Frugaleers chatting and saving even further into August...

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Just setting up the new thread for the chatty Frugaleers.

Useful links copied from last year:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/other_subjects/1324074-For-those-who-cant-afford-to-use-central-heating-this-year-How-are-you-going-to-cope

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/credit_crunch/1543785-your-top-tips-for-money-saving-and-a-more-frugal-life

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/credit_crunch/1600030-Small-money-saving-habits-petty-even

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/credit_crunch/1628874-Gas-Elec-Bills-monthly-and-SKY-so-angry

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1911061-NO-MORE-COLD-MUMSNETTERS

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2209167-Slow-Cookers-are-shit

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2224969-saving-money

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_money_matters/2258202-Debt-mutual-support-thread-number-6-start-the-new-year-with-a-clear-purpose-and-keep-moving-forwards-even-by-tiny-steps?

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Oh Wreck I bet you felt properly embarrassed too. You poor thing

Pleased you are ok, Wreck.

Just taken the curtains to be relined and shortened, they are looking tatty. Wish I could sew!

Well I was on my own so could wallow appropriately

Oh poor wreck get arnica on nose sharpish to avoid a black nose/eye
Sounds like a nice afternoon you've planned.
I've been to aldi Lidl & SuperValu & spent €115.57 this helps to balance out the €180 that got spent on groceries last week.
I've lots of healthy food for a great food week ahead. I've made a fresh start & lost 2lbs of 28.5lbs I've got to lose last week & hope to keep it moving now.

I'm hoping to nap when I get home but no doubt dh will have jobs planned out

Oh wreck hope you're ok!

Poor you wreck! Hope you're ok. Xx

£25 riding £39 petrol.

Visited mum and dad and they stocked me up with madelienes, biscuits, salted caramel sauce, gallettes and a couple of bottles of wine. Yay!

That all sounds lovely, Em.

Frugal win, checked my cc balance and it was £37 in credit. I don't know how that happened but I have spent it!

Le yum em

Eeek I've just spent £994 on a dining set, however that was with 20% off at a nearby Indy furniture shop. Need close your ears as I think it's one you go to as I saw mustard and nice blue checked chairs which looked similar to the ones you were talking about last year. Let me know if you want the shop name

wreck ouch!! I fall over a lot too. I blame wonky hips!

Today we spent £30 on various curtain & curtain pole bits as our blind broke. Curtains are easier for me to handle so no love lost. And it looks much nicer! We bought the curtains from The Range and I'm pleasantly surprised at how lovely the fabric is. Perfect fit too!

Also spent £1.50 on a flashy bouncy ball to bounce around indoors when it gets dark early. DS loves it. We turn off all the lights and close the curtains and burn off pre bedtime energy by chasing the colourful light up ball. Or roll up it and down the hallway. It was amazing last Autumn / Winter but we lost it. Glad we found a cheap replacement!
It's a good sensory game for babies & toddlers.

So tomorrow all I need to buy is squirty cream. Make of that what you will! Haha!

Ooh er, Collie.

Another NSD here, as it was wet and I'm broke. I painted the kitchen/diner ceiling. With a paint pad and a 2.5 inch brush. And a Tripp Trapp chair in place of a ladder. So much for pacing today, Genie. This was my first and possibly last time painting a ceiling. I was by the mess. I even managed to get paint in my hair and in one eye. I painted all of the walls in my last house, getting the teeniest bit of paint on my hands.

Dh and I have just argued over something so stupid. I said with our Christmas money this year we should buy some suitcase (9 years living together and eight ish holidays plus two planned for next year) as we always borrow from my parents which is annoying and ridiculous. He said no we should do something useful with it like put it into our car fund for when it needs work I felt like reminding him that the £200 ish we get for Christmas comes from my family and not his

We bought the pram, yai, but bye bye to lots of saving..... But the pram was reduced from 700£ to 450£ so still think I made a good deal and it includes everything so I am pleased although it's lots if money, but we will also be using it for the next 3 years so based on that the yearly spend is not that bad....

Going to have a read troughs before posting

Oh crème take it easy tonight.
Yeah Italian, sounds like a good deal and if you are pleased with it.
Oh that's a tough one wreck. Could your parents gift you the suitcases instead of money?

Italian I'm glad you got a pram

Life yes they could but Dh would know I had asked for them and he doesn't think I should. Plus I would rather buy them in the sales I think money that's a gift shouldn't be spent on fixing a broken car (unless of course we were desperate!).

I managed to have a low spend day. £1 on 7 birthday cards and £2 on a knitted hat for DH. Went to town with my mum and she insisted on paying for anything I wanted to buy so I treated her to pancakes and a coffee after. All in all def under £20 spent today which is really good for me considering it's a weekend

Creme, this is why I have given up paining walls and ceilings. I got more paint on me than the walls. And I didn't look like a good job.
Hope you are ok Wreck
Meetings all day, so NSD no.1 for September.
Lots of cooked and uncooked apples in freezer

wreck oh I wouldn't say that, especially if his family aren't as generous/don't get on as well as yours - it would be like rubbing salt in the wound. Could you compromise: half towards luggage, half in rainy day car fund?

italian How exciting to have a pram!

£109 at Aldi (that's breakfast, lunch and dinner for 6 of us for a week, plus extra for special meal tonight with drinks for parents as a thank you for my Dad for ding our flat roof). Also £10 on x2 gumshields for eldest DS as rugby season starts again tomorrow.

Thanks for the advice folks :) I do feel sorry for the girl TBH. She can't be happy if she wants to make others unhappy. Happy kids don't do that. Not that it makes it ok for her to upset my kids though! But yeah. I do wonder need if actually I should just step back completely. I haven't intervened, as like you say, DD is getting so much better at standing up for herself. She will now just tell her to stop being mean, and will walk away/come inside and, lately since we've had some new kids move in, stood up for them too. I am VERY proud of her. :) So in that sense I am happy that she's able to look after herself (while of course knowing I'm always here if she needs me). The thing I'm unsure of is whether to mention the comment to her mum, not in a keep your kid away from mine type way but more... I dunno, she just must be really unhappy and angry and maybe her mum isn't aware of what goes on (they play near our house, so she wouldn't hear it all like I do).

I don't know. Irrelevant today as we're at mum's yet again. Went to an author workshop today, a new children's writer, she was SO lovely.

I should go to bed (I think it was 8 who asked, I sometimes am up stupidly late if I forget to take my pills they're painkillers but have a sedative effect which I appear to be worryingly dependent on )

Started watching War Horse this evening, but DD wasn't settling (sigh) so I gave up. Have a feeling I will end up blubbing like a baby at it though (despite, and I'm awaiting flamings from a few certain Frugaleers, not being particularly fond of horses ).

Oh and frugal win, I was going to buy the books (through Usborne friend so reasonably cheap) by this author, but when I looked them up it turns out they're surprisingly cheap on kindle. As is another maths teaching book I need for my classes. Added bonus - no shelf space required. :)

My foot is in agony do you think I could have broken something?! It's swollen and I have two lumps on the top. Bearing mind I don't usually have any feeling in my feet....

Haha no it's ok dh's family are lovely just much smaller than mine

Can you move your ankle and toes wreck? Or put weight on it? Is it tender to touch? I would keep it elevated and maybe try putting a cold flannel/tea towel on it - I would normally say ice, but not if you have sensory issues in your foot. If it's no better in the morning, might be worth a trip to the minor injuries unit.

I feel like I was being very dramatic now it's still painful but not as bad it really was agony last night. I had a really horrible dream too.

Today will be a nsd.

I should get the gp to look at it. wreck.
I have never been brave enough to watch War Horse, Cag, still haven't got over the trauma of Black Beauty as a child!
Plan for today is to do another coat of paint on my curtain rails, possibly use a 2 for 1 voucher for lunch at the garden centre and buy some bulbs then come back and do a but of garden tidying/bulb planting.
I slept a lot better last night thanks to the advice you gave me yesterday so hopefully I'll have a bit more energy today.

collie Where is the ball from? Is it soft? Would be fab for our kids.

Iswym wreck. No point in causing another argument. I hate gifted money going for things like the car too.
Put something cold on your foot and rest it wreck. Can you take ibuprofen?

Cag I would leave it with the kids. Sounds like they are wising up to her and the mum may not be happy if you say owt.

Fil is still in hospital so £2.60 car park and at at baptism before so £15 or 20 in the card