Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

Intergalactic_Floozie

GRRRRRRRRR! What a waste of money! I bet your cupboards are full and he could have made his own blinking dinner, (or you could have made him one, and let him pay you £2).

Intergalactic_Floozie

Last edited by moo2moo; Today at 12:40 PM.. Reason: Edited to add: Is it really wrong to batter ones OH about the head with a rolling pin to knock some sense into him?

ROFLMAO!!!! Well, it would be legally wrong, but I'm sure not morally.

rupe34

But does he buy packets of hot cross buns EVERY DAY and call it a decent lunch??:rolleyes:

moo2moo

No - but purely because he knows he'd risk waking up one morning to find his trouser vegetables in the blender.

moo2moo

Happy early Sunday morning all.

We're off to DD1s shooting club this morning. Fortunately its not raining. Yet. Will be packing all the waterproofs I can find just in case. Four hours on a windswept welsh hillside in torrential rain is not my idea of fun.

OH had a 4 am start so I've been awake for hours. I've done a few surveys, loaded the dishwasher, ironed everything that needs ironing and polished my halo. House is still a tip though. I've even been bored enough to clean one of the freezers. The other one is just under half full but I can't avoid shopping any longer as we've run out of bread and I refused to pay £1.80 a loaf in the village shop. £1.70 for milk is bad enough. Hopefully OH will be home by 3pm so I can abandon the DDs, who will be shattered by then, to visit Mr Ts. Its so much cheaper when I go on my own.

moo2moo

6 items listed on E-bay. Not holding my breath on any of them but at least the pile of tat is steadily depleting.

Tesco_points_addict

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The OH has just walked in the door with a pre-packaged sandwich which hes just bought in the village shop to eat at home because he was hungry. Why do they do these things?

Because he is a male, and most males seriously lack any sort of brain cells!:rolleyes:

moo2moo

Happy grey dull overcast dreary monday morning all. Its destined to be a pajamas in front of the fire with a good book kind of day. Really is a shame that I have to go to work in an hour. It wouldn't be the first time I've gone to work in PJs but since its not a dress down fundraisy kind of day I may well get a few wierd looks. Suppose I'll need to lurch upstairs into the shower at some stage in the not too distant future.

DD1 had a fabulous time with her shooting club. She managed to hit targets the size of a 5p piece at 50 yards. Because its a club day they pair up the novices with the more experienced shooters to impart a bit of random knowledge. DD1 was asked who she'd like to go with and loudly annouced that she was going with her mum because shes useless. Great. Decided to humour her and she promptly spent half hour wiping the floor with me. DD2 kept up a very loud running commentary peppered with lots of very patronising well done Mummys as I hit targets the size of a cereal box several feet in front of my nose.

Returned home shortly before the torential rain descended. Filled DD1s hollow legs with bacon and eggs then abandoned them with OH and spent a mundane afternoon wandering around supermarkets. Got rudely kicked out of Mr Ts at closing time have only perused half the store, mind you it did keep the bill at a reasonable level for once. Total spend £68.87 which in theory will be enough to last three weeks with top ups of fruit, veg, bread and milk.

Plan for today:

• Laundry. Lots and lots and lots of laundry. A small mountain has materialised on the bathroom floor thanks to DD2 "tidying"her bedroom.
• Need to extract yesterdays shooting gear from the dried on cowpats.
• Do some housework before vegging out with a book for a greatly extended lunch break.
• Off to dig out some wellies as a lake has appeared outside the front door.

moo2moo

I love freebies! Freebie of the day is a laptop. A very elderly laptop with a dodgy hinge but one thats fully internet capable. Hopefully that should stop some of the arguments over PC time. Sadly whilst the egg timer works to some extent its not overly effective when the DDs are wearing headphones nor when they tweak it just a bit to obtain a little more time. 15 minutes suddenly morphs into an hour and they seem surprised that I know they've adjusted the time. Do all children assume that their parents are stupid or is it just mine?

Amazingly yesterdays shopping all fitted in its relevant homes without the application of 5th Dan level tetris moves. I am amazed. In fact theres still a teeny weeny bit of space in the cupboard. I did splurge a little with mango and blackberry sorbet for DD1, value neopolitan ice cream for DD2, 10 rocket lollys, a 99p mandarin cheesecake for moi (I love cheescake) and mucho reduced lychees for the OH. I'm still trying to find a happy medium between frugal and fun. If I don't buy treats of some description its as if I'm Satan in human form whereas if I do buy a few non-essentials they seem considerably happier. This way they've all got something which should last for at least a week averaging out at around 15p a portion.

moo2moo

Same old same old. Got up, put washing machine on, surfed t'internet, went to work, came home from work, put washing on line, washed up, tided several rooms, cleaned a bit, had lunch, read a book, went back to work, came home, ate dinner, put the DDs to bed, read a book, went to bed. My life in a nutshell. Today will be much the same.

OH meanwhile is rewiring something or other on his friends Landrover which requires trips to Maplins and Halfords. I'm hoping he does that while I'm at school so I don't get invited along to keep him company.

Plan for today:

• List a few more things on E-bay unless I get complained at for always being on the PC and never doing anything else.
• Fob off teacher who wants 12 hanging baskets attaching to school immediately - will be a little difficult as the head cut the plug off the drill
• Attempt to tidy around OH who makes me look like Anthea Turner
• Do 5 things which make me smile
• Close the current accounts that I opened 6 months back for the incentives which have long since paid out. Having four current acounts on the go is seriously annoying.