Friendly Frugaleers Furtively Ferreting Away to Find Fabulous Savings

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Wow! Well done and congratulations Girlie!
Hope Sneaky is ok.

Managed to fuck up the cooking of the chicken. In oven for the right amount of time and severely undercooked. Dh thinks it’s because I hadn’t taken it out of the fridge early enough. Cannot believe I did that. We ate at 8. A whole hour and half later than I wanted to.

He’s insisting that we drop ds’ dummies now. He barely has them during the day anymore. So dh thinks he can go without at night. I’m not so sure. But have given it a go.

Ds woke up about 45 minutes ago. Crying for his “baabaa” I have tried everything. Except give him his baabaa (dummy). I walked him about until he got so heavy I couldn’t do it anymore. And have resorted to popping him on/in bed next to me. On dhs side as he’s a bit dribbly. He’s quiet at least. Well. Snoring his head off. But not crying.

Lonely is she wanting summer experience? I can have an ask about to see if I know someone who knows someone. The Solicitors I know are all property or regulatory in the main. Also how far is she willing to travel?

The weirdest thing happened today - a random bloke chased after me to ask if he could take me for a coffee. "To get to know me better because I looked like a strong woman". I had my gird my loins face on that I adopt when I am about to give someone a stern talking to. I can't see a scowling middle aged woman ticking many boxes in the attractiveness stakes. Although flattering I was glad it just outside our office so security were hovering just in my eyeline & ready to hustle him out of the plaza. Most bizarre.

I have an early start tomorrow so I am going to shut down transmission. Night my dears.

Ooh well done Girlie! Imagine getting your weekends and Christmases back - that’s brilliant! Go you.

Managed to get onto the visa page but the payment (USD100 ) didn’t seem to work as the page went down. Not sure what to do about that now. It is truly the worst website ever...

em I was so glad when both of mine were thumb suckers (even in the womb - so cute). We dodged the getting rid of the dummy bullet. It looks traumatic - you have my sympathy. YaY for snoring babies

How odd em. Is your oven working ok?

New job sounds fab girlie, weekends off will be amazing

Hope sneaky is ok too

We've had a battle stopping the thumb sucking of DD2, I may have uttered the words I wish she'd had a dummy, I could just take it away.... oh how simple that would be (not in reality!)

Em why the hell is dh insisting you lose the dummy when you are off work sick? That’s frankly ridiculous you need rest. And if he’s so insistent he can deal with the crying! Sorry tough love time but you need to look after you

Congrats to Girlie and I hope everyone is all right.

My wee ds has had a lovely 2nd birthday with a decadent chocolate cake, so thank you again to Unescorted. Snuggly, do you want the 2 cake tin next? PM me if so.

I'm knackered after a long week and still trying to meet deadlines I put off last week. I sometimes hate the 'flexibility' a.k.a. work all the time and never switch off of my job.

Indian veg chickpea curry tonight, but I'll have to think about the rest of our meal plan tomorrow night! At least we can have 2 leftovers nights now if we need to, which is a help. And DH has Thursday and Friday off work for my birthday/Valentine's, which will be great especially since he will probably cook for us.

Night all, wishing you lots of good sleep!

Busy day.
Huge congratulations to you Girlie
Happy Birthday to moimichme ds

NSD

Well done Girlie!!

You’re here Sneaky! You alright?

Moi cake pic please!

Yeah I'm alright

Just noticed Argos have 40L bags of compost in stock for £5...

Morning.
Urgh getting cold.

It's he ready to give up him dummy em.
DS had one and Santa took it the Christmas after he was 3 in the October. No issues but we prepped him for it.

Happy birthday mini moi.
Ooo a lawyer lonely. Hope she doesn't mind shift work. How exciting.
It will be weird being off when everyone else is girlie. The promotion will make up for it. Do you get milage?

Nsd planned today oh except wraps £1.09 in the express

wolf I said the same to dh. He picked Ds up and put him in his cot. He cried. I told him to deal with it. Ds has his dummy back. It took dh almost an hour to get him back to sleep.

He’s just woke up again and I’ve picked him up and plopped him in bed next to me. Dhs alarm hasn’t gone off yet. He should be up. But not my problem.

Incidentally I have told him that he needs to sort himself out. He needs to realise how his behaviour is affecting me and us. I also realise I’m not perfect and do things which wind him up. But he needs to realise that a) I’m struggling, b) he’s not helping c) him forgetting things I’ve asked him is a big deal (yesterday he called fromwork did I need him to get me anything. I asked for honey. Because we have none and then I can have lemon and honey drinks. He forgot) and d) I’d be absolutely fine if he wasn’t around I could cope on my own.

I don’t want ds to have his dummy for much longer either so we do agree on that. But now probably isn’t the right time.

Quick pop in to give huge congratulations to girlie!!! Well done you.

Tough one em. I think the first step is to confine the dummy to the bed but as he's so young there's a good chance he would replace it with thumb/finger sucking which, as a mum of two thumb suckers, is much harder to stop. Dd has only just stopped and ds says he wants to do it forever 🤷🏽‍♀️ Just do what works for you. Both mine were given dummies in SCBU I got rid of dds at 6 weeks because I was fed up of putting it back in and ds preferred his thumb from the off really.

Nsd yesterday will be the same today although I've just realised I forgot to take my soup out of the freezer! It's flat in a bag so going to put it in hot water in the sink. Hopefully that'll work.

Glad you had that conversation with Dh em I agree you'd be fine on your own. How old is ds now? I got rid of dds dummies when she was about 18 months, had reduced their use to sleep times and then noticed she'd had a few naps without them so bit the bullet and ditched them. We had one bad night and she was mostly okay after that, she was ill shortly afterwards though and I felt really guilty she didn't have the comfort of the dummy.

Thanks for all the congratulations, it's still not sunk in at all!!

16 months girlie he doesn’t have it at nursery much - apparently they get the older kids in his group (the almost 3’s) to hand them over as they don’t want them having them when they move up to the ore school group. Ds sees the others handing them over and volunteers his too.

I asked him for it this morning and he handed it over. Have popped it in my drawer.

It’s just at night time I feel he needs it more. Maybe we’ll try again on Friday. I can’t bear another sleepless work night.

I had thought we’d keep them as there’s going to be a whole lot of change in the next few months with dc2’s arrival. But maybe we just bite the bullet and get rid now.

I should add I don’t want to do this on my own. And haven’t threatened dh with leaving. I have merely reminded him that I can cope alone. And he should be able to as well.

He’s downstairs now giving ds breakfast. They’re going to be late for work but not my problem.

Today is hopefully going to be a lsd. Food shop later. Dh aims for around £45. I may have a go at a meal plan.

But other than that it’s netflix and tea.

I've emailed the shoe shop I got ds' shoes from. They've got holes in and he's been wearing them since September. I don't know if they'll do anything but worth a try? At almost £60 I expected them to last

Congratulations Girlie 🎉 Weekends and Bank Holidays off will be amazing. Is it still part time?

Feeling really skint this month - it’s another five week one 😫. I have put money into savings but am pretty sure it will need to come out to tide us over.

Thank you for checking in sneaky

Just spent £30 for a family lecture at the royal institution. All about the periodic table. Me DS and my dad. Turns out you just need to be receiving “disability allowance or incapacity benefit” to get a concession ticket. I’m assuming the wording is just a bit behind the times and that PIP will be fine 🤔

And then I’ve also registered interest in a classical concert presented by Naomi Wilkinson from CBBC, the Caglets adore her! So at £24 for me and the two of them it was a no brainer.

Somebody hide my bank card please!