Frugal Fresian's 2010 Adventures

macgirl

flying_fresian wrote: »

I did find a job to apply for, but decided in the end not to - it's outside Edinburgh and I would really need a car in order to travel there daily, especially if I was working outwith the 9-5 routine. Train would be too expensive I think, and I have a twenty minute journey to the train station to add on too I'm sure something will come up

Yeah, you need less stress, not more by way of extra travelling. Something WILL turn up, hope work's a bit easier until you do

Intergalactic_Floozie

Hope things are back on the up soon xx

mooomin

I may or may not have spent most of my Everything Else budget on cocktails and cake today.

I am certainly a little drunk...

beanielou

Cocktails & cake = perfect combination

tomtombeanie

flying_fresian wrote: »

I may or may not have spent most of my Everything Else budget on cocktails and cake today.

I am certainly a little drunk...

i was looking for the "like" button and wondering why i couldn't find it! methinks i have been spending a bit *too* much time on the ol' FB. glad you gave yourself a treat xxx

pointypenguin

flying_fresian wrote: »

I may or may not have spent most of my Everything Else budget on cocktails and cake today.

I am certainly a little drunk...

Cocktails and cake, the food of the gods:D

mooomin

Good morning all!

I am on my second cup of coffee now so feel strong enough to update (Have been doing nothing all morning apart from Farmville )

Last night I spent:

£0.99 glass of [strike]paint stripper[/strike] wine
£3.65 half pitcher of cocktails
£3.99 dinner
£2.99 sticky toffee pudding (Om nom nom)

So that was a spend of £11.62 leaving me about £2.40 for Entertainment for the rest of the month. Knickers. I still have two dinners and a night out to go to before the end of February....

However, the Post Fairy has been good to me over the last two days, so it might not be too bad!

Some of my longer-suffering readers might remember that I bought a laptop on behalf of my brother before Christmas (He benefited from my staff discount, saving him £250+, I paid on my Tesco credit card so got oddles of points, everyone was happy) Part of the deal was that I would claim for the M&S Christmas Hamper that came free with purchases over a certain amount. I came home last night to a letter apologising for the lack of hamper due to high demand, but giving me £50 M&S vouchers instead :j I'm planning on buying meat/veg in M&S this month to try and counter the inevitable overspend on going out.

I have also received a whisky miniature in the post as well as a voucher for a free icecream and programme at my local theatre

Current state of affairs is thus:

Spends - £0
PAD = £69
Entertainment = £2.43
Groceries = £151.70

Purse = £12.20 left from the £20 challenge as I was heroically late on Thursday and had to pay £6 to get a taxi to work :mad:

Must dash - got lunch with Mr Fresian's family today and need to get dressed

hypno06

Perfect timing re the M&S voucher - a very luxurious frugal february indeed!!

mooomin

It certainly will be Hypno

Especially so as I received M&S vouchers from Primula so have £2 off when I spend £20 on food as well :beer: I can use the £3.50 voucher for a nice coffee in the cafe when I'm finished too!

The_Golden_Goose

So nice when things start going right! Good on ya! Can you send some luck my way purleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaze?!