The Friendly Frugaleers, halfway through June!

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All welcome!

Congratulations meadow

Front page of the telegraph hmm in that case I’m burning them !

Congratulations meadow. I echo what the others said.

Good luck today lonely, you will be great!

Glad to hear you are on the mend laska, enjoy your holiday and so pleased that your DS has found some work

Congratulations Meadow! Enjoy your beautiful baby girl.

Got more time now

Good luck lonely, you will be ace
Hey laksa, happy holidays and hope you carry on getting well

Meadow you might not feel it now but when your are strong enough defo ask for a debrief. The world is full of "perfect" births in the media when in reality it's not that easy at all. Have a go at bf, your midwife should know of any local support groups. If it doest work that's ok too.

Yes Meadow - if your birthing unit doesn’t advertise it as a service just ask PALs. I am sure they would facilitate if you wanted to discuss it anytime. It doesn’t have to be soon after either, whenever (and if ever) you are ready. I hope you’ve had a good night, they can seem very long at this stage before feeding is easy.

Hey Laska I was thinking you'd been quiet. Great news about DS, any work is better then none as it helps with confidence as well as money. Hope you recover fully and have a great trip.

I conked out and went to bed at 9.30pm. That is unheard of for me as we only get DS to bed around 8.15 and then we eat. But I felt awful, I think I was just knackered. Was up in the night with DS (nightmares) but still feeling much better today.

Today- preparation for DS’s meeting tomorrow and some cake decoration bits that I need to make ahead so they can dry /set. Oven mending people are coming 4-6pm, so right in the middle of kids’ dinner. That’s be chaos then, but at least it will be fixed, fingers crossed!

It’s cooler here today, very welcome as it’s been so muggy. 27C in London next week

Laska that’s good news about ds, hopefully he can find something more permanent in that time. I will keep my fingers crossed for him. Have a fantastic holiday, three weeks away sounds great to me

Yes its with Liz Earle who are based here and a great company to work for (and not only because he gets a free goody box of LE products every week , which of course will be coming to me because he loves his mum!). So hopefully there may be more prospects if he does ok especially as they were impressed that he has warehousing qualifications and a Reach truck (like a forklift) license which he didn't need for the advertised job, .

I am all done and just waiting for the taxi in a couple of hours ...am treating my self to one as really feel I couldn't do the 2 buses i'd need to get right now..

Woohoo payday!

Hopefully the temp job will become something more permanent then laksa. Are your going to the same place in Greece as last time?

Spends £32 in joules on sale stuff for ds. A new winter coat (same as he had last year just bigger size!) some shorties and some cute tshirts.

£42 Bobbi brown on an eyeshadow pallet for Dm for her birthday.

I'm just going to jump in here I'm new to MN and desperately need to get to grips with my spending/debt management etc

witch ✋🏻 Hello!!! Welcome!! We’re super friendly here.

Tell us all about yourself and we’ll see how we can help.

Re debts - if you can are you doing the standing order trick?

Ha ha! Well the holiday hasnt started that well.. got a taxi ( island taxis are v expensive btw) to Cowes. Thats about 14 miles from where I live.. bought tickets and then realised that phone wasnt in backpack !!!! Panic all round .... not in loo not in coffe shop not at ferry desk.. the taxi had left but luckily the lovely people at the ferryport let me use their phone to call him in case id dropped it incab.... but of course i couldnt get through ( its IOW festival and taxis all busy ) finally managed to get through no phone in cab but he rang it and said it was on. (No find a phone enabled on my phone so nothing for it but to get another taxi to do another round journey home and back and yes, there it was where id left it sitting on my desk from when he had called me to say he was on the way.angry
DUH!!! Expensive day! Ive spent £83 on taxis!!!hmm.. just on train out of Southampton now. A ruddy good job we are not flying until morning! Sigh...

Ouch Laska. You will NEVER do that again though.

Witch Welcome. What are your debts and where do you think your going wrong with spending?. Homework threads for you.

The threads in the op of this thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1106655-Little-things-you-do-because-actually-youre-a-bit-tight

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/credit_crunch/3272562-Can-I-have-your-best-frugal-living-tips-please

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3145027-Meal-planning-finances

£10 aldi, £5 of that was 24 loo rolls.

£4 lidl onions, pitta x 2, coffee beans x 2
£2.25 sains, huge chilli powder, toothpaste, own brand squash.
£15 petrol.

Got £10 nectar points today from erewards.

And £3 cashback.

£13 coop. Five pound meal deal plus wine loo roll and breakfast.

Ouch Laska, you definitely won’t do that again.

Had some quidco cashback from clicksmart pay out too. Free chocolate bar and better than half price booze in Morrison last week

Will post spends now & catch up later
€4 nurofen
€5 parking at hospital
€380 to mechanic(€350 bill for work done in jan €30 cos I left lights on in my car & had to call him out calling h would be more frugal but I didn't for obvious reasons)
€8.99 on a 16x20 frame for cross stitch gift for ds preschool
€3.86 2 thank you cards, sandwich and drink from Aldi for late lunch, brought snacks with me for during the day.

After having hysteroscopy today I spent a very enjoyable 4 hours cross stitching and listening to Netflix, unfortunately didn't realise I'd lights left on in my car as well as radio and phone charger.

Seems I have some hormone problem, maybe early menopause, getting bloods done weekly and she'll see what they reveal.

Ouch Laska! That's just the sort of thing I'd do.

Welcome Witch.

NSD. Need to get through some marking. I've been a bit slack lately since the world cup started and the end of year exams are piling up. Yawn.

Welcome witch

How did your first day go lonely?

Expensive start to the holiday laksa.
Welcome witch.
That's annoying mammy. Rest up tonight. Pleased you are being seen though.

Hope the first day went well lonely.

£2.20 on some ice lollies today

Preschool gift

That’s lovely Mammy