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.

Oh no crème. There is loads of sirens round her so I image its similar. It's raining now. Stay safe crème

Welcome Allguns.

I would love an indian takeaway.

creme and babs keep safe & warm. It is still raining here... so we recreated summer with a victoria sponge and bunting.

Hi AllGuns

Toad in the hole for dinner here. If I can be bothered to pour myself from the sofa.

We went into town shopping today and it was oddly quite reasonable. I think people have decided it's too close to Christmas to safely go shopping and may be starting to stay at home.

I am still here lurking trying to block out how much I have spent on xmas!
I think I will need you all in January to keep me on the straight and narrow....
We are out for xmas day lunch then I have 12-15 people here for boxing day but have £50 in co op vouchers to buy the food for that.
I need to step away from Amazon!

Thank you all for the kind welcome.
I've just chucked everything that I kept for when I lose the stone I gained. And everything that is 'ok'-ish, anything I did just tolerated. Not worth selling, trust me, I've had most of them for about 10 years.
I've spent £19 enrolling me and DD on the Swimathon next year.
And £30 on a pair of slippers and dressing gown for MIL (M&S did 30% off).
I am getting a Kindle for christmas, so I'll start culling books in the new year :)

lilac it is awful. I say kid but the guy is 17. No less sad though. There haven't been any sightings now for a few days. It's awful for the family.

creme and babs stay safe.

Ipsos we went into the next town to pick up our Santa shits and race numbers for our Santa run tomorrow and it was very reasonable there too. We were commenting on how strange it seemed!

£11 in Aldi on bits and the requisite radio times :-)

Hi all, welcome newbies

So spent £7.50 on seeing Santa at the garden centre, was a whole experience though included a nice toy. Spent £5 in the coffee shop. Dd was complaining of feeling sick so came home early, hoping she is o.kay as still saying she feels sick.

we went into the next town to pick up our Santa shits

hope you were wearing gloves [santa]

Whata Sant shits??

Yes girlie, they are reindeer droppings

glad I don't have to pick up Santa shits.

Dh is being a twat. He said (after saying he would pay) I would have to use the joint account for the Indian. I said no we don't have any spare money in it and he said 'well I can pay but it just means you'll get one less Christmas present'. Nob. We aren't getting on very well atm

Santa shits

Oh no spotty [hugs]]]

It's christmas spotty, a lot of people are stressed out.

What a meanie, Spotty!

Him I mean, not you

Suits! Santa suits! Bah I give up on my typing.

Spotty what a meanie. Coal for his stocking.

Love the reindeer picture!
Very spendy day today but I had a bit of luck. Had a massage this morning, I already had a £10 voucher but then they had a fuse blow during it. Didn't affect me really except the relaxing music went off, I wouldn't have dreamt of complaining but they knocked off another 15%.
Also spent £30 on two more Xmas gifts, £3 parking and £6 on soft play and a drink. Going out for food on Monday and work Xmas do next week too so really need some NSDs. Starting to feel slightly panicky about money despite Xmas savings. DH should be getting a pay rise this month but they haven't told him how much, it might just be £20 or something! Already thinking about frugal aims for 2016.

I was reading the thread thinking "Santa shits? What the heck!" Santa suits!!

spotty Hope you guys sort it out.

I made pizza dough earlier so having a huge homemade pizza for tea. DH and I are going to watch a bit of TV then play Xbox Trivial Pursuit we haven't played it for years and we always have such a laugh!

Is anybody else stressing about the last week of term? Ds has nativity play and carol concert and class party and class Christmas lunch and we've already had the Christmas fair. I wish we could just get snow a foot deep and shut the school for the whole last week of term. Then we could still go and see all the kids, but just play in the snow for the whole week, instead of having all this "organised fun" tortuous social tension.

One event/day at a time, ipsos. No wonder you're overwhelmed if you think of it altogether.

Yes ipsos! Dd has had Christmas fair, four performances of her play, next week she has panto, christingle, Christmas lunch and ds has his nativity and Christmas party. Oh and it's dh's birthday! I'm feeling ok about it though thanks to the pills

I've now spent so much money over the past few months on picking up cheap but nice presents from charity shops that I might as well just have blown it on something really extravagant !!