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Springing into the New Year with the 2017 Frugaleers
CathodeRayTube · 30/12/2016 17:42
That's fair enough, Need.
Have you done all that on only an hour's sleep?
Yep Creme. In fairness, so has DH and he's gone out with the dogs now too. The house was , but it's all clean and lovely and sorted again now. We've done NYE for 3 out of 4 years now, it's someone else's turn next year, as fun as it was!
Hamsters make great pets cath 
dd has one and its been brilliant, requires minimal input but provides lots of fun!! As much as I love my cats I wouldn't get another one, we have had no luck and both of them have health problems.
Had a nice day so far, house starting to come together. Tree and decoration are down and have found places for most of the Christmas stuff.
Need you are a super star, on an hours sleep I would be a zombie there is def no right way to parent! Blimey I have made so parenting fails I could write a book on them dd still seems to have turned out alright so must be doing something right i guess 
Wow, Need, make sure you have a relaxing evening and day tomorrow. 
Need you're amazing I'm seriously struggling on about four hours sleep plus a very short nap this morning.
Lunch was nice and I had a glass of wine which sorted out my dizziness
Dh is working tomorrow but we're just going to stay at home as I don't want to be tempted to spend any money, might go for a walk.
Can't wait for bed.
I'm not amazing, I'll flag later, or tomorrow. I'm quite energetic though to be fair, DH is the same. We are not good at sitting still.
Cath you can hold them, let them run all over you and put them in a ball to run around the house. Quite fun. We had a rabid hamster once 
that wasn't so fun.
I bloody love guinnea pigs!
cath I think I dipped in and out before but yes I suppose I seriously joined in this time last year.
The 52 small thinga are designed to basically fulfill the resolution of "being healthy". But broken down into small manageable chunks.
The idea being you make one small change in week one (more water) then in week 2 you do whatever week twos change is (from memory I think it's multivitamins) as well as the previous week(s).
I bought the book from Amazon.
I had two glasses of fizz, about an entire bucket of water and a glass of white wine. Probably an entire turkey and some Christmas pudding. Yay! Oh and prawns and smoked salmon. Yummy. Feeling much less hungover and much more sleepy.
May have had a nap at the parents on the couch.
Home now. On bed. With a water and a camomile tea. Going to take make up off in a bit and maybe watch some Netflix before Sherlocks on.
Washing is in the machine in readyness for tomorrow.
We are de-christmassing tomorrow 
Really looking forward to "Sherlock" too, although BC has hinted it might be the last series.
I'm torn between taking my tree down tomorrow or keeping with tradition and waiting until the 6th. I've already got rid of my cards, but I love my little tree and lights.
thewaitresses I've been same since starting frugaleering. Spending more on essentials and less on other stuff. It's really made life a lot easier for me. Getting a loop electricity monitor really helped me as I realised that a lot of the machines that make my life easier don't actually use that much electricity.
I was just thinking that I'd like to deChristmas too. 
Em That's nice that I'm remembering correctly-ish about your arrival. I get the strong feeling that you are a long way closer to your goals than you were this time last year, from my memory of your posts a year ago and now. Just wanted to say well done and I hope that the fun starts soon for you. I'm kind of hoping that I am closer to my goals too, but it's harder to see when I'm so close to the action.
Cath dd gets the hamster out a few times a week and just holds her or lets her have a little run around, we have been lucky with her as she is really tame (hamster not dd ) Gerbils are good as well, you need a decent sized tank as they like to dig tunnels and they like to live in pairs. They are really low maintenance pets, they need cleaning out every couple of weeks, food and water and thats about it.
Planning on putting dd to bed soon as she is seriously flagging!! I'm in my pjs already as well
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Nsd yippee. Probably the only one this year
Sounds fab party need. Early night for you tonight. Were the pies as nice as they looked.
We de Christmased yesterday but the garage is such a mess. Recycling goes Tuesday also will do a tip run then. Need to properly box up the decorations and store in the attic.
Then I can put the book case back in the house and go through the books.
There are loads of toys in there too that the dc have grown out of. I keep meaning to car boot but never get round to it. I either need to actually do one or charity shop it as I don't have time for eBay.
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