Festive Frugaleers gather round the (best value and carefully researched) Christmas Tree for support, advice and chat. All welcome.

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Tayto Christmas is no excuse. I think you should ltb anyway.

Ten past five here

Ds is sensibly still asleep. But my over excited nearly 15yr old is up and has looted her stocking!
It is going to be a long day. I guess I'm not getting back to sleep.

Happy Christmas!!

Oh no Christmas! Hope she gets well soon.

Happy Christmas all!

We are up with the babies but no sign of DD yet!

Merry Christmas!

Seacow poor you!

Ds woke up with a temperature of 39.6! He's still ok in himself though so we will keep plodding along with it.

Hope everyone has a lovely day 😴

seacowwreck oh poor you with poorly ones. Hope they feel better soon.

Ds is still quite snuffly and snorey. Sigh. So it kept me awake a lot. I saw 1am 3am 4am and am now awake. He just woke up crying. No idea why he’s doing this now. He never used to...

I say no idea I know he’s going through a developmental leap - if the wonder weeks app is accurate.

Merry Christmas to all. Have lovely days. Will be back later.

Oh no seacow Hope she is a little better now.

Off to wake up the DC!

Have a great day frugaleers 🎄☃️

5.20 here. Although dh got called out at midnight which woke dd up. She went back over though.
It's going to be a long day.

Hope dd feels better from up chucking sea.
And that your ds feels better soon wreck.

Happy Christmas !
Pud is in the slow cooker
Enjoying a quiet coffee as noone else has surfaced yet

Catface sort of opened a lot of the presents under the tree. Woke up to find shredded paper everywhere 😂 knew it would happen sooner or later. She’s been so restrained.

My present from dh was a new handbag. Emerald green. Soft soft leather. Smells amazing. And a bottle of gin. I luffs him.

Oh no seacow and wreck :Hope the frugaleer poorly ones are recovering now..

No hangover here and Ive made pannacotta this morning after all..

FC has been but we are yomping up to Tennysons Monument on the Highdown before any present openng.. (DH and I tradition since we moved here).. there will be mince pie and coffee on the top! Ds is in bed still ..(no one else ever comes with us even though we threaten NoPUDDING)
Tayto def LTB ( but after presents!!)
Have a great day all

Happy Christmas everyone

Merry Christmas everyone

Great day so far, although can I admit I was a tad grumpy/tearful thanks to 4 hours sleep have relaxed upstairs with Cagletini feeding for a bit though and feel more human now. I didn’t miss much as DS was engrossed in building one of his Lego sets and DD1 was watching Descendants 2 (which is even more crap than the first, but she loves it!).

Caglets absolutely ecstatic with all their presents, as am I

Em my cat did that when I wrapped a cat treat stocking and left it under the tree on his first Christmas with us. On a related note, if you like peppermint teabags, don’t leave it on the counter where she can get to it. Oh dear god the massacre.

Sorry there are still some poorly little ones.

Merry Christmas!

cag I can imagine. She massacres catnip hedgehogs. A charity here crochets them. They last all of 20 minutes.

Dparents have been so generous. Ds has been spoiled.

£30 towels but used vouchers. My last set was christy and lasted 11 years so I can't grumble.
£12 present.

Merry Christmas! We have been building lego. All done now.

Went to our new Church for Christmas service today, which was odd as all our friends were at the old one. Good to have gone though.

On balance we have had a good day. Lovely meal, everyone happy with their presents. My christmas dress was good, very comfy. Back in my pj's now, dress away for next year. Two nsd's in a row, going for a third tomorrow, if the milk holds out.

Downside, tipping with rain so no after lunch walk, everyone tired as dd3 got us up so early, ds has been asleep for 2 hrs (so he'll be up all night), and dd1 got slime (awful stuff, do not buy this) in dd2's hair. It washes out, but dd2 was hysterical.

I'm so suprised at how un frugal my parents are! I see them all the time, but we only eat there on high days and holidays. Left overs...had to stop my dad binning them, it was meat! Explained I have dogs and chickens (he does know). Am mum was dithering if sausages would be ok to eat later. What!! I put it all in tubs and brought it home. They live comfortably now, but as a child we wasted not a bite. So strange.

Full bellies here. But the fridge is still groaning.
Dh bought me a beautiful handmade silver hammered bangle ( exactly what i would have chosen myself ) and lots of other goodies books cds chanel nail polish on a beautiful orange and other lovely stuff i cant remember. and s new waiters friend as i broke the last one !! . Its now a choice of plop in front of telly or walk roind the village to look at christmas lights.
Hmm...Tricky...

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I've noticed this too. It's not even accurate information

Beef wellington was delish and pannacotta turned out fine.we had them with a frozen strawberry sauce ( or granita if you are posh )

Full here. Loads of meat and roasties left. Beef will be made into chilli, ham into egg and chips then carbonara.

Will have to go to a shop tomorrow for milk oranges and pharmaceutical products. Much as it against my principal to shop on boxing Day needs must. Don't need anything from the sales though except window blinds.

Ds still has a fever. It'll be a week tomorrow!

Have still had a lovely day though and are off to my mums tomorrow for another day.

There's lots of stuff I want in the sales but I'm starting my frugality now and not getting anything. If I see winter boots I'll get them but that's it. Oh and jeans. Might go to gunwharf.

We have been well and truely spoiled. Dparents and dsis gifted us super useful things - pants socks jammies smellies. We’ve had vouchers for a number of places too some for ds some for us.

Ds’ first Christmas was lovely. It was a different Christmas to last year. And next year will be different again I expect.

Bit late hope every has a had a lovel Christmas 🍸🎂 all round.

Also a late one here, merry Christmas to everyone!

I've had a lovely day even with work getting in the way for a few hours!! Have been so proud of dd who has been so grateful and pleased with all her gifts, she cried when she saw the soft toy I got her from America (saved £50 on that thanks to wrecks advice ) was a lovely moment.

I've got the girl called jack book and am already looking forward to making some of the food!! My mum has completely spoiled me and I've new clothes, a cath kidson bag as well as a fit bit! !

Have eaten tons, planning on being a tad more sensible tomos...

wreck do you think ds could have an underlying infection somewhere? Ears maybe, dd had loads and sometimes the only symptom was a temp.