The Thrifty Gifty Girls 2009 (Organised & Money Neutral for All Occasions) #3

paddingtondoo

jamtart6 wrote: »

I had chavs, but I hate chavvy kids even more!

That's *please insert word of choice* dreadful rusty

What did you do with them jammy eat them :rotfl:.

I've been crafting - 3 cards and an atc (yes really) so far still tiny and fiddly but getting the hang of it

Skiergirl

Rainmac - that card is lovely, I hope your mum appreciates it too

Rusty - good luck for the drs tomorrow, def sounds like you need some different painkillers and physio. Well done on your bingo win . Hope you frightened the chavs off for good

Scattymam - glad you had a great day

Its been raining here on and off all day. OH persauded me to go out for a walk but it started raining so we *had* to call at the garden centre for tea and cake until the rain stopped

bunbun2

well I have miserably failed furry's no heating challenge! I was doing really well then the sun stopped shining and it was freezing! I know the heating shouldn't be on but I hate being cold!

mum2one

Had a really good day, took mum out to icecream farm near Chester, they have a barn at back with animals,dd thought it was brilliant to feed the pigs polos by chucking it to the middle and let them nose to nose for it. Shes so funny she told the 2 donkeys to line up, before she would give them the polos.

The icecreams were fab, dd had baileys, but complained there was not enough baileys in it, I had christmas pudding icecream, and white choc chunk.

Good afternoon out, then came back to rain.xx

paddingtondoo

Evening all!
I've had a lovely day even though I didn't get up until nearly lunchtime :eek:.

Then OH let me craft all afternoon - latest creations on my blog. I seem to have made loads of cards just recently but still don't have enough for all my May birthdays.

I'm still keeping to my craft stuff cold turkey - I even used some pearlescent paper today that I bought from QVC about 5 years ago - must remember to put some more cash in my pig :T.

I even had an almost healthy tea - ham jacket spud salad coleslaw and beetroot - YUM!

azjh77

Morning ladies (mostly..I'm assuming) I've not been on MSE for a while, but this thread just jumped at me, though I'll admit to not having read it all.

I started buying my Christmas things in the sale, and had most of my presents wrapped and put away by the end of January. My kids get bought far too much, and I will admit to - ahem - keeping back certain things, and sometimes swapping things around (my eldest HATES pink so I generally have a swap around if both my girls have been bought the same thing in different colours)

Money neutral sounds like a dream to me, as I have no money to buy anymore presents. I even had to open my sealed tin to buy food, we are so short at the moment. I will def. have a go at selling things on Ebay - just need to suss the whole photo thing.

As for crafts- I am currently working towards a craft badge (it's a Guider thing!) and I am trying out all sorts of different things...Quilling has been particulary interesting...

Hope to come back and see what you have all been up to soon - but we are rationing PC use... the electric meter seems to be eating money like it is going out of fashion and we are having 'no electric' days!

cbsexec

Finally, finally I have caught up:-

I am absolutely gutted!!! Why is it that when I finally de-clutter and throw out my old mags stored for many years I then find out there is a website where I can sell them - for money!!!!!! I will have to lie down!

ps I love this thread DO NOT change it:)

mary43

Hello all !
Well, been down town in spite of the rain and done my 'thrifty' bit for Christmas in the charity shops.
Computer hoover (all boxed and unused),
Little snowman with white bath pearls,
leather storage box (only 50p !),
Makea Snow Woman kit (can use sand) -teenage grandson will have a laugh at that,
clay modelling set all in a nice drawstring bag,
and a pooh bear with a christmas hat on. He's meant to be a pyjama case but I'll fill him with little bits for baby grandson
............whole lot was £4 !
Picked up couple more shoe boxes and some scrapbook paper to cover them but I'm going to have to order from the net -out shop is so limited.

Still, not a bad morning I think................glad to get home and the minute I got in the door the rain stopped:rotfl:

Shevs

Hi guys

Sossry I've not been on for a while been very busy last week or so. Mum and dad are gutting our house so I have been charged with decluttering and sorting through what goes to the tip and what to charity etc and by god I am loving it. I am thinking of making a business up, I'll go round to horders houses and throw all there stuff out.

I dont know if any of you remember me mentioning that I was having blood tests done a while ago? Well I final got them back last week and I have Coeliacs Disease so I have to be really careful with what I eat from now on but it is a relief to know whats wrong with me and its easily treated. Have been feeling so poorly for a while.

Urgh Rusty I hate scally's, where bf's parents live is awful for them. Last year a couple of scally jumped his back garden fence then ran through there ginnel after robbing the lady who ran the paper shop at the back of there house when she was locking up.

Padington - I love your cat she looks so grumpy on that picture but so cute aswell. Nice to see the baby B's are starting to look more like birds instead of chicken breasts

See you all soon x x xx

hayley11

Hi!

Just popped in to say my laptop charger is broke! :eek: Naughty hamster chewed the wire ages ago and I think it's finally packed up! Going to try and dig out the one for the old laptop and see if that works. Naughty hamster, she's in big trouble now! :rotfl:

Hope you're all okay, hopefully i'll be back soon so i'll catch up