Frugal Friends Fearlessly Facing February.

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Thought I'd start the new thread. Been ages since I started a thread!

Oo that is annoying

£130 shopping but needed wash and dish wash stuff

Morning everyone 🤗
Spends today Petrol £50
Petrol is 139.9 a litre here ATM

We’re having second Christmas today with dparents and dsis. Yay.

Mrs I was going to post the same, got my fuel for 138.9p today. £30. Much better!

€100.31 in supermarket
€6 in butchers
€50 approx. on petrol

DD asked me to pick her up a particular shampoo - it was €7! She can pay for that herself going forward, once she gets her first pay packet. She gets paid monthly so she has a few weeks to go.

It's a misty day here. Hope the sun breaks through at some point.

Happy Christmas em

Boo, just checked the petrol I bought yesterday was 148.9!

Spendy couple of days:
£18 M&S including a very nice cake to celebrate DH’s new job 😋
£££s renewing the whole families’ passports
£20 DC’s school trip
£3.25 for breakfast club on a day DC wouldn’t normally go but I need to take Dmum to an appointment
petrol £50

pay day can’t come soon enough.

I didn’t start using nice shampoo on my hair until I got my first job tayto. I worked at a chemist retailer, and most of my wages went back to them as a 16 year old!

merry Christmas em. Did you get any nice presents?!

time the lowest is 145.9p around our house, I must've struck lucky passing this Morrisons today!

£17.95 takeaway pizzas for DS and friend. Family lunch at a local pizzeria but DM paid, other than I got the boys takeaway.

£11 skating lesson and £2.60 sweet shop after. Saving between £5-10 per week taking our own hot choc and snacks. In weekly budget

£30 fuel. In weekly budget

£3.99 TGTG bag from a local carvery. Headed out later to pick it up. I am a TGTG first timer. Shall see what I get! I've roasted a chicken so it's to go with that tomorrow 🤔

Really spendy day today:
£10 Lush bath bombs for dds bday
£13 Poundland on toiletries (can't find much in Poundland for a pound any more 😒)
£12 Dun elm cushions
£33 pets at home on pet food (should be enough to last a month)
£13 wickes on a replacement shower thingy
£98 Aldi big shop as cupboards and freezer bare, should last 10 days or so.

Will also pick up a macdonalds later for dd who is currently out on a date at the cinema!

Spend day as treated friend to lunch for her birthday £30, £20 pizza tea £3 parking

Dropped off the thread a little while ago, sorry. Manic here as always.

Em Hope you enjoyed your second Xmas!

Time Congrats to your DH on his new job.

Girlie Ooooh for your DD! I hope she had a nice time. I've only just caught up this page, have you come back to the thread after awhile away? I don't remember seeing you here recently! (Or is my head just a sieve...eek)

Today was spendy for us as a family but DH paid for it all, so no spends for myself to report 😜

Kessie you and l have both bought the cheap Petrol and done TGTG bags today !
We are trying very hard at this frugal living lol 😂
We had 2 Costa and 2 Greggs .
Enough food for the four of us for lunch and dinner tomorrow.
Cost less than £12 and very nice too!

mrs I am impressed by TGTG. Maybe just lucky tonight but the chef said help yourself to the carvery as it's all going out. I said please can I have four Yorkshires as it's for the DC too and he gave me seven 😁 That's Sunday lunch sorted. £3.99...

Yes Merry Christmas em that sounds great fun to round off January

Congratulations on the job for your DH -time
Well, after being pleased with myself for my frugal house insurance, as reported above I realised I’d input some wrong information. I am a massive ‘details’ person normally so surprised and cross I missed this! But here is a tip in case others hadn’t realised. When you do an insurance quote via a comparison site like go compare it asks you a series of questions doesn’t it and then runs your quotes. So i hadn’t realised that those quotes make assumptions of their own and aren’t exactly the same as the questions you’ve already answered. In my case the ‘flooding’ question for the insurance o bought was different to the one I’d answered on the comparison site. Long story short it’s cost me £200 extra after giving the correct info. And I didn’t have time to go back to every quote and check the small print to see if the new price was actually the cheapest iyswim.

otherwise than that a spendy couple of days. Out last night with work as a delayed birthday night, £55 on food and cocktails which is way more than my usual night out. My god I was worse for wear. Early night for me now.
also £120 at tescos, I meant to spend £70 but realised that’s just a wolf underestimate. Need to decide whether to cut back on food or find savings elsewhere.
£80 petrol.
£40 takeaway as a treat to celebrate DP’s pension coming through. All these weee budgeted for though.

and like you time new passports which were (gulp) £378 for 4 of us. That’s out of the holiday budget so that’s now gone down to £1600.
Need a cheap week now!

Passports - we did 3 last month, it’s so expensive!

£10 in a cafe today - DD and i go with a couple of friends most weeks after her ballet lesson, it’s lovely to chat together. The girls did some colouring while we mums set the world to rights.

£7.50 for a new mortice latch, the en suite door handle has stopped working DH got stuck in there, I made him sweat before rescuing him . And £12 for a long thin duster thingy that cleans behind the radiators. I shouldn’t be so excited about that.

Got to do some more work tonight 🙄 so I can send some slides to a colleague for her to look at tomorrow. I’ve been procrastinating, but to be fair we only ate dinner at 9pm. Sigh.

Yesterday was nsd and so should today be. But got a plasterer coming to quote for redoing 2 walls. Wonder how much that will be. All going up

Nsd planned today except need sausages for tea.

We had a spendy weekend - dinner out at a tapas place on Friday £118 then a big shop including cat food and some toiletries £120 and £81 on Amazon for bulk cleaning supplies (bicarb, massive thing of white vinegar), bulk 1kg bag of coffee, massive box of 48 loo rolls and some other household stuff.
turns out I have been shortlisted for promotion, interview is delayed because of strikes until mid March which gives me time to prepare the tasks, thankfully. They’re asking for quite a lot so it will be a challenge to do it on top of my own work. This is naturally my busiest term anyway!

Hope everyone enjoying their weekend.

NSD today, yesterday 8 quid for face cleansing powder. This should last me around 3 months.
NSD planned tomorrow too, on Tuesday grocery shopping. I looked through cupboards and we have quite a lot of food stored, so hopefully this will lower a bit our food bill in February. I don't need any laundry or cleaning products too, so hoping for nice savings to my savings pot (especially saving pot for baby stuff).

Good luck gen

£19 amazon for 2x swimming goggles and a nose clip for DD. We've broken all ours through overuse!

£15 Lidl for food
£12.99 Lidl for new trainers. My old trainers have been a bit slippy in the exercise studio at a gym class. Need to look for some black running ones as these are pale blue but they'll stop me sliding around in my classes.

Managed a good aerobic / weights class this morning. Need motivation to make a rhubarb crumble and some veggie dahl for work. Currently curled up in front of the fire. 🔥

gen great news about the shortlisting.

I need both a plasterer (long term as DS is objecting to his room being messed with 😬🙄) and passports for both DC. Not sure what we are doing for holidays this year but best to renew them when due.

Tayto** check out if you can get the shampoo on subscribe & save on Amazon, I get mine on that & I don't have prime & it's consistently cheaper than same brand on special offer here & I don't need to search out the special offers.

€25.49 on domino's after ds took part in a quiz on behalf of the school. I used a €6 just eat voucher & got one of the deals also. We got a pizza 2 sides 2 drinks & 4 cookies.

Can’t catch up right as on phone. Hope everyone is well. Serious frugality will commence in February.

We’re eating from the freezer and cupboards until then, next grocery delivery isn’t due until the second week.

Kessie that was a great TGTG you had!!
Been to Tesco at 3.15pm just before closing bought a few things on the yellow stickers £6.21 lots of nice pastries and bread 😋
Gen that's marvelous news re that job , fingers crossed you get it 😊

Back to work tomorrow 😩

getting things ready for the coming week today. DH has done a meal plan and food shop. Yay.

I'd be excited about the radiator cleaner too @HalfWomanHalfChocolate 🤣🤣.

Lost a bit of track of the thread over the weekend but I've been reading. I'm better posting often as I remember what's going on!

Spends this weekend
£50 accessible taxis but hopefully DH will be able to go in my car from next weekend.
£1.60 orange juice he decided he needed at the hospital!
£50 takeout pizza for my birthday Friday night with friends. It's half that in reality, as we take turns.

£50 recipe books, but bought with my birthday money so no cost to me.

Well done re the shortlisting @Gensola!

I'm another TGTG fan, although some places are better than others. Our local Greggs is amazing value.