Frugaleers dripping their way through a wet January...

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Hang on, that makes us sound like alcoholics

I'm somerset and can confirm signage has not improved. Friday spends petrol as always and tesco. Yesterday dog food. Today should be nsd as going walking with said dog and a packed lunch.

Hi all, lots of spends so far this weekend: new kettle( other leaking) diesel £60, bd family meal out for eldest dd £104, Amazon £10, parking £5.
Out with dd2 and her friend at activity most of day so will use the time to make brexit list! And read through papers for ds2 pip tribunal. ( may also squeeze some crochet in)
Got to get some washing on and take dogs out before I set off. Have a good day everyone, be frugal out there!

I'm about to go spinning. It's freezing outside -4. Need to dry my hair before I go out!

Cag, all you need to know is it follows on a few years later with hiccup as chief. There is one reference I remember to film 2 but that's about the last mission where stoic died.
It's a good film in its own right.
Take tissues

Gonna Bob into Sainsbury's this morning for the bits I forgot Thursday. £20 ish.
Declutter / house work day

Thanks life :) not sure I’ll manage to fit it in anyway as I’ll need a nap, having been inexplicably awake since 4 🤔

Am excited and it’s free thanks to the voucher. Already got glasses. One friend is paying me back for hers, the other isn’t as we are exchanging the cost for some knitting she is doing for cagletini.

Only other spends will be an ice blast or something :o yummmm

Morning all

£250 transferred to regular saver

Planning a nsd after a spendy day yesterday. hopefully we will play some board games but ds needs to do something about his bedroom first. Today’s activity is cancelled due to weather so i plan to stay inside

Happy birthday to Greengrass’s dd

Hope everyone is having a good weekend

Awful night sleep. Again. That’s 3 days in a row now. I was up/awake essentially every hour last night. Either with ds or needing to Lee or with dh snoring orwith him tossing and turning in bed. Ffs. Not happy this morning.

Dh didn’t think that him giving ds a few sips of his non alcoholic beer could have done anything. I asked him not to. Because this exact thing happened last time. Ds didn’t sleep.

We’re going for Sunday lunch out with fil later. I’m dreading it. I’m exhausted. Fil is judgey and won’t help with ds so it’ll be down to me. He talks at us about everything. And pays no attention to ds. His only opinion at the moment is that I’m selfish for not staying home with ds instead of working. His other past opinion was that if i stayed home with ds I’d be scrounging from dh. I have told dh that I am not in the mood for his bullshit today and will leave the restaurant if he starts on at me again unless dh steps in.

Actually hoping fil forgets to come. It’s a glorious cold sunny day. Perfect for golf.

Sounds shit em. I would totally leave too and go home for a nap.
You are in a no win with fil. He sounds a delight.

Can't you call in sick em and just let DH and DS go?

NSD yesterday

I’ve just suggested that. Dh played the “we don’t do much as a family” card. Ffs.

Whatever. I’ll go (because the place we’re going is lovely - we had our Christmas party for work there and the Christmas party food was excellent) and have told dh that he needs to back me if fil starts on something.

His usual ones are:

• reminding me it’s dhs house (I’ve pulled him up on this a number of times and last time asked him if he wanted to see the contract we both signed);
• telling me that I should be doing all the childcare on a weekend because poor dh works so hard (and I don’t?!)
• dismissing anything I (or any woman of my age ) says as wrong because duh women
• talking to us about people we don’t know and getting annoyed when we glaze over because we don’t know bobs neices daughter. When Sil and Bil came over last sil asked me where she could get her nails done. Fils gf suggested jeans daughter because she does nails. Sil looked confused and I said I’d get her some numbers for salons.

And finally moaning about women claiming benefits for having kids. And also moaning about them not looking after said kids because they go back to work and don’t they know their place. Fil will be 70 this year. Mil went straight back to work after having dh and bils. I may remind him of this later.,,

Is it time for separate beds @ememem84? We didn't do it until about 2 weeks before DD was born, but after 1 night, we were so sorry we hadn't done it months earlier; DH got to sleep through and I got to toss and turn and get up as much as I wanted .

I may bring DC to soft play later and I need to tax the car; that's all today's planned spends.

Urgh Em that is not what you need. Especially after no sleep. Say you are sick and go to bed. Get dh to take ds with him. And next time he feeds him non alco beer he can get up in the night

thats dh has said he’ll sleep in the spare room tonight so that’s all good. I was going to last night but there are piles of laundry all over it. Sigh.

When I was on mat leave with ds and dh had gone back to work we slept apart for the first few months. Dh would sleep in the spare room leaving me with dh mon- thurs and id be in there at the weekends to catch up. Benefits of having a spare room!!

Fil will also moan because we can’t drive them there (no room for both of them in the car with ds’ car seat in the back) and will moan because I won’t have a drink (so am boring) and dh probably will have a couple of glasses of wine (so isn’t a proper man. Proper men drink beer....)

Also. We’re going here. www.laplacejersey.com/

Sorry to hear about those having a tough time sleeping. I'm knackered atm but I'm not doing well on that front either.

There is a booklet, partly about Brexit, called Getting Ready Together that I've started to read and seems quite interesting and sensible (although it's frightening to consider that the govt. won't be able to sort things out, heaven knows they've had time to try and do so...). I've not done much stockpiling so far though. We do have lots of beans and lentils and rice, but I don't feel very prepared.

NSD yesterday after spending around £100 on good and various things Friday.

Meal plan for this week:
Veg chilli with rice
Moroccan veg & butter bean couscous
Leftover Indian curry thanks to DH
Stir fry with tofu
Homemade pizza
Risotto with asparagus and broccoli
Leftovers or else takeaway!

£69 Sainsbury's but I started to buy a few extra bits that were on offer that I know we will use.

em hope its going OK, sounds like a nightmare

Blimey em, he sounds like a cunt of the highest order. Look after yourself

He'd hate one of my friends. 6"6, rugby player build, carpenter by trade, manliest man ever. Loves himself a cocktail and hates beer

Makes me think of the bit in Worlds End where nick frost says how anyone can order a beer but it takes a real man to go up to a crowded bar and order a water :o

Ug. Tired. Want chocolate. Too tired to go get chocolate. It’s a hard life. :o

Cag I want a hot chocolate but the kettle is in the kitchen, five meters away

I need a cup of tea but it is a long way downstairs to the kettle. I still have about a quarter of my assignment to write and my fingers are cold. Getting fed up now! Once it is done I have promised myself I can get myself something unfrugal with my Christmas amazon voucher.

It’s all ok. Fil mouthed off a bit. But dh had as a suprise invited dparents and dsis too. So nice.

Ddad told him to shut up. That we’d both worked hard. And he should be proud us us both

Well done em enjoy the rest of the day.
Read sons pip stuff, it's too depressing, it seems like as he has maths and English GCSE ( taken on line with ectra time and a prompt.)he should be able to cook, speak to and read everything. They're not getting that his ASD and dyspraxia mean he can't. Its like everything I've said and everything on external reports is ignored. I'm not as brave as meadow so I've opted for tribunal by papers. I just can't put him through a tribunal panel. I think its really damaging for his mh. I'd rather him still have some self esteem in tact. Now I need a cuppa tea and chocolate.

Keep going love you can do it