So here's to you, Mrs R....

hypno06

I've not been anywhere hot, so will have to stick with the "pale and interesting" look!

macgirl

Yes, it's tough being a grown-up but there are good choices to have re: the mortgage
Good news on the kitchen too (CDWM is one of my favs!)

mrs_robinson_3

Thanks guys! Am not tanning - party is Friday but it was sunny today so sat in garden for 30 mins - it was hot and windy - then it rained!

My kitchen is being painted tomorrow!

We had a great lunch at Fire and Stone today - £5.95 for a pizza, pasts or salad, unlimited drinks. The DSs enjoyed it v much and it was good to be together!

We bought a fab print in TK Max for £13 ! It is going in our office - it is huge, of the London skyline in outline, in black and white (have a thing about authenticity, as in will only have prints/painitngs of places have been to, and am a londoner myself, so that's fine) and in a white box frame....Mr R spotted it. Also a vintage style bread bin in cream for a tenner - to replace ANOTHER VINTAGE STYLE BREADBIN, so not v MSE, but Mr R couldn't stand the old one - so we will try to eBay that one......

On other hand, had to pay £106 for 3 pairs of Clarks' school shoes - but am going to rummage around to see what the trouser situation is before we rush out for those......

We are off on hols on Saturday - to Dorset, to a small town we have often been to which we love , and MiL is coming too and has paid for most of it....so no too un-MSE....

Was bad Mrs R and bought a top in a White Stuff outlet for £12 - it is nice but feel guilty now so have resolved to return it and the Republic T shirt too - that will be £17 back which will fund my night out on Thursday - both of these purchases came from my weekly spends budget anyway, but the night out, with those, will put me in defecit for the week, so decided, despite efforts to the contrary, cannot have it all - so being sensible and can't wait now to take them back.......

OK, maybe a while before am back, as busy for the rest of the week, then away....but take care y'all

Mrs R

macgirl

My bargain hunting, yet uber-glam Mum excitedly told me about another TK Maxx homeware store that has recently opened nearby :j I LOVE that shop.
The kitchen must look fab.

I feel your pain on the shoes - that will be me on Friday. My two want Lelli Kelly school shoes this year - they start from "only" £49.95 - so I think not :cool:

Enjoy your break!

mrs_robinson_3

That might be Homesense. We have one near here. We went but in fact we are blessed with a fab TK Max, which seems to me to be better than our Homsense. But it's always worth a look in either. Can't get enough, me. The kitchen is great. But currently messy. As spent too much time on here.

So now, away!

Mrs R

macgirl

Yes, I think that is what it's called, but it's part of TKM. I bought a gorgeous venetian mirror in TK years ago for £40. I almost dived across the shop when I spotted it!
It is identical to one in Graham & Green for over £200! :money:

Hope the sun shines for you x

hypno06

I dare not go in such places as I just know I will come away with things I don't need and still can't afford, however cheap they are! But I have to say that I don't need anything so have no need to go there. Will remember it though for when I move (one day) and have a burning need for lovely, and very reasonably priced, things

Well done on resolving to take things back to the shop. I really do admire you for that xx

mrs_robinson_3

Hypno, do you know that part of what made me think I should return them, was thinking of you and your Tight September? This is why MSE is such a v g thing all round.....

Mrs R

hypno06

ooh, don't know whether to be proud of you, or just very very sorry :rotfl:

mrs_robinson_3

Well even though the weather here has been laughably bad (am so pleased The R's are not camping next week!), didn't want to let Hypno down!! - so headed to the shops (after doing a 3 hr clean somewhere) and TOOK BACK THOSE CLOTHES! I really didn't need them anyway. So put £10 of petrol in my car, which is enough until we go away, so that came out of my weekly spends budget, not my petrol budget....so this week am on track to only spend £20, rather than the £50 that is budgeted for. Hurrah! Now heading to Hypno's thread to write about how to clean a house in 2 hours.......

Mrs R