Awesome August Frugaleers..

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Had hoped for NSD today but it's such a lovely day I think ice creams may be in order this afternoon!
Spent £20 on a meal out with friends last night which was £5 over what I'd planned for but last time I went out for dinner it came out under budget so I don't feel too bad about it!
Received my £5 high street voucher from Eon today and a £10 Boden voucher which I might put towards a winter coat for DD.
Hope you are all enjoying the sunshine today!

£18 in Lidls, pleased with that.

Some woman managed to hit my car trying to park though she has scrapped the paint on the rear wheel arch, have her details but not sure what best thing to do is? Do I ring my insurance company or should I just get a quote and see if she will pay?

Also bloody Orange have taken another random £11.50 out of my account so annoyed as spoke to a woman last week who told me that my new cheaper DD would start next month and the I should be getting a refund from the one. Not that they would take more bloody money off me, will ring them again obv but it is just another thing to sort out!!

I have about £110 to see me the rest of the month - eek! That said we have plenty of food in, will need petrol in at some point but otherwise planning lots of cheap days, bike rides and picnics etc.

Quick question... Can I freeze mash?!!

Week two of our new way of budgeting begin today. Week one went well. I spent £77 on groceries for the week and refused to buy more when certain items had run out. This morning I headed to Waitrose and registered for their quick scan machine. I zapped my way round until I reached £70 and headed for the till. I had a £14 off a £70 spend voucher so today's groceries came to £57.05. I have one more of these vouchers to use by 23.8.15 so that will come on handy for next week
Other spends have been carefully noted and I've "saved" money by not buying lunch (for me) in the soft play café and not buying ice cream for me (£1.80 each) on two occasions when I've purchased one for my child. Before this budget I wouldn't have given these items a second thought. I wonder whether this frugal living will have a positive effect on my waist line ?

Yes you can freeze mash .

Thanks! :) I'm trying to run down the fridge and freezer as we go away on Friday to the land of the Disney for a few days. I will have to buy some chicken mid week as have friends coming over, but that's ok. I'm deliberately not going to the shop to get bread and milk as we still have some left. We shall see how we last. Going to drink uht milk as that's our reserves and we have something like 5 cartons!

Going to beach in a bit. Have a good weekend everyone!

That's crap about Orange girlie, I would be putting something on their FB page.

New potato and egg salad made for lunch, using lots of pepper in the mayo, and adding spring onion and a sprinkling of cheese.

Carrot cake in the oven.

Domestic goddess me!

Girlie that's so annoying!! Has she said if she wants to go through insurance?

We were thinking of having a BBQ tomorrow but have decided not to as it would mean spending extra money.

Car washed, £10

Tescos - £17, gutted as I got the wrong cheese and it cost £5.50 and I have only just realised...

Kids spent some of their own money in Whsmith, dd got a hello kitty set and one of the pencils leads break every time it gets sharpened and now she wants to go back and complain, it was a regular pencil and now it is about 2" long and doesn't match in the set....would you??

£11 petrol.

Id go through insurance for anything car related.

Happy birthday, Ipsos!

Did a Muscle Foods order today - £76 for a hell of a lot of meat. Hoping it fits in the freezer! It's not coming until Friday so we also went to Lidl and spent £43.

Forgot to say earlier, that Lidl had their frozen 3 bird roast (usually £8.99 I think) for £4.99 today. I bought two

Yes will give insurance a ring tomos then, annoying as something else to sort out!

Will ring EE/Orange tomos and if no joy will be leaving them a comment on their fb page - good tip

Had quiet day today, dd complaining of being bored think she has been a bit spoilt with activities and appears to have forgotten how to occupy herself.

Going to make a spa bol for dinner with salad I think, evening in watching Indiana Jones for us (we know how to live )

haha autocorrect really doesn't like the word 'spag'

well we are back in the north east with not too bad a drive up.

just put in a £70 Sainsbury's order for tomorrow and spent £15 on a takeaway.

im going to reconcile everything and get back on the band wagon when i get sorted.

That sounds like an unusual birthday treat, ipsos.
Just bought ice creams today. Planning to go to Ikea tomorrow but we have a gift card for £150 so I can't imagine we'll spend much actual money, if any. Does anyone know if their trolleys have a child seat in? Hoping to leave the push chair at home to make space in the boot.

just catching up - collie the M5 north was fine as we passed this morning. The m5 south however look awful. although you may not read this now as you were going today - oops. Golfs are great i have loved all my VWs.

Happy birthday Ipsos.

Girlie can i join the hug and happy frugalversiry. pleased you had a good holiday.

Hi lots of new people.

sorry about the car pass. Hate paying out loads for them but they are necessary evils at times.

Audit - my DH always worries me when out on the bike. As you say he is a big boy now but the fall out from his family may not be pretty.

Looking at the tote site now as have camping later in the holidays x2.

Well done everyone who is managing some frugalness in the holidays - hats off to you and for the rest of s tomorrow is another day.

Sainsbo 25% off clothes apparently starts on the 18th

sorry if i have missed anything or anyone.

Only spend today was the food shopping. I got a bit burnt only a small bit though. The dc played outside loads we put their slide into the paddling pool.

I think we've had a NSD. I find that not going to the shops helps .

£4 on parking at the country park, £1.50 on milk, £5 on screen wash. Not bad for a Saturday!

Hi can I join in? Been lurking for a while, my finances are in a mess (again) ive got about a few hundred on a credit card and an overdraft need to get back in the black.