Countdown to a Frugal Christmas, The Friendly Frugaleers still knitting,nattering and money saving!

[QuiteFabULousDahling]

New Fred

£88 dune on tan leather just below knee boots. Online via top cash back. Should get about£4 back.

£79 dh’s Amex on framing for some prints for ds’ room. These were the first ones I bought for him when I was pregnant. So they deserve naice framing.

Ooh quite I blast ds with the hair dryer too! He “runs” round the bed away from it screeching with laughter. We do Mohawks in the bath when we wash his hair. Super fun!

autumn my every day make up is fairly neutral. So it’s nice and easy to do. Usually a neutralish eye with a flicky top eyeliner (I said liquid liner earlier I lied. I use a felt tip one - much easier!) and a kohl lower line. Hair is either freshly washed so down, day two and half up half down day 3 pony tail with a small spritz of dry shampoo and day 4-5 messy bun.

That sounds nice Em.

I keep thinking about it but I don't think I could wear make-up. I like my face as it is. I think that if I want to look nicer then I would like to do what's needed to feel nicer inside and hope that that shines out on the outside. Maybe my clarinet exam is make-up for my insides?

Oh I do all that as well. Drink loads of water. Eat healthy (except for the cheese toasty and raisin danish I’ve eaten today). Multi vitamin. Cutting down on alcohol and caffeine etc.

I’m just a bit of a make up magpie.

That's calcium, em, in that Cheese toastie. Raisins are fruit.

I know what you mean Em. I love looking at the eyeshadow colour palettes that come out at Christmas. I always wish I could buy one, and then remember that I don't wear eyeshadow.

Seconded on the cheese btw. Good calcium, and that danish is probably where you're getting the energy to be such a fab Mum.

When I have kids I hope I'm half as good a parent as you lot are

sneakygremlins Thank you, that was just lovely to read and really brightened my day

Omg I have literally just sat down I have been on the go all day.

Whole downstairs cleaned/washed/mopped
Two kids of washing
One load hung up, dry washing folded
Tool dm to ikea £59 mostly on furniture/things to go in ds’s room with a mind on preventing further meltdowns when he can’t find stuff and a lovely set of advent calendar boxes
£49 Sainsbury’s new kettle, toaster and lottery ticket. Should have been over 112 but with discounts and double up I thought I did quite well
£12 M&S things to fill advent calendar, hot cross buns, gravy
Packed old toaster and kettle up for H. Scrubbed worktop with barkeeper friend ready for new kettle and toaster l.
Built unit for ds’s room. Will leave wall shelves to df as big masonry drill needed.
Raked autumn leaves from lawn and treated with autumn feed/weed stuff.
Packed gift for nieces

Can’t remember what else. Bloody knackered but feeling accomplished. Off to read back on the thread whilst resisting murdering ds for coming home with ink lines all over his brand new T-shirt grrr.

I have a proper eyeliner addiction. I have been wearing it for over thirty years. I used to wear top and bottom but now I just wear bottom unless I'm going out and then I go all out. I am trying to wean myself off it and if I'm only nipping to the local shops I might just wear mascara. I have visions of me as an old woman still wearing black eyeliner and its not good I envy people who don't feel the need to wear makeup I really do.

em what felt tip eyeliner do you use? I use The Body Shop which is a bit like a felt pen but you dip it like a liquid.

Spent £63 in Morrisons - bad idea as my back was killing me.

Wolf that is a busy day! Well done.

Born supermarkets are killers for bad backs. This is why I use ocado. The physio told me I could either go to the supermarket two to three times a week and only use those small trolleys where the whole thing is at waist height or I could online shop. That’s all the justification I need

For some reason I almost always take a shallow trolley. I think it stems back to when I had tennis elbow and reaching in and lifting things out really hurt my arm. God I sound like I am falling to bits Mind you I still manage to fit £100 of stuff into it. In fact I once had a basket in M&S that cost me £80

I like shallow trolleys too. Otherwise I have to bend double to reach into the trolley, which seems like a bad idea.

I always shudder to see people with a toddler and a baby in a car seat and a deep trolley full of stuff. It seems like such a lot for one person to cope with.

There's a sign above a mother-and-baby parking slot in my local supermarket that says "It's so much better when you shop from home".

It always makes me laugh as I read it as meaning that the shop would be much nicer without screaming toddlers in it.

Girlie would it help your dd to see this page about what it's like to sit a grade 1 music exam? It has videos to show exactly what it's like and it's on oboe, which is very like clarinet. I found it really helpful.

gb.abrsm.org/en/exam-support/practice-tools-and-applications/on-your-marks/grade-1-oboe

No results yet. (Not that I'm still reloading the page at all.)

I prefer shallow trolleys for a couple of reasons cuts down on quantity of items bought, nothing gets squashed & saves me back too

Rehashed roast for dinner. Leftover chicken and stuffing from Wednesday, some frozen roasties I found lurking in the freezer. Yorkers again and some mixed veg. Frugaltacular!

It's not just the trolleys. Dp cannot walk in supermarkets for long. He thinks its something to do with the very level shiny floors, but it sets his back pain into overdrive, trolley pushing or not. He's bloody hopeless shopping and with money generally as he panics and literally buys everything and nothing.

Bit pissed off with him as he has gone to Chelmsford Chelmsford ffs to pick up a broken bit of car he bought on ebay. How did he not know (or google, or something) that it wasn't "quite close by" to us, outside Carlisle!?!? Todays post is sponsored by the word imbecile.

Anyhoo, dd1 picked up dd3 and ds from school and walked them down to meet me, she's a star. It cost me a Google play card from my stash Then £22 on a macdonalds for 4.

Dd1 was like your dd meadow it is exhausting. Dd2 was an angel, and dd3 was like em's ds, a little funny helper. I had help by the time I had ds! Hang in there, I promise it passes and soon enough they are happy to potter or go to school

What was it that happened to your dp's back lonely? Was it a slipped disc or something?

I have to take DH for any significant amount of shopping but we do a big monthly Aldi/Lidl and then local for the rest of the month.
I love make up too em
I have a fairly pale face and I feel ungroomed without it and would feel like I had no knickers on
I currently do moisturising foundation and smidge of concealer pen with mineral powder .
Bone eye base plus a lovely grey flicky line on upper lid and lower at the bottom but only a third .
Mascara
Peachy bronzer and have swapped from lipsticks to tinted lip balms .
Lots of lipstick formulations seem to be very matt ,drying and brown, hello 90s not the look Im going for at my age.
When I look in the mirror I looked groomed not made up.
I do like a hot pink lip though
Takes me 5 minutes .

Nsd.

Hello just catching up, unfortunately lost a post last night!

I really like the la Roche porsay face cream and face wash as well, it transformed my skin and I rarely get spots now. Not sure it's very animal friendly though unfortunately. I can't wear creams with sun protection in as they make my eyes water like mad! Have tried various ones and it's always the same.

sneaky are you a man?! That's a first on this thread 😂

I don't wear much make up, a tiny bit of miracle touch foundation to cover the dark circles under my eyes and mascara tends to be it.

Nsd.

Car crash autumn broke a facet thingy which is mia. But his spinal cord was squashed just enough to cause permanent nerve damage from about 4/5 of the way down. He cannot feel his right leg, which varies to sometimes be constant pins and needles/electric shock type pains. And the prat is on a 14 hour road trip today when sitting down for more than an hour renders him in agony. Just because he wanted another bit of car. Hence imbecile.

I may or may not stop ranting about this soon.

Thank you for the link autumn will have a look later, we have the date for the exam now it's about a week before Christmas. Apparently her teacher has told dd she doesn't need to sing so that's good.

meadow does your dd go down for a nap in the day? That's the only way I got anything done, I worked hard on getting dd into a routine of a morning and afternoon nap. It saved my sanity.