Had a Spendy Summer? Join the Friendly Frugaleers as we Segue Smoothly into a Sensible September

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All welcome. Couldn’t see another thread!

Little - take care. There is a lot of things people feel as if they ought or should do in the circumstances, but do not feel obliged to dance to their tune if it does not make you feel better.

Em same goes for you - having kids takes it toll. It is hard work and people dh &pil just have to recognise that they have moved down the order of importance. I unashamedly make it really clear to people that the kids come a country mile ahead of everyone else and I am the next after that.

Perfect gap is 2 years and 11 months to the day in my experience

I have fallen off the thread a bit - sorry. Spending was okish...almost and then I got caught up in restocking. They will be tasty turnips. Also the annual restock of school things - clothes (£300) and travel tickets ( £2550 for the year …. nearly fell off my perch).

Plumbers been. And we have a new time clock for the water heater. Wahooo.

Ds has gone with Dm.

Ended up taking him to the dr again yesterday. He wasn’t sounding right. He’s fine. But I did find out the steroids are upsetting his stomach. I mean it’s a side effect of them. Which explains the gross nappies.

His poor bum is so red and sore. He doesn’t let me change his nappy without a fight at present poor baby. Had to hold him down this morning to do it. Slathered him with metanium cream.

Have also had to do a full costume change for both me and Dd. She just sicked up everywhere. It came out of her nose. 😱

£46 boots order. Nappies and infacol.

Little

Unescorted at travel cost

£78 Lidl. Only went in for two things and only bought one of them. Bad wolf. Need some beer money later and ds will need £5 pocket money for camp

Unescorted - that's a huge travel bill I'm still waiting for confirmation for ours, he starts on Monday!

Little -

I spent £10.90 at the supermarket for a 'treat' dinner as we have a friend over for tea (last minute decision!), the chicken stew will keep for tomorrow! Also 80p to middle DC for Friday breaktime treat at school. That will be all for today as I now only have 43p left 🤦‍♀️

Little Thinking of you.

Em DD is AWFUL with her nappy changes. She was fine the first 6 months of her life then started crying and it's just got worse and worse and worse. I frequently have to like pin her down with my elbow it's so stressful for both of us . However I think I've finally found something that helps at home, we bought a second Sleepytot bunny and I've given her that with a dummy on it and she's been MILES better with it. She sleeps with a Sleepytot bunny so I guess it's like a comforter. Fingers crossed the novelty doesn't wear off. She has awful nappy rash at the moment too. It clears up each week with us and then she goes to nursery and it gets worse again. They change her frequently and apply creams etc but I think they often just don't notice when she's done a poo quick enough so she's sitting in it for a bit, that's the only explanation I can think of. I don't know whether to ask for a meeting with them about it or what but I'm not sure what else they can do, they can't help the fact that they've got 3 kids to watch at once, and every other aspect of her care is excellent.

Feeling sad and stressed today for like 12345680 reasons. .

Spends...£6.50 messy play (overpriced but gets us out and it's right by our house), £5ish in the play café on cake and coffee because I didn't have enough cash for my coffee and there's a £4 min card spend, £5ish in Tesco on the way back on some groceries.

Also need to put £200 in each of our Help-to-Buy ISAs tonight.

I went into the posh independent baby clothes shop on the way back from the play café as well and I literally went "have you got any socks with like s-" and the woman just went "no.". They were literally just giving me dirty looks as soon as I walked in. I went in once before months and months ago and bought DD a sunhat for our holiday and they were really cold and weird with me then too. I suppose I just def don't look like their preferred clientele . So definitely won't be going back again.

They sound like entitled wankers meadow who won't have a business for long being like that .

Yeah on the plumber em. Boo on the botty..

£10 Guinness world records book, £2.49 balloon refund.

Those travel cost and that phone bill have me going how much!!!!

meadow a pretty woman moment then?!

Dd hasn’t pooped since Wednesday. She’ll most likely poop tonight. Dh is out at his works do tonight. So no doubt she’ll do a mahooooosive poo while I’m solo parenting. Haha!!

We’re at dparents at present. Just about to shoot off and Dm asked if we wanted to stay for dinner. Yes!!!! So I don’t need to wrangle both kids to get dinner into ds.

I’m not even attempting a bath for ds tonight. Will just go home, feed “meegiiiil” (catface aka Millie-Girl) and bed.

Have been to Lloyd’s and opened accounts for both littlies. So that’s another admin thing ticked off the list.

Will set up transfers for £10 each into their accounts on payday.

Good call on not bothering with a bath for DS Em. "Pick your battles" as my DM always says

for little and also Em - poorly children and sicky babies are no fun!

I'm very cross with myself. We've all had a lovely first week back at school/work/nursery and despite a lit of tiredness we've all been in good spirits all week and then I just lost my temper with dd1 and shouted at her. She was tipping bath water out onto the floor but I went ballistic and she cried and now she has gone to bed I feel lousy even though we had lots of cuddles and a story and she's fine. Having kids is bloody hard sometimes!
Anyway it's the weekend so plenty of time to have some fun together.

Nsd.

Recieved a gift from work today. £150 voucher for next for clothes for Dd. £150 voucher for local dept store for me. £100 voucher next for ds.

So. Unbelievably. Generous.

Wow Em! What an amazing gift! Enjoy spending it.

Don't beat yourself up snuggly parenting is ridiculously hard and we're only human. I would have shouted in that scenario as well tbh.

That's amazingly generous em

Busy day here with work, had to drop the puppy to puppy day care which added a good hour onto my day by the time I got through traffic. I shouldn't have to use it very often fortunately, that said puppy absolutely loved it and it was brilliant socialisation for him. Cost £22.

Only other spend was £2 lunch.

Nice evening with dd, managed to prise her off her phone and we played a couple of board games which led to us having a nice chat. She's liked being back at school so far so that's good.

£13 pub

Yup I would have shouted too snuggly.
Very generous em. Enjoy spending

snuggly DC need to learn that we are not perfect & sometimes lose our rag, that's life, don't beat yourself up, you are a great parent.
Seacow I agree with Life (obv I'm biassed) about women's health physio. Check out this website www.gussetgrippers.co.uk/ she is a women's health physio, stand up comedian & mumsnetter.

Am managing MN on my phone at the moment as pc is kaputt so apologies, I'm not ignoring people, just struggling to remember who has written what.
Unescorted I have quilt pics from the show for you & Hannah's Room had a stand there.
Our DC age gap is 3 years 3 months meadow. It works okay, slightly less might've been better.

Little I’m sorry to hear your news, I presume it’s a relative. Tough times

North that’s my problem - I only mn on my phone and find it very hard to retain info about other posts further back than about 10 most recent

I should get physio. I neglect my health in so many small ways due to time constraints but need to get a grip (literally ). I’ll look at that website, thanks. (More tmi - I have a prolapse so don’t know if I am beyond the help of physio but I guess I should find out).

I’d love to see more quilt pics! When I get up (in bed but can’t sleep right now) I’ll take a pic of my first effort at Indian wood block printing - it’s for a quilter friend of mine so sewing-themed.

Ocado final bill was £195 (ouch!), coming this morning. Lots of non-food and also some stuff to batch cook, so it’s more than a week’s worth of food. Also starting to replace Brexit stocks. But still. Ouch. I’m definitely spending more being on a diet too but it’s working so I’m not complaining about that!

I have loads of work to do this weekend and also home stuff, and we’re out all day tomorrow with friends. I suspect I’m going to be up very very late tomorrow night, possibly all night. This is hanging over my weekend somewhat .

I have a prolapse sea and physio has helped. It will depend on the type but I had a full physical assessment at the first physio appointment. I ended up going private as the NHS one at the hospital 5 minutes away can't be accessed by the town's GP surgery as they lost the contract.

£40 initial fee, £30 per session plus £2.99 for the squeezy app

Snuggly I would have shouted too.

Food shopping being delivered today £91 including a £12 off voucher my being low carb and ds having to be dairy free next week is expensive. £10 over budget so will have to come out of my fuel budget.

Need to collect my rings from the jewellers as had to be made two sizes smaller which will be £60

Need to buy ds a lunch box and get pulsin barks from homesense as they're cheap there and a new baking tin.

Spendy day.

Ohhhh quilt pictures!

unescorted & seacow 3 of my favourites from the show

Looks like the pics haven't loaded properly from my phone. Will try again

Spends yesterday:
£48 hairdresser
£48 supermarket delivery
£2 bread

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