The Friendly Frugaleers, watching the pennies as we wait for sunshine!

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Hello, all welcome!

Managed to go the rest of the day not spending anything.

Dhs presents are all wrapped up. Yay. Catface "helped" she's just charged about in the living room after her mousie and has chewed the wrapping paper.

Oh life I'm sorry. Really crap. Take it easy on yourself, and do as little work as you can (while looking very busy) until september.

I fell off my skates and skinned my knee had to go on green slippy tarmac under a tree as a van was coming. I'm going to buy an illuminous t shirt.

Did a Mary Berry sausage veg bake thing for tea. Dc sceptical, but ate it. I thought it was really easy and tasty. Tefal frying pans on cheap in sainsburys £9. Old knackered one in bin. They last me about 2 years.

5 miles on skates, 10 on bike in the semi dark. I might have pinched new lights from my own the bike shop.

There were 8 jobs 2x4 as 2 different roles. Mine was the 4th assessment centre and apparently there is going to be 1 more. So nearer 150 people.
Yes on CS jobs and external

Can't sleep. Too much caffeine and adrenaline today. Didn't realise how little tea I drank on holiday.

So I caught up on my half marathon thread today & tomo I'll catch up with you guys

Girlie how's your new car going?
I wanted an auris this time but couldn't afford it & people convinced me going from a 7 seater to it would be too big a jump

Scratched my car off a lamppost today, it has green paint on bumper at the moment. It's going to garage for a service on Monday, they should be able to buff it out.

Have you run your half yet?

£20 in Aldi yesterday. Possibly Beamish today.

Lifelong it's on sept 17th so just over 3 weeks now I did a 10k on Sunday & took 1.5 mins off my PB Beamish

€15.45 in local shop yesterday we didn't do a big shop this week so groceries have cost €15.45 + €18.42 + €38.45 = €72.32 much less than a weekly shop we're using up stuff. Yesterday I needed cashback & didn't know what I wanted for dinner so hence the spends in local shop. I bought wholewheat pasta, ready to wok noodles, sachet of satay sauce, tub of carbonara sauce & a protein bar (I'm trying out a few before investing online in a box of them as they're expensive to buy individually)

€20 on Ladybirds registration
We got a wedding invite yesterday too, I will wear either dress or jumpsuit I purchased last week. Had shoes & bag at home that matched perfectly

Beamish = open air museum.

Good luck for run but it sounds like training is going well.

How you feeling today Life?

It's GCSE results day here for DD!!!

Good luck need DD

Need good luck to your dd I bet she's aced it

Pay day today! Must. Not. Fritter.

Taking the dc swimming today will be a loud £4.50 as they're free so just me to pay for.

Last day in work today for a week and a half. Think I need this time off as I am feeling somewhat stressed, just need to get through the day in one piece

Downloaded the new JO book to my kindle this morning but had no rush credit

Bizarrely I was sat in a train carriage with only three other people this morning. So a man decided to sit next to me

Oooh GCSE results! Good luck!!!!

Dhs birthday today. Catface licked his face this morning. First time she's done that... haha!

We've celebrated with tea and toast in bed. Off to work in a bit. I ordered dh a box of cupcakes to be delivered to work - they are shark and dinosaur themed...£26 for 24 cakes. So that'll be a nice suprise for him later he gets really twitchy when I send things to his work, which is half the fun

you guys! ❤️

She's worked as hard as she could (unlike DS!!), so I honestly don't care what grades she gets as I can't ask for more than that.

at Em sending stuff to your DH. Happy birthday to him.

That's really weird Love. Hope you de-stress while you are off.

I'm the same wrecked, I need to not fritter, Christmas is round the corner.

I sent him a fruit basket once for our anniversary. It included (at my specification) the biggest pineapple the market stall had and loads of avocados (as well as the usual apples oranges nanas strawberries etc).

It was enormous (but still fairly reasonably priced £30 for a whole fuckton official measurement of fruit)

He's learned to pre-empt things now. He just said "you haven't sent anything weird to my work today have you?" My answer... "nope".

I took "weird" to mean something like parading bears or a mariachi band. Not shark/dinosaur cakes. Semantics.

I am trying awfully hard not to be a fritterer. I'm now doing this thing where everytime I see a cute top or pair of shoes that I can't possible live without I'm price checking and transferring that amount to savings. So if I want to buy after baby is here (and it's still available and I've not forgotten it) I have money saved.

Have also deleted all emails from boden joules asos and gulp hush. Unsubscribed. So I cannot be tempted by offers. Again only if I remember the websites are there...

Em I've a separate email for all those emails & I check it about once a week usually. Has really helped cut down. Your saving for post baby clothes treats is fabulous

I've been starting work 45 mins later for two weeks while au pair is away, wages down by €80 a week & childcare for 9 days has cost us €450 compared to €130 weekly to au pair.

mammy I should add that I probably won't be spending loads after baby. I imaging it's going to be a massive shock to the system having another person to look after! So time for leisurely shop browsing probably won't happen....thus saving more money!

Today I'm feeling smug. I found stuffed at the back of the wardrobe a skirt I bought years and years ago but never wore. Midi length, Aztec sort of pattern. Very stretchy. So have given it a whirl today. it fits. 😉 so for the first time in about a month I'm not wearing a maternity item on my bottom half! Woohoo!!! Thank god for stretchy clothes!!! Haha!!

Good luck need dd

I'm going on a stick antifritter mission. Birthdays x2 and Christmas in this quarter, plus my car insurance and possibly end of TP at end of September.

£500 to the joint account
£100 to my dad (£350 left to pay)

Argh I don't think we can go swimming. I think dd has conjunctivitis. What do you think? Started Monday in one eye and now both. No discharge. Both dc now crying because I've said we can't go!

Oh dear wreck that doesn't look comfortable. Probably not a swimming day, no. Do you do the think of bathing the eye in dilute johnson's baby shampoo? It solves the probably in a day with my ds.

I think it might be viral as there's no discharge so not much we can do.