Fluffys frugaleer thread. All welcome.

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Warm here also and Im wearing boots and leggings! oh and acami under dress and a cashmere cardi..
Think i should have looked out of the window... mind you our office is generally freezing * (when it isnt boiling) v large single glazed windows

2 hours sunny goodness! Good luck there!

Good luck with exam meadow
Em do flats sell easily where you are, how does the restrictions on residency type of properties affect your sale?

We dont have any here but lots of people ( inc some local councillors) wish we did!

Im going to a seminar on my retirement options this morninh! It seems so strange to think i may actually do it this year. Ive worked pretty much f/t since i was 16!! Hell, thats 43years!

Cag I looked online and it turns out that there's a book I can read to learn the content of the seminar instead, so I've ordered it on Amazon prime and I'm going to spend the morning in the bath instead. Much better idea.

Sounds like a good plan sunny!

I'm getting very confused by tax credits. It seems I don't qualify for the 'normal' disability premium, but we may qualify for the 'severe' disability premium. Ah well DH has reported the change so will just see what they say I suppose!

Heck looks like i do need to retire, got to seminar only to find its actually on tomorrow! Duh!

laska

LOL! That rocks Laska. I did that for a big party last year too.

Just had a very nice bath. Baths are so great.

Hope your exam has gone well meadow sorry not checked in here early enough to wish you luck.
em thats a right pain. Hopefully a new better buyer very soon. V good news about the mortgage.

Spent my morning cutting 2.5 inch squares for the quilt background. The rotary cutter rocks. Why did no body tell me about these years ago stamps foot, glares at scissors

love your dd2 is right in the terrible two's isn't she! It passes, drink tea, and have lots of chocolate. For me dd1 was more like terrible 1.5-4's, by far my worst tantrum-er. Nothing she can ever throw at me now will be as bad as the 1.5 hour stand off in B&Q, the big warehouse one in gateshead when it had just opened, my god her screams echoed round that place. Thank goodness camera phones hadn't been invented then! cag is right, we have all been there!

laksa it shouldn't affect anything if I'm honest. As long as people are allowed properties they can buy.

It's a pain but we'll get there.

£27 in next on blue boy onesies and blue boy hats. (0-3 months) and £16 in jojo maman Bebe on a blue monkey onesie (dhs choice).

I'm signing up to newsletters/discounts for all the "fancy" baby stores (white co, jojo, joules, boden etc) so when the sales come at the end of summer....bam. Can buy stuff. Yay!

sunny agree. Baths are the best. Loads of bubbles a book and the radio. And maybe a wine or a gin. Pre pregnancy obviously.

Yes lonely I am so hoping this is a short terrible two phase! She woke us and DD1 up at midnight yelling. She has also worked out how to wind up DD1 so it is lucky if we can have five minutes of peace when they are both home. I try really hard not to pander to bad behaviour but when you are in public it is just so embarrassing

Trying to be frugal (and get DD2 to nap) I went for a drive to find where the free parking is near the train station. It's about a ten minute walk each way but will save £4.50. I just need to leave home earlier in the morning . But now the weather is getting better I really should save the £s

£40 in Tesco. Got lots of reduced items for tonight dinner. Need to do two meals as DP will be home late and too tired to do anything apart from chicken and chips for DC. We're having posh very reduced finest pasta.

I love a bath. I just like the silence and peace and quiet

Totally agreed about baths Em. Pregnancy baths are even better as the baby wakes up and does lots of kicking and prancing around. Post-pregnancy baths trickier.

I just wrote a grant proposal, which I'm actually planning to submit. This is new for me. I have 7 days to polish it.

Thanks all. Four hour exam was ok. Wrote two essays and a problem question answer, my hand/fingers are proper achey now from all the writing and I'm soo tired...debating whether to nap or not. Have to go to work for a couple of hours this evening too.

Just 5 exams left now...

Cag Sunny and whoever's DD is ill too, hope you are all feeling better soon .

Well done meadow. Four hours is a long time. You almost need a lunch break in that.

Well done meadow, that's a long exam! Both of my DC have started this week, one GCSE's and one AS levels. Luckily they are pretty chilled about exams and I try to keep it as low key as possible too. Helps that we did it all last year, poor first born children do get so much focus and pressure inadvertently.

Been a busy and expensive day.

$34 Physio, hamstring fine, my hip flexors don't work properly, lots of exercises to help them fire up but I can run again! (Won't do 3 Peaks though).
$ 54 Boots.
$ 60 M&S.
$250 various bits for the house, some prints for the spare bedroom and a cool mirror.
$10 exercise for me and DD later.

Ps - new keyboard does not appear to have a pound sign, we haven't emigrated.

You feeling any better life?

love I remember those tantrum days well, it does get better!
lonely what quilt are you making? Rotary cutters are indeed fab. I bought a couple of fat quarters today. I have a huge fabric stash already but can't help myself
Well done on the exam meadow and good luck for the rest.
Cag and wreck hope you're feeling better soon

Took mum to ikea today and managed not to buy anything for myself.
Took my sewing machine in to the shop I bought it from and have got it unjammed and been shown what I was doing wrong and how to stop it happening again. Frugal win, no charge. Having said that, I did then buy the aforementioned fabrics so not brilliantly frugal.
Had a PT session this morning which was really tough but good.
Leftover curry from last night for dh & I tonight. Chicken fajitas for the dc.
Have had a very busy but lovely few days off, not looking forward to going back to work tomorrow.

Omg, I have just fucked up fairly badly. I thought I was supposed to be in work at 6.30pm but then just after I woke up from my nap was re-reading the e-mail from my manager which says the meeting is at 5pm [blush[. And evidently I am not there!! Had to send my manager a grovelly apologetic e-mail blaming exam stress and whatnot . Woops...how embarrassing. Never done that before.

My exams are so long because I get 25% extra time because of dyslexia and my anxiety disorder. So for everyone else it would have been like 3 and a quarter hours but gets even longer for me. I used all my extra time today though so thank goodness I get it or I wouldn't have finished the exam in time. But yes, it is a very long time, I get absolutely zonked by the end of it. Luckily I am allowed to eat in my exams because of my reflux (as it gets worse/more painful when hungry) otherwise I would be starving!

Need Good luck to your DC. I know what you mean as I'm the eldest of three! But my dad is super pushy about academic things, used to stress us out a lot when we were younger. I know it's only because he wants to us to do well but it's counterproductive. My mam is dead chill though. She still says "well if you do fail, then you just re-sit it. So what?" haha.

Ah, I see meadow, my DF was the same with all 3 of us. I was the youngest, so he made it my responsibility to 'beat' my DB's grades. He was thinking he was doing his best but it was an extremely pressurising thing to do and did no favours, even if it did work. I love him to bits though, he did the vast majority of parenting really well and protected me from my DM to a bigger degree than I realised at the time.

Hope you get to work okay, or not.

£25 weekly bus pass and £2 Greggs.

Glad the exam seems to have gone well, Meadow. Best of luck to your DC too, Need. $$$

My mums keyboard doesn't have a £ sign either Need I think you have to press another key at the same time or something!!

NSD so far but am about to go out and make the most of some child free time meeting up with a friend for some food.

Its chucking it down here and has been all day, good for the garden!!

Still feeling grim but not as grim need.
Good luck finding a new buying em and with the exam season meadow and ask DC.

£1.62 on savoury rice.

Am reading I promise.