Frugal Friends, planning, saving and considerate spending through July and August

[Wolfcubisthefemalenominal]

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Different email address? Ask customer services?

Spends £10ish on a nice notebook for a journal (now I’ve decided to do it I don’t want to wait ) a pen and a rubber for DD’s sketching

Wreck is kicking about. She is on the frugal weight loss thread with some of us.

Do it lap. It's a long term investment in your health.

Frugal weight loss I hear you say?!! I need a little bit of that in my life 😂
I did have a gym membership - I bought a year in a burst of enthusiasm - but in the end life got in the way. They have just tried to lure me back with an amazing deal but I haven't taken the plunge yet

I’ve found the gym totally wonderful not even due to weight loss but mental health wise.

More spends - £2.45 on a used full colour edition of Kensuke’s Kingdom to study with the Caglets and their friend. Had a good long chat with her mum about plans for over summer and from September, literature type studies is something she struggles to cover with her DD so I’m happy to take that over because it means my two get more time with friend too :)

Morning all. Early start here and off to the big smoke. It’s going to be a hot one

This was on mse today
www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/school-holiday-deals/
Cheap/free holiday activities

Madden
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight_loss_chat/3639284-Frugaleers-talk-food-fitness-weight-loss-2019-July-onwards?msgid=88601608#88601608

Oo that is early wolf. Hope the tube isn't too sweaty

Wolf can't imagine anything worse. Sorry. And yesterday first for ages

Yuk wolf try and stay cool!

Ds refused sleep until 930 last night. Sigh. It’s difficult as our routine was home from nursery have a play bath milk while watching fireman Sam/postman pat then book then bed. Then dh and I have dinner.

He was usually in bed by 730. And asleep by 745. He has been afternoon napping for a while though so maybe that’s it.

He is still sleeping through though. So that’s a bonus.

I’ve managed to get a decent deal on a few bits on amazon prime day. A tile key finder thing for dh (as am getting increasingly infuriated that he keeps losing his keys and then asking me what I’ve done with them), some tigi beadhead shampoo and conditioner in 1L bottles. Only £10! Usually £35 for both. And it will last ages (probably until I go back to work in January!) and saves on single use plastic!

New kindle (£37) necessary as mine has given up completely.

And almost bought myself some wireless beats headphones. But resisted these. £80 down from £120. So a good discount but not enough to justify.

Also. I am so almost there with my Invisalign treatment. Set of aligners 38 of 43 went in today. So so close. And my teeth look so so much straighter! Yippeeee!!!

Checking in. Another busy week, but on holiday countdown now, 2 weeks & 2 days to go.
unescorted I love the idea of journal writing. I use a note book now but it needs to be more structured I think.
Welcome Trinity
Ouch to your early start wolf
Had a great weekend in the Lakes. Life that site is fabulous, 2 beautiful evenings weather wise too.
Doing well with spending at the moment. Took my dad & dh out for a belated Father's Day meal. £71 including drinks for 6 of us as it was a half price deal at a great local Italian restaurant.
Quilt is now pieced together, will post a pic later. I made a mess of cutting the border for it, so rather than buy more fabric I got creative and redesigned it.

Journaling started! I was sooo tired by the time I got to as DSD arrived and we were chatting :) DH needs to inform the council and HA today that she’s staying with us, I’m not sure how long she needs to be here for them to take her income into account.

Will spend £10 on art class for the Caglets this morning. Also meeting a friend there to borrow a blood pressure monitor for a few days due to increasing my tablets which can lower it too much.

£78 (oops) in coop. This is why dh does the shopping usually.

I did manage to get a load of reduced breaded chicken breasts (for quick Katsu curry’s - making a bucket load of sauce later on for the freezer)
Some scampi’s
Two different types of ice cream
And floor cleaner, dishwasher cleaner, washing up liquid. Plus all the stuff we actually needed.

Dm helped me clean the downstairs of house this morning. She is an absolute legend. It all looks so much nicer now.

Have about an hour and half before I need to pick Ds up from nursery so may have a nap. 😀

Hi all.
Just so busy here atm! End of term, parent meetings today, I'm exhausted and I still have to go to dd2s after school club performance.
Been a spendy few days with a 3 year family and friends railcard and then tickets for me to go and see dd1 on my own in Edinburgh, going to go when the festival is on so might see if I can see a show.

Wolf that's rotten luck about your reduce income. I can't really think of any more tips apart from maybe if you haven't already, to get Ocado, you have to spend £80 first, but there is usually a code going, you also get free delivery for a year as long as your minimum spend is £40.

NSD.

NSD for me too. I'm doing pretty well with this month's budget too. I'm usually tempted by the summer sales, especially for clothes for DC, but have completely stayed away from them, I think it's a false economy buying in the sales when they end up not needing lots of what I buy (we are very lucky with both handmedowns and gifts.)

5 jars of Katsu sauce done ready for freezer. Yippee. One for ddad as he’s never heard of Katsu before. Leftovers for dinner. Yum.

Dh in a foul mood this evening. Zero patience with ds. Shouted at him because he was playing up. Admittedly he was but don’t shout at him. The more dh shouted the more agitated ds got. I’ve told dh to go out. And come back when he’s in a better mood.

Ds in bed. Tired as. Poor baby. Busy day at nursery!! We’ve watched a couple of cartoons. Milk. Bed. He put up a small fight but has gone to sleep.

I’ve had my Katsu. Dh hasn’t come back yet. No idea where he’s gone and quite frankly I don’t care.

He’s pushed all my buttons today. Starting this morning. My fault (obviously) that he didn’t set his alarm. My fault he didn’t have his gym stuff. My fault he forgot his lunch. My fault he was late for work ( we left when he wanted to and there was traffic). I don’t give a...because I don’t have to be anywhere.
My fault ds was upset. Because I kept him in the car waiting for dh to finish work. He was late leaving. Then there was traffic. My fault ds cried on the way home because although he had my water bottle he didn’t want it...but wanted a drink.

Refused to listen to me when I tried to tell him some stuff I’d sorted out re nursery.
Suggested I’m lazy because Dm helped me out with cleaning today essentially did it for me annoyed because I put away the basket of his clean laundry which has been sitting around for 2 weeks. Apparently he needed to sort it and would do it when he’s on paternity leave (no. I need the basket). And annoyed because I gave Dm some of his shirts to iron (shirts which were in the aforementioned basket which he hadn’t sorted through so didn’t know they were there).

He is essentially a giagantortwat today.

Em, that is one hell of a day. I hope your dh apologises to you soon.

Oh lord Em that shit is the last thing you need at the moment. It’s not you it’s him. Ignore ignore ignore.

Em sorry you're having to deal with that, not what you need right now.
Aldi & Booths shop done, now giving the house a bit of a clean as sil & family are on their way to stay for a few days. Will try to keep it frugal. A big lasagne planned for tomorrow's tea

He came back. He apologised. Sort of. Apparently I have to cut him some slack because he’s having a tough time at work. I’ve suggested that he actually tho k about how he speaks to people and maybe takes a good long hard look at himself and works out why he thinks it’s other people fault for things he’s doing (ie being too lazy to set an alarm, then not being ready, then ending up late for work).

I’ve spent the evening with some cherry bakewell ice cream and suits on Netflix. Dh didn’t want to watch suits because it reminds him too much of work. We watched 3 episodes.

Have also loaded dishwasher sorted even more laundry and have got ds’ nursery bag ready for tomorrow. All things that dh overlooks as not being important. I had spoken to Dm about this earlier. Her advice (although not helpful) is to just carry on as I am. Make sure I do everything for ds. And for myself. And leave dh to it. If he’s late for work at present it doesn’t affect me. If he doesn’t have lunch not my problem (in fact I win on this because he makes ace sandwiches so if he leaves them behind I benefit). When I go back to work though it’s going to be me who does the majority of the “things” for the DC’s. So am just going to do things my way and he’ll have to fall in line. Back to the “we’re leaving for work whether you’re ready or not” rule we had when it was just the 2 of us.

Bloody hell em I think I would have told him to go for longer than one evening! I hate that he called you lazy again 😡 you're growing his baby ffs, so out of order and disrespectful.

Anyway all fine here, I'm tired as not sleeping that well because it's so warm.

Today has been spendy,
£10 window cleaner
£15 to my nephew for his bday
£20 massage
£8 Holland and Barrett
£2 card warehouse
£2 parking
£6 Tesco's

Ugh 😑 really don't want to look at my account.

Blimey what the actual fuck is wrong with him?!

Spendy day as £10 for art club and more than that in cafe (including drink for friend as she drove).

Then went swimming and managed more than usual. Then set up an obstacle course in the garden for Cagletini.

Have also tried the BP monitor and it’s actually been high the first couple of times. I am really shocked at this as it’s normally been too low if anything and I assumed it still was due to the dizziness. Friend doesn’t need the monitor back in a hurry so I’m going to keep an eye for a bit.

Must've been a window cleaning day girlie £10 here too.
House is looking good, still waiting for sil to arrive. They are about 30 mins away now.