The Friendly Frugaleers- Autumn is on its way !

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Hi Frugaleers
Sorry lame thread title

£2 ham.

Anyone know if gp's will remove Nexplanon early? mines been in 13 months & my skin is getting worse each month. There's a place in the city that will do it for £110 if they refuse.

We use our breadmaker loads for all sorts of things. It's currently making dough first rolls. We use it to make pizza dough quite often too.

Yes they will Fluffy
Ask to make an appointment to discuss.
Love my Panasonic which is on its last legs.
I just use for dough .

They don't like to fluffy but if you go prepared with valid reasons they should do. It takes two seconds to remove.

Is it frowned upon just to whip it out like a skelf?

Take If I had a syringe of scandonest plain and a diagram of major arm arteries I'd be sorely tempted.

I feel I've given it time to settle.

Yikes! Sounds like maybe best not then. It must be a bigger skelf than I was thinking. Is sounds as though it would be worth asking to be rid of it though, if you are struggling with side effects. Might be worth waiting until September so they are past everyone being on holiday.

It sits in the subcutaneous fat -nowhere near arteries !
Mind you scarring and infection therefore no advisable to do yourself .

I don't have a lot of fat to go at though and the risk of me hitting a branch so close to the heart is a bit concerning. A colleague hit a branch of the femoral artery and nearly bled out in the clinic.

The patient complained he had to be re-booked.

I'm looking at family planning too but they have the most confusing website here. I'm still not sure if they only see under 25's.

What on earth was your colleague doing Fluffy

Medicine is a bit hair-raising isn't it? Yikes.

We sit on wheeled chair so you tend to plant your legs apart for stability and she dropped the scalpel while removing hard skin, it dropped into the arterial branch. She took it out and in seconds blood started pumping out. It was a 15 blade too.

Bad combination of right near the aorta and in a dependant limb.

LSD just 10.60 for the train - huge walk and train back. but yesterday ouch 40 vet -jabs. pet food 42 and tesco 142 - 2 bottles gin for presents, wine on offer lots of cleaning/household stuff but still - ouch again

Ocado shop coming later £77. That’s my only spend for the day.

We’ve been for a walk round the lanes. 4.5km with ds in the pushchair.

Picked about 500g of blackberries. They’ve gone in a bag in DMs freezer. When we have enough I’m making jam. Annoyingly I’ve put all my collected jars into storage. So will either have to start saving again. Or will wait until we move to make the jam.

Plan is to take a tub out everytime we go for a walk and do some picking.

Today’s pick ended up with my balances precariously on top of a fence.

Good day here but a little spendy. Sunday treat was a trip to our nearest beach. It still takes nearly an hour. Fish and chips on the way (in a sit down place!) £68 (big family), £50 diesel and £13 on ice creams. But the beach was bliss. Empty, warm, not windy. We all paddled and the dc had real fun. Dd3 was the naked child of shame in the car on the way home (in a back to front cardi, the only spare clothes in the car).

Evening. Hope you are all okay.

em I'm also foraging like a good 'un here too. We live behind a field and I'm literally hopping over our fence and collecting daily blackberries to eat. They are so sweet this year!

scandi I'm late to this but who ever gets to marry that young boy is not going to be very pleased with your friend.... you were very kind.

You okay snuggly? Tired few days?

Loving the colour scheme wrecked.

Hi skeleton. You sound pretty organised. A few suggestions would be checking every single direct debit for the best deal or usefulness, using topcashback where possible, menu planning would bring top up shops down, save your 50ps or £1 coins. Aldi, Lidl, bulk buys, batch cooking, taking your own lunch, taking your own coffees etc.

NSD.

I've run 20 miles this morning then made a load of salads, hummus, soup etc for the week. And done the beds in all our rooms.

Oh and amazing news about the mortgage lonely, you have done so well to get to this stage, fully deserved.

Wrong
Have you got an Aldi or Lidl near you?Its way cheaper than Tesco loathe
Cleaning stuff and Laundry stuff is very good .

I hate Tesco too, I'm not sure why but I do!

Speaking of baking, what equipment do we need as complete novices? Like I could even mess up one of those kiddie cupcake kits. But have agreed with the kids that we will learn to bake. We have nothing at all other than one muffin tray (DH makes yorkies). What are essentials?

I have absolutely no clue what colour to do our living room so I think it'll be the last in the house to be done.

My two get a fiver a month, may increase this and particularly thinking of increasing DD's further now she is secondary age, but this would also bring more responsibility eg she has to buy more of her own clothes (fun stuff I mean, obviously I cover essentials) but I can't figure out the details so haven't started yet.

I don't link to chores, they have been brilliant since the move at helping out as a family so I don't want to change that by rewarding it IYSWIM. I would have to think of some extra jobs regular enough to make it work I think. They do get tuck money based on spelling scores though, in term time as they have a tuck shop at st john ambulance. So they get a cost per word they get right on test day :o but again not sure how that'll work now as DD has moved onto cadets where they don't do tuck.

Ooo cag my baking essentials...

A loaf tin
Round cake tins with removable base
Cake mixer, especially important when you have issues physically imo, nothing makes my wrists hurt as much as mixing a cake
Digital scales
Grease proof paper
Cupcake/muffin cases
Measuring spoons
Sieve

I reckons as the basics that's probably it?

cag mixing bowls. Spoons. Hand mixer maybe. Muffin trays.

Just
Its ghastly -cheap food,grim fruit and veg and so bloody expensive for what it is .
I find Waitrose much cheaper if you stick to the regular 30% off and dont really care what brand of cheese etc .
Plus their track record of poor treatment towards their suppliers is terrible !