Fresian's Final Push...Mooooving Towards Freedom

mooomin

pointypenguin wrote: »

I will be in Edinburgh on Sunday if you fancy a coffee.

That would be lovely. I will be back from Glasgow by the afternoon I think Text me and let me know your plans!

mooomin

Confession Time:

So, I went to Costco and bought many awesome things, then went to Morrisons and bought yet more food. We're going to be fine until Doomsday at this rate! Here is the full breakdown:

Costco:

Chicken - £6 for five massive chicken breasts. Split a huge pack with my friend
Tinned tomatoes - £2.50 for six tins
Lint rollers - £4.99 for eight (Bargain!!!)
Cat litter - £14.22

I was also a very Bad Fresian and bought a paper trimmer/guillotine combo. That was £21.14. It's awesome though so worth every penny

Morrisons:

Many things bought, and too dull to list! Total spend there was £35.28. I'm a little annoyed though - fajita kits were two for £4 so I bought two but only just realised that two kits cost me £7.34 :eek: They must have had the more expensive kits beside the offer ones :mad: Do you think you can return fajita kits??

Right, off to transfer funds about to cover all this spending!

mooomin

Inventory - Take 2! Updated with new buys

Freezer:

Whole chicken - 1
Mince - 9
Bacon - 2
Fishcakes - 2
Chicken breasts - 5
Doughballs - 1
Mini garlic baguette - 1
Peppers - 2
Fish - 2
Peas - 1
Bolognaise - 1
Haddock - 1
Sausages - 1


Cupboards:

Pasta 4.5kg approx
Rice 2kg approx
Special K - 3 boxes
Cheerios - 1 box
Bran Flakes - 1 box
Beans - 16
Tomato soup (condensed) - 5
Mushroom soup (condensed) - 5
Chickpeas - 5
Kidney beans - 2
Sweetcorn - 1
Corned beef - 1
Tomatoes - 12
Stir fry sauce - 2
Tomato soup - 2
Sweet and sour sauce - 1
Fajita kits - 2

Reposted so I can print an accurate list off tomorrow.

Off to bed now. Goodnight all :hello:

Intergalactic_Floozie

Definitely return the fajita kits. Morrisons are ALWAYS catching me out doing things like that.

mooomin

I'll take them back today then, really annoyed about that because the bigger packs were above a price which match the pre-offer price. Bah!

Not a huge amount planned for today in terms of moneysaving. I bought enough food yesterday to enable me to make my own lunches all week, so in theory today should be a NSD.

I'm about to go and strip the chicken carcass from last night so that we can have something creative with leftovers. Not fajitas as planned though :rotfl:

mooomin

I might be mental, but I think that with winter coming and nothing better to do, Flylady might help the state of the house. Here's today's list:

Monday ~ Living room, Hall and Stairs
Level One
Declutter the floors
Vacuum decluttered floors!
Tidy coats and shoes, put summer ones away for next summer or in the bin or charity shop bag as required!
Level Two
declutter and dust the tops of any units and dust ornaments
Wipe the sofas if needed or wash covers as required
Wipe and water plants, dust and deweb
Declutter and wipe fire surround
Level Three
Check house for draughts and make a plan to plug them before it gets REALLY wintery cold!
Hang pictures/mirrors etc that you have had for AAAAGES and not got round to doing yet!
Empty and clear out a cupboard or drawer..
Extras

1. HHI or HHC doing some task you ALWAYS put off!
2. binbag dance
3. Wipe the skirtings and window frames
4. empty and wash out bins and fill coal/kindling baskets as required

I'll be going for Level 1 and taking it from there!

moo2moo

You are mental!

In this place decluttering the floors would take a fortnight. As fast as I clear a bit of space the four legged fiend fills it with an upended plant pot dragged in from the garden or a chewed up log or a dead something or other extracted from the cats jaws.

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

You are mental!

Maybe so! I did find last time I did Flylady that the house looked so much better though.

Although I have gone nowhere near the Flylady list this morning, I have hung up yesterdays washing, done most of the dishes, stripped a chicken and put a second load of washing in the machine. That's more than I normally do on a Monday morning! Mr Fresian normally does the hoovering so I'll leave him a begging note and hope he does it!

mooomin

£7.34 refunded by Morrisons for the fajita kits They gave me cash instead of putting it on my card though, so I have made an additional PAD of £7.34 to my credit card :A

Current money situation is:

PAD/Spends = £167.66
Entertainment = £138.13
Groceries = £114.04
Purse = £13.13

I've printed off my inventory and stuck it in my diary too, in the hopes that this will help when I go to the shops. I have budgeted £170 for the month, but would love to have £30-£50 leftover this month. I'm feeling hopeful!

mooomin

Monday ~ Living room, Hall and Stairs
Level One
[strike]Declutter the floors[/strike]
Vacuum decluttered floors! Mr Fresian to do tomorrow for me
Tidy coats and shoes, put summer ones away for next summer or in the bin or charity shop bag as required!
Level Two
[strike]declutter and dust the tops of any units and dust ornaments[/strike]
Wipe the sofas if needed or wash covers as required
[strike]Declutter and wipe fire surround[/strike]
Level Three
Check house for draughts and make a plan to plug them before it gets REALLY wintery cold!
Hang pictures/mirrors etc that you have had for AAAAGES and not got round to doing yet!
Empty and clear out a cupboard or drawer..
Extras

1. HHI or HHC doing some task you ALWAYS put off!
2. binbag dance
3. [strike]Washing[/strike]
   

So far, in addition to the above I have:

• Done the dishes and wiped down the kitchen surfaces
• Stripped last night's chicken and made dinner with leftovers (enough for lunch tomorrow too!!)
• Three loads of washing in total
• Cleaned most of the bathroom (Not the shelves yet)
  

I'm sleepy *yawn* so am watching Masterchef instead of doing a lot more. I'm going to hang up the washing while it's on though (then polish my halo )