Festive frugaleering - Merry Christmas, and a happy 2019 to you all.

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Welcome to the new thread!

Haha tayto em yes! And I'm crap at it!
What I'm going for is money in/out, a jar shape to fill with 50p's etc. Basic basic columns. Just love the feel of the journal, and dotty paper just pleases me! and pens, love pens

For work it's just keeping a very detailed timesheet as I will be sharing the job 50/50 and want to be able to prove which 50 was me. In reality I think it will be more like 70/30. I just wish my writing was neater.

Well Christmas 2018 is packed away and all the pine needles hoovered up. Always feel very sad doing it but the room suddenly feels massive! Had a cull of broken/unused Xmas decorations etc too.one bag in the bin and another for the charity shop.
Sneaky we have a divan bed and it's broken. I think beds just get worn out.

We have our mattress on the floor and it works brilliantly. We did it for co-sleeping so ds didn't fall out, but I really like it. Good also for impromptu gymnastics.

We just had dparents over. I still can't get over how nice it is to have them close by. Every time they come I rush around showing them things and wittering. I wonder when that calms down?

Ah but I've only had the frame two years and it cost £70 I think. The leaving care fund wouldn't let me buy a decent bed. I even offered to put my own money towards it...

Impromptu gymnastics 🤸🏼‍♀️ is that a euphemism for relations

I'm restarting the organised mum method too em

We'll have a new frugaleers weight loss thread if anyone's interested soon?

I didn't even buy a diary this year just a little thing for 33p to record when dc are at their dads

LOL! Happier! I was thinking of ds doing forward rolls.

Sneaky that must have been frustrating. If you just bought some pieces of wood at B&Q or similar and screwed them on would that do? Or store some stuff under your mattress that is tall enough to support it? Like books or something.

I need to lose at least a stone actually so might join you. Still have biscuits and chocolate that needs eating though!

I knew that autumn but it was just too easy to make the joke

They'll keep wreck put them away for another time

Frugaleers talk weight loss & food http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weightlosss_chat/3304935-frugaleers-talk-weight-loss-food

Absolutely Happier. I mean, naturally we only have relations on the house roof.

Hi all.
Went for a run just now and had to do a detour as the park closed at 1 today.

Ooh happier I will have a look at the weight loss thread. Thanks

Hoping that dc will spend some time with h later & I'll go for a run
It's great for your mind I think

I agree happier, it really helps me.

Nsd.

All de-christmassed now.

Spends today
£1.20 on milk

Almost de-Christmased here. Still got some tinsel hanging from the light above the table...but Steve is stitched up in his shroud for another year.

Dropped dd1 at my parents. My mum is persisting with the challenging pattern I got her for christmas. She's doing a yoke in 4ply, 460 odd stitches on her needle! But she's never done a top down sweater before and will thank me when it doesn't need sewing up she'll probably just be relieved it's over

I have got through 4 beds in 20 years. Buy cheap etc...I now have a forever bed, a king oak sleighbed, nothing fancy, just from oak furniture land, but it is loverly. And so much nicer when dp falls to sleep through with ds (in his shorty bed)! none broken from too much sex sadly.

Two NSDs in a row (or is it 3?)

Happy New Year! Started off well with a walk, healthy eating and no alcohol (not doing dry Jan, just dry weekdays). Annoyingly feel absolutely shattered today.

Have started to make another stash of make up wipes using up some of my fabric stash so that feels frugal 😄

Nice pre back to work day here.
Cant go from super relaxed into work mode so did lots of niggly jobs .

Car washed,hoovered and polished.
Found colour polish and dealt with small but annoying scratches
Sorted out dash cam which was on the blink
Planted bulbs
Pruned Clematis back(cant remember when it needs to be done)
Bike lights recharged
Bike stuff out and work bag packed.
Gym bag packed
Lunch made
Cleaned kitchen and bathroom
DH chopped wood and cleaned/topped up chooks
Tree will come down this week -DH .
Awww back to normal

Dh got petrol today. No other spends.
Lovely lunch with good friends. Home ready for Dr who

I'm counting down the hours until Luther! So excited

Just catching up, wreck you're back!! You have been missed, lapland looks incredible I am green with envy!! Would love to take dd one day.

I am officially exhausted, with work, Christmas, new year and managing poorly dd I am now ready to stop for a bit and collapse in a heap.

Dinner for tomorrow night is marinading in the fridge

Running is indeed brilliant for MH. Here's a tale from today for you - we've a runner that started with us in April on our beginners course - we follow the couch to 5k programme. This individual has significant health issues, enough to use a stick at times. Just done five parkruns in 11 days as a personal challenge. Their physical health has improved tons but mentally - well, I've seen this person go from 'I can't, there's no way, it's because etc' to 'I will and I can and you just try to stop me'. Grinning from ear to ear today with the achievement. Obviously it's not going to change their physical limitations or take away the tough days, but boy, has it changed the way they feel about how much they allow it to affect their life.

Spaniels here happier, Beagles I believe have a tendency to er, take off after every scent.... Spaniels are big soft lumps without a bad bone in their bodies but the breed do like to be attached to their humans at all times, they are not know for their independent streaks...they need a fair bit of exercise too - mine get a couple of hours a day and would take more. Would be good running companions.

I've done a similarly busier day as I'm working tomorrow.

Run for an hour, gym for an hour, most of Christmas tidied away, floors mopped, bed stripped, 3 washes done, frozen some veg that was going to go to waste.

NSD

I'm also going to put my loose change into charity boxes. Anything 20p and under. Just because it spreads the giving over more charities. I'm reasonably cashless anyway so might not amount to ££££