The Lockdown Saving and Spending Continues! May Frugaleers continued

[LaneBoy]

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Me too Lane I have loads of pens and notebooks. I’m trying not to buy anymore as I need to use up what I’ve got. I wouldn’t part with an ny of my good ones but do you not have any old ones you don’t like that you could give him em. Or what about printing paper could he use that?

@LaneBoy

:o at the mouse. The thought of having no notebook is impossible to me. Recently I collected all the half used ones 😳 in my defence some of them are exercise books a retired teacher passed on to us, but still 😳

I need to order DH a Father’s Day present. Oops. Been distracted with DD1’s birthday. I will have a teenager next week 😱

A teenager! Wow!! Is she excited? I had forgotten about Fathers Day too, hasty orders from Amazon Moonpig this morning!

born nope. The only “icky” one I have is almost finished and has my work notes from the last month in it.

We also don’t have a printer. Rarely needed so no point buying one really. Usually if I need to print something I do it at work.

I thought about letting him use my booby notebook (see pic). But that’s my fave. So that’s going to be my next “to do” book for work.

Love a note book

I love a notebook too. I'm just starting to branch out from leuctthurm ones (forgive shit spelling please) to others.

Found the receipt for my wedding ring and pearls in ex's stuff. Will be keeping those for house insurance purposes.

Was on leave so Have done a full working days worth of interview prep, although I am flighty about study and probably do about 15 decent minutes in every hour because I'm a bit oooo squirrel

Changed ink in printer and posted old cartridges back

Made banana and Nutella and banana and peanut butter muffins (hi work friends if you're reading )

Packed up six big ass bags of ex's crap from the attic ready to Saturday to prevent me from tying to avoid study tomorrow by doing it

Played with new camera a bit trying to learn settings.

Have just whacked some sweet potatoes in the oven for dinner and am waiting for mr ocado to arrive

I have wine.

I cleaned out the fridge.

Em the booby notebook is almost enough to switch me back to using again.

Lane how exciting - teen. :)

We have had a frugal fail - I forgot to get anything out for dinner, mentioned it to DH and then went to the foodbank, dropped into the supermarket, running the gauntlet of the buy me items and failed miserably. Only to get home to find DH had popped out to the shop for something for dinner and also failed to negotiate the Buy Me items..... We have plenty of wine.

wolf I love those ones. I’m a moleskine girl at heart though....

unescorted booby notebook was from paperchase. Their sisterhood range I think.

Moleskin note books are the dogs whstsits imo. In trying to be frugal and use DH free ones up. Not as much fun as boobs but I know my team would have a fit (some) while the rest find it funny.

Used my birthday vouchers to buy a new phone as this one doesn't hold WiFi or network.

life that is the advantage of working from home.... no one can see the pictures. I have taken to drawing willies in the margins.

wolf I am putting off objective setting and development centre prep. Like interview prep but no chance of a good outcome.

Why does my mum call me every night to tell me the exact same thing, talking over everything I have to say and then moan I have nothing to say ….

Spendy day £470 on a new (to me) MacBook Air, it's very smart and much better than the old, decrepit one!!

Car insurance also came out, was only a few quid more than last year so I stuck with them.

There goes the money I saved in lockdown 😬🤣

girlie I have a MacBook Air. I love it.

Spent 67 in garden centre yesterday. Got 3 big pots half price and clematis to go on them

Dd has had a bit of a thing for buying notebooks & then not using them, so I've had a steady stream of nice notebooks!
sea I hear you. When I'm organised & disciplined with food, home tends to be the same, not sure which drives it, but definitely linked.
Would say I felt flat yesterday. Not down or tearful, just flat & bored. The Virtual pub quiz is great, but I'd like to go to a real one & see real people. Our zoom quiz on a Saturday has been great, but I'd much rather be seeing everyone at the cricket club, where we'd usually be then. But we carry on.
Work has been good this week so that's definitely a positive.
No spending so far this week.

Need a supermarket shlep at some point. Defo a small shop this time. I said that last week and spent £130

At least you had it saved and no extra hole in the financials.

Depends on the call as to what my doodles are

I've a code for £5 off £20 m&s beauty valid in store or online until 27th August, no use to me as ROI pm if you want it

I have been paid! Wahooo!

Set up payments from joint account to nursery for June and reinstated the standing order for July onwards. Bye bye money!

Have hit the 4000 word mark on my assignment.

Off to garden centre shortly to get Father’s Day gifts and dms birthday gift.

Spendy day without leaving the sofa 😳 Father’s Day presents. A couple will arrive tomorrow (and already had the DVD from DS as I got that a few weeks ago).

Tesco Delivery got cancelled this morning :( luckily DH needed to go into town anyway so he’s using up the rest of the FSM vouchers in the small Sainsbury’s for now. Apparently they’ll send an email rearranging.

On second of four days off today. Yesterday was DP’s birthday so we still have plenty of home made lemon birthday cake which is comfortable. Nsd for me so far but we’ve been to a farm shop called the Mole and DP spent £34 on a new cat scratching post, two packs of big teacakes to toast, two boxes of nitrile gloves and a bag of Foxes’ fruit sweets.
This afternoon I’m going to make gingerbread men.

£185 in garden centre - lemon plant lime plant pots for both, orangutan statue for Dms birthday, plates and bowls for Dd (ds is getting pissed off every time we use “his” special plate for her) cards photo frame and book for Dm (“posh tart” recipe book. Because she likes baking and is a bit of a tart....!)

And £40 at local oak workshop. Beautiful hand crafted gnarly polished oak chopping board for dh for Father’s Day.

£67 today in Lidl on shopping. That's the cheapest weekly shop we have had for a while and it's because the freezer if stuffed with extra portions of things so I just bought fresh stuff and thought we could add in a few freezer meals this week.

Done some interview prep

Done lots of ironing

Failed to get ds to do any school work for the fifth day in a row

Done some washing

Done some shredding.

Packed a bit more of exes shit

Played with camera a little bit

Wolf my DS has not done 5 days work since this has all started. Talking to colleagues I don't think he is alone.

Lane how can they just cancel the delivery? What happens if that is the last pennies you have tied up in the delivery and it doesn't arrive. I am furious on your behalf.

happier you have reminded me I have a £5 voucher for M&S that needs using - I am unlikely to use it so if anyone wants the code let me know. I have to find it ……

I have had a surprisingly good week - I decided to just crack on and do things. My previous line manager would have cats bummed at me - my new one is crack on girl supportive.

£60 in aldi last night. Need to get father's Day stuff today. £25 stables.

I'm sure there are loads of kids not doing work. Not meaning to trivialise at all. It's a battle here too.

Morning. After a week of rain, it's a beautiful, sunny day. I need to get some washing on soon.

I was in work all week (we're working from home one week and in the office the next week). Work was really busy. Some of our work can only be done from home so there's quite a backlog.

I've to drop DD into the big town today. She's going shopping with her friends. I'd normally sit in a cafe and wait for her but if the cafe is closed, I might have a quick browse in M&S and then wait in the car.

I also need to clean the kitchen, dining room and bathroom.

My plants are flourishing with all the rain but so are the weeds! My patio is a sea of green where weeds are sprouting between the slabs.
It's an old patio and was a DIY job (ex and my BIL). I need an inheritance from some mysterious, distant relative so I can get a new patio laid. Why don't those things happen in real life? .

I don't have to cook dinner today because it's waiting for me in the fridge (Thai take away delivered yesterday).

I'm meeting Dad and my sister tomorrow for Father's Day. We're going for a walk in my favourite gardens. I need to figure out if they're coming back to the house for a socially distanced dinner (sitting out on the weedy patio?) or just going home afterwards. If they're coming for dinner then I need go get some food in. DD will spend time with Ex tomorrow also. He sounded a bit surprised when I asked him about it. Maybe he'd forgotten it was Father's Day?

I haven't bought anything for Dad yet. I'm thinking of a subscription to National Geographic magazine. He's almost 80 and has a lot of clutter in his house (not hoarding levels but he's not great at throwing things out) so I'm reluctant to buy him a thing iykwim. I'd normally get him something like a concert ticket, but that's not an option at the moment. He likes clothes but I bought him a shirt for Father's Day last year. He loves reading but Eason's (bookshop/stationery shop) isn't open yet.