Keeping away from the Jones and leading my frugal life diary

miemie

Thanks honey and mac, yes i have lots of layers to put on, especially as one minute i'm hot and sat in a t shirt and the next im freezing and have a fleece on and a blanket around me.

Amazingly have just managed 30mins on the wii fit but feel kn*ck**d now, but needed to do some exercise, also decided to have a grilled chicken and goats cheese salad for tea and blooming loverly it was.

miemie

Can't believe i hav'nt updated all weekend, Film was fantastic and the lad that plays jacob toally delish:D, what a body;) what am i like he's only 17 and i'm almost old enough to be his mother, oh how i wish i was 17 again:D.

Well builders began on saturday morning, front room looks like a bomb has gone off,dust and rubble everywhere chimney breast has been ripped out and rebuilt, just needs plastering now and then the wood burning stove putting in.

Have eaten so much carp over the weekend the diet has totally gone to pot, had takeaway saturday night as we were in such a mess, need to get back on track.

Made a bit of money over the weekend won £5 0n bingo and made about £30 on eBay, pay day today need to look for a TV for dd for xmas.

miemie

Its blinking freezing today, really feels like winter. Have a piece of brisket cooking away in the slow cooker and it smells yummy.

Good news:D
won £5 on free scratch cards:D, also recieved £4 payment from pinecone.

Bad News.:mad:
Looking as though my hours are going to be reduced after christmas, one of the children i work with is not having there funding re-instated, so i will be only doing about 12 hours a week,not going to worry as something will come up.

homegrown_life

sorry to hear about your hours being reduced, hope something does come up. Well done on the scratch cards though Feels ages since I won more than 10p!

miemie

Feel like a blinking bank today, spends so far today:
school dinners £15.00
milkman £10
nativity tickets £10
Petrol £20
Brown paper 0.99p
Tesco £31
DD Riding Lesson £20
Grand total £106.99p :eek:

The rest of the week better be No Spends.

Bingo britain bonus has finished so no bingo for me, scratchies 10p and 10p no surveys so far today, but have listed 2 items on eBay:D, but think i'm going to have to find a few more bits to list.

Hubby late home from work tonight so he is on some lasagne that i found lurking in the freezer, kiddies are on fish finger and beans, not sure what i'm having probably cereal.

miemie

Just a quick update
£6 spent today on sausages, fruit juice, cucumber and tomatoes.

Have sold a Buy it now on ebay for £10, 10p and 25p on scratchies, recieved £8.85 from quidco and £45 from paypal.

Off to have a bath as i am Kn*ck*rd and have had hell of a day at work.

miemie

:DHaving a good couple of days at the moment,
Have withdraw 11.50 from a survey site so that should hit paypal in the next few days, have done a survey with pinec*ne so another £4 there and this morning won £10 on scratchcards so have been able to withdraw from littlewoods:D only 10p on the other scratchy.

Going to try and get lots of jobs done today as i have to stay at home and wait for DD tv to be delivered i ordered it from tesco as i had some £15 worth of clubcard vouchers , I also ordered a hamper that was on offer at M & S the other day and thats been delivered, supposed to have been £50 and got it for about £26 and quidco on top:j don't think it was worth £50 though and would of hated to have bought it for full price, so thats in laws xmas present sorted.

I have so far listed 2 things on eBay and as i blitz the house i hope to find more, going to be ruthless today and have a good clear out ready for xmas.

Today i need to
clean house top to bottom
List more [STRIKE]tat[/STRIKE] wonderful items on ebay
Make a quiche (minus bacon hubby ate for brekkie before i got up:mad:)
Make leek and potato soup
Bake cake for lunch boxes
sort xmas presents out make sure i know whats left to buy
Ironing.
clean out guinea pig.

Right better get on.

miemie

Tv has been delivered and hidden, soup,quiche and jam tarts made, front room blitzed and looks lovely and tidy, all children have been banned from that room for rest of day (well until x factor), drives me nuts they have a playroom but insist on dragging boxes of toys out of there and into front room.
Postie delivered some cereal bars for me to test from a survey company, so they will do for next weeks snacks at work:D, love free food.
Now need to go into town to buy a new freeview box as mine has decided to break down, refuses to change channels or do anything but turn its self on and off without me touching it or the remote and i can't miss x Factor tonight.

miemie

Well managed to battle town yesterday and buy new freeview box, so thats another £20 gone, but did make £21.50 on Buy It Now items on ebay, so at least i'm £1 up:rolleyes:.

Todays mission is to take my dear Grandma christmas shopping:eek:, oh joy.
You may think thats not too bad but oh let me describe the scenario, My lovely Grandmas (bless her), comes across as a cross between Blanche from corrie (rip), Kym woodburn and Catherine Tate's nan (without the swearing). I will arrive at the [STRIKE]told[/STRIKE] agreed time, to find her unable to find her glasses/teeth/umbrella, we will finally get out of the house, into the car and into town, try and park in suitable place this will result in me driving around several multi storey car parks until she is happy:mad:, with her muttering at me what are all these people doind have they nothing better to do, ( under breath, yes i have). Next i will say "did you write a list", answer will be no even though she promised to do one at the beginning of November, because she does'nt want a shopping trip like last years farce. We of course will enter Marks and Spencers first, she is buying for 20, yes 20 Grand children and Great Grand children, I will start saying things like that will be nice for such and such and so and so likes those,To which i will get, know luvvy i'm 80 you know i can only think about one at a time, we will trail around M&S to look for first present, we will then trail around 4 more shops at varying ends of town, to return back to M&S to buy first item we had seen and so we continue, 6 hours later, 4 presents bought. I will be told how unsuccessful a trip we had and how we will need to go again next week, this trip will be passed onto my sister:D, who will repeat the above, Who will pass onto my brother who will take her on Christmas eve, complete the task in an hour because she will listen to him (as women should know their place and listen to men you know, thats whats gone wrong in the world luvvie). She will then tell him how useless his sisters are and why can't they manage to do any thing quickly and orderly and how we need to be more like him:mad:. This of course is all we will hear for the next 6 months. So i better go get dressed and brave the trip, wish me luck.

honeybear_2

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Oh dear! V.best of luck cos I think you're going to need it!