The Mighty Frugaleers Meticulously March into March

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New thread. Sorry for lame title

Christmas We're in a similar position. Three bed semis with a small garden in our street go for £650k in less than a month. One of my favourite hobbies is looking on rightmove and dreaming about what we could swap for. We always end up staying for jobs though.

I totally agree that getting into a community early on is good. Ds is nearly 7 and it would be very hard to move from his friends.

I like where I live as well, sunny Somerset, close to the countryside, beaches but also to some lovely cities (Bristol, Exeter, Bath) best of all worlds - you should all move here

Its been a beautiful day here, I sat in the garden this afternoon and read the paper! Made it into town and spent £15 in Wilkos on various toiletries and some garden bits. Spent £54 in Morrisons thats the first food shop i have done in two weeks though plus got a few cleaning bits.

Dd was in a right grump after school

Lovely pics need and polka

Blue I have a friend who traded in the south of England for NI. We were all totally speechless when we saw the house she bought. I still am tbh. It's like an estate. Their photos of their Christmas tree and presents are like a John Lewis advert every year too.

Girlie I have had all of DS's bedding and some towels dried on the line today. First time this year.

Pre-teens approach

knitting I am obsessed with Strava at the minute

I'd definitely go for a move pre baby if you can. Moving house is stressful enough at the best of times never mind with a tiny baby. We're a 20-30 minute drive to the coast and I wouldn't want to be any further away. I lived for 10 years in Plymouth & got used to being on or close to the coast.

Have had a very busy day today. Went for a swim first thing, then into town to pick up a couple of things. Had my last counselling session this morning & left feeling v positive. Had lunch with my cousin (she paid). She is also a physio and is setting up in private practice. She has asked me to consider working some hours with her. It's a bit unexpected but very exciting. I would do it alongside my NHS work for now & see how it goes. It goes so against the grain for me having worked in the nhs for 25 years but the way things are going I think you have to be prepared to broaden your horizons. She already has a company & would deal with all the business aspects. We would be doing elderly rehab, neuro & respiratory work as nhs physio services in these areas are increasingly being rationed. Exciting times!

Back down to earth with a bang, it's a cricket club committee meeting tonight, should be low spend though, just a couple of diet cokes for me.

North I have a few friends doing private physio - 4 days NHS, one day private with a plan to step up if all goes well - seems to be working out well!

Ipsos i would imagine if they sold something in SE england to move back here they will have been able to afford something stunning. Our 5 bed semi with garage and a v large garden was £106k. My friend in London recently bought an ex-council 3 bed mid terrace with no garden, out buildings or offstreet parking for a cool half a million. You cant really compare. Thing is you have to want to live here, otherwise what does the price of the housing matter? They are happy to pay the going rate as they love London

Must be something in the air girlie we've got a grumpy one too tonight. Did you know I'm the worst mum ever because I always cook food she hates? (Pasta bake tonight)

Got one of those here too, apparently there's no food in the house, and obviously I could pay for gourmet burgers in a nearby restaurant, I'm just being mean in refusing to give her money that I don't fecking have

Pilates was 40, tutor had to cancel a class last week.

I enjoyed living in Bristol, Girlie, but I prefer life oop north tbh. I don't think I could get used to all of the rain in the South West again, which is also something I wouldn't like if I ever moved back to Ireland.

Spends: £25.20 on my day out. I'm on my way back home from a full day out by myself. I used to do this weekly or fortnightly, but it's months since I last did it, so I've really enjoyed it.

I don't exactly love London - I'm glad I lived here for a bit pre-children and got to enjoy the city then but I am not really making the most of it these days anyway! It's not the city itself that keeps me here, it's always been the friends we've made. However, that becomes less true over time as many have moved away for the good life elsewhere. I suspect for the next few years we will be stuck here because of DS's school support provision. If that turns out well we won't be going anywhere as it is a fragile balance!

My spiritual home is probably a naice market town (like Petersfield, Wreck - that sounds lovely!). Or Oxford (I guess Cambridge is similar). I lived in Oxford for 8 years and still miss it.

I love Yorkshire. I'm a country girl but dh prefers the sea. We are within driving distance of both. Our town is sometimes criticised but I like it.

Definitely try and move first. My best friend's here are through the DC.

I have lived by the sea all of my life both in England and ROI and now I am in the middle of the country and couldn't be further from the sea. I really miss it as my last house was on the seafront with nothing between us and the sea ( well just some grass and sand)
Spendy day, £45 on deisel( and chocolate), then tea with friends and eggs.

Were the eggs good company! 😊

Love talking about houses, just watched that build a house for £100,000. Dream.

Spent £6 out for lunch.

All.

Friend paid for training tonight, but I will pay for next week.

Interesting, it seems there is only one northerner here (as in north England)? DH and I are both from Merseyside but now live in Leicester, but we will be relocating back to Merseyside in summer. I will miss Leicester as I do really like it here but there's no place like home for me, and most importantly we both really miss having family and friends close by (most of our closest friends still live in Merseyside and all of DH's family as well as my parents and siblings). Plus not that Leicester is an expensive city but Merseyside is even cheaper (well, most of it)!

Busy day here, up to my ears in cake as dd3 is 9 tomorrow. Am trying a rainbow cake. Its psychedelic! Will post pic tomorrow. 3 dozen buns for her school class (34 with teacher, ds has only 19, so our class sizes vary wildly).

meadow I'm very much up north, we're 25 miles from scotland. But I grew up in cornwall.

I moved here 9 years and 3 days ago, with a 3 day old. Not to be advised!! But I was so glad I had her before, as the bump was a right pain. I had help from my parents and sister (she pulled a blinder actually, cleaned my old huge house as we emptied it), but god it was hard!

need are you collecting QOM's? I have a few local ones, and get unreasonably cross when I lose one, to a young fit girl usually. I need to get out on my bike...

Went into town today, got dd3 a swimming bag, and dd1 a new school bag (strap failure), and £16 in wilkos on some garden bits and another pressie. I can't quite believe that my beautiful littlest girl who I changed my life for will be 9 today (has rolled over midnight), she is one of my best decisions!

There are a few of us in the North meadow. Creme and I are in the North East.

LSD yesterday £4 fitness

Today will be £3 beavers.

Morning all! First night back home wasn't really a frugal one, DH went out for various things we realised we needed for the babies and a takeaway pizza.
Very little sleep, I'd forgotten about all the guesswork involved with newborns and the fact that they always feed, fall asleep and then fill their nappy! Eventually got them both to sleep at 5.40, DD1 got up at 6!
DH had just taken her to nursery and is going to buy some fruit and stuff for me.
I totally missed the budget. Anything I should know?

North I would definitely give that private practice idea a good think. With the NHS so underfunded just now, the only way we've been able to get medical treatment at all is going private and we couldn't do that if the medics weren't doing it. I'm even seeing a private GP now.

Blue If that's what the prices are then it's not surprising they're happy to live there. The thing is, there comes a time when the economics of it just make sense doesn't there? It's similar with my home town in Scotland. We could swap our detached house here for a mansion house at home, or many many acres of woodland and a normal house. Economics is weird.

Trying I used to live by the sea too. I loved the changing weather and constantly different view. I can see why you miss it.

Snuggly If you're wondering about the budget, you're doing very well. I hope you get some sleep soon. Take care x.

We are fogged in today. My planned spends today are:

Light bulbs for living room area
Post box of bils stuff to him
Buy sparkling water/lemonade.

A friend is coming over for the evening for pizza and catch up.

I have a dilemma. In December I ordered a new watch from an online place. (The cat watch). It didn't arrive. So I complained. They resent and gave me a tracker for dhl which didn't work. I called dhl who advised it didn't match their trackers. I complained to co again. And after a week of no response had enough so started a dispute via PayPal.

I had a card through yesterday for a missed delivery which I think may be my watch. I'm going to collect it today. But do I cancel the dispute? It has taken them almost 3 months to send it to me. And communication has been shocking (and I don't think they sent it in the first place...)

Hi all
app has logged me out and I don't remember my password - am auto logged in on work pc.

Will catch up with you guys soon.
But just wanted to say how grateful I am for this thread and taking a subscription out to ynab last April. Yesterday I filled my car with diesel & intended putting it on my fuel card, however the station is undergoing renovations and the fuel card machine wasn't working, it wasn't an issue as I knew I'd money in my car tax category(due end Oct) to fund the diesel and was able to pay with my debit card.

I spent £98.54 on saucepans yesterday. Actually this exact set which is now costing £213.98 on amazon today I paid for it using €50 birthday voucher, €25 voucher we got for Christmas and balance of €38 was from vouchers dh got as part of his bonus at Christmas.

Our last set was purchased when we moved into house Christmas 2008, hopefully these ones will last as long.

Going to IKEA tomorrow, it's a 3 hour drive so this is a rare occurence. My list so far Bag clips, rubber utensils(to protect my new saucepans), some plastic storage boxes for dd's lego.

ziploc bags because theirs are brilliant quality and some cloth storage bags also.

Ouch, Snuggly! DS was firmly nocturnal as well. Until he was 12 weeks, 2 a.m. was the earliest he would sleep (he used to cluster feed from 9/10 p.m. until then); sometimes it was 4, 5 or even 6 a.m. As I never went to bed before midnight or 1 before he was born, it wasn't TOO bad at the time, but if you are used to earlier hours and have an older child too...