Been catching up on the thread, sorry for no individual replies, I find it hard to keep up! But lovely to read all your updates.
Back from Wales today, we were actually due to come home tomorrow but thought we would take advantage of the bank holiday traffic (or lack of) as literally nowhere would be open anyway. We had only planned to stay at the Airbnb and watch the funeral so thought we may as well get on the road early and watch it at home. I haven't been watching closely but it's been on in the background. Have managed to fully unpack and get a wash load on today.
I'm off the rest of this week still but a busy few weeks at work coming up as I'm on a full time training course until mid October (usually work part time). Want to be super organised with food etc so we're not tempted with takeaways and popping into shops for convenience food. I've done an Aldi click and collect to pick up Wednesday, £65. That's hopefully all meals etc for the next two ish weeks, with the odd top up here and there. I do need to pop to Tesco for the bits Aldi don't have. It's DH's birthday next week and I've planned a three course meal to cook him, we considered takeaway but to be honest after our holiday we're both spent out and fooded out, fancy cutting back with both spending and eating for a few weeks!
NSD today, much needed after a week of spending.
Worked out our total spends for the holiday, £637. This includes all of our petrol (both to Wales and back and driving every day in Wales), a big £114 food shop before we went, and several big days out, so I think this is quite good really. Some of our spending also fits into other budgets for example I usually would have spent £80 on a weekly food shop, usually would have spent £80 on petrol for work etc, so it's not too bad. We had the odd takeaway and one meal out but cooked quite a few meals too so think that helped. To be honest it suits us as DS who's 3 is usually shattered by 4pm after a day out so we're quite happy to be back chilling at the Airbnb!