May we continue our furious frugaleering into June : )

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Good luck again meadow. Nearly done!

Meadow I like the skirt but you asked first

Should be a nsd. Going to schools near the best beach around today. I'm going to be grumpy I can't go for a paddle. Can't even sit on it for lunch as parking is £7.

meadow good luck again!! Smash those exams! Xx

Best night sleep ever. A friend gave me her preggo pillow and I tested it out last night. Full body "u" shaped pillow. Omg I have never felt so contained and comfy while I slept. I may continue to use it after baby forever

And catface was quiet. Yay!!!

Just popping into wish you lots of luck for today meadow

Good luck Meadow. Laws worth it in the end.

Holly

Try Caroline hirons acne cheat sheet, la Roche posay effaclar range (usually on offer somewhere). I've just bought the neutrogena acne light mask & it's fab. It's £60 though and unless you're good with a soldering iron the control is £15 a month. If you activated the boots extra advantage card points on the boots app & bought instore after tomorrow there's about £19 worth of boots points on it. The red lights in it are anti aging. So win-win. I'm too old for this as well.

I'm watching live & let die

Will catch up.

Fluffy yes sad about Roger..

loveabaconsandwich it not unfrugal to get another travel mug.. Tea is essential!!!
Re retirement i thought that and it will be a huge drop in income for me.. but i didnt start saving my additional voluntary contributions until iwas 50.. it does mount up.. if you can do so i really recommend it

Spending this morning. My first paid haircut in, erm... probably since before DD (10 next month) was born! Only a tenner though and my friend is coming to the house to do it :)

Blimey Cag! Hope you're happy with the result.

I am wfh today, feet still massive though a bit better than yesterday. The only thing I could get on yesterday was a pair of ballet pumps that only go over my toes and not the foot. Just now my trusty fake Birkenstocks (>10 yrs old) have broken so that led me to spend - I bought two pairs (one navy - for sensible and one glittery!) from Moshulu. Not frugal but I've only bought one pair boots since I stopped work last summer, that I can think of, so not stupid either. And they've got buckles on the top so I am hoping I can wear them now if I let them out to their fattest setting, and then tighten them when I get my normal feet back.

I also spent a bit in M&S mostly on stuff for DS - precipitated by the fact I can't find any sun hats that fit! Also got him some bigger trainers and some shorts pyjamas and a cute outfit for baby DD . This is the kind of shopping I used to do lots of but I haven't been so it feels odd!

Cleaner today too, £48. Seems so much money, I might have to stop when baby is a couple of months old. But good people are hard to find and I will need someone when I go back to work... I'll have to think about it.

Baby's drawers are being delivered in the next hour or so do them I can put all her little clothes away. I am absurdly excited about that!

Dress is amazing Lonely. I can use a sewing machine but find fitted clothes never really work when I try to make them, so I am impressed. Not sure I commented before but I love the denim quilt too. I had heard that denim is a great fabric to make a weighted blanket from so I might give it a go for DS.

£40 for dinner last night in carluccios with old colleagues. We split the bill evenly (at my insistence because I couldn't be doing with faffing) but it probably worked out expensive for me because they drank prosecco and I had lemonade. We were there for hours though and the waiter was lovely and patient.

Good luck Meadow. I think you might have hinted before about having a mixed race background so I didn't assume, but probably would have done otherwise. It's funny, if someone said they were from London I definitely wouldn't assume white British. But because I know you are from Liverpool and the handful of Liverpudlians I've known personally are white British I probably would!

Feeling very sombre at the first hand accounts of the Manchester attack, and very moved by the stories of the kindness of strangers.

Wow you guys talk fast  I have just caught up, thank you for the tips and advice @Fluffycloudland77 we recently moved house so have been able to shop for best suppliers, but the electricity is on a coin meter! I think this is controlled by the landlord so not sure if we can change it 😱 will be looking at Aldi online and have found a 0% overdraft at nationwide for partners bank account :)

@Laska5772 thanks for the link! It looks really helpful I need to sit down and fill it all out

Otherwise, quiet work from home day day in the heat! £4.50 on washing powder and bread. Am trying to avoid the news too, really horrible situation.

My hair is nice :)

Not Frugaleers related but just had an appointment through for DD at the social communication clinic this is to further discuss/assess for ASD (although at the previous assessment the paediatrician said she was also interested in ADHD). Eeeeeeek.

I think my exam went as well as it could have, two of the three questions I answered that were the same as last year's (one of them literally word-for-word copy and paste job ) that I had already practiced with my mentor! Thanks for your good luck wishes, I did see them this morning before I went, it made me smile.

Weather is finally warm enough just to wear a t-shirt outside .

Today is potentially an NSD. Depends if I finally get around to buying myself some funky socks & tights online or not.

Cag Good luck with the appointment for DD and glad you're happy with your haircut.

Wreck No seriously if you like the skirt, you take it, because I don't want to take it and then receive it and go "actually no I'm not that fussed on the colour" (as I have a weird aversion to anything orange) as that would be crap given that you like it. Honestly .

Seacow Your poor feet! I first typed 'your foor peet' then!! :'D

Meadow One of our second year papers was EXACTLY the same as the tutor had gone over with us in class previously. You wonder how they get away with it don't you?. Roll on Friday.

Cats It's worth a try asking about the meter, the ll might have had someone in not good with credit meters and the electric companies changed it. You need to find out the unit rate. Moneysaving expert will have a section on prepay meters. I would buy cheap LED bulbs in ikea, homebargains, b&m etc & keep the ll bulbs until you leave. Switch everything off at the wall apart from the fridge freezer, it's basic fire safety if nothing else.

Is your water heated by gas or electric?. Check the stats not above 60.

£10 bet with paddy power. Got £25 free bets to use now.

Cool meadow that happened to me in my English A level
Frugal win and have finally settled my search for gold shoes to wear without tights to office..I took back some gold loafers id previously bought as ' good enough' to tkmaxx as when I was just about to take off stickers and put them on this morning I realised they were actually pvc (which i hate in shoes as they dont stretch and inevitably rub.) Also that made them far too expensive for what they were at, £29.99. On way out of tkmaxx I clocked some French-make gold leather loafers , fitted perfectly and £14.99 !

sunny if you knew exactly what you were looking for there's a Hickeys Fabric in my local town, I could post to you.

em I'm currently back using my preggo pillow, not full body but it fits lovely around my shoulders and I love it, also love that it involved a donation to breast cancer research when I purchased it too

seacow I was pregnant at similar stage of year in 2010 and had the exact same swollen feet, dd came 15 days early which put an end to the puffiness, my skin used to hurt I was so badly swollen and I used to walk around the office barefoot as it hurt too much to wear shoes.

Horrible fit flop type things two sizes bigger than my normal size
Could you put cleaner back to every fortnight or reduced hours to keep them?

Mammy my dd was born in the summer of 2010. It was so hot!!

Aww thanks meadow. I'm pleased the exam went well

It's 25 degrees here today. Lovely. Need to get the washing it and do dinner. We might eat it outside.

I was thinking fortnightly Mammy, I'll certainly ask her if she'd do that when the time comes. She is the best cleaner I've had in many years so I'd like to keep her!

The skin on the top of my feet is very painful as it is so stretched... it looks as though if I jabbed them with a fork they'd deflate! Well, it's not too long to go now... on the plus side since we got the cleaner the SPD has got better (less lifting and pushing the Hoover etc). So that's definitely a result.

I have not done any work of note today. I slept all afternoon - I think the last few days has caught up with me. I'll have to make the time up over the next few days.

Meadow that's never happened to me - surprised they are allowed to recycle questions but good that your preparation paid off!

I like the sound of your shoes Laska. (Now I've started with the shopping I hope I can stop!)

I am fed up with moving/not moving.

Why does no one want to buy my flat??? It's great. Honest. All the feedback has been good people just don't like it enough 😭

We put an offer in for the house we saw at the weekend near to fils today. Close to the asking price subject to the sale of ours. I doubt it'll be accepted though. They seem to want asking price and then some.

On the plus side I managed today with only spends of £2.70 on an enormous sandwich.

Given my current state of mood (crap due to aforementioned house woes such first world problems) I'm amazed I didn't go emotional spending.

All I want to do is buy baby things and decorate baby Boys room. Can't do that in our place as we want to sell and don't have a new place. 😭 absokuty itching to buy nursery things. Am holding off until July payday. That's the moving deadline. If nothing has happened by then...it's baby spend time.

NSD I have loads of Lego cards from Sainsbo's. I know no one who wants them. If anyone here does let me know.

Ooo yes please adora! Will pay you postage

Omg Crocs are so hideously ugly but so comfy! I would normally be too vain to wear something so clompy. Not any more!

seacow I hear ya sista! Crocs are the ugliest effing shoes in the world (in my personal opinion). but man are they comfy!!!

Just called my health insurance people. The preggo bonus is actually a "having the baby" bonus which I can only claim after baby boy arrives. And only once I have discharge papers from hospital. It was previously implied it was a "you got knocked up" bonus.

£2, on twine and biscuits for the staff room.

Glad you had a nice meal out, Seacow, and that your exam went well, Meadow.