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

mum2one

mhagster wrote: »

Scattymam
I love fresh flowers and always bought them before I became a MSE now I only buy them if they are reduced. I was that person that was taken in by advertisers and supermarkets and would buy the latest must have product....not any more! I am money saving Mhagster, I sound like a super hero!! lol

This may sound totally wierd, but it works, a tip from a florist on tv, when you put the water in the vase add a little squirt of bleach, (yes bleach), really extends their life.

B4 xmas we got some flowers only coz reduced, 49p bunch, and with the wate + bleach trick they lasted 6weeks! x

RustyFlange

pinkladymel wrote: »

Rusty I can tell you I will win the weight war right now lady.. also.. you look tall. I am a pathetic 5'5 Don't make me meet you somewhere so we can compare with a tape measure SPD is the link FP posted. It goes away in 99.8% of women within 2 weeks after birth.. I had to be the .2 LOL My pelvis is seperated permanentely now and I can't get it back together so it is really painful. When I spend a long time on my feet I can hear it crunch together and if I have a washing up marathon I get this weird thing like someone is pulling me down to the floor and I have to sit quickly. Fun and games!!

Where and when are we meeting :j

Have a lovely night off, and enjoy yourself. See you tomorrow xx

scattymam1

mhagster - I love flowers but hardly get them anymore - I always think is it a want or a need (thanks to mse) but if I really wanted them I would get them. I tend to cut on the groceries if wanting a takeaway at the end of the week. I meal pan so I have so much less waste and I spend less cos I stick to my list.

That's right about the bleach mum2one and someone once told me soluble aspirin works as well if you pop one in.

mrsgibbs - your hubby sounds lovely.

sylphraven good idea about freezing cakes - never thought about that.
We are thinking peter pan theme for dd's birthday in may so was thinking of buying a cheap cake covering it in chocolate butter icing so it looks like a big rock and place peter pan and hook on it with the other figures around it. DD has the figures - they look like cake decorations as well - so just going to use them.

Rusty - my brother and sis in law live in cramlington so we are sometimes over that side of the water.
Do you do monthly shops rusty - I have started doing a monthly meal shop and then just doing top ups - but I hate doing the first big shop cos it costs so much but I think it works out cheaper in the long run.

Enjoy your night plm, thanks for advice re templates will try that now I know how to do it - will try the flowers too.

Off to see another 2 houses this afternoon. Seen one I liked this morning, strangely it was the one that needed most work. Was a really nice area, but would be a total gut job! Hubby said he would live in it with dog while he gutted it and me and dd can live with my dad for a couple of weeks (WOOHOO)!!! Would love to live at home for a couple of weeks - I love my dads house - it's so comfy and lovely.
Anyway got three surveys to do before I go so must get on with them.

jamtart6

scattymam1 wrote: »

Off to see another 2 houses this afternoon. Seen one I liked this morning, strangely it was the one that needed most work. Was a really nice area, but would be a total gut job! Hubby said he would live in it with dog while he gutted it and me and dd can live with my dad for a couple of weeks (WOOHOO)!!! Would love to live at home for a couple of weeks - I love my dads house - it's so comfy and lovely.

Ah welcome to my world! Not sure I realised what a huge job we were taking on. Co-ordinating everything to happen at the right time is quite hard work! I can't even THINK about fun stuff like 'what colour paint do i want' as I'm too busy thinking about fuse boxes and plug sockets! :rotfl:Great fun though, exciting time for you Scatty!

RustyFlange

scattymam1 wrote: »

Rusty - my brother and sis in law live in cramlington so we are sometimes over that side of the water.
Do you do monthly shops rusty - I have started doing a monthly meal shop and then just doing top ups - but I hate doing the first big shop cos it costs so much but I think it works out cheaper in the long run.

Oooh I like Cramlington, so many more shops than Blyth ... and they have a home bargains that is normally my local home bargains

We used to do weekly shops but was costing as much as what a monthly shop would! .... OH didn't used to bother looking at the prices he would just fill the trolley, then when I moved in we had to lots of food, stuff from his cupboards and freezer then also mine ... so we just topped up as and when needed then I used to go weekly just for top ups. However I made my first proper meal plan a few weeks ago, we are on our last week now and so have done a shopping list in the my supermarket and this shop will cost approx £188 but to be fair it should be cheaper when I actually get there as I will buy cheaper things which I couldn't find on the list! .... Makes the weekly shop approx £47 for the 4 of us which I don't think is too bad ... specially when we need things like toilet rolls which I haven't bought for 5 months :rotfl:

Good luck with the viewings We will have to arrange a meet up for a coffee, Bunbun and I meet up and plan to do it again so we should figure out who is up this end and go for a coffee

orchid-96

mhagster wrote: »

I have worked out it must be nearly 30 years since my letter was rejected........I would have been about 9 or 10 so anyone born in the last 3 decades and certainly in the last 2 won't have a clue!
The bunty was a weekly comic with stories and picture stories and a letters page I never featured in.............I am nearly 40 (aaargh 4 weeks) and still haven't quite got over it!
No wonder it went out of publication when they couldn't even recognise talent!!

Mhagster, I am 40 in May :eek: so same 'era' I got the bunty every Friday when i was about 9 for years! I loved it - didn't it have 'the 4 marys' in it!..

Hope everyone is ok today, will catch up properly with all the posts later, otherwise I will never know what a Quickkutz Squeeze is :rotfl: .Hope all the kiddliwinks are on the mend..

X

bunbun2

having a strange week end - both my boys are on cub camp so all the weekend's routine has gone and OH and me are rattling round the house wondering what to do next! we are going to get a chinese takeaway tonight and watch mama mia (him under sufferance!!). have also bought loads of rubbish to eat so will prob end up feeling really sick:rotfl:

rusty hope your little one is better now.

scattymam next time rusty and I meet up you will have to join us. good luck with the viewings hope you see something you like.

PLM have a good week end!

I remember the Bunty too! both my boys have written to Blue Peter and keep asking "do you think they have got my letter yet and when will I get my badge?"

We have just recycled our old mobile phones with love2recycle. Its the last day to get an extra £5 per phone so just in time:rotfl: so that's a bit more money to put in the pot

chocolate.orange_2

Sorry all i havent had a chance to catch up ... another one of those days.

Hope everyone with poorly little ones are starting better and those that are damaged ... jammy is healing

PLM what are we going to do now tonight with you off out enjoying yourself being a Mel not a mum ... Hope you have a super night out.

furrypig and sylphraven i am going to be around later, everyone here has a life and are off out. Im staying in with the little 2. So might order a pizza so i dont have to cook ;)Another night with the remote


Well its mums birthday next friday so i am going to go through my gift book and remind myself what i have bought for her,what with it being mothers day 2 weeks after. I want to make sure i have divided it all up right. I was going to attempt to make her a card too, but not too sure on that one yet lol. I bought her a grandma one off the boys

chocolate.orange_2

bunbun2 Its awful when the little ones go away and you feel like you have something missing...... Make the most of the peace and quiet. If they are like my 2 who were at grannies last night.They will be like a whirlwind when they get back.... Or maybe they will be sooooo tired they will just want to sleep.
Enjoy your takeaway and film xx

orchid-96 The Squeeze is a handheld tool and alphabet cut outs for scrapbooking and card making Its on offer at £19.99 but i cant access the page to buy one !! ( I think PLM has told them not to let me get there then i cant spend more £ lol) JK pinkladymel xx

furrypig

Hi all!!
How are you all doing this grey weekend?? I'm having a quiet Saturday at home and stayed in bed until late this morning as certain people kept me up too late chatting last night!!!
I am still working my way through the recodings of QVC lots of fab stuff but I hate the P & P costs tho I have now seen Choccy's papers and they are lovely!
I also found another £27 woth of tesco clubcard vouchers so that was good!!
Haven't made all the cards I need for this week v bad!! Must try and do that this afternoon tho will be too late for neice on Monday and too late for 2 yr old bday today!! Never mind!!
I'm tempted by a quickutz thingy and also v tempted re basic grey stuff but have had a bad experience with artymiss so I don't like to use them and haven't since my bad experience!! I'm gonna wait and see if I can have a play of a cuttlebug sometime as I fancy one of those and think they are probably more versitile. Also want to wait 'til the NEC for all the bargains there!!!
Hope PLM has had a fab night!!

Good luck with the househunting Scattymum!
Bun bun I always look forward to a quiet time and me time without the little people then I miss them when they are away!! Definitely too quiet without them!!
Hayley lucky u having a butty in bed, tho I did get a cuppa tea but OH crashed around waking me up and huffing as I was still in bed!!! Still he will get to watch rugby soon so he'll be happy!!
WEll watching the prima bit on QVC really beautiful stuff would love any of them!!