March Frugaleers continued. In which we report spends, share money saving advice, chat about pretty much everything and post pet pics.

[Cagliostro]

Welcome one and all! Newbies and lurkers always welcome 💐

I reached the point of almost divorcing DH over his snoring and keeping me awake.
It was like being tortured and he is a night owl and Im not.
Separate rooms all the way.
Its heaven -none of his man crap and no farting,snoring,snuffling or waking me up.
I will never share a bed with anyone .
Dcats/Ddog are allowed day time visits

DH has only just started storing sometimes over the last few months, which is really annoying given my sleep has started to become extra disturbed anyway over the last few months! It's driving me mad. He feels really bad about it as well but it's not his fault and I don't know why he would just suddenly start snoring when he never used to?! He has put a fair bit of weight on recently though and he thinks it might be to do with that? He's busy trying to lose it.

Mammy and other Irish folk, do I need to take plug adapters to Ireland or do you use the same plugs/sockets as us in the UK? Sorry if that sounds super stupid .

Meadow we use same plugs

Happy St Patrick's Day tayto creme and all the frugaleers

Happy Paddy's Day, Mammy (sorry you're sick again) and Tayto. Enjoy the parades!

Tiny dusting of snow here, so fingers crossed we've got off lightly. It's actually sunny now. Not sure I'll venture out today, as I don't need to; I have lots of stuff I could be getting on with in the house; it's well below zero, with the wind chill factor; and even though I don't like rugby, I'll make an exception for today's match!💚🍀

Snow here too (London). Was coming down quite hard this morning for a short time but it’s not really settling. Do you really think the trains will be affected Wreck? It’s not that bad here but you’re down past t’other side.

Happy Paddy’s day everyone. DH is out tonight with friends so I get yo out the kids to bed and then watch crap telly with my knitting. I am really excited about it! I’ve got DD’s cold and while I’m not as miserable as she is I am really binged up.

Ocado coming later, around £125 and no fruit or fish for DH’s birthday meal tomorrow (will go to our lovely fishmonger). But we’d run out of foil, cling film, DH’s expensive cereal, washing powder, nappies.... it’s was one of those shops . I am trying to stockpile less which helps with storage but I do get caught out occasionally.

Also spent £13 on a tapestry frame for a cushion I have and want to do next. And getting hair cut and coloured this arvo so £££

Seacow you're under an amber warning so they reckon after 4pm it's going to get bad. I think I'm going to miss it.

Smart meter is here
Quick question
Its showing we are using 9p/hr gas
Heating/hot water is off

I’m so confused - I think it depends which forecast you look at! It does say more snow here overnight but not loads (bbc app). Anyway, I’m not going anywhere! DH will be in central London tonight. I think there will be some snow tomorrow so he’ll have his first ever white birthday. Shame we didn’t put a bet on THAT happening!

Thanks Lonely, that's what I thought. And who asks someone else's husband to car-share over a walkable journey in heavy traffic to a place with no parking. (!?) Hey ho!. I'm sure she was being kind.

It's freezing here and we have tickets to go and see a football match between two actual proper league football teams. May need to wear 17 layers of bubble wrap.

Maybe she is after him paying half her petrol/parking ?

I'm doing a cross stitch birth sampler, this morning under lamplight I mixed up two shades & ended up unpicking 15 stitches, lesson learned & only small bit done luckily.

I've broken my alcohol free stint to add half a measure of Jameson to a lemsip cocktail of drugs & alcohol ^^ hoping for a long nap.

H will take dc to local parade they're partaking in, he's also taking them to cinema tomo. I booked tickets with 10% disc, hoping there's cash back rewards too
to you seacow

Mammy whisky and paracetamol is really pushing the boat out. Yikes!

Quite I thought that re petrol costs, quite frugal of her really

Had nails, brows and lashes done, best part of £50 with tip but at least I have a face and tidy nails for my interview

Went to Sainsbury’s as I forgot to get chicken out of the freezer this morning and bought ds two Tshirts in the sale, some tights for work and some other bits. Spent a bloody fortune on nowt

Fish and chips for lunch, the best fish and chip shop in the area has very reduced opening hours and we often can’t get there so I took advantage as I was passing

It’s been a very spendy day

mammy that’s essentially a hot toddy right?

I’ve never added booze to lemsip but have washed down paracetamols with a mix of whisky hot ribena ginger brown sugar. Slept like a baby.

Riding done. It is Baltic here today. My hands were so cold and painful I couldn’t feel the pony through my gloves. Ended up taking them off as they weren’t doing anything. Was worried that because I couldn’t feel anything I wouldn’t have as much grip when it came to jumping but I managed to pull out some of poor ponys mane. Oops. Gave her a naive carrot though (Waitrose organic purple carrots which were going off).

meadow dh put weight on when I was pregnant. Sympathy weight. For snoring (I snore during apparently and also had really blocked sinuses all the time but also “drippy”) I bought snoreease strips. Like a wierd plaster which goes on your nose. Dh says they worked....

Yup weight can definitely increase chance of snoring, something to do with the throat having more fat round it or something?! I started snoring in my second pregnancy and kept doing so until my third, makes sense as I am now (finally!) lighter than during the second pregnancy. So could well be that.

£20 top up shop, had visitors sprung on me this afternoon. I get nervous cooking for people too, as well as having people other than my best friends here (stuff like small talk is exhausting and I just can’t relax) so that’s all good fun . DH won’t even be here. Film finishes just after 5 in London.

We didn’t see any St Patrick’s stuff going on. DS proudly wore his green Ireland hat though :o

Other spends, £9 lunch for us three, and £12 exam fee for DD, she’s doing jive next week.

Does anyone know, with clubcard vouchers in restaurants, do you absolutely have to print them out, or would they copy the code from the email? It was just too cold to go to the library today.

I took my girls shopping (dd1 and 3 as dd2 at grandmas. 1 and 3 don't get on well, so this was really nice as they tried hard). So £10 in poundstretcher (3 baby fruit bushes, box vinyl gloves). £43 in tescos, but £23 of it was trackies for pe. And £29 in the very best garden center in the world for gardening stuff, not posh coffee and wellies. Big potato buckets, perlite, shallots and far too many seed potatoes!

And £15 fuel, so we could get home.

So, enough bought, and now I need some good weather to get on with it.

£60 hair for dd and I, £5 Ds hair and £5 footy, £55 Aldi, £22 odd Iceland after my £5 bonus was taken off. £30 diesel in flash. Ds' name for the new car.
Sainsbury's tomorrow as cba now. Take out tonight, first one in weeks as DC asked and I'm shattered after this week. Dh wants to celebrate my promotion but I don't want to go out. DC are sleeping out over Easter so we will then.

Have been reading but sorry not commenting much as I'm ptf.

Lots of snow here and an easterly wind. Not laying though. Fingers crossed footy postponed tomorrow.

Cag ime you need to print them off

Thank you. Damn. Will have to keep them for another time then.

Was just too tired and cold after getting all the shopping to manage the library as well. And now it turns out the shopping trip was pointless as the visitors have totally changed the plan. All the things I bought because they said earlier that they’d eat a particular thing here. Then I get a message saying they will bring their own sandwiches. I might actually cry. That sounds pathetic I know, but being autistic, in pain and completely exhausted it was taking a lot for me to have people here at all, let alone cook for them and use what little energy I have shopping for it all. I am completely worn out now. Beyond gutted.

Cag that's really naughty. I would be tempted to cancel. Will you be able to make use of what you bought?

That's shit cag. Can you freezer it for another time?

I feel cross on your behalf cag Will the stuff keep for the next few days?

I must try the soup snuggly and need. I do want to buy the HFW book but too tight to pay £11.99 for it, although the recipe is online

I have had a lovely nap but still tired. Full of cold too. Urggh.