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

[Happierwithouthim]

Here you go life

Mocks here too curls. Good luck!

Mocks here too. Hope it all went smoothly for your babies.

North won't your local cricket club take them?

tight I just let mine get on with being a wake... if they want to be knackered the next day so be it.

Good luck in mocks.
Nsd today.
Feel off too. Random throw up set my day off badly. Deffo not preggers

Frugal win. Garmin are exchanging my watch as screen is corrupted

@Unescorted - dogs or ados? Canine insomnia harder to ignore.

Good luck to all with mocks and whatever happens with exams next year. It's not an easy time in which to be a young 'un!

NSD here too. And I got a £25 voucher from an insurance company from a policy taken out a few months back. Had completely forgotten about it. So will use it for some Christmas cheer in a M&S foodhall. Any recommendations?

@northender - well, yes, I am more 'alert' to stuff that needs doing in the house than other members of the household and drive most of the planning, budgeting, arranging and cleaning up before and afterwards. The upside is that I get to decide most of what happens, and I am generally supported and cheered on by a positive and appreciative spouse.

Two legged ones .... although they are difficult to tell apart from the 4 legged ones at times tight

£60 twitched on a last minute Christmas gift for ds

Well done on selling the van Curls

Happier and Snuggly I'm impressed by that level of frugaldom

North I hopeYou are starting to feel better and hope the assessment for dd went well

Good luck to all the dcs who are sitting mocks

Toy cull done.

And got a bit crafty after a trip to dunelm ( £23). These are the first baby grows the dc wore when they were born. Stretched over embroidery hoops. They’ll go on my stair wall when they’ve been tidied up a bit.

I almost bought some circular mirrors too. But didn’t.

Em those are beautiful, so lovely

'£60 twitched on a last minute Christmas gift for ds'
that blasted twitch had me too Wolf

Excellent stuff re the van Curls

Happier and Snuggly bet they tasted lovely as well as being economical

Life & North I hope you both feel better
Good luck to those whose Dc are taking exams

I have been to Cardiff and done very well re frugality
Took a dress back and had a refund, took a pr of boots back that were broken to Asda and had a refund, took the slippers back l bought Mum and had a refund. The one pair had gone down to 3 from 8 , l had my receipt so l had the full refund and went around the corner and bought the next size for 3 pounds , Waitrose had vegan Ben & Jerrys on offer 2 for 6 & a large box of Booja Booja chocs for 9.99 for Dd1.
l picked up a free paper as well So l was vere pleased

Great frugal going Mrs.
Lovely em

Morning! Another disturbed night, I'm already drinking tea! Sold more stuff on Ebay. Hoping for a NSD.

Morning Snuggly.

I love this time of the morning - colleagues are not yet out of bed so I can crack on with chunky work and do my more bitty instant response things later in the day. And no one sees that I am inactive for 5 minutes while I catch up on MN and make DS' sandwich & toast.

Only 3 more sleeps.....

Morning everyone 😀
Yes l love the early mornings too Unescorted not long now you must be so excited. l am otm for you all. l can remember collecting my Dd1 from Manchester Uni for her hols its like a giant hug of comfort is coming ☺️
Snuggly well done on the selling yay!!
AHH thank you life "didn't she do well? " 🤣
Up to MumBobs ltr have a lovely day everyone 😀

I’m up too - IVF drugs are making me feel rotten, my boobs feel like they’re going to explode and I have cramps and nausea. Supposed to have my egg collection on Thursday so hopefully after that it will be a bit easier.
I’ve been at home for a couple of weeks working from the garden office to try and minimise the chances of catching covid as my cycle would be cancelled if I got it.

I haven’t done much Christmas shopping yet - my sisters and I banded together to get my DF and DM and SSDad things so they’re sorted but I still have two nephews, sisters and DH. It will be the first Christmas I don’t have to buy for my brother as he died this summer - will be weird without him this Christmas

That should read Stepdad, no idea what I was going for there

Got ahead of myself... 4 more sleeps.

Law changed here yesterday. So from 10am masks are legally required in shops banks supermarkets post offices etc.

Apparently though anyone can download and complete the exemption form online which sort of makes a mockery of it.

We’re being asked to wfh where possible. But my work hasn’t said anything about it so I’m going in today. Will ask once I get there.

Cases are up to 200 here largely due to a party at a hotel last week.

Where are you based @ememem84?

@Gensola jersey.

@ememem84 ah I’ve always wanted to visit Jersey after reading a book set there. Maybe once the virus has calmed down!

Sorry to hear about your brother gen. Good luck for Thurs.
Waiting on MP vote today for tiers.

Need to pay postage back to Garmin today

@Gensola - so sorry about your brother. Best of luck on your IVF, I feel you.

[quote Gensola]@ememem84 ah I’ve always wanted to visit Jersey after reading a book set there. Maybe once the virus has calmed down![/quote]
Yes - once things have calmed down absolutely make the trip. It’s wonderful here. We are very lucky to live here. Expensive here. But beautiful.

Sorry to hear about your brother. Xx

£7 returning Garmin.
All bills out. Need to budget next