Significant Summer Saving, significantly less spending, super (non) splurging. Frugal folk continue being frugal here. All welcome.

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Making a new thread!

Please check in regular posters and welcome new people.

This is a super friendly thread to contribute to. We are all wanting to be as efficient as possible re spending but all have different budgets and priorities. No judgement here.

NSD (no spend day) for me.

Livin' the dream, life!

Took Dmum to visit Ddad today and she bought me lunch, ham and cheese croissant, which was very nice, albeit not very meal-plan compliant.

£28 in Sainsbury's (joint account).

NSD as far as personal spends go.

DH just been giving me a tutorial in AI, have asked Gemini for a 14 day meal plan, 3 meals, high protein, total of 1400 calories per day, 2 nights to include 300 ml of wine and adjust for it, recipes from these different chefs/cookery writers. It was quick and comprehensive. Impressive. Then I asked it for 500 words on Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice and it came back with dull cliches.

Back at care home again tomorrow. Going to be the pattern of the week, I think.

Hello! Hope all are well.
My weekend wasn't as bad as last weekend. £36 on Friday at pub watching husband in a band. £40 taking wine, drinks and flowers to dinner, which dil made. Sunday, picnic from booths, £22, plenty of left overs for lunches.
Today, however, was a different story..
£900 on car. £140 in Sainsbury's (food and some clothes). £150 on weight loss injection.
On the positive side, I can now sell the car. Unlikely we will get the full amount we have spent back, but, its somewhat better than nothing.

Dinner tonight was quiche (free from an event i helped with last week), new potatoes and vegetables.
Tomorrow veg pasta bake
Wednesday pork ans noodles
Thursday chicken and sweet potato something.
Friday to be decided, depends what we end up doing.

A NSD for me yesterday and it will be for today too. Off to have a fasting blood test this afternoon which means I can't go to the pub with friends, also going to help mum take off and wash her sofa covers so all free things.

I love that some of you have met before. Is that how long this group has been going? 5 odd years? Makes me smile. Before I joined this group most of the chats on here were so nasty and snippy.

Unsure of meal plans this week. I only have 3 days to plan for as we are off on holiday. I may do my usual homemade pizza for one. I will also take something easy to take with us for the first night. I've learnt in years gone by that we get there, unpack and realise we have no food and a toddler that's hungry. So I pack things like nice bread and cheese for an easy dinner. I did a lovely Greek summer salad last night with roasted baby potatoes, salad and baked feta. Delicious.

How nice that you met up in Jersey! It's definitely on my to visit list, just looks gorgeous.

Heard today they're building a new Lidl in town which has me excited. I've never shopped there but it'll make a change from Aldi.

Our big trip happens tomorrow travelling from Scotland down to near London for the family birthday. Our biggest expense will be charging the car- we only ever charge at home for pennies (£5 for a full 'tank') so it'll be a shock to be paying near petrol prices for it. Also sushi meal on Sat for DS's birthday, paying for us and his friends so will easily be over £100.

On the plus side my sushi will be dirt cheap and my food shopping has gone down significantly in the 2 months I've been on the weight loss injections, and I've lost almost 2 stone too!

Oh way more than 5 years. Some people have stopped posting but a few of us have been around longer than I can remember. Someone else will know better

Just found a thread from 2014

i know big. Rock n roll here

Oh wow!!!! That's quite impressive isn't it. Love this!!!

£10 from the charity shop for a load of jewellery for my Mum. She loses so much, especially earrings and necklaces in the home .
Today l had a merry dance trying to find her hearing aids 🙄

Marvellous news on the weight loss @PearlsPearl
Well done 👍

Omg @lifelongfrugaleer is it really that long 🤣
I am certainly no richer or poorer now , so that could mean anything 🤣

Afternoon.

I am sure my DC were late primary or early secondary when I joined the thread. So many familiar names and lovely new folk too, it's the joy of this friendly part of MN.

Things go missing at my Dad's care home too @MaryGreenhill, or they forget to charge his hearing aids etc. It's generally a lovely place, but frustrating too!

Well done re he weight loss @PearlsPearl

Spends today £75 on the dogs being groomed. DS paid, as he dropped them off and picked them up while I worked, but I've transferred the money.

Chilli and rice for tea. Homemade but that's an easy meal to make.

For context they are now mid 20’s (the DC)!

It's very frustrating @needastrongoneagain
I seem to spend half the visit relocating things 🙄
Is it really that long omg time really does fly 💸 😊

Wow you guys, didn’t know these threads were such a MN institution!!

So yesterday I had my sons dog all day, lots of walks so I was exhausted when I took him home and got a Chinese takeaway (had the leftovers tonight).
Managed to do something to my knee last night so I’ve done a lot of lying around today and resting it. My sister did some shopping for me and tbh I should have enough food now til the end of the month bar milk/bread/fruit top ups.

Have done some admin this afternoon including chasing up an insurance claim from my last cruise (with a delayed flight) - turns out the claim didn’t register (even though I got an email acknowledgment) but the lovely person on the other end of the phone took the details down and I have £50 on its way to me.

Have also made about £100 on Vinted this month. Seems like they credit your account a lot quicker than they used to.

That's really interesting that this thread has been around since at least 2014.
The geek in me would love to read it! Purely to see the differences in pricing back then.
Today has been £3 in Lidl for lunch and I took my DD for a coffee date £4 we split a dunken doughnut meal deal she got the doughnut I got the coffee and a baby chino for her for £4 was a lovely hour to see her happy and excited.
Anyway have a good week all.
One week to payday thankfully!

£3 for newspaper and toothpaste for Ddad in care home. Another one whose stuff hasn't come back from the laundry - trousers and a polo shirt missing. My mother rifles through the wardrobe, whinnying, every time she visits. Have to encourage poor Ddad to remain zen in the face of this provocation. He was enjoying a music morning/quiz when I arrived. Resisted the scones on offer in the sitting room.

Otherwise: £15 on a replacement mascara, passed by a branch of Boots and they had the one I use. GFS fund.

£33 in Aldi on lots of useful stuff - tins, veg, dairy, nuts, seeds, porridge oats, pork mince. Managed to keep my Sainsbury's spends low - £7 - in the same shopping trip by going to Aldi first and only using Sainsbury's for peanut butters that we like.

Penny! - good to see you back, have a great weekend and congratulations on the weight loss.

I tell a lie. At least 2013. https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/cost_of_living/1869002-Austerity-in-October-blows-the-budgeteering-bugle?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

Nsd finally today. I has an interview for a job in a field I've wanted to be in since I can remember. Not sure how it went, but it was good to at least get an interview.

Veg pasta for tea, plenty of left overs for lunches too.

"just over £2 at Co-op on sausages, mushrooms & milk"
Well they were happy days!
Surely that would be at least a kidney these days?

2 NSDs!! 😎 Plus had some cash back vinted sales last week. Put up two new items this afternoon and both sold within minutes - if only they were all like that!!

I got a tax refund for £620 yesterday! Very excited. I put it in a savings account for an October half term trip.

Celebrated by buying dc school socks for £5, coffee for me fo £3.60 and a refillable deodorant for £9.50. I've wanted to switch to a natural, refillable deodorant but the cost has put me off. Finally took the leap. Hope it's good!

Im going to enjoy pouring through the 2013 thread tomorrow on my lunch break!

What one did you go for @Pigtailsandall ? I swing between fussy and wild. Prefer fussy as not as messy... Could be the fact I through the cartridge away for it though!!!

Oh. And someone else bought a yoga mat for upstairs.... I can't remember who sorry.
I was also going to do this, put it in my study and in boring mtgs do a few yoga moves or sit ups. Let me know if it worked for you, hopefully I'll buy a second mat soon and it works for me too!

Read some of the earlier threads .lots of familiar names.
yesterday was nsd
think today will be too
have a good day all

@Seaside3 good luck!!!

I'm off to my visit down to near London to see all my friends and family, it's been over a year since we move up to Scotland so I am mega excited. Bracing myself for the spendy time ahead but also really want to enjoy myself, so have to find the middle ground.

£38.90 in Tesco, £3.90 in Costa sharing a sandwich but did get a free coffee and cake too! Plus £27.40 at the dentist for a check up and clean.