Frugaleers Still Saving into September

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Laska £20 for an Indian would be quite expensive here in Brum! We have some fabulous places where you can eat poppadoms, starter, main with bread and rice for between 8-12 quid. Many are also take your own booze which keeps the cost down.

Collie fabulous list. We've already found some conkers today!

Hi all I've not been keeping up with you guys, doing a lot of running & works busy too, will catch up xx

laksa nope not heard of them. I did look them up on the Guernsey co registry. So it is a legit company. Couldn't see anything on their website though that suggested Guernsey.

Dh has been good. Although he's just pissed me off by pissing off back to work because people can't be trusted to do a job. I'm slightly concerned that he'll do this on paternity leave because he has almost zero cover. Keep telling him it's not his problem. His work need to sort it.

But apparently it's his problem...anyway he's lost out. Catface is sleeping on his side of the bed. Ha! 🐈🐈

snuggly can you give me some dates I can come an visit you then? I'd love to go out for a curry with you in Brum! .. We dont have many Indian restaurants here on our island! Although we are lucky enough to have a very good one(how 'authentic' i have no idea) in Yarmouth, not far from me..

Em It was in their T&Cs. Usually there is an address. but cant find one, but I think i'll risk it then..(need some Frontlinertising half price andhtye are adve) I may lose £35 but , they may be ok after all . .

That was supposed to read: 'Need some Frontline and they are advertising it half-price'. -I have this really weird thing with my keyboard, I dont know how I do it but it seems to cut and paste text backwards somehow automatically.. I must be hitting a key that does this somehow.. ..

I was born in brum snuggly but left when I was a toddler

I do admin support laska . Some days I will do quite high level stuff, other days I call myself the tea girl. Not that there is anything wrong with making the tea, I do like a . I also work part time in what is meant to be a full time job which is half the problem.

Have you tried any civil service admin type jobs collie? Not that I'm the best advocate for it but if you can master writing their annoying competencies, you could get an office job? My first office job was there and I only used uni and shop work examples. You have proper work/life experience!

And yes collie I have started a few council type applications, and get so depressed/disillusioned with them that I normally give up! Maybe it's a ploy to cut down the number of applicants

Yay! Welcome back Collie, lovely to see your autumn bucket list.
Em we've just read a book called "A Little Love" which was quite a light read but provoked lots of discussion. The next one is "Wide Sargasso Sea" a prequel to Jane Eyre. It's good as it gets you reading things you normally wouldn't.
So dd has now said she will come to Tobago! Originally she said she would stay with my parents which would've been fine but I'd rather she was with us. She's anxious about the flight but at least is talking to us about it. We're now trying to organise a mad 7 days, fitting as much in as possible.....can't wait.
No spends today, did a fitness class on my way home from work and have another booked for 7 in the morning, all pre paid for though.
Busy day tomorrow, class at 7, hairdresser at 9 then town with my mum (she has a list of things she wants to get done). Neither us has much of a tolerance for shopping so we could be taking refuge in cafes!

Oooh laska I have had that keyboard issue. Sadly I can't advise on how to fix it.

BTW seacow thank you, the trackpad is behaving more since you suggested changing sensitivity!

:o :o :o at 'webshite design'

😴 noisy neighbours (I feel your pain em) children running around past midnight, babies awake all night and up since 5am.

Wow north Tobago sounds amazing and really sweet that you've been before with DS on board!

Collie do check education job sites as there are often IT tech/support jobs advertised.

I'm going to a friend's for dinner tonight so will need to buy wine and dessert and I also owe her £60 🤦‍♂️ so an expensive day. However I was in credit with a school club which has been cancelled so getting £50 back (phew).

Welcome back Collie. Just in time for our autumn activity list. (No pressure, you don't have to)) We did miss you.

Oop cross post, your did post it.
Sorry your are having a rotten time looking for work. I agree the house move was not meant to be this time but pleased the buses are better. See how the winter goes eh. I recall you live in or near a tourist town?

Pleased first days at school went ok.

Asian place was nice and both dd1 and dd2 ate for free... They clearly didn't know how much they can manage
Today I have an off day with dd2. Her day care mother is off so we are relaxing. Need to go past my grandparents later to help with some admin stuff and need to go around d my great grandparents to help with papers the council sent them. Should be a nsd today.

Oops Asian place was 30£ which is cheap here in Denmark. Sorry to hear about those who feel stuck in jobs or can't find job. I'm lucky I actually feel happy in my job and what I do next week I start giving lesson in English 4 lessons per week. And then my manager signed me up for a class about stock market taxation for Danish living abroad, 1 day per week for 12 weeks in jylland in a city 150 km from where we live

I have woken up fed catface and am not sat on couch drinking tea. I have opened the curtains and can hear sheep. We are on the outskirts of town. There are no sheep (as far as I'm aware) in the vicinity. There are racing and livery stables up the hill near ours, a reservoir just opposite and down the mane there is a field of beautiful jersey cows, but no sheep. Is this a mad sign of pregnancy? Hearing farm animals??? Haha! Odd.

Have to be at a hotel for a seminar this morning for 815 - breakfast provided thank goodness. Then should get to work for 930/945. Nails at 12. Then I might go swimming after work to see if I can float some of the uncomfortableness away.

Courgette pasta for tea.

Morning! I've got a forum to attend today it's an all day thing 😴 will buy lunch. It's in the same building as the surgery I used to work in so will pop in and see everyone.

Morning all!

Yup em most likely preparing you for "look DS, a sheep!" (Which you'll end up doing out of habit even when he's not with you) 😁🐑

I have been awake for hours so very tired, but wired. Done nothing productive in that time really apart from spending money already 😳 £4 eBay (notebook for DD), £26 Amazon (notebook for DS, Pikachu teddy for DD at Christmas, buggy tidy/bag clips).

Today will be spendy too no doubt - cheesy chips after trampolining with friends (errrrm the Caglets are trampolining. Not me), possibly other food later as we are out roughly 9am-8pm. Need to pay a small library fine, look for fridges in BHF, and get socks/boxers/vitamins/nail varnish remover for Caglets and some fabric conditioner. Sigh.

Oh Cag hope your sleep pattern improves soon. I'm a veteran poor sleeper so I can really empathise.
Got out and did a 7am class called H Core Prism which is basically a form of torture circuits/interval training with kettle bells. It was 30 mins and I have to say it was a good start to the day. Now need a quick shower, then off to the hairdresser (£45 ) and then the rest of the day in town with my mum. Will try to keep spending down.

Morning all! waves at lifelong. Yeah I live in a pretty tourist town.

An IT support role is genius. I've never thought about that!

So today is definitely a LSD. £3.50 on the bus and maybe 50p on a kids book from the charity shop. (I keep finding brand new Mr Men's / Little Miss in there)

I keep buying make up then find I'm too lazy to actually use it. I shan't openly admit how much money I've wasted recently in Superdrug & Boots. My face always looks the same no matter what I do to it

Morning all! Second proper school run was much easier! Have brought leftovers for lunch (campfire stew very nice, but more like soup, so soup is what we have today). I've got loads of work to do, but am sitting here crocheting. It is sooo chilly here!

I've yarn confessions...in addition to the 3 balls £15 in hobbycraft on tuesday, I spent £4 on 3 more balls 3 for 2 (what I'm crocheting) yesterday, £40 in wool warehouse on cottons to make cosy small blankets/runners to put over the back of the sofa, one ball (they're all denimy type yarns) was so lovely I ordered the 14 balls they had left in stock to make a sweater with last night £25. Just enough for free postage. Honestly, if you could see my stash.

Check your nectar apps, there's a 10 X nectar point event but it's account specific.

Only dhs account had it. Starts Friday so I'm going to eke out the petrol for another day.

Where is Creme??

collie tell us the number. Mine was £800+ spent in boots in 2016. On seemingly nothing. I added it up then almost fell over. My number for last year was about half that. Because I made a conscious effort to use the stuff I had up.

Seminar was interesting. US tax regimes and how they affect us. Also yum breakfast. Hot Bagels smoked salmon with cream cheese proper coffee and fresh squeezed pineapple juice. Baby boy is going crazy at the moment so he obviously enjoyed it! Haha

Hello all am crawling in after going to a Yogalates class, its was really hard and I ache all over I am so unfit and not flexible. Am at least proud of myself for attempting it though, cost £5.

Dd pottered off to meet her friends to walk to school with this morning, no nerves so thats good.

Collie I was wondering about I.T support, if you could find a job doing that in a school would be ideal as term time only. Love your list am def doing lots of them.

Popping over to a friends for coffee this morning and then have a few jobs to do, need to buy batteries and investigate leaving my current mobile providers as want to go to Tescos, my phone is on its last legs (have eeked it out for over 4 years though!!)

lonely my mom knits for my girls and I absolutely love it all. And dd1 always asks for grandma cardigan so they are hit. And my grandmother knitted a whole wool suit for dd2 last year when she was born, she was so warm and cosy in it all winter sleeping in the pram outside.

creme is in holiday.

Sorry, having a bit of a busy period. But SO SO SO chuffed to see collie back. Love it.