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Savvy savers sashaying through September

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ememem84 · 04/09/2021 09:27

New thread. All welcome.

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Gensola · 21/11/2021 07:34

@ememem84 🤦‍♀️ sounds like he needs a good kick up the arse!

@Wolfcub I love my kindle - I think that’s a great purchase.

I’ve been a bit extravagant on Christmas presents for people and also booked flights home to NI to see my Ddad and DSis before Xmas, we are (hopefully!!) going to Spain for Xmas week with my mum and stepdad and some of my other siblings.

lifelongfrugaleer · 21/11/2021 07:44

After the year you have had gen don’t blame you

lifelongfrugaleer · 21/11/2021 14:02

£15 lunch after friend paid me into the
Gym

marthasmum · 21/11/2021 16:23

Oh gen wishing you all the very best and glad you have some nice things to look forward to
Win on the skip happier
Xmas tree sounds lovely fear. DS2 bought a little one for his room out of his pocket money!
Happy birthday for last weekend north
love hope you got your duvet day
em sounds like a nightmare trip!
Am sitting at the service station waiting to meet my DPs. They have had DD and her girlfriend to visit (at DDad’s suggestion). Which I think if quite progressive for someone in their 80s with the beginnings of Alzheimer’s. AFAIK it’s gone ok so 🤞🏻 that’s correct. DDad can be untactful
to say the least.
Have done a lot of driving this weekend - big food shopping trip yesterday (Costco and Tesco) and football match for DS2 today. He was playing in nets which he hasn’t done for a while and was nervous about, went well though. DS1 also back at training after an injury which was good for him, he needs an outlet. There have been rather toxic events in his friendship group at school recently which will need mopping up this week ☹️

HumbugWhale · 21/11/2021 16:29

Hi everyone, have fallen off the thread so need to catch up. Had a rotten cold (not covid luckily!) and loads going on at work etc. I am exhausted!

Bornlazy · 21/11/2021 17:07

Hello all. I have totally fallen off the thread and the frugal wagon. My bathroom turned into a total nightmare and needed new walls and floor before any work could start. Just one thing after another. Still now that it's finished I love it, but it's not been cheap 🙈

I too have had the terrible cold that is like covid but not covid - twice now with only a week of respite in between. I am totally fed up of not being well. I was off sick the first time and only a week after going back I had to go off for a PCR test. Luckily that's classed as special leave so I'll be dragging myself into work tomorrow to avoid any more sick time.

Off to catch up with the rest of the thread.

ememem84 · 21/11/2021 22:11

DH off to London tomorrow morning (7am flight. Ick). So the kids and I won’t see him until Tuesday evening.

gen he does need an arse kicking. He has made a point today and rewashed all of his clothes. They’re still sitting in the machine. Because he told me he’d deal with it I’m not touching them. I have enough clothes and the kids have enough to go at least 3 weeks without laundry if we have to.

We were out last night. Tasting menu (8 courses) at wonderful restaurant. Bil and sil bought us a voucher for it last Christmas. It was absolute heaven. DH had the wine pairings too. So 8 glasses. I drove. And had 8 different non alcoholic drinks to match the food. Yay.

I’m a week no booze. Which is a big thing for me. Not that I drink loads. But a G&t on a Friday night is a standard for
Me.

£40 today riding.

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HumbugWhale · 22/11/2021 06:40

Sorry you've been poorly and the bathroom needed more work Born. I bet it is lovely having a nice new bathroom though!

lifelongfrugaleer · 22/11/2021 07:04

Welcome back frugaleers.

Tasting menu sounds delicious

northender · 22/11/2021 07:08

Good weekend here. Did nothing on Saturday as I was still feeling rough. Felt better yesterday & got out for a walk with dh. Not looking forward to work today...

lifelongfrugaleer · 22/11/2021 20:13

I took the morning off and did a shit ton of errands and spent £££ Christmas shopping

Unescorted · 23/11/2021 19:32

Where has my motivation gone? I get to about 2pm and it takes all my will power to not surf the tinternet on works time.

Em well done on breaking the gin habit. The best bit I am finding is that my bank balance is looking so much healthier.

I had a weird dream last night- I thought I had a stinking hangover. I woke up so confused. It took a couple snooze cycles on the alarm to realise I couldn't have a hangover because I hadn't drunk since Thursday before last.

AdoraBell · 24/11/2021 00:16

I’ve been MIA for too long. Sorry.

We’re moving house. That’s all I’m saying on the matter right now. Final grocery delivery today/yesterday- Tuesday, £53.

Gensola · 24/11/2021 06:13

adorabell welcome back 😊
Pay day tomorrow thank goodness, we have been doing a 0 budget where we disperse all funds on payday so it’s always an anxious wait to be paid again to see if we have budgeted sensibly or we have forgotten something 😅
Have some big bills to pay this month so less will go off debt but we should get some of it cleared.

lifelongfrugaleer · 24/11/2021 06:52

Hi adora say no more costs a bleeding fortune

AdoraBell · 24/11/2021 11:51

Spendy day, gym with personal trainer. £35, expensive but it the only thing keeping me sane. I’ll pick up bread later, don’t think I need anything else.

Glad you had a good meal em

I will try to catch up Brew all round.

grannycake · 24/11/2021 13:39

Nothing spent since my Ocado order last week but am having my haircut this afternoon and picking up an Aldi order tomorrow so my halo will slip a bit - at least there will be some room in the freezer to pack it away

grannycake · 24/11/2021 16:47

£20 in the hairdressers

HumbugWhale · 24/11/2021 19:28

Nice to see you Adora.

Very low spend week here so far which is good. In fact I've done well this month which means we have a bit extra for Christmas (assuming no expensive domestic or car related drama!)

Unescorted · 24/11/2021 20:54

It is lovely to have people back.

We are harvesting the freezer - it needs defrosting. It is making it frugal but can be a bit of a lottery. Some days we eat like kings ...other not do.

Between life & Adora I am now looking at the squalid hovel as my forever home.

Alfiemoon1 · 24/11/2021 23:38

Evening all spends today £150 on ds trainers for Christmas ouch but they were on a Black Friday deal so I’ve saved £40 as they were originally £190 plus I went through TopCashback that’s another one ticketed off the list

northender · 25/11/2021 05:41

Another meal out yesterday for dd's birthday, in fact brunch out too, eek! She only has one lesson on a Wednesday and asked to have a day with me so brunch was part of that. Also went out to the coast & had a bracing seafront walk & then a bit of Christmas shopping, it was lovely. But not frugal so belts need to be tightened a bit. I'm taking my mum out today. Probably will go to a fabric shop, garden centre & then try to have a walk out by the coast somewhere. Hoping she will pay for lunch!

Making a concerted effort to keep Christmas simple. It's always small as we only have small families who live miles apart, but dh has a tendency to food shop to excess. Think piles of Christmassy flavoured crisps, twiglets, nuts etc. We never eat it all so I am going into list overdrive & will try to get him to stick to them!

Bought tickets for Mamma Mia yesterday. One ticket is Xmas present for mil & ive suggested to sil that we get our tickets in lieu of presents for each other. Makes sense to me but haven't heard back from her yet.

Wolfcub · 25/11/2021 07:59

Morning all. Annual Christmas treat for dm today so will be spendy. I have many layers on!

grannycake · 25/11/2021 09:43

My halo has slipped - just spent £140 on sportswear - it's lovely and I have the cash but I can't say I really needed it - maybe the joggers On my way to Aldi in a bit to pick up a Click & Collect order for £65 - this will cover us for the month for Aldi

lifelongfrugaleer · 25/11/2021 11:41

Lots of ££ spent here too but Christmas shop about done except for me as no idea what I want