Advancing into April - Frugal Friends still being, er, Frugal.

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New thread.

All welcome.

Finally a nsd! Hoping for another tomorrow 🤞

Bigskies that's great news about your dm. My dm has done similar in the past where she's actually made herself unwell by convincing herself that she has something sinister going on. Health anxiety is awful.

Gen that's great news I hope your interview goes well and that dh is better soon.

em there's nothing better than a new washing machine for rattling through the backlog of laundry, especially if you've got nice weather to get it dried outside.

Fingers crossed gen.

wahoo em

Gen - one door closes, another massive one opens - good luck with prep and interview.

Yes, inclined to stick with the Bosch - can't complain about 13 years good service off the defunct one. And it reduces thinking time.

Yes, relief on DM! Let us see if she decides to make some changes in her approach...

DS and DH back from their respective trips next Wednesday, have received a couple of hilarious pics from DS. I have made a big list of stuff I want to get done, and ticked one of them off already (the trick is to write down something you were about to do, then do it).

Magpie Murders is a nice distracting watch for anyone in need of such a thing at the moment - iPlayer.

Thanks for the new thread. Will be back later to post & catch up

I had all sorts I wanted to do. Stupid weather and stupid cold

New hair day today. Wooo. This is what I’m going for. The colour not the cut.

it’ll more than likely set me back around £200. But it’s not something I do often. Maybe twice a year.

That’s a really unusual color em, like it

Just recording spends from yesterday as first shop of this cycle.

£93 Aldi and Lidl so £32 left for meat and deli stuff which we can get cheaper elsewhere due to DHs work discount.
£24 tween sleepover, trip to Bubble Tea Shop and film rental.

DD up half the night due to tween sleepover as they couldn't decide who'd sleep on the sofa bed, so they all went in the 3/4 bed. Then DD got too hot and sickly. Bleary eyed this morning. Will catch up later.

Cracking hair colour em. How do they do that? It looks like a lot of blonde highlights with a silver toner on top. I wants it too, precious, but my hair is too dark and requires loads of peroxide to get the pigment out first. I have fallen slightly out of love with my salon since my stylist went on maternity leave, and am thinking of trying elsewhere (have been going to the same place since 2007, not the same stylist throughout, so devotion to brand is high).

Great news re your DM @BigSkies2022. I am a fan of Hoover appliances, having fallen out with Bosch, Neff and Miele etc. And my expensive Smeg kettle lasted about a year.

Excellent news re the interview @Gensola, one door closes etc.

Yesterday, £85 on dog food, bulk buy for two dogs for two months and budgeted for anyway.

Veg box delivery today. And hospital parking as DH. has an appointment.

It’s a sort of silvery purple lilac. I think. I’m starting to get greys so wanted to go more ashy so they blend in. My hair is naturally a “mousey” brown so it should work. fingers crossed.

taken kiddos to kids club today. They’re there until 330-4. So that’s a win for us.

DH is power washing currently.

I’ve registered the washing machine and am having coffee before starting the pre cleaners tidy up.

Place marking

Hair is done. And I am in actual love. £213.

dm almost had a fit when I told her. Until I pointed out that she pays £66 every two weeks for a cut and blow dry. Which works out way more than my cost!
I only get my hair cut every 6 months or so and colour like this once a year.

Big spend day here today, me and DH enjoyed a day out sans kids to celebrate our anniversary. £7.70 parking (ouch), £67 lunch and £17 on afternoon coffees and cakes. Plus £13 on books we don’t need after the obligatory leisurely mooch in the charity book shop. £105! Wowsers. Good job an anniversary is only once a year 😂

I love the sound of your hair em

Happy Anniversary coffee

Another day of the school holidays

£20 for DD, she went with a friend round the shopping / leisure complex near here. I also went to be the responsible adult, so for me:
£15 eyebrow and chin thread.
£12.75 Boots birthday present (start of DD's birthday shopping). Also got a Soap and Glory body wash with Boots points.
0.99p lunch at KFC. Had a reward on the App for a mighty bucket for one. Had to spend 99p but I got 8 pieces of chicken, ate two and brought 6 home for DS. Drank a can of diet coke I'd brought from home. So a sort of frugal win there!
£32 food shop. That's the £125 gone for the week.

Have eaten far too much and not moved enough this last week. Now I've broken up from work for 10 days I will also try to work on that.

Rain every day here life hope it warms up soon!

Good luck with the promotion gen

Hope you get the washer sorted big

My washer was making a squealing noise during the spin cycle earlier. I said to DH is it normally that loud and high? Hope I'm overthinking it after all the washer talk on here!

BigSkies With you on the lists approach. I've fallen off the bandwagon massively with them recently, should get back on it.

Life Hope you are feeling better soon.

Coffee Aw, sounds like you both had a lovely day. We are both working on our wedding anniversary later this month booo.

kessie Hope you washer is ok!! Such bad washing machine luck on this thread recently!! I hope it doesn't spread to the rest of us haha.

I can't keep up with the thread sorry so will just have to dip in and out when I get a chance.

Spends today £15 for 3 entries to the new play cafe, one of which I used today for DS. Will take the two of them another time within the next month to use the other two passes. Then another £13 there on lunch for me and DS. I will take the lunch and 2/3 of the play pass costs out of his Xmas money anyway though, which was the main reason I took him because I don't know what else to spend it on, and now he's got Easter money too on top. Oh also spent about £10 in the local vegan/whole foods type shop on groceries. Went to the bank and deposited work expenses cheque too from last month. We will have a spendy BH weekend as we are having friends come to stay.

I was thinking my washing machine was sounding rattley earlier then discovered a 20p in the drum 🙄😂

Hair sounds brilliant em, I really want to get some blonde highlights but need to save some more money first.

I've had a nsd today, debated getting a take away but decided to be good and save my money!

No more work for 10 days 🥳🥳🥳

Long may your hair-love last, em!

Bit the bullet, bought the Bosch. Will be delivered on Wednesday. £399, but then you start chucking in extras for delivery, installation, etc. Oh well, can't be helped.

Got a couple of other things crossed off the list (winks at weight), aired the house and cleaned the floors (properly for once). Collected first lot of HRT on pre-paid HRT certificate!

Tomorrow I am going to wash my hair, and do my make-up well as I have to get some passport photos for another balls-achingly dull bit of admin. £9 the machine in Sainsbury's wants! When did passport photos get so spenny?

DM gave me a chocolate egg, and I resisted diving into it this evening.

You can do your passport photos online now in some cases so check first

£450 ikea but all needed

pleased you love your hair em

Happy Friday people. I'm going to take ds out for brunch in the hope of bribing some revision out of him. First wash of the day on and goi g out in the line shortly.

Your hair sounds lovely and yay for getting all the washing done! @emememem84

my mum dyed mine as an Easter present instead of buying me an egg. I've gone a darker red this time. I do need to cut it again, watched YouTube videos and did it myself before, it is waist length so if I mess it up plenty of hair left for a Hairdresser to sort and it grows really fast! 🤣 my mum also paid for my eye brow wax, they were getting out of control!!

Few spends this week, dd1 haircut £20, birthday gifts for parties £20, toiletries/cleaning stock up in savers £17, £16 in wilko as the girls needed new pillows, i bought a long duster, a garlic press and a spray squeegee window cleaner (bit excited to try this out!!) £6 on bus fares for the 2 days out and £4.60 on mcdonalds lunch. Bought tickets for super Mario at the cinema for Monday £12, might treat them to pick n mix as its half price at wilko.

Sold some more stuff on vinted, dd1 nearly has enough for an ipad, just £8 to go! Dd2 is about £90 off, but once we sell the lol doll mountain which we are sorting today she should be there too! We said they need to save for the ipads and me and dh would pay for the accessories (keyboard, stylus, case). Found the 9th gen for £335 on amazon which is the cheapest. I know nothing about ipads as only used Samsung but as dd wants to pursue art I've read the ipad is better than the android alternatives.

£125 in Aldi 😳 that's food to take away with us next week and hopefully enough for two weeks.

Beautiful day here 🌞

We’ve planted an apple tree. And a bird crapped on my washing line. Bastarding seagull twat.

making a fishy pie now. Catface is stupidly interested. I may have sneaked her some prawns.

Spend day
£75 outdoors museum entry annual pass. Took ic nic met friends , £18 M&S instead of chipper, £40 fuel, £21 wickes

Also drinking Hendricks neptunia. Yum.