidls, ring EE - ugh not in the mood for any of it!!

Out I understand your resistance to meal planning, I am the same as I don't like to be tied into cooking something that I might then not fancy iyswim! I tend to go with a rough idea of what we will be eating for the week but not tie myself down to specifics, I think the key is not to over buy fresh stuff so you end up wasting food. I am much more careful in this respect than I have ever been in the past.

I'm hoping for a NSD today, we're off to the park later with a packed lunch, so hoping to avoid unnecessary spending.
I'm waiting for my new life diary thing to arrive so I've got all my meal planning/ budgeting and things all in one place!

£59 at Aldi but included 2 sets of bike gloves and 1 pair of sand shoes. Inset day today at son's school otherwise would be hard at work pushing paper around!!