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

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New Fred

That's good to know lonely

You have to sing in the clarinet exam??! I am pretty sure dd is not aware of this 😮

Ahh set hair.

Joseph? Needs eyes and a halo. Knitting Mary now in a lovely muted blue purple.

Well done Autumn and congratulations Quite.

Today I spent £55.80 in total on travel, groceries and Christmas presents (£31 on the latter online). It's okay but I could do with a nsd tomorrow!

Congratulations Quite

Lonely Joseph is lovely

Girlie yes the examiner plays 5 notes on the piano and the candidate sings them back. That happens three times with three different tunes. The candidate can "la" it, or whistle, or whatever gets the job done. My attempt sounded considerably nicer than my clarinet playing which surprised me a lot. Should have done singing exam instead

I've woken up in the night again, this time before midnight. This is not a good habit. I blame all that vitamin D that I got in the summer.

I’m just going to bed Autumn - everyone is on the mend here so I’m back to my bloody deadline! Glad the exam was okay, though I always thought for practical exams you’d know the result in the day?! no musical experience whatsoever

Great result Quite. I reckon you can throw a cracking frugaleers’ party with that

The Joseph is great Lonely! Love the look of that yarn too, Lush soft colours.

Well done Quite that’s great news. I always say I’m going to enter more competitions and then I don’t. Definitely going to start now

Sea that’s a late finish for you. I get tired just thinking about the pressure you are under. Hope it calms down a bit once you catch up and everyone stays well to let you crack on.

Autumn glad the exam went well. Hope you managed to get back to sleep. I woke up at 0400 which is crap as have to be up at 0530. I was on a 12 hour shift yesterday so should have slept better than that as was very tired last night. Will need caffeine to get me through my shift today 😩

Nsd yesterday.

Great Joseph lonely.
Hope people got some rest.
Pleased to hear wreck is ok.
Shattered today. Work is crazy busy. Should be a nsd

Sea and Autumn hope you managed some sleep

Have a good frugal day everyone

I need milk on the way into the office and should be going out for dinner with a colleague later

Morning all.

Another day off for me but Alas no lie in as I need the car today so have to drop dh and ds in.

Aiming today to take things to charity shop and have a look for a bathroom cabinet type thing, go to garden centre for a compost bin and a tub for glass recycling, make a spag Bol

Joseph is brilliant Lonely
Nice haul and should last you ages ?
Off to gym/swim now
Have a great day Frugaleers !

I love days like that em you have a specific list, but can go and have a good mooch, by yourself.

Work again today, but I'll be sewing up Mary when I get home, must hunt out the new curtain rings, which I use for halos. I'm not sure if I need to spend anything other than some postage today, we shall see.

Hi all - I'm here but busy week, ds birthday, and my parents coming to stay for it.

Task no 1 for me is to go back to the exam venue and find our coats. Ooops.

Hi can I jump back in?

Quite awesome news on your win!

Lonely that’s a very cute Joseph.

It’s my wedding anniversary today. So to celebrate I’m going to take the car for its MOT, lol. Which is costing nothing because we had to have the cam belt replaced, we now get free MOTs for the life of the car.

Next things on my frugal list are PPI. Never checked, might as well. And it’s been a good few years since we had our life insurance policies looked at. Think I’ll wait till the new year now.

Tried and tried to get the boys to at least start a Christmas list over half term, nothing. 🙄

I just played all the grade 2 scales. Fantastically exciting, and keeps me from spending money. Good.

£14 coop and £86 at garden centre (couple of flexi tubs for recycling, some Christmas decorations and a couple of presents for dnephew (shark towel being one...)

Have taken things to charity shop. And am now embarking on a bit of a clean a laundry session and maybe some lunch.

My flex tub thing came with a free gigantic spider. 🕷 I set him free outside.

I am quite tired today... but still have so much to do on this paper . No childcare today though and no prospect of getting anything useful done with dd around. She’s really perky today though and is currently stuffing her face with mackerel pate

We’ve just been to a local ceramic painting cafe on a bit of a whim. It was really lovely! Dd daubed all over a plant pot and saucer for MIL, and a plate for daddy (for his cake ) and I painted an egg cup for dd’s dippy eggs. I also hired the paint kit and bought some blank baubles to paint at home with DS for presents for grannies and for his lovely TA at school. Not too cheap but we had a lovely time and I think the recipients will be really pleased. Annoyingly I had forgotten my phone though so couldn’t take any pictures of DD in action!

Hi again Curls!

Hi all.
I'm home again as dd2 is still ill and so is ds2, I think she has passed it on to him.
Anyway I'm very tired as dd2 was up some of the night, but I have coffee to power through and will hopefully get some bits done today.

Curls, happy anniversary!

Occassional poster signing into new thread with a slight namechange.

Thanks for new thread @quite.

Spends yesterday:
£2 work canteen
£80 Boden (slightly indulgent comfort spending as a result of exhaustion and ill DC, but I had a 25% off code)
£29 Amazon (an item DH needed for DIY and DBro’s Christmas present).

Spends today:
£2 work canteen
£3 sponsorship for boss’s DS
£192 Dunelm - Christmas decorations and lamps, a throw, and a bowl to finish off our bedroom decoration. Spendy but I could have spent a lot more buying the lamps and throw I had my eye on in a local shop so I’m quite pleased with that.

Found you lot

Nsd.

Spent £0.30 at Aldi today