Frugaleers March On!

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Hi All,
New thread time. I hope you all see this and join in. Newbies are always very welcome too.

Aw, that's great, Fuzz. Really pleased for you and your family . Sounds like things are looking up for you too, Collie.

Spends: £7 bus ticket, £1 kitchen roll and £2.50 in Greggs, on water and a takeaway coffee. I really fancied one this morning, for some reason.

Fuzz I am so pleased for you all. I hope horrid boss regrets his actions.

Lila That's brilliant, can you overpay a little bit? Even £30 a month can knock loads off. Dh is at me over paying £30 a month but it knocks a year off the term.

Lots of cash incentives to switch bank accounts about, Yorkshire is offering £150!.

£20 top up shop.

Made £5 nectar voucher on e rewards and £3 Amazon voucher from swag bucks.

Em at your boobies! I now have visions of you looking like 'boob woman' in The Simpsons movie.

I've concocted tonight a pasta bake using mushrooms, leeks, loads of garlic, onion, cream, cheese, balsamic vinegar and smoked mackerel. It's in the oven now.

Shattered tonight.

Yum, Need, although I'll have mine without the mackerel, please. Macaroni and spinach cheese and garlic bread here. I made it last night, so just need to stick it in the oven when I can be bothered to get off the sofa now. There was cake and lots of those mini flapjacks/tiffins/cakes going at work today!

need haha!! Booberella???!!!! Hahahahaha pretty accurate description actually

Also spent £4 on socks from new look. Life is not all fancy lingerie not fancy just basics and came from the fancy shop

Waiting for dh to come home and am currently indulging in a glass of wine and have Tim minchin on in the background. Makes me giggle.

Load of washing done. Two loads of washing up done. Sandwiches made for tomorrow (Peri peri chicken, spinach leaves, cucumber, grated cheese and mayo).

Am so happy tomorrow is Friday.

Scratch that need. I just looked up boob lady. Not even close.

I thought you meant Booberella. This is close.

Bahaha! Hilarious

Just had a chicken korma tray bake. Was absolutely lovely. Used up some tortilla wraps too so it was more like a chicken korma burrito.

Fluffy in theory we should be able to keep up the payments we've been making but as we have other debt with interest it would make more sense to put it against that or to use it to save for a fuel refill of €800 which we just don't seem to be managing & is due soon.

great news fuzz :D better times are on the way.

did the easster shop, bought far too much but i do enjoy the hunts and so do the kids, now they are getting older Im so glad theyve wanted to carry it on and what they get lasts a long time, got a couple of pound eggs, some of those egg and spoons (cheapest place asda at £1.50 a pack) some gummy sweets and a couple of american things from habs, they are obsessed with american sweets lately.

am looking forward to a chilled out easter with sweets, films and a roast :) dp has booked easter sunday off work which im happy about he hasnt had a sunday off in ages.

Am vvvvcross Water bill comes today with next years payment schedule and I am in credit from last year.. so Southern water have decided to put my Direct debit UP???!! (by £7 a month)

They will be getting a VERY irate phone call tomorrow bastards

NSD today..
Now to read back..

Just remembered dd has to dress up next Friday for sport relief (sports theme obv) any ideas??

Hey you lot, just catching up.

I have boob envy em mine are pretty pathetic really although it does make buying bras fairly straight forward! Those sandwiches sound amazing mine are always cheese and marmite

Fuzz amazing well done to your dh, really pleased for you all.

I have had such a busy day and am completely knackered! Dd had a fab time in London, loved the museum but has come back with a sore throat and a weird red rash all over one hand seriously hoping its tiredness induced and tomos she will be fine

I worked all day and then had to take boy cat back to the vets, they did a blood test and also a spot blood test which gave a fairly conclusive result of diabetes. The vet did say that we might be able to manage it just with diet though and avoid injections but they will await the blood test results before deciding a plan. Another £46, will take the insurance forms in next week as already gone over the excess.

My mum bought over a m&s dinner which was very nice of her I still need to hoover, put washing away and put another lot of washing out if any of you know any single eligible rich men send them my way please

laska I am expecting South West Water to do that too. Greedy gits!

Northender I m on OVO (good aint they?) .. I didnt know they did smart meters .. I wonder if they do them in our area.. I will look,

Congratulations fuzzpigsDH thats great , at least some of the pressure will be off for you now. I hope he is happier than at the last place.. (and his dreadful last boss regrets losing him).

I need a new bank account , it has to be a joint one ( so the good TSB option is out, I dont want to pay a fee so Santander 123 is out , and it must pay interst..

it will be our first ever joint account!! ( in the 23yrs we have been together) when Dh finishes work , we want to have a House and joint expenses account which we will both pay into ,It will be a second account.. he currently banks at barclays and me with the co op..

Any ideas? it cant be the co op .. though (my preffered option,)and I have a fundemental 'leftie' objection to banking with barclays.. as in his mispent yoof touring with bands etc.. DH was a very naughty boy he says and and may still owe them money (sigh).. He is fine now, much better with money than me and a really serious saver .. (id like to point out that I am not married to a successful rockstar sadly..)

We need a Current account that is.

collie I am seething..

Ill go and look at M&S .. think ( I remember a recommend for that earlier)

Another thing is I dont want my salary to be paid into it , but just use it as second account but to set up all the house DDs from it .. I will transfer my half of the household expenses money for DDs, food and household savings ( probably about 600 each month) and Dh will do the same.. we will both need access

I already have savings accounts with the co op which i use so want to keep all that..Am I over complicating things, do you think..? are they likely to take us on as new customers and allow us to have debit cards straight away ? (last time i asked about this , they (santander I think) said wed have to wait for several months to get debit cards..) no good then

Girlie you can have some of my excess boobage anyday. Ive always hated my Ds.. ( want nice Bs or even As..) it must be so nice not to have to bother with thick traps or sodding wires that dig in ..and be able to wear nice little strappy dresses and triangle bikini tops.,

The very first thing I do when I get home each day is fling the horrible effing bra off! (ive even been known to take it off in the car on the way home!!)

I know.... we always want what we havent got .. )

I've never waited ages for cards for any bank accounts and I think we had 4 bank swaps last year with me changing from M&S to Halifax to Yorkshire, then swapping co op to nationwide.

I've just swapped nationwide back to co op & Yorkshire to hsbc.

I don't really have any views on banks though, I assume their all bastards to deal with.

I checked how much our water DD would be, £38. We only use £20 a month.

Yum, frozen banana + milk = a really nice (frugal + healthy) milkshake / scoffs

Laska first direct are brilliant. I'm like fluffy though and a bank hussy - change every year to get the best deal

Hoping for nsd off to work in a sec.

Yay fuzz.

I got a temporary promotion yesterday happy dance
I will have to go near enough full time though for it sad dance
Exhausted from the roller coaster and didn't sleep well

I'm with smile and they are fine
Yeah collie dh too.

Will probably have to buy cake today. Can't summons up the whatsit to make one before school

Congratulations babs.

I like nationwide for current accounts. The Happyfax are one I would avoid like the plague

Put in an online shopping order last night for next Wednesday, lots of work travel next week which I'm not looking forward to

Well done Babs.

Congrats babs