Saving into summer!

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New frugal thread.

I'm really annoyed. I almost booked train tickets yesterday for when we go to London but didn't and know all the cheap ones have gone

Ice creams look yummy. I am envious.
NSD as still at conference and it's all paid for. Just stopped raining here near Dublin, sun is out, yeah!

I'm here, and skim reading but having a really busy week or two and only just managing that!

We go away Saturday, Italy this year. I'll probably get more chance to post then

My small middle class dilemma is whether to quit work. DH thinks I should but only if I want to. Makes no difference to income. I've never not worked for any meaningful amount of time so that would be a big change.

Much bigger and more important stuff than that though

Need hi! Do it! Ive reverted back to Dec to retire but am definately doing it !

Definitely worth phoning about MA cag - I phoned and have ended up receiving it when I didn't think I'd get anything! It's great!

(And yeah 3 months near enough 😳 on the upside DD is 5 months tomorrow and still no sign of my period!)

Brilliant result today, got a large tax refund so that can bolster our emergencies fund although will use a small portion of it to sort my home office as it needs some shelving.

NSD today and yesterday, will be £65 spends tomorrow for weekly shop and probably around £9 taxi fare to hospital and back. Friday should be another NSD.

wreck oh that ice cream looks amazing!!!

100 5 months no period post baby???

Excuse my ignorance but is that not normal?? I thought things sort of went back to normal in a matter of weeks???? How did I not know this??!!!!

£22 in petshop on way home on felliway refil and a catnip hedgehog for catface. Hedgehog will last all of 10 minutes and will make an enormous mess in our living room. But she's been super anxious (because of noisy upstairs neighbours) so needs a treat.

I'm annoyed at neighbours as we were doing so well without felliway. But she's so on edge because she can obviously hear their noise but can't work out where it's coming from. I'm meeting with our residents association today to discuss how to push things forwards.

Walked to the car park. Then realised that I'm in the wrong effing place. Again. And it's pissing with rain.

Em it does vary quite a bit, but it tends to be longer if you breastfeed. DD only had part BF and it came back early, DS was entirely BF and it was much longer. Something about the hormones preventing ovulation or something, not that it's reliable contraception mind :o

em Poor Catface is going through the mill isn't she? Do they sell da bird toy there? It's brilliant. Have you read anything on post partum? I know you're winging it but your first bowel movement/wee over stitches might be more comfortable if you've prepared.

Sunny You've obviously impressed him a lot to make unsolicited contact like that. Congratulations.

Need Can you take a sabbatical? You might love it but you might not.

100 I got one in January, it was great! I never told Dh though because his ex lied about having one to conceal a loan years ago I thought he'd think I was up to no good too.

NSD
Made £8 Mb
Boden gave me £26 account credit for poor service.

Got £10 valued opinions vouchers towards Christmas presents.

Em, it's linked to breastfeeding. I didn't have a proper period until DS was 10 or 11 months, even though he was mixed fed from 8 months.

Hey Need. What about going even more part-time? You seem to get a lot out of working. Or could you trial being a SAHM for 6 months, to see how you find it?

65 pence on a 1st class stamp.

fluffy I'll look for da bird I know you've mentioned it before. Thanks.

Also yes. I've heard about "toileting" after baby. Fully prepared for that one. Well as much a small i can be!!

You have all been chatty!

Need Ahhh I've still never been to Italy yet. DH really wants to go.

Cag Can't help with advice about mat leave or anything but I know how it feels to be super duper anxious all the time, I hope you're feeling better now . I know uncertainty about the future is one of the worst things for my anxiety because of my Asperger's and I am going through a similar thing right now because having to start a new job soon and moving house and everything argh.

100 Three months . That sounds horrible . I have a period roughly every three weeks which is grim enough.

Nabbed two empty cardboard boxes from work today for packing up to move which was good. They're only small-ish but to be honest I find smaller boxes are probably better as otherwise you end up overpacking these huge boxes that become ridiculously heavy and then I can't even move them.

Spends today were £1.20 on a cup of tea and £1.50 on a flapjack in the uni deli to go with my lunch. So that's £2.70 in total. So LSD, hurrah (whenever I say LSD I just think of the drug ).

I'm on the far end of the scale, I had no periods while feeding. So a year for dd2 and dd3, and almost 18 months with ds (though I fed him for much longer). With dd1 I had a coil fitted at 6 months so had no period until we planned dd2.

A casual note of warning... I fell pg with dd3 on dd2's first birthday what can I say, we had a very rare good day without having a period ... (we split up 12 weeks later)

Chicken was really nice, spuds, courgette and mange tout from the garden. Dp brought me a bag of licorice allsorts, and I have almost eaten the whole packet So far a nsd.

£96 decathlon, £30 food, £35 entry to life, £5 parking, £15 boots.

I think it's a big decision giving up work. Can you fill your time in a meaningful way if you don't as you do like to be busy.

Do not, not use breastfeeding as a contraceptive. Yes they are linked period and feeding.

Em I breastfed DD1 for over a year and my periods didn't restart until about 18 months after she was born. No bf this time around but it was still about 3 months.

NSD! It's been hard work though. Too wet for DD's usual afternoon in the garden so she's been climbing the walls. We went out to jump in puddles eventually.

Warm jug of water to pour over yourself while you wee. Feels rather odd but helps the post-stitches sting.

Quite disappointed that I have been feeling sick again today and couldn't face the yummy but very rich dinner I had planned! So I had a Caesar salad instead, it was very nice TBF as I added a bit of chicken and bacon, and crunchy green beans/tenderstem broccoli/asparagus. With any luck I can manage cheesecake later :o

DD2 may be showing some chickenpox spots. Guess we'll know for definite once she wakes up. She spent the whole day at nursery

Nightmare day- broadband change over didn't go smoothly at home so had to go to my parents house to work until it came on. My trip out to do an assessment didn't happen because someone removed the wrong furniture . But the whole thing seemed to have come to a halt as I wasn't there to sort it , The work I do is rarely hard, but it appears I just do it, magic like. Sometimes I regret taking time off!

Anyway a NSD. And we now have fibre broadband which is working and cheaper than our previous broadband too. Got accepted for my new bank account

Hope everyone is enjoying their rainy week ☔️ , jealous of those with sunshine

lonely I can easily eat a whole bag of liquorice all sorts. I love them!!

Cag it is Maternity Allowance you need to research. There is a phone line for enquiries. It is, in value, the same maximum as SMP but is paid direct to self employed or recently employed people by DWP.

I keep trying to write more but get interrupted! Kids are being very hard work this week. Back later!

Thanks guys. I fucking hate 'me, me me posts' that refer to nobody else, but here I go anyway being a hypocritical twat.

I do like work, I like the banter, company, using my brain, having a good feel for the being involved in something which is essentially half mine...

It's not rocket science though. In my pre child life my job took so much more out of me and really stretched my skill set. In a good way. Now, I've just a job.

I like being busy but I'm busier at home than I work. Pony, dogs, chickens, teenagers, training really hard, ageing parents. I'm a gobshite, and will talk to any random stranger, so wouldn't have an issue getting out and about and joining in. I am that chatty mum at the school gate

Thinking in a logical MN manner, despite the fact I've a rock solid marriage, our financial assets are actually more in my name than DH's as I do all this side of things and it s easier. The company and the house are too. So I'm not exposing myself financially giving up work.

But, I'm tired at the minute. Kids have all had exams, the pony has been hard work, I've not had a lot of time off, teenagers seem to take more time than young children, I came in twenty minutes ago after working all day then taking DD training, I'm rushing to sort the holiday. Not the best time to make decisions.

DH just doesn't understand why we both need to be stressed. He accepts the stress he puts himself under as part of who he is and thrives on it. But he also accepts that I might need to work too. He's totally fine whatever I do.

I could cook more, train more, have more time for family especially, breathe more ha ha, but I like being busy.

I like the folk I work with, we have such a giggle.

None of this make sense

It's random shit and I haven't replied to anyone's posts, I'm sorry. I guess I'm musing.

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Hi all, quick check in

Had a lovely couple of days visiting dd (she is on holiday with my mum) weather been very hit and miss though spends were fairly minimal about £15 on various things I think.

My dd adopted a marrow once she drew a face on it and carried it every where for ages glad she's not the only child to have done this!!

Need eek, I personally couldn't not work as the thought of being entirely dependent financially on someone else makes me feel really uneasy. That is probably my own issues though!!

£96 decathlon life?

Meadow, but despite all the difficulties you are not retreating, you are taking on a whole bunch of change in your life. And you accept it will be difficult, but you are doing it anyway. And you will be stronger for it, go you

What was the poor service Fluffy, £26 is a decent compensation package from Biden

Need I too have heard/seen from experience that children need more, rather than less, input as they become teenagers and young adults. Maybe it's because when they're little we call the shots so if we choose that Saturday morning is going to be quality family time then it jolly well will be! Whereas when they grow you need to be around more to catch those moments as they happen.

£12.05 on Christmas gifts.

Actually I've heard the teenage years are worse than toddlers. D cousins kids still go into their room at night when they have bad dreams. I was gobsmacked. I thought they'd be over all that at 12.

It's a long story of returned items & orders not being fullfilled need.

Also, I believed I banned the T word.