Frugaleers dripping their way through a wet January...

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Hang on, that makes us sound like alcoholics

snuggly with teens you lose the overwhelming exhaustion of babies/toddlers/young children, BUT you gain a new level of emotional tiredness . It's great watching them develop into independent young people though and not having to organise a babysitter when you fancy a cheeky night out!

£36 pets at home on things for catface (with 5.25% cashback)

£5.70 on a saladbox and a packet of roast chicken crisps. Saladbox was as big as my face. And I was worried would be mostly leaves but it had leaves, tomatoes (regular and sun blusbed) cucumber, onions, couscous, curried chickpeas, sweetcorn, carrot, coleslaw, and sweet chilli chicken. Box was full to bursting. I ate the lot. Baby obviously wants salad.

North yy to emotional tiredness!! I haven't got the stress and tiredness i had when dd was very young but I worry more about her being o.kay/happy and having less control over things.

Spendy day;
£20 on some posh hand made candles, a treat to myself (if anyone wants some amazing candles look up 'Smiths Scents' on Facebook...)
£5 tea and a bacon sandwich
£5.70 a new hat for dd in the sale in Monsoon.
£11.60 on bath bombs for dd.
£7 Wilkos on bits.
£30 Primark clothes, some for me and some for dd, not tried any on so some may go back.
£2 Parking.

£60 tickets for dd and I to see Madness play this summer, going with some friends and should be a brilliant night.

Need to stop spending money now, I am definitely guilty of feeling like a payday millionaire and then spending the rest of the month living like a pauper.

Oh and i've got a job interview, am terrified!!

Well done on getting the interview girlie

You have a good baby em, mine wanted to be fed chocolate. All the time.

Woo hoo girlie! I hate interviews. Always take a notebook with me with prompts in.

Well done girlie when is it?

When's the interview Girlie? Good luck!

It's 11th of Feb, just after dds b day which will be a good distraction, it includes a presentation so need to think about what I'm going to talk about....

Good luck girlie.
Nsd.
Got dippy on tour tickets too which I'm pleased about

The car was £483 not including MOT which is in a few weeks. I had budgeted £400 including MOT so I’m a bit annoyed with myself for not planning more realistically. Added to the £30 for the house alarm battery and what was looking like a good budgeting month has turned out not to be. Grr. Payday tomorrow.
£8.20 Morrison’s. We were going to be late for ds’s activity on the way back from garage so we’re going to stop for chips but it was cancelled so I diverted to Morrison’s instead. I am not in the mood to eat random still frozen god knows what today, so today’s freezer rummage will be eaten tomorrow.

Well done on the interview Girlie that’s fantastic news

Em great to have a baby with healthy tastes. Mine only liked chicken tikka pizza from the skankiest take away in the area. Anything else was promptly thrown up

Evening all
NSD today and yesterday.
Cag, really pleased the appointment went well with your Dr.
Well done on the interview Girlie.

It was my aunt's funeral on Monday and all of her children are younger than me and it really hit home, that they will never be able to hug their mum again.
I gave mine a huge cuddle after and I've promised myself that I will get to see her much more this year.

Hope you are all doing ok

Gosh wolf. That's a lot of money.
Hey curvy,

Tax return DONE yee haaa! Ok, so no tax to pay (I earnt in the 17-18 period what I do in 2 months now), but it was looming over me like a loomy thing.

£3.62 today, a hamburger, apple pie and latte for my tea. Dd1 bumped me for her pals. 6th form meeting.
£8 milk and bits.

Wolf That is a lot of money. I hate car repairs for that reason. There appears to be no way to work out how much it might be.

Curvy that is really tough.

North & Snuggly I love the quiet of a morning, the not having the child minder worries, the being able to be away and it not being the end of the world when nobody is at home because they can fend for themselves. BUT and it is a big but... worrying about what they may be up to and worrying that I am worrying that they are up to no good, when I should be trusting them, the worrying that they may not be being good people who I would choose to be with even if they weren't the most precious thing in the entire world is emotionally exhausting ...but at least I get to do it on 8 hours sleep. I do love the fleas.

Girlie well done on the interview. PM me if you want help with the presentation - I have loads of course resources that I can send you if you want also I am now getting quite practiced.

Eugh. Horrible evening.

At around 4 I started to feel wierd. Then at 430 what I think was heartburn and or indigestion hit me. I’m not entirely sure which. Or whether it was either of them. But man. I was meant to go to the gym but the pain. Oh the pain. From under my ribs left side to just above my hip bone. Ouchies.

Got home. Had some Gaviscon stuff.

The whole time we were home ds cried. Nothing was good enough. Dh sorted him out while I cooked dinner (at one point I was bent over my side hurt so much...) ds refused to sleep. It took an hour and a half for him to finally exhaust himself and sleep.

The pain went away once I picked Ds up out of his cot and lay on our bed in the dark with him on my tummy. Wierd.

I’ve had similar before but not for ages and ages. Hurt like a motherfucker. Hope it doesn’t come back.

I blame the healthy salad. Will stick to stodgy stuff in future.

Hmmm how long are we talking em? A few hours could be gallbladder perhaps. Hurts like an absolute bitch but then suddenly disappears after a certain amount of time when the neck of the gallbladder relaxes and the stone pops out again. That can flare up in pregnancy (mine did just after but is totally fine now, for all my fear of needing it removed etc it’s honestly like it never happened) might be worth seeing if buscopan helps if it happens again (if that’s safe for pregnancy) and ask GP?
Although now I think about it I think that’s the wrong side so ignore me 😂🤦‍♀️

I had my ultrasound today, bit unnerving as they didn’t tell me anything at all. Previous scans, like the gallbladder one in fact, they’ve talked me through what they’re seeing (apparently they aren’t meant to though, so I guess this one was just more of a stickler for the rules). I’m assuming it’s just gonna confirm my stupid cysty ovaries though.

Been having a great convo with a friend about where she got her sons’ private assessments done. It’s a fair way to travel I think but great price and service, really seems like exactly what we need, so I am going to email tomorrow before I wimp out!

Y’all can probably tell by the fact I’m waffling that I’m feeling a lot better. Definitely over the worst now, I’ve only taken two propranolol so far but mainly it’s that the paroxetine is wearing off more. CMHT tomorrow, eeeek. Bit scared they will laugh at me when I ask for the particular referrals I want, but you know what, I have to just woman up and do it, and not be scared of being seen as an “expert patient” or someone with a degree in googling. I know myself. I have a lot of insight. The doctor I saw yesterday agrees that I have basically been misdiagnosed with depression for 18 years (I was 14 when I first went on sertraline), shoved out the door with meds that do not work for me. I’m done. I have to get them to listen to what I believe actually WILL help.

I am very grateful you have all welcomed me back despite me being a crappy frugaleer of late, and would be even more grateful if you could cheer me on a bit as I am totally bricking it 😳 I don’t really do assertivemess 😳

Hands cag big girl pants.....

Seriously your can do this. Write down what your want to cover and get out of the meeting.
Pleased you are feeling better and of course your are welcome.

Well done lonely, eaten that frog.
Ouch em, sounds hideous.

Dentist this morning, rush about work stress, dh home some time tonight.
Don't let me forget to put my stuff out tonight to be collected

Cag it’s so good to read you feeling better. You’ve done some big ass scary things in the last couple of days and got your meds sorted and ultrasound done so you can absolutely rock the conversation with cmht. We are all in your corner

Payday thank goodness. I have paid myself first. I like doing this it makes me actually look like I have money for all of five minutes

Over the hills today. Don’t want to go. There is a meeting I have no appetite to attend

Camhs later and ds has volunteering so it’ll be a long one

cag it went away by 7/730. I’ll put it down to one of those things. No idea what caused it. No idea if it was heartburn or indigestion. If it happens again soon I’ll speak to my gp. The last time this happened was ages ago. Around 3 years. So it hasn’t been frequent enough to worry about.

Up twice with ds. He lost his dummy. Ffs.

Cag you're doing great. One day at a time. You can do this.
Em glad the pain passed, hope it stays away.
No spends again yesterday. Work is good but full on. Ds is struggling a bit & having to rest a lot. Dd feeling a bit under the weather. Our Edinburgh weekend is nearly here & I don't feel ready. I'm trying to plan food frugally as we're staying in an apartment so might as well make use of that to save spending. We're going to eat here before we go & take food for Saturday breakfast.

Cag so nice to have you sounding better

Em ime heartburn is right in the middle of the chest and indigestion is more stomach. Either way hope you don't get it again sounds horrible.

It's -6 here brrrr won't be doing my scheduled visit as colleague is off sick so need to rearrange that and cover her afternoon.

Girlie will the interview be with managers you know?

Need to get bread and coffee as we will run out if we get snowed in. Can manage a few days with everything else.

3 things for ebay packaged up, £80 in, which is great. Sold a pair of shoes we had in for 5 years!! Mint in box, but now unavailable. So a bit of posting later.

cag 💗💜💗 keep going my love. You are strong and wonderful. You can have my big girl pants too for that meeting. If you don't ask, you don't get.

Great sales Lonely. Do you have a plan for your earnings

That sounds horrible @em, hopefully you won't experience it again for another three years at least.

Yesterday was a badly needed NSD.