O come all ye festive frugaleers, gather round for festive chat and frugaleering

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Haven't been on the old thread for a few days so thought I'd start a new thread as it's nearly full.

creme I had forgotten you were Irish.
I'm consciously trying not to swear in front of children, I must be winning because when a work colleague showed me his very badly bruised arm I said oh my goodness instead of my usual fucking hell no one noticed but I did
ipsos I think I'm the same as you going for record with folliculitis outbreaks only finished antibiotics for last round 9 days ago & I have it back again & that's with using preventative scrub weekly

Lilac we have a lot in common. :-) I use to avoid infections by taking vitamin D but I feel as if I would like to stop living on vitamins and just get some rest. Now if only I had the sense...

ipsos apparently being cold suppresses the immune system slightly.

Glad you are feeling a bit better Pointless

I grew up with parents who said they didn't swear, so us kids were not allowed to copy them and according to DH it's my fault that my teenaged DDs swear. His hearing loss means he didn't understand about 80% of the what they and their friends in Chile were saying in the local lingo. He was first person to say "cunt" in front of the DDs though. and I was carefull not to swear in front of them until a couple of years ago.

Looks like I'll be shopping again tomorrow, DD1 needs chocolates as Christmas presents for friends. It will come out of her pocket money.

Good to know Adora. Thanks. I'm currently putting off buying a warm jumper and heating the house on frugaleering principles. Maybe that is not sensible.

I wanted to buy a big thick Arran jumper from the Edinburgh Woollen Mill but they cost a bomb. Maybe the thing to do is wear a fleece instead? Or a hot water cylinder jacket

That's what I thought fluffy but only mistake I can see is that he just got 1 pack of nappies but I usually get 3 for £12. We can definitely manage with one pack until next week. He returned with DD mysteriously covered in mud, not sure how that happened at supermarket!

I looooooove Luther

Ipsos I've never found fleece efectivo, why don't you have a look just after Christmas? My local branch has offers on now actually.

Just googled their offers, they have a hooded Aaron cardigan for £37.50, is that affordable?

Fluffy ahh you lot are the best!

Apparently when I was about 4yo and my mum had her nct friends over I walked up to her and said 'have you found the fucking keys yet mummy?'

Maybe the apple didn't fall to far from the tree

This particular boy tends to wind dd up for a pass time so in her defence he probably was due being told to fuck off! That said I hope she doesn't do it again.....

Right work tomorrow so much go to bed, night all.

Spotty Luther is brilliant.

After taking both children into my bed last night, dh on nights, I now must try gather my stuff and sneak out without waking them

Nsd planned today
I do that on night shift too lilac

£11.50 to be spent today on eyebrow and bikini wax.

Hopefully that'll be it.

Technically a NSD - if I spend any money it'll be in magic bean form vouchers

I also want Christmassy nail polish and I have enough Boots points to cover it.

Bank account is £146. Definetly Payday on Monday. We were hoping we'd get paid early for Christmas. But that's not happening.

In a way it's good I suppose. Last few yearsIn my old job we were paid on the second Friday in December. Great! But then had to wait until end of Jan to be paid again. Awful.

For me last year I had to wait until Feb this year as wasn't working in January.

Sold a dvd yesterday that I'd forgotten is listed on Amazon. £15.99. After fees that's about £13 coming to me. Yay!

I've also been penny sweeping into a separate account for the last 6 weeks or so. Have a chunky £14.78 sitting in ac now. Surprised how much or a difference it made.

My early wakers didn't wake up until 7 because they were up all night so we're all running late.

Should be nsd have ds' nativity this morning. I'm sure he will just stand there looking at the floor!

babsmam I didn't plan on having them in my bed was looking forward to a good nights sleep by myself instead I had both of them in!

Early wakers not waking spotty that puts the whole day behind doesn't?

Ememem84 I have stopped coin sweeping must start again in January

Thanks Adora, I'll take a look. :-)

Only just got back from the school run. Spent 20 minutes talking to some other mums (major achievement for me) and only felt a little bit like I shouldn't be there

Argh! DCs' wardrobes need updating (now that they aren't wearing school uniform, their regular clothes are getting a lot more wear, and pretty much everything has stains/holes ). DH agreed we should get some now and wrap them for Christmas.

I'm mostly looking online but even on tesco/asda/H&M it's all adding up really fast. Does anyone know - is Primark still markedly cheaper than supermarket type stuff? I could pop in on Thursday if I'm well enough after my meeting.

Well done Spotty! I never managed that at all

Fuzz we popped briefly to Exeter's primark whilst in the area at the weekend. They actually worked out more expensive than Sainsbury's. I remember being surprised at the cost. But that was for toddler long sleeve t shirts. The ladies stuff I looked at was a tad cheaper.

Some of their stuff is listed online with prices. (But you can't buy online)

Fuzz I think h&m is your best bet really. I think the prices are similar to primark but better quality. I haven't been to primark for a while though. Sorry not much help

Ah I didn't realise I could look at Primark online, thanks. Unfortunately I can't easily get to a big Sainsbury's but I'll look at that online too.

It's unfortunate that Tesco's last delivery order date is Thursday at midday, as I can't get to town today. I have put a tiny order in already (I have the delivery saver thing so if you spend over a tenner it's free) as it included my great-nephew's present on sale.

Oh and on a totally unrelated note, does anyone know about Excel? I've been updating my spreadsheet for Christmas and it's suddenly started rounding numbers?! So I put £4.50 in but it changed it to £5, whereas higher up in the column it's left unrounded. The running total is still accurate but it's bugging me

That sounds like it is formatting the cells incorrectly. Right click and you should be able to change it to sterling or to a number with the correct number of decimal places.