December 2009 Grocery Challenge

cw18

x_raphael_xx wrote: »

Gah!! When will they learn that 'doing the dishes' includes drying, putting away & wiping down surfaces. And not just washing & leaving them to drip dry.

Washing up in my household is just that - hardly ever dry anything unless it's something I had to wash as I need to use it again now They get put away (and the draining board gets wiped) just before the next load gets washed :rolleyes2

I personally don't see the point in wasting time drying them all, as it means lots of tea towels to be washed as well (and at this time of year that also means putting them through the tumble drier) - so leaving pots to air dry is much more environmentally friendly IMO

x_raphael_xx

cw18 wrote: »

Washing up in my household is just that - hardly ever dry anything unless it's something I had to wash as I need to use it again now They get put away (and the draining board gets wiped) just before the next load gets washed :rolleyes2

I personally don't see the point in wasting time drying them all, as it means lots of tea towels to be washed as well (and at this time of year that also means putting them through the tumble drier) - so leaving pots to air dry is much more environmentally friendly IMO

Buuuuuuuut clean shiny surfaces look nicer :D

XSpender

Only a couple of small spends to report. £3.20 on a box of Newberry Fru1ts for Christmas as I never ever see them for sale and we always used to get a box each from Nana when I was a girl. Also spent £4.00 on some wash stuff to re waterproof the winter coats and £2.49 on a big jar of [EMAIL="Nesc@fe"]Nesc@fe[/EMAIL] from £stretchers.

Have added in £16 for earlier spend in Mr S that I lost receipt for and isn't showing in tinternet so I can keep track of overall spends. I can always update the total once it appears.

I only need milk during this week and will need fruit at the weekend. Also will try and get a turkey crown from Ald1 that has been recommended at £7.99.

There is enough in the freezer to feed us unitl Christmas and I will get the fresh stuff the week before.

XS x

plzhelpmesave!

£10 on Saturday on stocking up & some bits for the kids
DH spent £5 yesterday in lidl - loadsa bananas juice that was on offer! today should be a NSD - loads of milk& fruit in the house and hopefully should squeeze tonites dinner out of yesterday's leftovers!

pammyj74

went into mr Ts to get the 3l milk for £1.25 and saw they had mini cheddars half price and also I cant believe its not butter BOGOF so had to buy a few.
So spent £3.75 in there and £3 in a cheapy shop which had baker boys flapjacks pack 2 for £1 so got 6 lol
so another £6.75 onto my total
(this doesnt include the other stuff I bought today in charity shop and lights for mums xmas crafty thingy!!)
A bad spend day

ifonlyitwaseasier

hey all,

so far have had many NSD's as have had a relapse of this bug and am now on anti-bi's, just can't shake the cough and am so frustrated by it.

this does mean i am rather behind in getting my xmas shopping finished!! but i haven't been spending on carp either so i guess kinda good.

hope you're all great

ioiwe

SaverShell

We did quite well this week and only did one shop. Spent £42.50 in MrS but this should keep us going up until xmas now. We still need to do the xmas food shop but we already seem to spending so much less now we're keeping an eye on what we're buying and making sure we use everything we buy.

ellemm

x_raphael_xx glad someone else has same problems.

I don't mind them being left to dry, actually rarely dry them myself and will happily put them away, but the not wiping the surfaces and top of cooker does my head in :mad: (I am slightly OCD I think !!)

The spoon thing does my head in too!!

Had a NSD today as forgot purse also gained bag of Lidl Mini Milk Chocolate Balls from a patient as I photocopied stuff for him!! OH will no doubt eat them as I am trying to resist chocolate.

Lamb Stifado cooked for tea with left over potatoes from yesterday so that will take all of 5 minutes to heat when I get in.

jackie_w

Had a couple of shops since I last posted, mainly on bread (too lazy to make my own ), milk, fresh orange juice and Dh bought multivitamins.

Today did my first biggish shop of the month which came to £45.66 which did include £5 for a tin of heroes, a large bar of galaxy and 2 terry chocolate oranges (yum yum).

There was no meals in that though which is a bit pants because the rest of it was made up of milk, yogurts, fruit (lots of fruit) biscuits (again), cold meat and female things:p.

The fruit, biscuits and the cold meats should last us about 2 weeks hopefully, so if im really careful with my meal planning, I shouldnt need to go anymore shopping until towards the end of the week.

Off now to catch up on the thread.


Jackie

Coxy11

jackie_w - just spotted your sig. How did you manage to make so many overpayments on your mortgage this year? Sorry to be asking on this thread, but I'm intrigued.....

Coxy
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