Frugal Friends Forging Forward Toward February and Further Financial Freedom

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Truevwolf anf children could escape more easily too!

Tayto do you use BorrowBox it's free audio and ebooks from your library

So an entire tank of gas has leaked out of cylinder in a week at back of my house will deal with it tomo

@lifelongfrugaleer

Can I have more money if I look sad pls

3 NSDs for me. Broke my bloody toe again 🤦‍♀️ so DH went shopping instead of looking in the fridge or cupboards. And again today because he really wants roast pork I haven’t asked how much he spent.

I have a delivery booked for Tuesday, that should be £70-ish.

Oh dear, the rugby was very disappointing.

Did a big shop today so I'm good for food for a few days. Also got a few bales of turf. And lots of cat food.

I'm going to have fish cakes for dinner and then curl up beside the fire and watch a bit of Netflix.

No sign of snow yet. I'm getting paranoid now that I'm about to run out of home heating oil. I'll order more on Monday. I'm sure I'll be fine though.

life great work clearing out the loft.

Happier I've heard of Borrowbox but I've never used it. How does it work? Sorry to hear about the tank

Cross posted Adora. Sorry to hear about your toe. Sounds painful.

Ah fucking hell adora how did you manage that?

Only suitcases left up there which will come down to pack clothes.
There are boxes all over

Sorry about your toe Adora hope it doesn't take too long to heal.

That's annoying about the gas cylinder happier those things are expensive.

Well done for clearing out the loft Life. There's always more stuff than you think. It somehow multiplies when you start packing it up and seems to multiply again when you unpack it at the new place.

NSD for me. I've done nothing but cleaning today. Very windy so got several loads of washing line dried saving me a bit on the electric.

@lifelongfrugaleer

God I'm shattered. Loft is clear except for suitcases. Everything boxed, labels and stacked. We have more stuff than I thought

Good job!!

I managed to restock the kitchen cupboard before I went back to bed and napped. Dh made. Jr gets for the bbq with the dc.

Headache had subsided. Phew. I’m now in that post headache fuzz.

More productive tomorrow.

Ouch adora hope it mends soon.

Life we went minimalist (really ruthlessly) before we went travelling so we didn't have too much to store while we were away. 82 boxes of crap. Some are still boxed up 12 years later. I think now it would be 1082 boxes.

happier Gas gas or liquid gas? either way it sucks, but at least if it is the first the soil doesn't need to be sorted out.

Someone has stolen my weekend again.....I am going to start doing housework during the week. Short flash about while "making a cuppa" = dishwasher / basket of folding. I can do this!

I have not been ruthless enough but I cannot bear to be more so. That just in case mentally is tough to overcome

That's annoying happier.

HaHaHa! This is why we still have unpacked boxes after so long. I have a life rule - if it is not used or loved in 12 months then it goes. Dh has a 120 years statute of limitation.

Nearly had a fit today , checked the bank acount and noticed the DD to Capital one hadn't gone out today. I rang them up and thankfully it was because they don't pay out on the weekend so it should go out tomorrow needs to be there by the 10th ...phew! I would have paid about 130 more than l needed. NSD today l am glad to say
I still have an unpacked dinner service in my garage from 26 yrs ago

Thanks Unescorted. That's what I expected on materials. DS says he wants self-catered halls because his friends already at university say the food is awful (seems to be universal). However, I am hoping that he will cook the occasional dish (or at least, see the point of living off a ready-cooked chicken and baked potatoes, pasta and pesto, plenty of fruit and yoghurt) rather than rely on McDo and ready meals. We'll see!

Did a free Yogabeat class today - a promotional offer from a dance-based fitness studio, obviously closed for the pandemic, but offering Zoom classes. A friend alerted me to their try-out day. It was good! not so good that I want to pay money for it, but I now have Zoom on both laptop and phone and feel, you know, sort of modern.

Tight it so depends on where they go. I was going to send dd down with all the skills, but she has no cooking facilities - mainly because they don't want a 15th C building burning to the ground. Next year she is going to be in halls that will have a kitchen.

Has your DS decided where he is applying?

tightwad I do zoom yoga and I really enjoy it - I get much more of a feeling of connection when it’s live and we are all there virtually together than just doing a video off you tube. It is £££ tho - DH currently assumes it’s free and I’m hoping he doesn’t click on

He's applying to Central St Martins, Brighton, Nottingham Trent, Leeds University, Northumbria. Northumbria's halls are run by Sodexho and get thumbs down from customer feedback. Leeds have some great looking accommodation. Brighton looks a bit soulless, but who can tell really. Don't know about NTU. We're a London family so I am hoping he doesn't go for CSM, assuming he even got an offer, because university is actually a chance to leave home and experience a different city (Brighton is a bit too much the same really). But I am getting ahead of myself - there's a way to go yet.

Hi everyone thank you all for being so kind. I got some sleep last night and everything felt much better, as it always does after some sleep. I don’t want to go into too much detail, but there’s an issue with DM’s ex who was abusive. Things have calmed down a bit, but everyone’s a bit shaken up. Mum and Nan are staying at mine for a little while, but we’re all feeling a lot more positive. Thanks again for being so kind everyone!. No snow here unfortunately, slightly disappointed but apparently we might have some tonight.

Hope the toe is okay adora!

Sorry I haven’t caught up properly, I hope everyone’s okay!

NSD

Snow here. Not much but enough for people to dick about on the road.

Peanut don't have to say if you don't want

tight but if he stayed close to home he’d save on accommodation? Just a thought.

I’ve said to dh that the dc aren’t going to uni unless it’s for something practical (medicine law something like that). Sounds mean but currently we’re classed as international students. Dparents paid around £40k for me to go to uni and the same for dsis (although because she did education studies and then her pgce I think they got some discount).

Anyway. Up with dd. Dh stayed up last night to watch the superbowl. Or as I called it once the “superb owl” I want to go for a run before work. So need him to be up soon. Doubt it’ll happen if I’m honest. He didn’t come to bed until gone 3.

em did you see #SuperbOwlSunday on twitter? loads of lovely owl pics. Heaven.

tight dd looked at Leeds too, but in her heart if she hadn't got into The Ruskin straight from A Levels she would have done a foundation and had a second attempt. How is he getting on with his portfolio?

We have a dusting of snow...

Love an owl.

Just been for a run. It’s been snowing. We’re snowed in. Island has gone to chaos.

Superb Owl :o brilliant.

Em - yes, staying close to home would (in theory) save on accommodation. But part of the reason to go to university is to move away from home. It's increasingly difficult for graduates, if they are starting their working lives in London, to live independently. So many of our neighbours/peers/friends children have moved back home after university because even if they are earning reasonable salaries, London rents mean they just can't save for their own places one distant day.

But it strikes me as an opportunity to move away, see another part of the country, maybe think about working, living, - dare I say it - buying in a different place than our corner of the south east where he's mostly always been, with a world view mostly shaped by family and school.

But we'll see! he's already got the A level grades, and has various deadlines for portfolio submission over the next 7 weeks, so he's just cracking on with that.

Snow here today and I am not in the mood for anything very much. I have to go to Aldi though.