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Friendly Frugaleers Furtively Ferreting Away to Find Fabulous Savings

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Wolfcub · 05/02/2019 21:49

New fred

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WreckTangled · 22/02/2019 06:53

Unescorted 🤢🤢🤢

Sea I would love the see the bathroom and bed! Looks amazing so pleased you're having a good time you really deserve it.

Working in the shop today. Really don't want to but it's 'free money' (as in I wouldn't usually have it) so might as well.

LonelyOversharer · 22/02/2019 08:07

Morning, I too have dropped off the thread. My sofa comes today! I'm not remotely ready, but quite excited! Woe betide the first one who spills something on it!

Moved the snakes last night. Dp can hardly move this morning. Have sent him downstairs to take his pills make me coffee But at least we can fit the sofa in now. Getting it in will be the hard bit.

Just done a long letter to claim back £200 a car garage took from my card for what turned out to be a death trap. Not the car we bought last saturday, which is lovely. Hoping Natwest will sort it for me.

sea beautiful. I will need pics of your outfit/fabric too please! You can do some wonderful patchwork with sari fabric...dd summer dress...the options are vast!

Last day of half term, and I have barely seem the dc. I'm really looking forward to the weekend!

ememem84 · 22/02/2019 08:18

Haven’t left yet for work. Ds woke up at 3. Dh brought him into our bed. He kicked us around for a bit then went to sleep at 5. Slept until 730. Dm was here and helped us get him ready etc. Usually I’d be 😱 that I’m going to be late for work. But I’m tired and there’s shouldn’t be much traffic as it’s half term here. So meh.

Wolfcub · 22/02/2019 09:03

Sea that’s beautiful

Jam sorry to hear your having a tricky time at work, HR issues are always the biggest workstress I think

Unescorted urgh I’m afraid I would not have cleaned up the sight of Envy makes me Envy

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Cagliostro · 22/02/2019 12:01

Exercise bike going down a treat, except that Cagletini gets very jealous and wants to climb on too Hmm :o I’m going to print out charts they can colour every time they do 1km or something.

We have also finally ordered a trampoline for the Caglets. Between these two things hopefully they will get more energy out. They just don’t bloody stop.

I have a GP app later as I’m not fully better yet despite having finished the ABs. Will maybe have a quick wander for some cheap clothes too. Then later I have the local autism charity annual dinner, the carvery is free I just need to take cash for drinks.

Cagliostro · 22/02/2019 12:03

Happy sofa day lonely :o

WreckTangled · 22/02/2019 12:08

Cag can you find a blockage? Ime mastitis starts when there's a blockage and it needs clearing even with the abx. I remember asking the dr what would happen if I couldn't clear it and she said they would have to drain it!

I made a mistake in the shop. Undercharged someone by £70. I feel awful. Tempted to just pay it myself I feel so bad!

ChristmasSeacow · 22/02/2019 13:26

£70? They should have owned up to that Wreck, it’s not as though they wouldn’t have realised!

I didn’t take a picture of the bed (I meant to but forgot). But the bathroom is here. It was quite hard to photograph because of the open courtyard bit being screened off from the loo but open completely from the shower. The loo is out of shot but on the right. The big-leafed plant you can see is a banana tree with actual bananas on it.

Our new hotel is a typical big chain one. However, it also has an ‘interesting’ Bathroom with a huge glass wall between the bathroom and the bedroom - i’d literally be looking at dh on the loo! We’ve put the blind down 😂

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WreckTangled · 22/02/2019 13:37

That's amazing sea! It was my fault I punched the amount into the card machine wrong and I don't think they even looked at it. I'm confident that if they notice they'll own up, as they seemed the honest sort, but it's if they notice or not.

Cagliostro · 22/02/2019 14:17

Yes tbh I wouldn’t have noticed if you’d said the amount out loud, I may not have necessarily looked at the screen. Everyone makes mistakes though wreck 💐 hopefully they will come to rectify it

Can’t feel any blockage tbh. Hence ignoring the pain for a while. I’ve had a blocked duct before when she was much smaller. Doctor had a good feel last week too (😳😳😳). She did say mastitis can also occur due to infection so could be that instead, the pain is also in my ribs underneath. It’s really not as bad as it was but I’m not better and she was insistent that I go back if not fully better, due to it being breast related I guess they are over cautious. It will just be blood tests I assume.

Ordered DSS’ birthday presents so a spendy day all in all.

SneakyGremlins · 22/02/2019 14:19
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Ggreengrass1 · 22/02/2019 14:37

Nooo lost post, will try again.sea it looks amazing. cag could you get the caglets riding to the moon, if you get what I meanConfused. Good idea to go back to go. lonely have you got your sofa in? wolf hope today is a better day. em defo go with a cleaner.wreck I hope they realise and come back, it's such an easy mistake to make. Sooooo tired today, shopping, cleaning and cooking. Friends over this evening.

Ggreengrass1 · 22/02/2019 14:38

go=go!!

Ggreengrass1 · 22/02/2019 14:39

go=gp

ememem84 · 22/02/2019 16:04

cag agree with green see if you can get the caglets riding to various places. Aren’t you doing something re Japan? So maybe start with London, Paris, Tokyo, Australia, the moon, the other planets etc...

I. Am. Tired. As. Today.

If I wasn’t pregnant I’d be resorting to night nurse tonight for sleeping. I popped into boots to pick up some bits at lunchtime and asked the obarmasest if there was anything he could recommend for sleeping. Pointed out preggo. He said lavender oil. And basically that’s it. Sigh.

Dinner with dps tonight. Spag Bol. Mmmm. Dh is out so will drop him a text when I’m leaving to see if he wants to come home. It’s just after work leaving drinks no dinner so hopefully he brings me kfc. Mmmm. I’m pregnant I need to eat more!!!

SneakyGremlins · 22/02/2019 16:10

Even if you weren't pregnant I think you deserve a KFC Smile

WreckTangled · 22/02/2019 16:19

I want kfc now. I got dh and me a £10 M&S meals deal Indian for dinner.

Wolfcub · 22/02/2019 16:32

£8.50 parking
£44 sushi lunch and that was after a hearty discount Shock won’t be taking ds there again
£28 Tesco’s includes supplies to cater for a group of visitors at work

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SneakyGremlins · 22/02/2019 16:33

That's just as good as KFC!

SneakyGremlins · 22/02/2019 16:36

I've never had sushi, is that the standard price? Shock

lifelongfrugaleer · 22/02/2019 16:50

Ah wreck. Mistakes happen. Do you have their contact details?
KFC is well deserved me thinks.
V healthy sneaky.

£35 today pony club. No other spend. Getting twitchy at not needing to shop when I do each week. Must avoid food shop

WreckTangled · 22/02/2019 16:53

Nope. They weren't local although one of the party was. The shop owner was lovely about it but I know how hard it is to keep an independent shop afloat so I still feel bad.

AdoraBell · 22/02/2019 17:33

£3-ish in birthday card and postage.

Wolfcub · 22/02/2019 18:14

I’m not sure Sneaky, I normally buy my sushi to go from a competitor outfit -£8-£10 for an evening meal size box. I don’t usually eat in and also not with a hollow legged pre-teen who always pushes the average spend level up

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ememem84 · 22/02/2019 20:18

Ooh sushi. For my birthday we went to a sushi place here and ordered the chefs platter and a bottle of champagne. £120. Food was £80. 40 pieces is sushi. I love it. So so good. Decadent. But birthday so worth it (and pre preggo - just...!)

Was it a yo sushi place wolf?

I had popcorn chicken. Yay!! And a Fanta.

Had spag Bol and a San Miguel no alcohol beer for dinner. Then kfc for second dinner. #naughty

Have asked dh to sleep in the spare room tonight so I can maybe get a good sleep.

£17 M&S on roses for Dm wine gums for dd and some daffs for me.