New frugal thread for autumn savings

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Just filled up the last one. Hope you all find the new one!

Er, no idea what’s happened to the bold it was all correct when I posted

Thanks Christmas that's very useful perspective. I feel much more positive about getting the test results, and about the school referral now.

Looking around at our family, I think that many things would have been easier if we had known about this before, even for the older generations. So yes I do think that there is impact on daily life, and a diagnosis would be helpful.

The really odd thing is that in my family, the men use ASD traits to their advantage. It gets them on in their career and they are just considered to be a bit hard-nosed, and very focussed. It's definitely not holding them back at work, but just with personal relationships. It's odd that.

I think as more people get diagnoses and society comes to understand this condition, we may find ourselves rethinking the idea that asd is necessarily a disabiity. In my family it definitely isn't, not in all cases at least.

The other thing that puzzles me is that in the fast-paced English school system it is a problem. But in the slower-paced Irish and Scottish systems, it would be much easier for people to slip under the radar and just develop in their own time, which in many ways might be kinder.

It's a lot to think about really. Thanks for all the helpful discussions. This forum really is a Godsend.

Holly Good luck, I hope the plan works.

Life Sorry about your fil. I hope they discharge him soon.

Queen www.mumsnet.com/Talk/credit_crunch/2270347-Frugal-January-everyone-welcome The op in this thread has all my saved credit crunch threads. The chat ones are dead unfortunately.

I don't blame you on the fruit winders. Two kids & ft work will make you relatively time poor. If you register with mysupermarket.co.uk you can set price alerts for fruit winders with each supermarket. Then they email you when the price drops.

The fuel bill is high but the companies basing it on your old consumption. With you going ft you can set the timer to go off 10 minutes before you leave in the am & set it to come back on half an hour before you get home. Keep all the internal doors closed, curtains shut & lined with cheap fleece blankets if need be & plug any draughts & the bill should plummet.

Frugality is planning & micro management of everyday expenses.

Good luck today holly
Today's plan is first run in 3 whole weeks & storm preparation. We've a red warning for tomorrow & tomorrow night. My boss who has never text me in my almost 10 years there text me yesterday saying we'd discuss storm actions today at midday

Spends at cinema approx €9.50 did tap it so it's not on my internet banking yet, went to Abra after which cost dh €12.50. It was kind of like a first date - he we have to start all over again things arehad been at rock bottom

Thanks frugaleers. He has been admitted so we will see what today brings. Not in our nearest hospital so it's not going to be frugal. ignores nearby Lakeland, Smyth's toys and retail park

Morning all. Have read back now so am sort of up to date.

queen you’re in good hands here.

meadow don’t bother getting eyes tested until after pregnancy. Prescriptions can change. I need to book an appointment with the optician as I’m feeling more headachey.

life hope fil is ok.

Ds is 3 weeks old today - how did that happen?! He’s on bed with us at present. Dh has him propped up on his knees.

We’re off to friends for brunch this morning. So should probably start getting ready now...! We don’t have to be there until 11 ish and it’s only a 15 minute drive. But....I’ve learned that babies mean I can’t do my usual out of bed get ready and in the car in 20 minutes trick anymore.

Tesco eye tests are free for everyone. I always go there.

I have a choice of vision express (where I usually go) specsavers boots or hideously overpriced local opticians. There is a company based here “one specs” who sell glasses at a lower price. So I might go to VE get my prescription choose the frames (if I need new ones) and see if I can get them through the other place.

Or might see if they can change the lenses in my current glasses.

I have just used Vision Express em as I wanted Oakley sunglasses, but my normal glasses are Joules, they're very nice. I was quite impressed with the nice choice they had in, and not overly expensive (almost fainted in independent optician when I saw their prices, panicked and left!).

Up verrry late! It was stuffy hot last night, dp woke me up at 4 as he couldn't sleep I opened the window a bit, apparently he hadn't thought of that. But I was awake for ages once he'd dropped back off. Its a good job he's gone out on his bike.

Standard Sunday jobs to do here.

:( mammy

Re fruit winders do you know anyone with a Costco membership? Maybe next time they go they could keep an eye out. My friends have one and always offer to look out for things.

If I'm well enough I'll take the Caglets into town for a bit today - need to get some storage/packing bits among other things.

Must get some cheese sauce out of the freezer to do tuna pasta bake.

Morning all! Wow,me a while to catch u busy, chatty day, it took me a while to catch up.
Welcome Queen you'll get great advice & support here. Fluffy you were in top form yesterday with your advice. My dh is from Plymouth & I lived there for 10 years. The Aquarium pass is a great idea, I love it there, hope you find somewhere you can park for free. We're down for a day in a couple of weeks time but only for a day for the football en route St Ives for half term
Good luck today Holly

Had a good journey back last night & it is lovely to be back home. Dh did a fab job while I was away & I came home to a tea of home made chicken nuggets and potato wedges courtesy of dd (and a clean, tidy kitchen-bonus!)
Fluffy the course was fascinating, the principles of the technique are basically to get people to breathe through their noses rather than their mouths and to breathe less. This is likely to reduce symptoms in asthma and can help people with disordered breathing patterns. I now have to do 5 adult and 3 paediatric case studies, putting them through a structured 4 week programme ("pure" Buteyko). Much of it though I will pick bits out and mix in with my current practice and over the next few months, figure out how I'm going to take it forward.

Just been and done a class which was tough as I hadn't done anything for a week. The rest of the day is going to be mostly housey stuff and planning for the week ahead. Christmas shopping is really taking shape now, still hoping to be done by the end of the month which would be a first. Dnephew's advent calendar is coming on well, I'll try to get it quilted today and then it will just need binding.

Have a good day everyone.

Cag costco is a good idea but the nearest one to Plymouth is probably Bristol 120 miles away!

Ds and I just had a disagreement about wearing trousers. I won. I’ve told him it is not acceptable to go to brunch trouserless.

lonely I used VE last time and ended up with Chanel frames. This was when my old work paid for eye tests and first pair of glasses. I like them. They suit my face.

No timer on the hearing here! Going to do moneysupermarketlater

I go to vision express and then get my glasses from an online opticians. So much cheaper ray bans are less than £150 all in.

I want to go back to bed after spinning

Normal lenses cost 20p trade.

Should be a NSD.

Seacow I'm glad my post help. Also be aware that, even with significant issues, there will be some level of maturity that develops over times and situations that used to provoke a meltdown with be okay.

Right, I am going to look into the contact lense thing, as I can definitely save there.

Mammy It's a start, you just need to both then decide whether you want to start over I guess. If you can remember why you love (loved) each other in the first place, that's definitely a start.

Queen What about small things that can help with energy cost, closing all doors, draft excluders, is your roof insulated, do you qualify for any help now with things like that?

Any news on your FiL Life

Hope Holly is getting on okay, it's a hot one today, not great for a marathon to be honest. I did 13 miles early this morning and was roasting when I got home!

Fil is on antibiotics and will be in until he stops bleeding. Dh will visit tonight.

Football this morning. No spends as already take a pic nic. Will need diesel today or tomorrow.
Afternoon at home and jobs. Dd won't get changed out of her pjs

I had green deal new loft insulation in my last house not sure I would qualify again - that was thanks to trusty mn!
I have the radiator foil stuff to install and we use dear excluders. New roof went on in the summer. Windows have mostly been re sealed. It's not an especially cold house I don't put the heating on that much even in winter and we are out at least 5 days a week. When it's really freezing I set it about 15 for the dog.

I don't think I qualify for anything now. I will get tax credits of £178 a month when I go full time. I'm currently getting £481 based on last tax year but that's not even correct as changed job during tax year and increased my hours. I may have been over paid. Going full time doesn't increase my childcare so will be at the most 77 a month better off then. At the absolute most though. And dd1 has started school dinners which are 40 a month. Ffs. My maintenance is a whole other thread

north with me the breathing exercises only work if I hold my breath for ages every day. I get hyperventilated when I talk too much, or too fast and the system never resets unless I work hard at it. Nose breathing is essential, and holding my breath for ages is needed to ratchet the system down when it gets out of whack. For some reason nobody ever teaches that in the courses. It's good to hear that lost of people are being taught about this stuff, because the condition is a right nuisance.

Back from brunch. Was lovely. Friend and husband are such lovely hosts. I haven’t eaten so well for a long time! She loves loves loves to cook and entertain. She’s originally from The French Caribbean but lived in Paris for a while before coming here 10 years ago.

We had banana pancakes with Nutella and bacon. Fried pineapple. Homemade bread and homemade guava jam (le yum). Fruit salad. Scrambled eggs. A pineapple Buck’s Fizz and oodles of coffee.

She also fawned over ds.

Nsd today.

Guava jam!!! Wow!

£26 in giardinos. Not worth it from my POV. Should've got the kids their pasta and sat elsewhere in the food court with a jacket potato! :o

Town is absolutely rammed and I'm trying to get the bits and pieces we need for storage/packing at home. So far two storage boxes for Cagletini (one for nappies downstairs one for clothes upstairs) - £10 in the Works and they have very hungry caterpillar on them :o

Might have found DS' stocking filler teddy (Santa usually leaves one at the top peeking out) - they are looking in Claire's while I have a sit down and he's totally fallen in love with a toucan beanie boo 😍😍😍