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Friendly Frugaleers Festive Preparations and Financial Accountability

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Wolfcub · 20/11/2019 21:23

New Fred

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lifelongfrugaleer · 12/12/2019 07:04

Tree is up. Need a wreath hanger, parent cards and some baking stuff for the weekend today. Citrus fruits and eggs mostly

ememem84 · 12/12/2019 07:40

Dh is up with ds. He’s shouted at him a few times this morning already. I told dh that I’m staying in bed this morning. But apparently that’s not happening. 🙄 he literally can’t cope with ds on a work morning.

How the hell he thinks I do it I don’t know.

ChristmasSeacow · 12/12/2019 08:20

Oof. I have a bit of a head today and the school
Is closed for polling. That’s wasn’t well planned! I’ve been very brave and bought tickets to take both kids to the theatre today to see Bear Hunt. I am very nervous about them both being good and not kicking off about something. Usually I don’t take them out unless there is 1:1 adult ratio (other than very local errands) so this is a first. We are going with some other school kids and siblings so I’ll have some moral support, if not ACTUAL support (people would be willing to help but neither child will stay with anyone else if the other kicks off... so fingers crossed I don’t have to deal with two screaming kids!).

I’m not going to push my luck and take them to the polling station, I’ll go later when DH gets back from work.

How’s your head Wolf?

northender · 12/12/2019 08:20

sea so glad your ds was such a star as Joseph. Not surprised there were tears.
Em I'd love to have a cleaner, but it's never got past our nice to have list... that's rubbish about the missing presents too.
wolf belated love to you! I had a mammoth cricket club AGM last night & resorted to midweek wine afterwards.
unescorted glad your dd is happy with how it went, guess it's just wait & see now.

Very busy at work at the moment, but annual leave day today so have been extreme list writing. Have to go Christmas shopping today, but will do so with a definite list & be very focused.
Will go to vote later although it's extremely pointless here as the Tory will win by a country mile. It's ds' first vote today so he's going to come with us, feels like quite a milestone.

ememem84 · 12/12/2019 08:38

I’m interested in how you are all going to vote. I’m not sure who I’d vote for if I was allowed.

WreckTangled · 12/12/2019 09:02

I've voted. We live in a Tory safe seat. I like our local Lib Dem candidate, but tactically voted labour because they're the only ones who might stand a chance of beating the conservative candidate. Although really they stand no chance at all. I took the dc with me.

northender · 12/12/2019 10:39

Same here wreck it's so depressing knowing that your vote is irrelevant. I'm 48 and my vote has never got within 15,000 of the winner. I'm voting labour.

Wolfcub · 12/12/2019 13:16

Afternoon all. No bad head here but a shocking night of racing heart and fever and have come down with Noro (not pleasant). Ds's school closed due to Noro but luckily he stayed out last night so is clear of my germs.

Just voted. Red here

Welcome Bada

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ChristmasSeacow · 12/12/2019 16:03

It’s such horrible weather here today! Haven’t voted yet but I’ll go when DH gets home from work. I’ll be yellow. Closest to my personal views atm, although I have voted labour in the past and might again, I won’t for this present set up. I’m in a safe labour seat so I can vote to make my feelings known and without worrying about the tories. Honestly, with so many senior Tory grandees advising people not to vote for Johnson it’s a fairly depressing situation. I am also depressed by how dirty and untruthful politics is nowadays. It’s always had an element of that but with social media there’s a race to the bottom these days, morally! My Facebook feed is a depressing picture of people reposting whatever memes suit their views. Lots of cheap shots which hardly enhance the quality of debate or scrutiny on any party Hmm. If people can’t be critical of their information sources and less divisive and reactive about others’ views, I worry that we’ll never get (or deserve) good government again.

We’re going on a Bear Hunt was excellent - a puppet show, which I wasn’t expecting, but completely brilliant! Kids were transfixed... all was going very well till the puppeteers ran through the audience with the bear puppet and went right up to DS and terrified him (we were on an aisle row). I really think they should warn people if that might happen, we wouldn’t have sat there. He was in bits and had a bit of a meltdown afterwards in the bustle of everyone leaving the auditorium. (And DD cries, so I did indeed have two upset children - but at least the performance had finished!). He peeked up a bit with pizza afterwards but was (and still is) very on edge. I am knackered.

SnugglySnerd · 12/12/2019 16:12

Red here too!
It's been a looooong day with dd's school closed and all the rain. I have had enough now. Frozen DVD is on and I'm hiding in the kitchen wandering what to have for tea. My normally meticulous meal planning has let me down as I forgot about Thursday! It might be pasta with tinned tomatoes. It'll be nice with some garlic and herbs added.

ememem84 · 12/12/2019 16:19

Oh no wolf poor you!! Feel better soon!!

£10 coffee and scones for me and a friend. Dd was impeccably behaved.

Girliefriendlikespuppies · 12/12/2019 16:40

Oh no wolf I had noro once it was seriously grim.

Well done for taking them both sea that's a shame about the end bit but sounds like overall was a success?

I voted Lib Dem tactical vote, I seriously hate our Tory mp and it's only the Lib Dem's who stand a chance of beating her round here. Agree with everything you said sea about the current state of politics.

Spent £3 on a meal deal today.

lifelongfrugaleer · 12/12/2019 17:50

Gws wolf.
Tactical red here but would have preferred yellow.
Well done on trip out sea

Unescorted · 12/12/2019 18:06

Poor wolf hope you make a speedy recovery... otherwise just drink lots of gin to disinfect your innards. Or numb the pain.....

red vote here - we have a really good local MP. And a really awful Tory. Lying - has knocked on 25,000 doors in the local area in the last 12 months, but he was only selected 30 odd days ago when he lost the selection for one of the Cheshires. It is nice to know that hard of thinking is no barrier to standing for MP. You would think that some one might have told him that he would have had to do over 1 every 2 minutes without sleep. He is our Local candidate apparently.... we won't tell the people of the London Borough he represented for 5 years that he was up here all the time being local for local people.

northender · 12/12/2019 20:55

#Youthquake is worth a look on twitter. How much of it is true I don't know, but it has given me some hope.

SnugglySnerd · 12/12/2019 21:30

Get well soon Wolf. Noro is doing the rounds here and it's really nasty. Take care.

Plancina · 12/12/2019 22:47

Exit polls are fairly depressing. We voted yellow but we are in a Tory stronghold but went anyway to make our small voice heard!
Very spendy day today shopping for presents for family, also for a coat for me but I couldn’t find one that I liked so at least that’s a saving Grin
I have optician tomorrow but otherwise a chilled day, going to see Knives Out with DP which I am excited about.

SnugglySnerd · 12/12/2019 22:56

The exit poll has thoroughly depressed me.

ChristmasSeacow · 12/12/2019 23:27

Gawd. Depressed.

northender · 13/12/2019 05:48

My hope was short-lived. Agree, totally depressing.
Hope you feel better soon wolf

WreckTangled · 13/12/2019 05:52

I only know one person who voted Tory yet our local Tory candidate got 35000 votes. Second places was LD with 13000. Everyone at work and all my friends, none of them wanted another Tory government. I thought they'd win but I thought it would be much closer. I suppose it's to be expected when you live in a part of the country where most people earn in a month what you earn in a year Sad

lifelongfrugaleer · 13/12/2019 06:08

Our red town has become blue it seems. Depressed is the word

Unescorted · 13/12/2019 06:18

I am not going to be able to look at my neighbours the same again -they have voted the lying bd in. And he is still lying … from last night "For the last 14 months I have slogged my guts out, worked incredibly hard, knocked on over 30,000 doors, talked to as many people as possible, and I think the result today reflects that." Except he was only selected DAYS before the election. We calculated that it would have been 833 doors a day. He saw we were in and turned around on the garden path...… odious.

Wolfcub · 13/12/2019 06:38

Locally We held red but lost two red to blue in the area

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SnugglySnerd · 13/12/2019 08:16

We're in a safe Tory seat here so it was expected they'd hold it. Worrying how many people must have voted for such a despicable pm though. What does that say about our country.
I don't know a single person who would have voted for them.

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