Frugaleers chatting and saving in the April sunshine.

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Welcome to the new thread. This is a support thread for chatting and discussion of family budgeting.

Ds seems to have discovered an entire days worth of washing machine loads in his room...again! I don’t know where he hides it it isn’t a big room and it’s not like I don’t check. I am sending him and dh to the laundrette because I am fed up and we are going away tomorrow and ds has no ducking clothes. Theatre tonight which I’m really looking forward to it’s ages since we’ve been as it’s just so expensive

I hope you have a good time Girlie in spite of the weather. It’s being trapped in a family room that’s worrying me most! 😬

I haven’t even started yet Em because I’ve woken up with a headache so am clutching my head instead. But ruthless decluttering would make so much difference to our lives! I was just thinking yesterday that if we were moving house I wouldn’t keep half of this stuff so I shouldn’t keep it now! Must get motivated.

I’m also going to batch cook some cottage pie and chicken liver pate for dd to freeze. I’m struggling a bit for lunch and light meal ideas as I am trying to avoid sweet things with bread /rice cakes and getting a bit bored of cream cheese and peanut butter. I’m also trying to avoid salty things so the only option really is to make some savoury stuff like pate without salt. Sadly she does not seem to be enamoured with houmous

Wolf do we have the same son, mine has also come down with a huge pile, I'm not sure how much of it is dirty either.

Lsd today, just popping to local co op for lottery tickets and that's pretty much it.

Dh has the car and is at his mum's getting it ready to go up for sale next month so it means I can't go out and spend money

Cag You can get free condoms from the dr or nhs choices has a postcode search for clinics near you. The sexual health workers I’ve met are beyond broad minded so if you want chocolate flavour fluorescent ribbed ones they will probably already stock them. The nhs order book has a wide selection.

You can get free pg testing too. No need to pay.

£58 two weeks shopping. Just need fruit, veg etc now but I’ll go tm when we get the new basin trap. Dh thinks he’s not fixing the sink this weekend. Sweet.

chocolate flavour fluorescent ribbed ones... especially for an Easter treat..

Gawd... foul weather Eh? . We are having an at home chilled day..
luckily just us two around .. ill be making gammon and parsley sauce with new potatoes and peas Le YUM.. I really got into this as a combination in France

Yep weather is miserable as are my dc

Anyway

£20 fuel
£5 carwash
£12 macdonalds
£68 Sainsbury's (fuck, the dc will pay back £27 of that though)
£5 Aldi
£70.42 Tesco
£35 Argos.

I've got a nice new kettle and toaster which matches my kitchen perfectly!

MrsOH yes that sounds very familiar. £65 buying a load of sale trousers for ds and a pair of jeans for me. £90+ at Sainsbury’s buying a couple of bottle of wine to take to relatives tomorrow a tahirt for dh and easy cook food for dh and ds for when I’m away next week. Not really sure how it came to 90 to be honest.

Oh and 20 in Lidl on gin and Easter treats

£11.20 in Co-Op and that is my spends for the day.
Ds2 is 12, size 9 feet, and slowly over taking everyone in height, he hasn't over took me yet but it won't be long. He's a way to go before he reaches his Dad and older brother.

I don't like gin, my Dad does though. What are the flavour ones like?

Ds and I just pressure washed my parents' new drive. I got a lot of mud splashed in my mouth so that my gut flora diversity taken care of for the year. Unbelievably muddy job. Looks better now.

Blimey fluffy I’ll stick with the normal ones thanks 🙈😂 and frankly I hope never ever to take a pregnancy test again 😳 the other day I realised it was exactly a year since I took the last one... which I threw at DH in a panic as I read the result!😳 All turned out well though 😍

Spends £10 train, trams aren’t running to east Croydon so we had to get the bus which took an age but is free for me with my disabled pass so a win there. Want to go into town later, as I need a mattress for the travel cot and a changing mat etc to keep here, but it’s beyond horrible out there ugh.

Had a nice time seeing my grandma for the first time in a couple of years.

I’m going to need a new sling soon. This one has served me incredibly well but she’s getting too big. Eep.

Oncologist estimates dad has 3 months left. . He’s being his usual upbeat self, says he didn’t want to watch the World Cup anyway 🙄.

Oh seacow 😰 how unspeakably completely shit. I’m so sorry. He sounds like a funny guy with his World Cup quip, bless him. Big hugs xxx

Oh seacow that is unbelievably rubbish. Xxx 💐💐

We’ve been to see fil. Lots of cups of tea. Have had fishy pie with dparents and a wine and I’m now exhausted. Ds is napping. I’m tempted to sneak up to my old room and have a nap too.

Oh seacow I'm so sorry 😔 I hope you can spend as much time as possible

I've been awol this week only to jump back in to a conversation about fluorescent flavoured condoms - what on earth have I missed?!

Oh seacow I'm so sorry to hear that, if you have any palliative care type questions please do pm me 💐

Spendy day
£46 sainsburys I bought myself two new pairs of skinny stretchy jeans, a new cossie and we got lunch for that as well.
£20 new look clothes for dd
£10 primark more clothes.
£5 coffee and cake
£2.40 parking
£10 girl cats px
£1.10 milk
£4 super drug

Think that's about it, everything was needed, dd still needs new shoes as her feet have suddenly gone up a size ran out of steam today.

Weather is awful, heavy rain the whole day.

Seacow, really sorry to hear that. I know you will make the most of the time you have left though.

Girlie, my DS has been assessed twice by different paediatricians for ASD when he was younger, and both times, it came back that there wasn't enough evidence to diagnose either way, so I gave up on formal diagnosis, although in my opinion he has a lot of Aspergers tendencies . He copes and functions generally well at school and in public, (although he would quite cheerfully tell people talking not particularly loudly at cinemas to "shut up" without any qualms or guilt, for example) and saves his exhaustion and anxiety for at home.

He gets a bit of extra time and help with organisation since his very low processing skills were picked up by an educational psychologist at the end of Year 6, however, and is now seeking a counsellor at school to talk about his stress and anxiety.

Sea so sorry to hear that, your dad’s attitude is amazing x

Oh Sea So sorry......

sea that is hard news.

I have spent the day sorting and cleaning bike bits. Who needs 11 pedals (not pairs) and 17 saddles. I don't even ride much...but I am sick of muddy greasy bike everywhere.

Discovered husband has had a secret credit card absolutely furious , now have to clear that debt too

seacow so, so sorry to hear your sad news

Sorry to hear that Christmas. I'm impressed at his attitude.

I just took ds to a classical choir concert. I'm not really into that kind of thing, but one of the soloists was my GP when ds was a baby and I really miss him since he retired so I went to cheer him along like a football fan. I went and had a chat and that was nice. He used three long words that I didn't understand and now I feel bit of a plonker, but otherwise it went well. We did not get chucked out for playing naughts and crosses in the front stalls, and ds did not insist on walking out half way through. Phew!

So sorry Seacow