Remember remember it's frugal November

[LonelyOversharer]

Woo hoo! I've never done the new thread before!

Cag Did you see Next do ladies space themed pyjamas?

www2.next.co.uk/g77160s2#154632

Tempted.

Frugality may go out the window I've just made an enquiry about getting a tattoo done tomo

Lilly sounds like a great use of £29 to me but those in your house need to either agree to budget for this or pull their weight.

Wreck exciting times ahead

Thank you for the warm welcome. And hello cagliostro, who I totally did not stalk down the shop earlier.

Spent £11 on lunch bits.

Oh those are so cool! I need new jammies soon really. DH would be mega jealous.

Love fab news re: new hours! Yay!

:o :o

(In the interest of avoiding confusion, namechange is a lovely lovely not at all stalkery RL friend and our 10yos are besties ❤️)

Welcome name
Cag but does this mean you will have to behave online now !!!

Cag Phew! I was wondering there. Welcome Cag's friend namechange.

Sofa is here.
Its luvverly..

£28 spent on bras M&s online
£10 To nice delivery men who had to take sofa in through garage which was full of geardening machinery and helped move the sit on mover and shedder etc(i think they were a bit dissapointed not to drive the mower out but only push it)

Behave? Why change now 😂

I just did my last anti-clotting injection. Done. Finito. Yay!!!

Oh yay Cag no more injections! Such a relief to not have to do them any more! I still remember skipping out of the haematologist’s office and giving a huge box of needles back to the pharmacist after I was given the all clear (I had bilateral pulmonary embolisms in my last pregnancy - I had to inject twice daily for 7 months all in - hated it). Sounds like you are getting back to normal now

Thank you lilly yes definitely feeling more human now! 7 months 😱 Wow.

Adult DSCs are here and we are all talking about Christmas presents 😱 I can't believe how soon it is. Normally I am pretty much sorted by now, but the one year I really should be organised, I am totally not!

Woo yay Cag

Lovely lazy day here. Ds has given me loads of smiles we’ve had a nice snuggle and he’s now napping.

I’ve still got to make sure his bag is packed and bottles are made up for Dm and df this evening and decide what I’m going to wear.

And then have a wrestle with my hair straighteners and my bushy bushy hair. It needs to be sleek and straight. (Or if all else fails I’ll curl it...)

T minus hour and half until the baby sitters arrive and date night can begin. I am ridiculously excited! 😀

I just booked my December shopping deliveries from Waitrose. It's so helpful that they have a button to filter for gluten-free stuff. We only get certain a very few things from them, but it really makes life easier.

I'm glad I noticed that their slots are open though, because I see that they are filling up already. I just got a mail from Tesco to say that their are bookable at the end of November.

Exciting em! Have a fab night out, you deserve it!

Cag I am the same, I haven’t even started thinking about Christmas. Sunny is putting me to shame!

Lolly LOL! I'm only doing it because others on here are mentioning Christmas. It seems like eons away to me, but the more people talk about it the more twitchy I get.

The last couple of years I was really nervous over the Christmas week that we would somehow run out of food and the supermarkets would be shut, or busy and difficult with a toddler. I love that we can book in advance and I'm getting better and better at figuring out how to manage inventory over that weird bit of the year. I still fill the fridge so much that I can't find anything though.

I'm a teeny bit excited that my parents might possibly be living here before Christmas arrives, so I have ordered a goose, just in case.

Found you!

Welcome new folk. Good friendly vibe here and lots of tips.

I’m in Cambridge with DD as she has a masterclass in archeology tomorrow. There’s a talk for parents in the morning. I’ll wander round until she’s finished, find a cafe etc.

Frugal wins today.

• shopping was £60 in Sainsbury’s as I planned well and my massive Ocado shop last week leaves us super well stocked anyway. Includes cleaning items. Used my nectar vouchers for extra points.
• Found my racing £20 (money I keep stashed in my racing kit for emergencies and never need).
• vet bill was £30 and I allocated £60.
• Fuel was £45 and I allocated £60.
• brought snacks from home for tomorrow and will have a big breakfast.

Frugal fails

• DH will order a takeout tonight while I’m away and not use the chicken I left him

Thanks for the new thread Lonely

£38 in the pharmacy, needed more stuff for fungal toe nails, and stocking fillers.
£4.30 wasted on a tasteless stodgy risotto in a coffee shop, £2.50 on coffee.
£2.30 in the butchers.

Tomorrow I'll get veg plus meat for next week.

I'd missed that it was Lapland Wreck, defo worth doing.

snuggly I would think some quiet would be extremely beneficial. I remember once doing the shopping on my own in Sainsbury’s and going into the cafe and just sitting there for ages breathing deeply, feeling like this was bliss. DH ended up phoning asking where I was. I was on my own a lot with the DC, you’ve got a harder job with the DT too.

For the last couple of years we've gone the other way with Christmas food (not presents for dc!) and treated it like a sunday lunch with crackers. No extra shopping, no fuss. The shops are only shut for one day anyway afterall.

2015 we had christmas lunch the sunday before with my parents (sister had booked out the day itself) and we had leftovers on the 25th. 2016 we took a cooked turkey round and my mum did the veg. I don't like christmas pud, cake or mince pies at all, so do lots of chocolate cake usually.

I used to do a huge panicky shop, but bought loads of crap we never use up, so don't bother now.

Our dream is to go on holiday and spend Christmas in the sun!

I don't think I have spent any money today. Yet. Have a lovely evening em

Dilemma is - to wake ds up and feed him before Dm arrives. Or to leave him. I’m inclined to leave him as have already woken him once today so the HV could weigh him (he's now 11lb 4oz....).

Dm knows what to do so I’m not even a little bit neurotic about leaving him. More concerned df will break the tv or delete my list from Netflix...haha!

Catface has been told she’s in charge anyway so she will report back.

Have dressed ds today in his all blacks onesie. Was tempted to draw a face tattoo on him. But...resisted. If it had been Halloween I may have done... the AB’s are playing tomorrow apparently so maybe we’ll do it then. I have enough eyeliner......*

*jokes. Probably wouldn’t fake face tattoo my baby. Probably.

Thank you Lonely

I've got £160 in nectar points saved for our Xmas shop, sainsburys food is a bit pricier than Waitrose after all the discounts so now I'm thinking of spending the nectar points on fuel between now and Christmas, then transferring what I've saved into the shopping acc & spending that money in Waitrose instead. It doesn't feel like I'm getting it free then though. Arghhhh.

Laska I love the sofa.

Welcome newbies.

£10 petrol
£13 Aldi. Mostly wine. It's going to be a two bottle of wine weekend.
£4 homebargains.

Hamburger I can never believe the price of the cinema now, no bloody wonder it's so quiet in there now. I would never eat food in there not pre packaged, the food areas always grim in ours. I never minded paying for the gold club one with the leather reclining chairs & licensed bar. It was lovely.

Glad you like the sofa laska.

wrecked. This thread is about making sensible financial decisions so that we can afford some of the treats in life. Or partly about that. There’s a montage of photos in our house of the DC when we went to Disney. Their faces. Perfect memories. Not that memories are not made cheaply, but sometimes they can be otherwise. No point in micro managing and worrying your life away. Genuine truth, my grandad died a week after he retired. They had saved and saved and gone without and he never got to experience all the things he might have. Good for you.

I'd love to see the northern lights too actually Wreck

Enjoy your night out Em

Love the title lonely, thanks for the thread.

I’ve already bought the smoked salmon when it was mega reduced once in Sainsbury’s and frozen it. I always get salmon in for Christmas, probably don’t need to, I do love it though.

I’ll grab stuff as I see it and spread it around, the cost.