Frugal fun in February - the one with the Spring spring

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New thread continued from this one

All are welcome - just dive in.

£36 lidl on bits for hols - cheap hand wash, shower gel etc, bread and spread for the holiday cottage

Rain bad here and I've spent the morning on at the council about the risk of flooding and going out and clearing leaf mold out the top of the drain covers. Why they are never properly prepared for bad weather I do not know. I keep pointing out to them that they spend more rectifying flood damage than they'd spend doing basic prevention. They love getting a call/email from me. Honest !

May find my way to the pub earlier. But not if the weather stays like this

I need baking/ over ware. Trying to decide beyeen sainsburys heavy and scoville . Impressed with the scoville frying pans

£41 riding. Owed £1 from Tuesdays Jump lesson. Cooking a chicken for lunch.

DH in a strip today because nz are vaccinating 5 and over (supposedly) and are not letting the unvaxxed in anywhere. We are meant to go at Christmas and ds will be 5. But we can’t vaccinate him (nor will I just for the sake of a holiday).

Sh is also confused why fil wasn’t at home today. Because he wasn’t there DH and the kids “had to” stay in the car whilst I rode. So he’s grumpy. They absolutely didn’t have to. They could have gone to the park or something. Sigh.

Sainsburys heavy every time

I'm now on complaint number three to the council. If we don't flood it'll be a miracle.

Life buy one in your favourite size & try it out. Then go back for more. I have bought so many baking tins & sheets only for them to gather dust at the back of the cupboard.

Today's stress bake is croissants.

Wolf I hope you aren't in the little strip of rain that has been stalled over us all day.... if so in about 20-30 minutes you are going to get one huge downpour.

Afternoon hope everyone is safe and sound
North happy belated birthday and l hope you had a wonderful time away with your firnds and DH
Unescorted Dh loves that channel , he was otm he had so much coverage
Born l am always doing that hope your meal planning goes well
Curls so good of you to step your work up to cover for your colleague
Humbug have a lovely half term
Alfie l am sure you will be fine in this new job once you settle in Enjoy having your Dd home & well done to your Ds for sorting his plans out
Em Your Dh is very lucky to have you lovely, l don't know how you have the patience
Gen it makes complete sense what you have done , l know we all wish you the very best lovely
Life Dd2 has the Scoville , she says they are excellent to wash
Martha thank you l hope your DSis managed to visit you
Wolf l hope you don't get flooded lovely fingers crossed
We didn't have electric for 8 hours yesterday , it was back on this morning , we weren't too bad because we have a gas cooker and a gas fire so we just cranked out the candles and watched dvd's on our laptops until they ran out of charge , thankfully it wasn't too bad
Spends 32 in Morrisons , not enough for the 7p off per litre unfortunately but l will probably get it the end of the week

Storm Franklin now then, hey ho!

I haven't left the house today but have spent €669 on IKEA online.

Shelving for dds room, a wall cabinet for kitchen & 3 grenby units to make a mini pantry in kitchen

Unescorted we got the downpour. I was outside at the time. I'm still wet!

I am in the mood to wage war with the council. If I do flood today then I'm going to make sure the insurers know exactly where the blame sits. Last time I said the council couldn't have done anything to prevent the flood (although in hindsight I was wrong), this time it's a very different matter and they have been repeatedly warned of the flood risk. Sadly I didn't take pictures when their trash grill cleaning guy came last week and didn't actually clean the trash grill - wish I had now

I’ve gone for scoville ££££

Soaking and freezing wind here now. Brrr

We’ve had a lovely weekend with dd home spends yesterday £109 Morrisons which included stuff for dd to take to university with her £8 dog food £10 home bargains on cleaning stuff and toiletries for dd

Nsd today it’s cold wet and windy so I’ve not been out apart from to take the dog out and have just dropped dd off at my sisters as she is taking her back to the university house.

Alfie we have had the I am soooooooo skint call too. DD is filling in the hardship fund forms as we speak. At least it is forcing her to budget to the end of term... McD for breakfast is no longer an option.

Croissants are in the oven - there are advantages to being wide awake at 4:30. So far they look almost as if I know what I am doing. I worry that they will be better than the CoOp ones.... it is easier to be first in queue than making them from scratch. However it is significantly cheaper to make my own.... and possibly works out that it is worth more than NMW. in terms of time. If I lived near a Lidl this would not be happening.

The weather here is really gash - flooding, wind and still it rains and lashes. Eunice was a doozy compared to this.

Doozy is a good work. Blowing a hoolie here

Yes, and here. No trains and we nearly flooded yesterday (that’s our area, not us - we are very lucky our house is on slightly higher ground).
wolf I hope you are ok.
We had the emergency plumber round for our boiler (covered under emergency assistance policy) but turns out is beyond economical repair. Hopefully we get £250 towards a new one from the policy. Looking at around £2000 I think which is going to either have to go on credit card or monthly repayments with British Gas. That’s my holiday abroad fund gone I think.

Morning all,

Still blowing a gale and raining hard here. Lots of roads flooded, the river has burst its banks.

@marthasmum sorry to hear about your boiler. DH is a plumber and from my experience British Gas are massively expensive compared to getting someone independent to supply and fit a boiler. Most good boilers come with a 5-7 year warranty so if anything goes wrong you’re covered. What I’m saying is if you can, putting on a credit card and paying it off that way will probably be cheaper than a BG payment plan.

Such a shame it’s potentially wiped your holiday plans, these things never happen at a good time.

Off work today, then in the rest of the week. Not sure if it’s peri menopause or what but my mental health has been dreadful recently. Crying at the drop of a hat, snapping at DH and the kids, feeling very very low. I’m not depressed, been there had that so I know it’s not that. I’m just feeling in a funk and I can’t snap out of it! So today I’m doing an exercise class, getting the weekly shop done and then hoping to relax for a bit.

It never rains but it pours. Impromptu day off here with the kids. Both dparents have covid.
They are symptomatic. More worried about ddad than dm as ddad has copd (albeit mild). But still.

Oh no em. Hope they come though ok

I’m sure they’ll be ok. Dm is “so ill” she’s up dressed cleaning the house with a full face of make up.

They’ve been for their pcr tests this morning.

They also have nurse catface to look after them

Lol

Nurse catface is so far clambering all over ddad. Not leaving him alone. She’s funny. Dm keeps sending me updates

Wolf hope you haven't flooded
Martha sorry about your boiler lovely
Em hope your Ddad is ok lovely thankfully your Mum sounds in good spirits
Curls sorry you are not feeling right bless you
Aldi 15 pounds on 3 x 9 packs of toilet rolls and a few other bits
Sun just come out stopped rain yay!
Have a good day everyone

Just spoken to dm. They’re ok. Ddad apparently felt way worse Saturday and yesterday just thought to do a lft today because they were meant to have the kiddos as usual. Call from dm at around 8 “dads tested positive”. Then call again from dm about 20 minutes later “we’ve done the double. Me too” they are both so apologetic for letting me down.

Ah catface is a good nurse.
Can’t be helped bless them

Oo curls thank you for that tip, I appreciate that. I will compare prices. Sorry to hear you are not feeling right, I relate to that and always find exercise helpful - a cliche I know but it calms me down when I'm grumpy and snappy.
em that's a worry but it sounds like they will hopefully have a mild case - like the queen!
-mrs glad the sun is shining for you.
-unescorted croissants sound lovely. Stress baking is a creative use of stress! Loving gash and doozy too
I have 4 days off now, need to switch my work head off and thing of cheap ways to entertain teenagers!