Oh come all ye frugalers, joyful in December, oh come ye, oh come yea and chat

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New Fred, hope I've done it right I've never done one before.

Whoa!! What a beast Em

We also used pillowcases instead of stockings when I was a child. I loved it! I think we will be using pillowcases this year.

Fabulous tree em!

Thanks! I 💚 It. It's the most beautiful tree ever. Cannot wait until it's decorated

am slightly worried that it might start multiplying and my living room tomorrow will just be tree

So sorry to hear your troubles luxy hang in there

creme well done on eBay! Great that people have paid so quickly too. I have made about £30 over the last week on there. People must be buying gifts

Lovely tree em it's a whopper

I managed a NSD day, it was quite productive too. I got quite a lot of course work done, dh cleaned the van and we even got a bit of work done on the van interior. (We're converting it into a camper ) I've spent the evening labelling the tombola items for our pre school Christmas fayre...there was a LOT of stuff

We always had pillow cases Spotty and when DDs were babies I was at a friend's house and the whole family had stockings with their names embroidered on them

Hope you sleep well Luxy

Glad your eBay buyers have paid up creme and I hope that day's pay will come through soon.

Place marking

luxy sorry to hear life is so tough right now

Em You are very funny. We could do with more of that. Keep it coming. I'm still laughing at the jelly snakes.

Thanks everyone. Adora, I am supposed to get it through this month, but we'll see. This is about the 5th or 6th time Payroll have messed up my pay in the last two years. They think I like working for free!

Loving the tree, Em.

at payroll creme

Also love the tree em, I'll post a pic of mine tomorrow. You will all be jealous

Nice tree em.
Well done on eBay and boo to payroll crème.
We had pillow cases too when I was a kids

Ta da!

Today may or may not be a nsd. I need to get some bits from tesco and might go this morning.

Dh got paid two days ago but hasn't put the money in the joint account yet, however we haven't maxed out overdraft yet which is a great improvement!

Beautiful tree! spotty

I'm feeling weirdly down in the dumps & a bit "meh" today. A NSD is planned but I may take DS on a bus somewhere later as he loves buses at the moment.

Actually I won't be going anywhere because DH took all my change for the carpark. We don't have any cash machines nearby. So we will be staying in all day.

We have a large artificial tree but no space for in this house so I have this beauty have used a coffee mug for scale.

I'm stuck at home too, DD1 isn't well so is off school. Is there nowhere you can go for a walk Collie or do crafts to pass the time?

Your tree looks lovely Spotty

My carpenter has the lurgy too so is off ill. Ds is back at school today. At least that gives me a bit more time to paint wood slowly. :-)

Adora your Christmas Tree is fab!

Enjoy your painting Ipsos it sounds therapeutic.

If the weather remains calm and dry we'll pop out for a gentle walk.

Adora your tree is beautiful and Em are you sure there isn't a few squirrels or bears hiding in it?? My cats would love that tree

I still think it is too early for trees so ours will go up next Saturday, its the same one that comes out of the cupboard every year!!

Feel knackered today, slept badly last night for some reason. Am ready for this mild weather to be over, doesn't seem like winter at all - my bulbs are coming out and just seen another bee

Glad its my day off, planning a very quiet day. Going to get the presents out and check i haven't forgotten anyone!!

I love it adora

Oh collie that's rubbish I hope you can find something to do. I've got loads of tidying and cleaning to do

Spent £30.33 in tesco but got dw tabs (it seems all the daisy powder they had last time was stock clearance), radio times, coffee etc so it all adds up.

How much was the Radio Times spotty? I really want it. It reminds me of my Grandma. How ridiculous!

£4 but there's a voucher for a free stick man activity book in it.

Lovely trees spotty and Adora

The radio and tv times also reminds me of Christmas as a child...not sure I can stretch to £4 for it though. Do you remember when the radio times only had BBC channels and the tv times had the others so you had to buy both

I'm taking dd1 to a home ed Christmas party today, £2 plus some party food. I'll take a pizza and a mango because we have those things in.

£4 is very pricey . But it is better than using my ridiculous built in channel guide on my TV. I think I'll "earn" £4 via Nectar Surveys and mycoupons before splashing out on it though. I just earnt £1 by doing 2 surveys.

My Mum only ever used to buy the Radio Times and TV Times at Christmas so it was always very exciting when they appeared in the house. Took quite a few years for us to persuade her that she only needed to buy one when they started publishing all channel information!