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Frugaleering, cakes and baby talk

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Taytocrisps · 26/09/2017 09:06

Just starting off a new thread as the other one was getting full.

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thewaitresses · 03/10/2017 20:08

Em I'm making the rainbow salad from Save with Jamie tomorrow night! Oh and eat peanut butter on slices of apple/pear/cucumber/celery - I can't bear the claggy either!

Fluffy we had just over half as much last year and still some left over so hope to be able to extend our log-fire season this year or have reserves for a bitter winter. This is only our second winter with a burner so it's all still a novelty.

Frugal win: I cleaned my own car Shock!

£14.23 Aldi.

LonelyOversharer · 03/10/2017 20:14

I would have bf in public, but never went anywhere except the supermarket! Have fed all my babies squished in the car. With ds I fed him all the time in our own shop, it was a jumper up baby tucked in like he was sleeping type thing. And I got some cool vest things, like boob tubes but from under bust to top of jeans, so never had my blubber on show.

I still giggle as we've a regular (he comes in for his lunch), who goes on about how gross having babies is (ruined once you've had one) and how breast feeding is just wrong - he has literally no idea that I fed ds right infront of him lots of times. Needless to say he's single and lives with his parents, he's 32.

I was a "young" very old round here ie: immature mum at 26 (dd2 @almost 30, dd3@31) and had ds at almost 36. Feel very old and knackered now, and far too old for more babies.

Family dentist visit tonight. Dd2 and dd3 being referred for orthadontics. Dd3 possibly has teeth missing Sad it's a family thing. But will need sorting fast if they are. Dentist confident they'll both qualify for nhs treatment.

On the way back (£28 in tesco) we found unattended logs!!! On the quietest road ever, just sitting in a ditch. They're now sitting in my garden. All odd lumpy shapes (probably why they got left), but such a good find. Theres more too but the car was full. We might go back.

WreckTangled · 03/10/2017 20:15

I would love a fire place. If we had one we could get logs for free from my dad. We have a chimney here but the fire place has been closed up Angry

LonelyOversharer · 03/10/2017 20:19

Shit I think I just tagged a random mnetter in by using the sodding @ key. I hope they don't mind!

Cagliostro · 03/10/2017 20:23

I was a young mum myself as I was 20 when DD was born. Now feeling like I'm on my second go round at 30 so more average I guess, but most of my school/college friends are still nowhere near wanting kids yet - mums very much in the minority. I'm one of the youngest out of the home ed mums too.

DD is leaning on me and keeps getting kicked in the head by Cagletini 😂😂

needastrongone · 03/10/2017 20:36

No frigging idea what marrow fat peas are either! Not sure I want to be enlightened either.

DM was 38 when she had me, 10 and 12 years after my DB's. I can sort of see what a shock that was and I wasn't planned or wanted but I guess she didn't need to make it so clear for the rest of my life, it was hardly my fault...

Dsil was 44 having her 2nd, my DC have pretty much become adults!

They really gave DH a hard time tonight because he snapped at me unfairly, I often take it as he's tired from work but blimey, they don't!

DD rode Dpony tonight for the first time. There were a few tears from both of us.

Let me know what the rainbow salad is like as I haven't made that one!

needastrongone · 03/10/2017 20:37

Good log find Lonely.

Was supposed to get a few bits from Aldi but made do without and Bootcamp cancelled too so frugal saves.

lifelongfrugaleer · 03/10/2017 20:39

I'm clearly a late starter. 31 & 33 here for DC.
Have no idea what to get dd for her birthday this weekend. She is not getting what she asked for. FFS. Could do without it.

Need, sounds like starting at work is a good thing for you then. Pleased you came to a decision.

Fluffycloudland77 · 03/10/2017 20:40

Need As if your going to give up work 😂

lifelongfrugaleer · 03/10/2017 20:40

I'm being stalked by the saltrock sale.

Laughing at green food colouring in marrowfat peas. They are mushy peas before they are made mushy. Big fat round peas.

needastrongone · 03/10/2017 20:42

Laska if you can do the exercises twice a day the physio should be pleased as punch, not giving you a telling off! Glad the sciatica is improved so much. I've not looked at Hush, I'm so proud of myself but some Boden jumpers look lovely in the new catalogue (only thing of theirs I really like, apart from their footwear).

Laska5772 · 03/10/2017 20:59

Yeah amd thats I thought Need. but apparently not good enough and because i still get the odd twinge in foot I am 'storing up trouble' by not doing them enough . !.. Ah well. i know what to do now and wont let it get like it was before If i can help it.. .

also well done on (not getting any) Hush Need Wish I could say the same!! . am not really impressed with Boden this year ,( though I wouldnt mind another relaxed cashmere v neck if they ever do a decent discount again - 30% and Id be tempted) ..

I did also get a nice dress from H&M yesterday but do need to stop now .. .

Fitbit says 11898 tonight.. Smile

Laska5772 · 03/10/2017 21:02

I like frozen peas..have seen marrowfat but never fancied them.

I was 32 when DS born..

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WreckTangled · 03/10/2017 21:20

There's a two bedroom house near me for sale for £895k ShockHmm any takers?! Grin

SunnyLikeThursday · 03/10/2017 21:25

Em I forgot about the good tops that I used. They were these:

Fluffycloudland77 · 03/10/2017 21:26

Ooh, bargain Grin

SunnyLikeThursday · 03/10/2017 21:28

Oh that's odd. It won't let me post.

SunnyLikeThursday · 03/10/2017 21:30

The interface won't let me finish that last one. Can't have been important. :-)

Dh got another job offer. Phew! Nice to be getting to the end of this.

Fluffycloudland77 · 03/10/2017 22:04

Brilliant, has he decided which he wants?.

Waitress Those logs sound excellent value. Our winter gas bill is £30 a month & im frugal with gas.

In my dream house there would be a proper fire for the cat to sit by. His breeder had a coal fire & he'd sit by his sister in front of it.

Need The intricacies of married life can be lost on family. You can say things to each other no one else can.

I cannot believe so many of you haven't tried marrowfat peas! They are winter Carby deliciousness. You can put them in stews or mush them or serve like garden peas.

SunnyLikeThursday · 03/10/2017 22:28

Hi Fluffy He just got a fourth offer, so that is all of them now. The company that was messing him around has offered a much higher salary (factor of 2) then the more reasonable company so he asked if there was any flexibility with the nice company. I'd take the nice company anyway, personally

needastrongone · 03/10/2017 23:10

I might give up work fluffster and sit on my sofa all day eating grapes and placing matched bets, it could be the new me.... Grin

needastrongone · 03/10/2017 23:14

How old will DD be Life?

ChristmasSeacow · 03/10/2017 23:30

Great result on the job offers Sunny!

I was 37 and 42 when I had my DC. I can't comprehend being this age and having kids on their way to leaving home (exactly how you young 'uns must feel about the idea of having a newborn at 42!) . I really think people who have kids a bit younger have the right idea actually. I do have more financial security now than in my 20s but having my DC has really made me think about being around for as long as possible and also being around for grandchildren. I do wish I'd been 10 years younger.

Lots of spendy top up shops this week because I didn't get round to an Ocado big shop. Not good.

If you ever need Brie don't buy the President brand (he of the delicious butter). I bought it to make Brie and courgette soup. Yet when I added it to the hot soup it didn't melt but went plasticky Shock. Like American cheese. I had to chuck the whole lot and buy more courgettes (£2.50) and some nice Somerset Brie and start again. A frugal fail.

I'm a huge fan of marrowfat peas in their mushy pea form but otherwise they're all yours Fluffy Wink

SunnyLikeThursday · 03/10/2017 23:36

Christmas I'd have liked to have had children younger too but it took me a long time to find a bloke. :-) I have a friend who had her first at 15 and then her second at 17 and then her third at 40, when the others had left home. That's seeming like an endurance sport to me.

ChristmasSeacow · 04/10/2017 05:33

Yes Sunny that was the main factor here - and even once DH and I were together he didn't want kids straight away. We did get to travel a bit though.

Shock at your friend - I agree that bringing up two generations is an endurance sport indeed! Hats off to her.

I have just been feeding DD and managed to buy £40 of spring bulbs for the garden. I didn't get round to planting any last year and really regretted it in spring.

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