Its tough, it will get better and guess what its freezing brrrrr!

jackieglasgow

Annie I am so delighted to read that things are working out for you, and Woo-hoo!!! to the hunky gardener!! I can see you living the good life, with him or someone of his ilk. As for dinner a deux....id the M&S offer on this week?

MrsBartolozzi

To those looking for cheap Christmas pressies, I found this link over on the grabbit board - shh though. The fewer times the stores name is typed the longer it will last.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2790482

pennywisepoundstupid

Annie thats wonderful news, glad everything worked out with the Garage and as for the Ex well all i will say is what goes around comes around, you handled everything with such dignity and can walk around with your head held high. As for the hunky gardener go girl, you deserve a bit of fun;).

Fruball

WELCOME BACK ANNIE!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!! Well done you asking him out - WOHOO!!!!!!!!!! I got all overexcited when I read that hehehehehe!!!! Am giggling at the thought of you both eating carrot cake and drinking HM wine!!! He sounds like a fellow OSer... Hahahaha wouldn't it be funny if he posts here :eek:

jackieglasgow

MrsB that link is invalid.

jcr16

thanks for that pink winged. again don't have a primark on island. although when i'm down somerset i don't want to go shopping as such as too much other fun and exciting stuff to do with kids. but if i know say for instance asda or primark sell fantastic fleeces reasonable then i don't mind dashing in and just picking up them. i love buying new fleeces and feel can never have enough. i've still got all the bedding and blankets from when my little ones were babies, but as they are getting taller , i need some bigger blankets. alhught the baby fleeces are idea for in the car.

skyelark

Annie56 wrote: »

Hi fellow frugalers..not been on for a while been to busy to even get online sometimes.

Wont bore you with exOH/blonde floozie saga other than hes out of the garage, my dad and I are in and all the jobs are safe, business loan paid off so house safe, just the divorce to sort out thats in court next Tuesday so by this time next week I may be a single woman again:p:j:beer:...

I am now working at the garage for a while, console assistant serving the petrol and stocktaking, its nice to be back in the workforce again. Was lovley to say cheerio to the JSA office.
Dads paying me minimum wage as we have to keep the costs down to secure the mechanics jobs, I would have died of shame if we had to have closed the garage and make 4 folk redundant after 8 years of loyal service so things are looking up.

Have put the house on the market, have to as OH is entitled to a share, hes moving to Shropshire....:D:D:D:D:D

Im still moneysaving in my little flat, have done everything I can to be prepared for winter and the allotments looking good and ready for full production in the coming year.

My future posts will be to do with winter preps etc just posted an update for the kind folk that PMd me about my situation and gave me there support, such a wonderful community on here.

Can anyone tell me what to do with a chicken carcass ie make stock etc..Ive just touched the surface on batch cooking now need to get riight back to basics and learn them....

Ive come out the other end of this horrible saga, skint but employed with a roof over my head, my integrity intact, now I need to practice OStyle with avengence...anyone any ideas on a cheapo menu for a dinner a deux, plucked up courage to ask handsome hunk from the allotment for a meal:rotfl::rotfl: he said yes....and I blushed as he handed me a bunch of nobbly carrotts ooh errr can you tell Im all a flutter lol....made a carrott cake with em.....and hes bringing some of his homemade wine....wont ever be attracted to a flash geezer with a big car ever again, one with a spade and heap of organic manure will do ....:p

Is cold here today, was 7 degrees when I crawled half asleep into thegarage this morning at 6am and the sky was lovley and red, and the hedges had a white frosty dusting on them, though the days got better as it has passed, quite warm now, am going to walk to work from now on as I love the peace and quiet of the morning when everything is just starting...

so from one lucky but skint frugaller to you all have a nice afternoon, Im off to have freezer sort out and list making session

Annie56

That is excellent! I was reading your posts a couple of weeks ago and put a message on for you on the other thread.
So glad things are looking up for you. You seem like a very capable and strong person. But you deserve this break. Enjoy!
Hope the date goes well :T

greent

Annie56 - woo hoo!! How exciting!! If you post up some freezer contents I'm sure we can come up with some dinner party ideas from stuff that you already have Or try weezl's site (cheap-family-recipes) for ideas for things too
Good news re the garage also!

HAve just made a sortof HFW's gluney chutney. I took the last of the courgettes from the garden - all weeny but tough skinned, so peeled them, some frozen chunked huge courgettes, some frozen stoned plums (from my mum), some apples (mum), some overripe and bruised pears from fruit bowl, the last of the green tomatoes from the garden (had been hiding in the runner beans, as they'd grown from the compost), some overripe tomatoes from the fridge, the last 1/2 dozen dates from a bag, some tough dried apricots and a couple of large onions. Has been simmering for about 90minutes, and it needs more time yet. That means I now have Glutney Chutney, runner bean chutney, tomato & chilli chutney & plum jam as Xmas gifts. I found a wodge of rhubarb in the freezer, too, so may make a small amount of rhubarb and apple jam (with maybe a couple of strawbs from the freezer thrown in for prettiness!) Just some gold, frankincense & myrrh soap and orange & cinnamon soap to make now - I need to make that by next week really, to ensure it has time to cure properly before Xmas.

Talking of Xma5, I really need to start buckling down with preps - I'm normally further ahead by now. I've been very busy this year with NCT stuff, DS2 starting school, DS1 looking at secondary schools ready for next year and OH working away. I've even stopped going to the WI at the mo as I can't fit it in (and it means getting a sitter for the 4 dc) Life *should* start to ease up now, so I'm hoping to get a move on with it. We're off up to Edinburgh at 1/2 term and I can't wait (I have to confess that I've never been further north than the Lake District - and that was with work for a course!!)

MrsBartolozzi

jackieglasgow wrote: »

MrsB that link is invalid.

Yeah. Sorry, I see that the mods have removed the thread. Basically it was a thread telling of a glitch found on another forum that Sup@rdrug's 3 for 2 christmas stuff was going through at 3 for 1.
I think it's been sorted now though.

Hope some folks managed to take advantage of it.

maryb

lambanana wrote: »

I think the worst bit tidying wise is that when MiL calls to speak to her precious son she asks how we're getting on with the housework :eek: cheeky mare, it's always spotless when she visits

I didn't grow up in a showhome type house, my mum couldn't afford fancy decorating and posh furniture and what money she did have she preferred to save to take me on holiday and make sure I had what I needed and a fair bit of what I wanted instead of fancy decoration I imagine this has contributed somewhat to my rather relaxed attitude to housework and I know our house is A LOT tidier than the one I grew up in. You're right that people aren't remembered for how clean their house was but I would like to make sure things are at least put away instead of being left. I don't help myself as I'm a spilling machine, last night I was squeezing tomato puree into our dinner and the top of the tube split and it exploded all over the walls, it looked like there had been a massacre :rotfl: quite funny but at the same time I now have to repaint some of the wall as it wouldn't come off :eek:

Have you tried those Magic Erasers? You get them in the cleaning section in supermarkets. I used one on the wall behind the sink which isn't tiled and shows every splash and it saved me having to repaint. Not sure about tomato stains, though, that's a toughie, I agree