Frugal friends follow each other frugally through Hallowe'en, COVID all welcome

[Happierwithouthim]

Here you go life

I would need to get rid of about 20 things a day to make a dent in this overfilled house 🙈

Love the crocheting north. I am doing a scarf in double crochet and my tension is all over the place so it is slightly different widths depending on how tight/loose my stitches have been 😩

Ok. Dcs asleep. I’ve had a bit of dinner but an starting to feel a bit on the come down from the booze (sleep it offfff!!!) and have just had a quick look through the haul for today.

I bought:
£135 Jojo maman - dinosaur croquet set and stacking wooden animals, 4 x packs of socks, two Tshirts all but two socks for nephews.
£45 body shop - tea tree stuff for dh, hand creams for dsis and Dm and me - free gift for spending over £30 I think.
£40 shirt for dh from surf shop
£90 next - Christmas pjs for the kiddos, pjs for dh and a Christmas hand towel.
£34 white company - two candles - both for dsis (yes she was with me but she likes them so figured why not get them the. And there before I forgot)
£35 ish boots - bracelet kit for friends Dd, couple of face masks for dsis, beard kit for her boyf and some slipper socks for dh
£34waterstones books for dnephews and calendar for dh.

£25 fatface on a jumper for me. In the sale and I’d wanted it for ages but held off.

Dsis spent a lot too on the dc and she’s sorting dparents. We’re getting them a huge hamper. So buying bits here and there to fill it.

I did the main bits I set out to do - dnephews gifts. So I can post next week. Feeling smug!

North this is the difference between you and me, my craft projects look as if they have been flung together by someone who has watched a single You tube video... which to be fair is about where I am at.

Christmas shopping has not yet even started. It can only happen on months beginning with D.

I have done the annual oven clean..... oh my it was truly grim. You can tell the kids have started cooking for themselves. I have been rewarded with a blood nose.

Oh how I'd love to be able to crochet and how much I'd love a boozy shopping afternoon in equal measure 😍!

October has been the spendiest month since last December 🙈. I've had to start shifting little bits from savings here and there. Roll on November!

I did use Tesco vouchers at Zizzis yesterday though 😇!

I've done a bit of the girl's stocking buying but we're waiting til mid-December to buy any main presents. We'd like to take eldest DD to Harry Potter studios - hopefully it won't be hampered by lockdown.

Morning (well, just about).

It's been an awful morning here - very wet. DCats aren't impressed.

We're having soup for dinner with brown bread. I found this recipe so I'm going to try it out biamaith.ie/recipe-view/winter-vegetable-soup/. Seems simple and easy to make. We're also ligthing the fire this evening and watching a movie. And I think a board game is in the mix.

unescorted it literally is a ball of multicoloured wool, a crochet hook & a YouTube video with a slightly irritating American woman! The first bit was the hardest, getting going, but it is now very repetitive. Did you make the quilt you got lovely batik fabrics for? Well done on the £600 saving btw.
Madden I can't imagine when my next boozy shopping afternoon is likely to happen. I'm not a natural shopper, but it sounds very tempting right now.
Today is the last coast walk before packing up & driving home tonight. It's been lovely, but we've not chatted to anyone outside of our household bubble as you normally would. Evenings have been in playing games as social distancing & covid security here seems lax. 2020 life.
Overestimated the Tesco order s bit so have quite a bit of food to take home, but its all stuff that we would normally use anyway so not a problem

Change of plan re: soup. DD vetoed the celery, cauliflower, butternut squash, turnip etc. (so basically, most of the soup ingredients). So we're making this one instead www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/life-society/traditional-irish-cooking/traditional-irish-cooking/from-the-garden-the-field/recipe-homemade-vegetable/ We made it at Christmas and it was really good.

I need more soup in my life

Mmmm soup

We've baked. Ds is doing my nut in honestly if you ever consider buying your child a games console just don't!

Dropped picture that got broken recently off to be reframed and posted returns to amazon of the mouldy/wrong language stuff

We were going to go for a walk but thought better of it.

I did north it went to Oxford with DD. A bit wonky but made with a sprinkling of Mummie love.

Wolf if I could roll back time on the games console I would.

We are going into tier 2 apparently. What are the odds on it remaining for Christmas and will it mean DD is not allowed home? Although it looks as if Oxf is joining us in mild plague status.

We've just returned from a great trip to the beach - lots of castle building and running in and out of the waves and the funnest time dodging the waves crashing over the sea wall. All of us soaked to the skin, girls now in a hot bath.

I would love a bowl of soup now! But instead I'm 🐷 and 💸 from pasties and chips on the beach (this is exactly the kind of thing we need to reign in in November!)

Happierwithouthim Hi!! I'm the poster who wanted to buy the campervan.. its strange because I haven't looked at this thread for ages and today I do and I've been mentioned .. How Woo is that! ?

So..... I did buy the campervan (its lovely) and retired and my life changed quite a bit. Then luckily an unexpected inheritance happened so my life changed a bit more.. Not riches but a nice amount, and so I still need to be (fairly) frugal but not quite as much.

.. But going forward , with both DH and myself both retired and us wanting (Covid allowing) to concentrate on traveling careful budgeting will be needed.. I do need to somehow curb my love of buying clothes though ( Style and Beauty is where you'll find me mostly on MN these days).

So Hi everyone who remembers me..and thanks for doing so !! This is just a quick pop in as I am just about to pick up my DGS who is coming for the weekend (and who is now nearly 8 if anyone remembers him ) ..x

Hey Laska good to see you.

Lovely to see you Laska, really glad you managed to get that camper and start the retirement you worked so hard for

Ewfl klaxon tonight at 8. Clashes with Autumnwatch which is poor bbc planning in my opinion, thank goodness for watch on demand.

The restaurant I wanted to take ds to tomorrow is booked up so I need a plan b

Busy here today , Mum to Drs, leg dressings, prescriptions not right , so tedious to have to sort things out all the time. Nevermind sorted now.
Went to B & M spent 14 , bought a pink Sherpa bottom sheet for my bed & some coffee. Weather has been awful & it's gone cold now , heating on now, much warmer.

So. Pleased you got the camper laska,

Games consoles are the devil's work.

£5 taxi to the skate park, £3 snacks, £3 bakers as walk home bribe

Found a note dd put in my handbag following the altercation with her father.

Everything's going to be alright, be happy Mammy

Found it when I dropped divorce papers to court office, feels like a huge weight lifted even though it's only start of the process.

Just realised I got married when I was 27 and I'll be divorced at 37

Dunnes yesterday went a bit crazy €179.80
I had borrowed a voucher from my friend and had one of my own which gave me €20 but checkout operator gave me an extra €5 one so brought it down to €154.80

Childminder was €120

Dc spent pocket money today & we also spent about €20 in Tesco. This is midterm break of a rough year so I'm not being too hard on myself plus it's for 1.5 weeks too.

My next vouchers expires 11th November,

@Laska2Meryls waves!!!!

I’ve spent the day watching Netflix. Ive binge watched haunting of hill house. I am scared now though!

'Found a note dd put in my handbag following the altercation with her father.

Everything's going to be alright, be happy Mammy'
She is a daring child xx
Means everything Happier

DARLING!

Would you like to see the camper? ( Seems a bit boastful on a frugal thread)

@Laska2Meryls

Would you like to see the camper? ( Seems a bit boastful on a frugal thread)

Hell yes. We know how frugal you were to get it thought.

Ah dd is a sweetheart happier

We are tier 3 from Monday so back to being a miserable loner!