May Making Money Go Frugally Further

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Dd has our neighbours daughter in with her in the sitting room. I hate people being in the house so I'm hiding upstairs. Dh thinks I'm weird

We have been to the beach and I have swum in the sea ! At the end of May ..in the uk.Twice ! In a bikini even though I am 60 and still need to lose at least a stone ..
No fucks goven I am with my family and we are all having fun..
Otherr things Grandmas can do ( no hint of injeunie (sp?) here.) ...making sandcastles. Puddle pool digging runining up and down with little dgds with buckets full of sea water to fill pool. Sploshing, wave jumping racing ,football.. counting shells and eating sandy picnics.
Great fun!

What a lovely day laska

My sky has stealthily crept up. When I took this bundle (variety+f1) it was about £32 a month. A few years later and we don't really watch enough to justify it. We can buy Eurosports on prime for the cycling (non negotiable) for £4.99 a month, may-september. We downloaded my prime onto the ps4, and it seems you can use the sky box for freeview once you cancel. The dc mostly watch you tube (on tablets or the ps4) so what would we be missing??

I need to call them. Cue another frog.

Lonely I use my sky box for free view now and I have now tv for the rest. It’s great there are some cooking shows I miss like master chef Australia but nothing I’d want to pay £30 for. I also have prime so I get fire tv with that which includes movies but don’t often watch.

Laska that sounds like a perfect day

Wreck I would hide too, definitely not weird

Just realised we have completely run out of money this month. I've been paid but need to pay nursery and dh doesn't get paid until Thursday. Bugger. Making a meal plan based on what we have in the cupboards and hoping for park weather all week!

Snuggly have you got any clubcard points you can use? I bet we could come up with meal ideas if you get stuck. I like the challenge of making meals with odds must be my love of ready steady cook

A ha! Found you just as another thread is filling up!

Laska that sounds brilliant. Well done you. I have my shorts on myself. Short shorts seem to be in fashion this year and I wasn't sure at first, but I actually really like wearing them.

Sound like a fab day laska.

Clubcard points is a good idea! I think we'll be eating a lot of pasta and rice this week. I've found 3 different meals in the freezer that'll do the dcs for lunch and I can have a sandwich or something. Will buy some fruit and yoghurt though and milk and eggs. Should have some Nectar or Clubcard points to cover that.

Exhausted. Is. Not. The. Word.

My goodness being a hostess of a party is tiring work.

The church service was lovely. Vicar was lovely. Not too preachy. He was super good with ds and with the kids in our party. Service went without a hitch. Ds dh and me in front pew. Then god parents. Then my mum dad and sister on the other front one. Next back fil and gf and then mil.

Mil took podium position near the font with dh. Vicar asked her to “move along dear - there’s a love” (if I hadn’t been in church holding ds I’d have pissed my pants but y’know, church...)

I (for once) felt very comfortable in church. So we may go again.

The reception was lovely. No fuss that I was involved in. I avoided mil. She tried to give ds cake. But I said no. She drank a lot. She told everyone she’d paid for the food and was paying for the bubbly. The pub lady took her to her word. And said that if that was the case could she settle the bill. So £100 prosecco charged to mils card. I made a huge fuss of her and thanked her publicly for the bubbly. She was seething. And has asked me to reimburse her. I said no. Because ddad was going to pay for the bubbly but she took the decision herself. I suggested she ask ddad. Which she won’t. She’s got front but not enough to ask my 6’5 rugby player build dad to reimburse her.

I had three wines and two proseccos. Loads of food and some cake. So am feeling tipsyfull.

£450 at the pub on the food. £27 bar. And around £180 loyalty points. Yay!!! Pub lady had my card hooked up when mil paid for the prosecco....!!!!

Home. Cheese toasties. Tea. Water. And christening present opening. People have been so generous. Ds has been given some beautiful gifts (books, lovely toys, and a lot of money - that kids going to have more money in his account than me on Tuesday when I pay it in....).

All in all. Lovely lovely day

(And I’ve made £58 on eBay sales)

Oh Em I’ve vern waiting for that update all day. Hoist by her own petard

Em that's fabulous. Been wondering how it went. Nice one pub landlady.

Hahahaha! Love it! Silly moo serves her right ( do make sure your DH is doesnt get guilted into paying her back though)

Em 2 Mil 0 and its not quarter time

Lovely day today (apart from a bit of rain in the afternoon).

We went to DNiece's confirmation yesterday and had a lovely afternoon. SIL used to run a catering business so she put on a lovely spread for us. So we were fed and watered for the whole day.

A rather spendy day today. We headed to a garden centre to buy a hanging basket and some plants for two containers we had lying in the garden. We picked up this garden set www.homebase.co.uk/quebec-steel-4-seater-square-garden-furniture-set-dark-grey_p405217 - there was a good reduction on it. We also picked up some bags of compost, grass seed and container plants. We spent €180.29 altogether. The hanging baskets weren't very nice so we headed to a different garden centre and picked up a lovely hanging basket and also a daisy tree for our porch. Total spend €51.80. When we got home we planted the two containers and assembled the garden table and then indulged in a glass of wine in the garden and listened to the sound of birdsong. Bliss! €230 is a lot of money to spend on the garden but we haven't spent anything on it all year and the flowers make such a difference. I'll be back later for a read and a proper catch up.

We’ve laughed so much. And cried a bit too.

His godmother, the one who was worried about her nose ring, turned up at church looking amazing. And brought with her a practically lifesize stuffed gorilla.

He sat in the front pew with us.

The story behind this is her parents introduced mine. And when she was born, my mum bought her a huge gorilla. Ds is getting this gorilla but she washed it. And it’s nose fell off!!! Poor Mrs GG. (Gorillas name). So once she’s dry ds will get this too!

Tayto They look lovely. I paint pots too.

em Was there any.....Bread? It sounds like a wedding but with babies. It certainly ticked all the boxes. Baby boy is now loaded by the sounds of it.

Snuggly Will you be ok?.

at was there any bread ?
So glad it went well .
You are playing MIL like a fiddle 😂😂😂

Lovely plants Tayto
Have bought lots of stuff for our garden recently but all planned and saved for .
Its been lovely sitting out and enjoying it with the nice weather we have been having.
All DC at home again and have had a lovely day lazing around on the garden and eating/gardening .
Yesterday we went to a horsey event with a picnic and walked all day ,miles and miles.
It was glorious .

We are at our air bnb place, it's lovely! The hosts are out so we have this massive house to ourselves, plan to go to swanage beach tomos...

Well done em you are doing magnificently 🌟

Not caught up yet but girlie that’s fab about the bird feeder. Might I suggest buying dried mealworms too? We get them in wilko or Poundland I think, and we have a much wider range of birds than when we just used seeds.

😂😂😂 at MIL. Brilliant.

Today was not frugal.

@ the MIL stories. Glad you had a fantastic day, Em.

NSD.

Have a super holiday, Girlie.

Brilliant Em!

We'll be OK Fluffy, thank you. We have food in and no bills come out of the account until after dh is paid. I checked the account earlier and the child benefit hasn't gone in yet so we should get that this week which will be amazing!

Enjoy your holiday girlie.