Fresian's Final Push...Mooooving Towards Freedom

Double_Trouble

FF you were asking about cuttlebugs on FB craftfairies is the expert on all these things

Thank you so much for my card you are a genius:A

DTxx

mooomin

Glad you like it!! That means I can blog it tonight, didn't want to spoil the surprise

mooomin

If anyone wants to see the card I sent DT it's on my blog

InaPickle

Hi Fresian, this will be my last login before the New Year, so all the very best for the New Year! x

mooomin

Well I'm back on the Frugal Challenge for 2011. Regular readers will remember how well that went last year :rotfl:

Here's my latest post from the challenge thread so you can see my plans for the next few days....

My council tax gets sent out tomorrow, so that's going to be a spend day (Bah!) but at least it gives me the chance to play with my spreadsheets (Heh!)

Today I'm working but hopefully the office will develop some festive spirit and we'll get to leave early. If so, I'm off to brave Sainsbury's as I have a giftcard for there with £17 on it so will be using that to do my final shop before the year end. I only really need a couple of bits and pieces, but would rather they were free than not I'm going to have a rummage through the cupboards and see what I need that I might be able to buy for a mere £17 there - I was shocked at the price of their milk the last time I was in :eek:

My other plan for today is to finish off the Christmas/Birthday spreadsheet I started yesterday so I can plan for everyone's birthdays and make sure I have got them something that they want and that is a good price for me. Although some things have been bought in the post-Christmas sales, I'll be taking them off the budget for January as otherwise it's just cheating!

I plan to inventory the freezer this weekend and make sure that I don't overbuy meat as I always do. I am aware that I have run out of mince which is less than ideal as it's so useful for batch cooking, but am going to Costco on Monday so will buy a packet there and save it in small portions. I prefer doing that than buying 500g packets from the supermarket anyway as I normally bulk things out with oats/lentils anyway

The final thing to do this weekend will be to sort out the clothes I'm going to be taking back to the shops that I bought on impulse in the sales and don't need. There's quite a lot...!

Double_Trouble

mooomin

Thanks DT Happy New Year to all!

We've had a quiet one in Fresian Towers - Mr F has had a bereavement in the family so we cancelled our plans and had a quiet night in. We're not big on New Year anyway so it's not the end of the world staying in. Very MSE and all that.

In good MSE news, despite receiving a letter saying his overdraft had expired, it's been renewed automatically for another year *confused* so as it's interest-free I've taken "my" money out of his account and am back out of overdraft. Woo! We will need to repay it sometime in 2011, but at least I can start building a contingency fund now.

I'm about to start a new thread, so please bear with me. Link coming soon!

mooomin

New thread!!