The Friendly Frugaleers - Furtively planning Christmas, as August arrives

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Welcome one and all!

Once you have filled in the form you can present it as ID just as if it was an extension of your birth certificate.

Happy birthday Sunny !!! Hope the doctors appt goes well, you can do this.

The boys have a dentist appointment this morning, and then we need to buy school shoes. So it’s all fun, fun, fun today!

We need more Kallax too. Might do click and collect order and send dh on his own as he won't get carried away in the marketplace.

I'm on it today! Washing out, second load in machine, kitchen cleaned including floor and cupboard under kitchen sink cleared out. I bought some of that Method floor cleaner. DD loves the smell and it's done a good job but it's expensive and in a plastic bottle which I'm trying to reduce so I think I'll stick to hot soapy water.

Thanks Curls. I printed that too. Feeling positively courageous now.

Morning all,

Happy birthday sunny and good luck at the Dr's. Agree it's not good if you can't drink water that's not sustainable!!

Slowly waking up here, meeting a friend for breakfast this morning which is nice and I have an osteopath appointment this afternoon. Hoping he can sort my neck/arm trouble out, the pain is better but I can still feel it when I drive anywhere. It's £60 for an hour and my mums offered to pay bless her.

Good luck Girlie. That sounds brilliant. Osteopaths can do some really astonishing things. I hope it goes well.

Thanks for the encouragement too.

Happy birthday sunny

We've not been up long. Have made the dc eggs for breakfast and I had a bacon sam which. Yum.

Going to see a friend after lunch and then the food shopping is being delivered.

I'm off. Bye!

Happy Birthday Sunny.
Hope your appointment goes well.

Happy birthday Sunny and I really hope your doctors appointment is helpful.

Should be an unspendy day today - have a pregnancy physio appointment then taking DS to a play date at a friend’s house. Going to the pub with friends later but it’s walking distance and I’ll only have 1 or maybe 2 soft drinks. A few days behind on YNAB so must catch up that ASAP and I also need to do our online shopping order for tomorrow and do my monthly invoice for my pocket money job as it’s overdue so I’ll get paid late. Never seem to have time for all these admin jobs!

Would it be worth getting a provisional license to use as ID even if you don’t want to learn to drive? I only learned 2 years ago but had a provisional for 10 years beforehand so I had a form of ID in my purse (mind I’ve got a baby face so at 29 I still get ID’d buying booze sometimes so I need it 😂). That must be a right pain if your bank won’t change your name etc.

Happy Birthday sunny and good luck with appointment too. Apparently water goes straight through but drinks with sugar or electrolytes cling so more chance of them staying onboard, so a gp told me when I couldn't keep water down when I'd gastro while pregnant with ds, 5 years ago now but it's stuck in my brain.

Payslip is really good for this week as did overtime on Sat, luckily as must pay cc, the big one, and we're away too.

I'm so behind on ynab, hopefully I'll get a chance to look at it today.

I was wondering about that. I haven't before as it's just depressing knowing I will never be able to use it (I can't drive due to disabilities). Is there some other nationally recognized ID card? I have no idea.

It irks a little that DH was allowed no problem. And yet it's much more unusual for a man to change his name on marriage surely? Double barreling isn't that unusual either, loads of women do it. HMRC, council etc changed it no problem they just needed marriage certificate to see it was both our surnames going together.

Thanks sunny I'll definitely do that once we are back online properly. Need to do it for DD1 too as she is having an extra middle name since the younger ones both have two! We let her choose one herself.

Hope the osteopath helps Girlie as you must do a fair bit of driving in your job.

Meeting a few work friends for coffee today, should be low spend day. Need bread and milk - again

Have been spending an absolute fortune on food during school holidays, but ours go back next Wednesday so should be able to cut back then. I give them £3 a day each for lunch at school - so £30 a week 😱 I actually think I’ve been spending more than this during holidays as my food shopping has skyrocketed!

Cag
Passport renewal is now really easy.
You can do it online in about 5 minutes if you have an expired one and then take the form and new photos to the PO and send recorded delivery .
Mine came back in 10 days.
Then you have id sorted for 10 years.

Slept from 22.30 right through until 9.30 😮
Crikey .
Dcats were no longer piled up but circling like lions
Im usually up 6/7 even on a day off so that was odd.
Its lovely here, 20 and sunny but not so hot .
Have lots of gardening to do-chopping back dead things mainly .

Mammy Thanks that's really helpful advice. Maybe I'll do something shifty to my water to improve it a bit.

My GP appointment was sort of minimally successful. I asked about the not drinking and she tested and says my pulse and blood pressure are fine, and a urine sample was quite respectable. She says I must just have a long virus and that my efforts at small sips of water are doing the job.

She says I've to keep doing that and not chug water, which is a bad idea. She is not my regular GP as he is off ill, and it was really noticeable that we couldn't really have a proper chat about anything as she doesn't know me at all. I shall just have to look forward to him coming back.

I'll try your suggestion Mammy. It sounds good.

Does anybody else get really attached to their own GP and miss them when they are away? I do, and it's really bugging me that I'm not allowed to know what's happened to him or whether anybody is doing anything about it. Our School headmistress is off ill too and no one will tell me what's happened and I can't visit her to give her a bit of sympathy. It's really honestly doing my head in that I can't do anything to help either of them.

Sunny at least you know your vital signs are stable, but that is really disappointing that she didn’t check bloods. So I suppose you just have to keep doing what you’re doing maybe trying to get up and about a bit more as your body allows. Hopefully if the weather is cooler you will feel less exhausted

That sounds positive Sunny good news that you are not dehydrated.
I hope this doesnt sound harsh but its completely inappropriate for you to try and find out why your GP/HT are ill and I would imagine they would be horrified if you tried to visit .
Its completely overstepping boundaries.
You are one of many patients/parents not a close friend and they are entitled to a private life in the sameway that you are.
If a "client" deliberately vaguetried to contact me in any way outside of my work I would be very worried indeed.
That said a card from a group - with other parents at school for example would be fine.
I have a good relationship with my GP of many years and would be sad if he left but thats it .
Can you talk to someone about this?

Happy Birthday Sunny. I don't miss my GP. They don't miss us. It's just a job.

Cag If the bank hasn't let you change but has let your dh that is worth emailing the ceo about. It's poor service and I've found a bank complaint is usually worth £100 in compensation. So, rather than spend money on it try and get it done for free. If you get any compensation then all the better.

£1 two bottles of shampoo.
£1.98 baked beans and fabric softener.

A top I bought in Boden last summer has un-ravelled at the hem so I've been refunded £20 in account credit & I'm just awaiting a returns form so I can post it back. I keep free returns labels for things like this.

Just got Shopmium cashback on

www.hotukdeals.com/deals/enjoy-a-free-pizza-or-carvery-when-you-install-the-stonehouse-app-3007179

Free pizza or carvery at stonehouse if you download the app.

Ooops
Just got cashback on Taylors of Harrogate coffee bags .
Should be £2.80 for 10.
Got 2 different types to try-handy for work so 20 coffees for £2.80 as got £2.80 back.
Not bad as thats the price of one Costa/Starbucks.

Fluffy you are so good at this!! If I could be half as good as you I’d be a million times better than I am 😂

Sunny, glad you had a half successful appointment.
Cag, would the bank accept the citizen card? I know it is usually aimed at students, you can pick up the form from the post office or pubs. You need someone to sign it, iirc, it is about £20, just a thought.

Agree it’s just a job. I’d be super annoyed if I was off sick or long term leave (other than Maternity leave) and a client wanted to find out what was up. Absolutely inappropriate from a professional perspective.

I think it would depend what was wrong with the person. When ds1’s teacher was off and missed the last few months of him being in primary school everyone knew she’d had a knee replacement. I don’t imagine for a minute we would have been told if it was something more personal. I have a purely professional relationship with my GP and don’t always see the same one anyway, but some people have a slightly different relationship ie my BIL calls his GP by his first name as they live in a village where everyone knows each other.