The super savvy savers continue steering their way through September

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Thought I'd start a shiny new thread as we've filled the other one so quickly.

I love homemade bread, sausages & beer. I'm your new best friend unescorted

I have added £2.50 to my Nectar balance in 2 weeks just by joining mycoupons and Nectar Canvass - as well as buying what we normally by with the coupons. Very impressed!

£2.50 on parking at a&e as ds has an unexplained hurting leg. Probably a brave boy pressie later too. And something to thank friends for stepping in to look after dd

spotty I was thinking it was a 'beefy' meal plan

love Stunning fireplace, just lovely.

Have a nice holiday orange

Hopefully a NSD, or at the least a LSD. DH has taken the lads to Blackpool for the day (quite a drive), but he's paying for anything they spend there and I am making them a chilli for later.

No words of advice for non sleepers as mine slept well, although DS got up at 5am for a very long time......

Any advice re the merits of buying a breadmaker?

Oh dear Babs have they worked out why his leg hurts?

My dd has been a good sleeper really as well, i never know if it is anything I did or if she would have been like that anyway!! But for the record I was a routine and straight back to bed if they woke kinda girl (the opposite to ipsos ) I guess you have to do what works for you, co-sleeping is my idea of hell so that was def off the cards!!

Would a reward chart if he stays in his bed all night work? I personally would spend a few nights putting him straight back every time he comes through and work on bribes incentives to stay in his bed.

So had a busy morning so far, dd has had a haircut looks very smart and grown up don't know where my baby has gone. Got £5 off though through a loyalty card so was only £9.50. Popped into Debenhams for the loo and ended up buying dd a new playsuit in the sale, originally was £28 and I got it for £8.50 so pleased with that plus she can wear to my friends baby naming ceremony tomos.

I'm Guideparent and have to get up and make a speech am gong to spend this afternoon writing it!!

Dd has horse riding soon so that is £15 but no other spends planned.

Startrite sale. Don't forget quidco.

girlie I am laughing, as I think we parent in a similar way! Ditto re the sleep routine to the letter. DD (the youngest) never even shared our room in her cot

Yes needa i think so as well I am fairly no nonsense when it comes to my sleep being interrupted!! Thanks for that link Fluffy

I'm really annoyed. The buyer for my pushchair didn't turn up. Why would someone do that?? I can't even cancel the transaction with eBay yet to get my fees back.

Girlie and needa I would have been your school of thought, but adenoids got in our way. I was amazed at how much my parenting plan could change when faced with absolutely no choice. Good luck there Girlie

Spotty had they paid in advance? If they had then it's their problem that they now have no pushchair.

blue no advice really but ((hugs)) both mine really suffer with teeth & we've I've had lots of sleepness nights with them. I persevered with dd refused to take her into our bed, was so tired with ds I gave in & dh was working nights & he was bf & it was so much easier to bring him into bed. He was 21 months before he slept 3 nights in a row without waking that was about six weeks ago.
Definitely get plastic sheets for all the beds though because a warm pissy mattress is putrid!

Never heard of Guideparent before, a lovely honour. Enjoy yer day.
Today will be a bit spendy promised dd a takeaway tonight.
Swimming cost me €8 today & I decided not to buy my weekly newspaper as cleaner is on hols so I'm going to be busy mopping floors & sorting out clothes for charity collection

No idea with the leg, most likely soft tissue damage. Outpatient appointment tomorrow with orthopaedics

lol interesting to see how differently we all parent! For the record DS is 2 yrs 7 mths, still in nappies (he pees through them sometimes at night, part heavy wetter part us allowing him too many evening drinks!). We do normally lead him straight back in to bed, hes never really been a great sleeper but we had got down to one wake up a night which was manageable - we swopped round rooms when DD was going into her own room there last month - had to move to the 3 downstairs bedrooms to have one each as a trial of having them share a room upstairs was a disaster. Ever since the move hes been up 3/4/5 times a night :( we are just knackered. Currently everyones napping including OH lol, I'm on the computer doing a bit of studying. DD, on the other hand, has been a great sleeper! She maybe wakes once about 4-5am and goes back over with her dummy. Not a prob except when you add it to DSs waking we are like zombies. Not looking forward to going back to work, esp as I need to stay sharp all day to avoid mistakes, which means OH will have to do more of the nighttime stuff, but he has a long commute and I'm scared of him falling asleep. Co-sleeping will have to be the way if DS doesnt settle by Nov I think although I'd rather avoid it for sanity sake!

Hope DS' leg is nothing too serious Babs

Took DD to Pony Club this morning and she was complaining that her feet were hurting in her boots. So afterwards we went to Farmer's Co-op and spent £40 on boots and chaps. In fairness the boots she chose did have £5 off in the sale so it could have been worse.

We passed B&M Bargains on the way to the Farmer's Co-op, so I decided to pop in. I don't tend to go there as I've always thought it was all crisps and chocolate and fizzy drinks rather than actual food IYSWIM. But I was pleasantly surprised to find quite a lot of stuff I use like pasta sauce, pesto, rice, cereal bars, tuna etc. I think it might be worth going there once a month to stock up on tins and jars. Spent £12.

Also popped to the hardware shop to get some bird food as the weather is turning colder. Cost £3.50.

Then we went to the farmer's market and I was very restrained, only bought some cakes and a small piece of cheese. Cost £4.

Am now watching the rugby with my feet up

I am all for bribery when parenting... anything for an easy life.

blue no advice, but I feel your pain. Thankfully mine are now at the sleep through a gas explosion stage. Trying to function without sleep is not fun.

Currently after spending 1.5 hours listening to ds cry with tiredness, he's thrown stuff at me hit me sat on various parts of me, I've left him to cry it out in his cot for being bold while I cleaned the stairs now I've given in & put him in front of TV. It'll be an early night for him. Dh has been home from work for a week & ds got very attached & dh isn't here today so hence the ructions

My fireplace was feeling left out!

Ipsos dd had ENT problems as well, adenoids, tonsils, glue ear, sleep apnoea the lot! I'm a very light sleeper though so found that I would constantly wake every time she turned over or sneezed or something

I think you do what works for you in order to cope, being on my own sleep was always a high priority. That said I think dd was always going to be an o.kay ish sleeper as she likes her bed like her mother parenting is always about finding that fine line between what works for you vs what works for them!!

Right have written my Guide parent speech it is 1 minute long I hate standing up and talking in front of people so it is as concise as possible!

Took some clothes back to Matalan so that is £17 back in the pot.

Thanks all. Will see what tomorrow brings.
Cost me £25 in being brave and a lovely sister pressie. No takeout tonight so £12 saved.
I have no advice about sleep but I'm a bit soft and used to let them Co sleep. when they wander in I wander out as they both prefer my side of the bed and are too big to lift. Not often that happens though. Generally they are both pretty good, it's illness and nightmare that set off the wandering

Lovely fireplace lilac.

Good luck with the sleeping Blue. I think in the end it's all down to the particular family and we all find our own way in the end.

Do what it takes to get you through.

I wouldn't be worried if she's paid for it!

Mine are good sleepers but early risers. I think there are things you can do to help them but that some children just don't sleep no matter what you do.

I've been in bed all afternoon with the dc watching films on the iPad Dh has just got home from work and is cleaning the bathroom. I should get up and think about dinner, think it'll be an oven food night!

It wasn't ENT issues for us, but DS had been through 2 bouts of surgery, the first pretty major at an early age. Not a single parent like girlie but a DH starting a business and simply not around to help and 2 DC in 18 months. We all do what works for us I guess.

DS had night terrors for a while too, which was interesting!

lila Poor you, that can be very wearing. Time out was was very effective for DS and he was a very stroppy toddler, DD never needed it once.

blue Poor you too. Think it's the change in routine that has affected your DS?

In spends - £26 on a massive bottle of flaxseed oil for Dpony. You mix it with tumeric and black pepper, very good for their joints.

No kidney beans for the chilli so I have improvised with a tin of mixed beans. However, I can't improvise for the fact we have no toilet roll, so DD has gone to the shop with a fiver!

DS has bagged himself a Sunday paper round. It's in the next village 2 miles away so he will have to walk there and back or use his bike. At 16, if he wants the money, he will have to find his own way there and back! I will be kind if the weather is atrocious but I ain't telling him that

That's interesting to hear girlie. I'm glad it all worked out in the end.

Spotty When I sell on ebay I always send an email saying that I will talk about collection or posting once i receive payment and then I don't do anything at all until paid. Maybe you could try that?

I think you are right about some children not being sleepers. I know some other babies who are keeping their parents on their toes.

I think you're right need. It's all about what works for an individual family.

I've had a quiet NSD so far.

I splashed out a bit on a new webcam a few days ago but I'm glad I did as we had a much better skype call with grandparents today, with much clearer images and it was better than the old broken webcam, which kept falling on the floor.