Keeping our Fru Year Resolutions! Frugal January thread two (already) - all welcome!

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Eeek so the other thread filled up fast. January 10th must be some kind of record!

Not a nsd in the end. Dd just lost tooth number 12. That'll be £1

Love can we see a picture of the sofa ? I love our 'new' one still!
spendy.. I am keeping the Hush sale item.. a jumper which was still £85 (reduced from £125 )but its so gorgeous ..

I also a spent £37 in Laura Ashley... a black formal dress reduced from £90 to £27 (sadly I keep finding myself having to go to funerals these days .. )... and a top reduced from £45 to £10

Dinner was a super-frugal bowl of veg - mainly cauliflower- with a little cooked chicken on top and some h/m curry/ yoghurt sauce. was yum .. I was hungry (on diet) so have already scoffed ..almost up to my daily allowance so must not eat anything else this evening ..

I can well remember the days of going to the loo with baby/ toddler.. I still cant go on my own a lot of the time because the cat insists on following me ! He is here now on my desk again. Snoring ...

Snowing where Wolf?.. it has turned cold even this far south, but we dont often get snow..

Oop north Laska, I’m on my way back from London to Yorkshire. I think if I see anothe frantic Facebook post I may scream, I drove back from London in the horrendous snow so it can’t be that bad. My DF jusy called to say it’s taken an hour and a half from our house to theirs (normally 10 mins) and he had to abandon his car and walk. He is a very good and confident driver so that’s a bit concerning although, as I suspected, he says it’s more other idiots on the road than the road itself that’s the problem

Sofa laska

When I went back to work I struggled to remember to shut doors when going to the loo as I was so used to having a toddler wandering in and out

Safe journey home wolf

Forgive me frugaleers for I have sinned....spendy day today despite me confidently stating it would be a NSD yesterday.

£70 nespresso pods (I know, I know 🤦‍♀️)
£29 M&S food. I had a £15 voucher and went a bit mad)
£18 wool roving for my needle felting hobby

To redeem myself I have listed 15 things on eBay. Took flipping ages 🙄

Mmmm now I want pizza and garlic bread for tea em

Is anyone else finding it confusing having two frugal January threads - the no spend one and this one? I've nearly posted on the wrong thread once or twice.

Tayto I posted my kitchen picture on the other one..twice!! {blush} luckily MN were v. understanding and removed it

..twice

ooh that's nice and snuggly looking love ..good price too ! Will it take long to arrive?

Delivery in four weeks laska. It is very comfy- we’ve been to the shop twice to try it out. Whilst we’ve been thinking about buying it reduced in price by £200 too

Love that sofa looks lovely. I think it's worth spending on some things (we spent an extortionate amount on our 2 sofas and bed).

I spent £10 on cleaning supplies and £4 on lunch (very disorganised morning).

Thank you to whoever posted about cashback on a hire car. We're going away for a few days soon and will be hiring a car so I need to set that up.

Can someone explain the daily mails / nectar points thing to me please? Am I missing something?

Popped into tescos when dd was at her drama group and ended up spending £23 😣 that was cat biscuits, some cleaning stuff on offer and some summer bulbs also on offer.

Realised the other day I forgot to put Dec millage in so annoying!

Popped into tescos when dd was at her drama group and ended up spending £23 😣 that was cat biscuits, some cleaning stuff on offer and some summer bulbs also on offer.

Realised the other day I forgot to put Dec millage in so annoying!

There's an offer on the nectar app, buy a daily mail & log into the app, select the offer to link your nectar account to a mymail account.

Enter the numbers etc.

Get £5 in nectar vouchers.

I got two so I could do his nectar card too.

Yes but it means buying the daily mail......

£3.80 fitness. Want going to go but got the chance to so did.
Have to get a few bits from Morrison's tomorrow lunch, maybe if I can be arsed. No snow hear except the odd flurry. Then it's gone.

Nice sofa.
How much coffee do you get for £70? If it's nice and cheaper than take away then why not as long as it's budgeted for

NSD. Didn't achieve much at work today, except telling lots of bosses they need to do better.

Karate tomorrow £10, plus need to fill the car, but can reclaim that

Thanks Fluffy

Just saved £62 on our house buildings and contents insurance ..£247 quoted from Aviva and will get £42.50 Quidco cashback on that ! This includes accidental loss of high value items outside the house . (but not emergency cover ) ..

This is the third time I have found Aviva to be the best deal for hose insurance in the last year , I have also bought insurance for the house DH lives in all week working away and also for DS flat from them .. all through Quidco so already have has around £80 back on those deals ..They pay up quite quickly also .

John Lewis insurance has £85 cashback on it today , but i didn't get as good a price from them as Aviva.

money it was me who said about cashback on car hire .. again through Quidco . We have been getting around 9% the last few times.. usually go with Avis.. they take about 6 months after the hire period to pay up though .

No way would I buy the daily fail ..

Pizza. Garlic bread. Lemonade (icy cold) and sweet potato fries.

Ds was handed over to dh the minute he came home. It’s been a long day.

Ds has had his bath. Dh is Now putting him to bed.

girlie Thats annoying.. can you put your mileage in late? We can do it in 'lumps'

Life I thought that when my friend was going on about The Sun holidays, I still don't think I could bring myself to buy The Sun even for a cheap holiday!!

Just had a row with dd about decorating her bedroom, apparently she wants to paint the ceiling and doors as well nope that isn't going to happen!! I bloody hate decorating at the best of times!!

Above are great, especially when you have a claim. Not so good when they suddenly decide to change their flooding provisions but outside of that we had great service from them across a number of claims.

£19 parking which I can claim back. Last week’s claim has still not been approved or paid yet. I keep making pointed comments to my boss about my overdraft and understanding bank manager!