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I can't think of a witty title, so here is July's Frugaleer Thread! All welcome.

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Cagliostro · 12/07/2016 08:07

Hello :)

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Ememem84 · 15/07/2016 06:29

Have just woken up and seen the news. I don't think any of you are in Nice, but if you are stay safe.

I've had a text from dm - who were going to France with tomorrow. She's wondering now if we should go. Bloody terrorists.

Git home at 9.30 last night and went straight to bed. Completely shattered. Free prosecco was the highlight of my day. Meeting new clients meant I had to be all smiles all day. Absolutely exhausting. Still it was a day out of the office.

£35 on train tickets but will expense it back.

babsmam · 15/07/2016 06:33

It's awful isn't it em

lilacclery · 15/07/2016 06:56

My second job earned me €37.50 in class I'm giving up and €2.50 in the one I'm giving up this week spent my €2.50 wisely on a quarter bottle of red wine in Lidl Grin

Fluffycloudland77 · 15/07/2016 07:12

italian Crystals of salts?

I haven't read the news yet but Dh has, it was the IRA we feared when I was young.

Ememem84 · 15/07/2016 07:17

It's so so sad. It does make me a bit more nervous travelling now. But what do we do? Stop enjoying our lives and live in fear? No. That's exactly what "they" want.

ItalianWiking84 · 15/07/2016 08:16

Em; it's so horrible. Been to nice many times, and feel for them. Wonderful place and I always gets so sad when so many innocent lives are taken. I just don't get it Sad
But if we stop going, they'll win and I'm not going to live my life like that. But still, so sad so sad...
Fluffy; my parents didn't dare to go to Ireland when younger because they are Catholic and Protestant married together, luckily in Denmark it's never been an issue, just like luckily nobody even comments on the fact that dh and me are different nationalities and religions. My midwife even told me that our dds genes will be stronger because of the mix, yai...

Just googled crystals of salt and yes exactly what I meant, thanks. Learned a new English word today Flowers

lilacclery · 15/07/2016 08:20

My brother's wife doesn't watch/listen/read any news at all, he's complete opposite he's addicted, apps on his phone, listens every hour on radio, reads paper, watches it on tv. She's constantly coming up with bargain holidays to Turkey/Tunisia etc to the point he's told her not to mention flying anywhere unless she's looked at the news Grin

Like fluffy it was the IRA we used to be scared of too from the news when we were young

Fluffycloudland77 · 15/07/2016 08:21

You write English so well italian, no one would know it's your second language.

Food shop today. Hate food shopping.

DontLetMeLetYouGo · 15/07/2016 08:25

Work haven't paid me correctly even though I spent half morning on phone to them yesterday. Fuming :(

AdoraBell · 15/07/2016 08:51

Sounds like my ILs lilac, and yes, we can't give in to them and stay at home. I am a tad nervous though, going to France soon and we are taking a teenager
from Chile, via the Middle East. Her parents trust us to keep her safe, but how can I guarantee it?

Anyway, glad you are happy in your new home Girlie and hope the Internet gets sorted PDQ.

Italian your English is extremely good.

today should be another NSD.

AdoraBell · 15/07/2016 08:53

Posted too soon, Don't can you fume on the phone to them? Hope it gets rectified quickly.

Fluffycloudland77 · 15/07/2016 09:06

dont Ask for a FPI payment or immediate bacs. The NHS did this to a colleague of mine who was a lp with two kids.

Don't give up, they have to dread you phoning so much they put the payment through just to get rid of you.

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Cagliostro · 15/07/2016 09:14

Just ugggh at the news. WTF is going on. Angry :(

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DontLetMeLetYouGo · 15/07/2016 09:25

Apparently I'll recieve it in the bank this afternoon. No idea what I've been taxed or anything. Part payment went through last night, additional coming this afternoon. So I'll ring again later and query this.

I don't need the money but it should be there anyway.

ipsogenix · 15/07/2016 09:42

Trying I had forgotten about the library challenge. I must do that too. Smile

blue that's good to know about patio prices. They seem to be very variable.

The attack in Nice is really nasty isn't it? I lived in Paris as a child and there were constant bomb threats and evacuations, but never any actual bombs. This new stuff is not good at all.

needastrongone · 15/07/2016 09:45

Heart breaking again for France. Those poor people and that devastated country again.

This is as much an attack on western values than it is on human life. It's an attack on liberty, democracy and freedom. I will continue to live my life without fear. I won't ever teach my kids to live in fear, I would feel that I had failed them if that were the case. And the bastards would have won then.

needastrongone · 15/07/2016 09:47

Hopefully today should be a LSD.

I went to a friends Norwex party last night. Cleaning products without chemicals of any sort. I bought a window cloth at £12, which was the cheapest thing there....

Fluffycloudland77 · 15/07/2016 10:07

Everything's chemicals though......for £12 it had better be a totes amazeballs cloth.

needastrongone · 15/07/2016 10:16

That's the thing!! You just use water, no chemicals. It's the micro fibres in the cloth that pick up the dirt. They have a cloth for surfaces, one for dusting, one for windows etc, but essentially the same idea. Then just few products. Like the washing powder for £45, that lasts months and months and has no fillers at all in in (apparently there's glass in detergent...). Brill for any type of allergy, no chemicals etc.

I don't have my wonderful cloth yet, I will tell you all about it when I get it...bet you can't wait....

ipsogenix · 15/07/2016 10:47

I use e-cloths need They're the same deal. They work really well.

Fluffycloudland77 · 15/07/2016 11:27

Do you really believe washing powder has glass in it? Or would it be silica? Which is really abundant like carbon.

You're a bit too rational for all this Need. We're made of chemicals, I've used a shed load of potassium and sodium up just telling my fingers to type this.

Toberich · 15/07/2016 11:32

Hi seeing as I'm on this post can I just interject on the comments relating to Ireland by Italian. Sectarian prejudice really only ever existed (or exists) in small parts of Northern Ireland - a separate country to the Republic of Ireland in the south. Northern Ireland is part of the U.K. , Ireland ie the south is a republic & there is no religious prejudice (to the extent that that can be said of any civilised tolerant society). That's all I have to say on it as being from the south it's not within my experience to comment further on the issues within the North.

needastrongone · 15/07/2016 11:34

Fluffy The irony in my posts has not been coming through this morning. She lost me when she said there were thousands of untested chemicals released in cleaning products in America every year, the cloth was the cheapest thing I could find to buy... Smile

ipsogenix · 15/07/2016 11:35

It's odd, but in the last two weeks our grocery shopping bill has fallen by 30%, purely because I was so engrossed in the news that I forgot to go food shopping. I ended up scraping together all sorts of meals on the fly and it seemed to go okay. Not totally sure that ds was impressed at the constant sliced-ham and oven chip diet though.

Fluffycloudland77 · 15/07/2016 11:37

Oh thank god I thought you'd gone over to the tin hat brigade & I'd have to stage an intervention.