Festive Frugaleering

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Opppppps - we nearly filled the old one

£100 birthday gifts for GC. £42 Ocado and £104 in Baukgen sale

mrs thank you. Dd seems much better. I think she coughed herself sick (if that makes sense). She was a bit snotty. So I don’t think that helped.

I’m getting there had a decent sleep last night. And am having a quiet day with the kids today. Have a work call at 11 but dm was already booked to watch them for the hour.

Today I need to:

Pay for the balance of our accommodation for the refurb £3000
Pay window cleaners £20
Laundry

Happier I'd have sent ds as well. He knows very well he has to be really severely unwell to get a day off sick. If you can walk you're fine to go.

Pressed send too soon. My mother was exactly the same as well, sick days were very rare

Dad used to do the £20 note test. Left one on the side. If we got up to get it we could go to school.

My DC normally go to school when under the weather. I once sent DD1 in all week with a cough (pre covid), when I picked her up on the Thursday the teacher recommended she have the following day off

Saying that, I was in two minds about keeping DD1 home today (sore throat and runny nose), she happily watched Harry Potter this morning. Now she has a raging temperature

Em that's clever

€70 to childminder today due to dd being there all day & ds finishing school early it's normally €30

Hello, I can see you're nearly at the end but can I join? 👋🏻 🙂

I'm looking for a thread to keep an eye on spending & getting the most from my money. Is this the place to be?! 😀

Spends.

£21 window cleaners.
£3061 remainder of accommodation balance.
£350 to pt for next block of gym sessions.

Spendy.

All of our covid restrictions are gone from end of March. Wooooooo

Welcome 8 someone will start a new thread at the appropriate time so jump in

Yes post spends, frugal wins, hints and tips as well as chat and support

Welcome 13 , don't worry plenty of time for a new thread , Unescorted is normally on the ball bless her, thank you Unescorted and the others who see to it for us
Em that is wonderful you & Dd are better so glad for you
Your Dad is very canny
Happier that is a lot to have to spend on child care for one day , l think l can remember you used to have to spend a lot more though or it might have been Em , still they are so worth it
Love hope you are much better and your DD1 improves quickly
Granny Baukjen have some lovely PJ'S and dressing gowns of doom drool
Spent 65 in Primark on birthday pressies for my Mum and my step niece and my DD1, 30 in Asda on food , went for lunch with my poor friend who has been having terrible problems with the menopause, her HB is down to 2 from all the clots , she had Covid last week and now the blood test she had done has revealed she has type 2 Diabetes , she looked so poorly bless her , l took her some lillies only £5 from Asda . l felt so sorry for her . Lunch was £7 only a wholemeal toastie and a decaff coffee, we didn't have cakes because of her diagnosis ahh bless her heart . I know she will be ok but she looked awful.
Hope everyone is ok take care

NSD today, need to get bread and ham for sandwiches tomorrow.

Welcome 8, definitely the right place.

Nsd and pay day! Hooray! Job for weekend is to do spreadsheet for Feb.

Aaand ds has been sick. Thankfully he seems in good spirits. But still.

Welcome 8
Oh em nooo! Hope DH helps out tonight.
mrs an hb of 2?! Would she not get transfused? Hope she is ok.
I too am a cruel mother who sends children to school if at all possible. A few times I've caught a bug the kids have had and thought 'blimey, I've sent them with this and I feel quite rough!'
Spendy today but all accounted for. Full tank of petrol £98 (yikes!) weekly shop £99 Aldi, £107 at outlet shopping centre for football boots for DS2, new running trainers for me (v comfy compared to old ones) and KFC for me, DS1 and DS2. DD was at her new job as a pot washer

Thanks all, this is just the thread I need.

Not starting off that well - just got back from a splurge in a local independent French restaurant. I went with the early bird offers though so it wasn't extortionate & it was amazing food & wonderful to spend time with a good friend. First time we've eaten out together in 2 years

Only other spend was £11.85 on posting items I've sold on eBay/FB.

I worked out my finances today & they are looking super good. I've saved hard, & made good sales online. A great result at the end of this long month.

Welcome 8
No spend day been in work and dh took my car to the garage for its mot and service tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed it passes it’s only done 2k miles In the last year I don’t go far anyway but am still working from home paid of dh cc £30 cancelled dd insurance refund due £37 saving £85 per month insurance and £27 tax will look to buying her a car when she needs one
Dd is at the university house she’s definitely there unlike last time as they have viewings and she has sent pictures where they are hiding they hamster no recent contact with twatface unless they have switched WhatsApp

Get well soon poorly miniems and minihappier DS is poorly tonight too, but old enough to take himself to bed with minimal involvement from me. If you listened hard enough there might have been some sympathy.

Welcome 8.

Mrs you need to sit down before you break.

I am so tired yet still stayed up to watch Sue Perkins van life programme. I sooooooooooo want to van life again.

Chuckling at all these stern parents who send kids to school because my mum is a teacher and we were sent in no matter what, we always thought it was very unfair! 😄 now I’m a teacher I see her point!!
Have set aside a few £ to buy some nice houseplants and bits today at posh garden centre, then have bestie’s birthday party. I have been on dry Jan and haven’t broken down yet but will have a couple tonight then do an extra week to make up for it.
I’ve been seeing a PT to try and lose the stone and a half I put on in IVF in 2020-2021 and have lost 7 pounds already in January, it definitely isn’t frugal but it’s worth it! Hoping to be back to my “usual” weight before my 37th birthday in June.

DH was good. But then added to my anxiety by saying he felt dodgy too. So I slept downstairs and left him and ds to it. Thankfully ds was only sick twice then slept through.

I say I slept downstairs. But I lay awake in a panic for a very long time. Then dd woke up and it was 230. Then I actually slept. She woke up again (all fine just awake) at 530. Made her sleep again and she’s been up since 630. I’m exhausted.

Have cancelled riding as lack of sleep and needed here really.

Currently watching bing.

Aldi, Iceland , dog food today
Must meal plan
Got some apples in the turn so apple crumble tomorrow

Hope poorly people are feeling better

Plumber
Pub
Clean bathroom and vac stairs for me today. Could do without needing plumber as it's not pay day until Monday

Blooming cat had me up at 6.30 wanting his breakfast so much for a lie in
Hoping my car passes it’s mot with no problems then need to do a food shop The fridge looks empty as we cleaned it last weekend so chucked out all the sauces and jams etc that had been opened for god knows how long. Then need to walk the dog
Hope everyone has a good day and anyone poorly feels better soon