gratefulforhelp's austerity measures

cha97michelle

You are going to be on your knees by tonight. Make sure you don't spend all night chatting and get some sleep hon.

I didn't know you could get 11kg capacity washers. Makes my 8kg one look piddly, and I was excited enough with that one. Enjoy washing the duvet. :rotfl:

gratefulforhelp_2

We haven't seen her for so shamefully long a time...

I think I'm gonna be washing half the village's duvets!

gratefulforhelp_2

Phew, friend has left and I am all out of energy.

New WM is in and eats tons of laundry. Brilliant. Three of our house windows are in the garage - eek!

eta £30 quid of pizza express and £105 of topps tiles vouchers on their way thanks to clubcard vouchers.

gratefulforhelp_2

Easier day today, new WM eats laundry (have I said that?) it goes round a couple of times before it starts, weighs the load and then tells you if you have used all of it's capacity!!

Popped out, dropped DD1 at a party, spent some M and S tokens, had coffee and picked DD1 and her little mate on the way home. DH calls the mate the "poisoned dwarf" since she is rude and short...a bit mean and she doesn't look like Lucy Ewing (test of your age if you get that!!).

So quite a moneysaving day. We have three windows missing from the house...and work starts on the shower room on Monday (that's the plan anyway).

The drawings came back from our favoured kitchen person, looking good, very exciting. Starts to look like it might happen now.

Don't feel quite so exhausted, but depressed realising only two weeks left of DH's hols.

twinklie

Man, I was getting depressed with only 3 weeks left. LOL. Poor DH!

I'm so jealous about your house plans. Please share pics when its done. xx

CathT

gratefulforhelp wrote: »

DH calls the mate the "poisoned dwarf" since she is rude and short...a bit mean and she doesn't look like Lucy Ewing (test of your age if you get that!!).



The drawings came back from our favoured kitchen person, looking good, very exciting. Starts to look like it might happen now.

I don't have a clue who she is!

Kitchen sounds great, I bet it will be a transformation. Do you spend a lot of time in there? I want a kitchen diner that really is the heart of the home.

gratefulforhelp_2

Pics are planned. We don't spend as much time in there now we have a baby who is up all evening with us, and there's a horrid concrete floor, but we will.

Watch out anyone shopping online with MrT, if I hadn't checked we would have lost £39 worth of discounts as they didn't apply them. Most of this morning wasted sorting it out. Tenner voucher as a result.

Builder has confirmed he's starting tomorrow. I am pleased but I am miserable as our rest day has turned into more chores.

Also my CC has appeared on a "hotlist" apparently with danger of fraudulent use, so I have stopped it.

gratefulforhelp_2

Builders are here and we are under a layer of brick dust - glad I hadn't dusted!

Finally nailed down the glass supplier(£50), scaffolding comes down tomorrow and baby has had his first go in his high chair.

Incredible that he was a teeny tiny baby such a short time ago.

We all went for a walk to chat to some ponies and DH is playing musical statues with the girls.

CathT

All the home improvements will be worth it in the end. It's just not easy coping with the mess whilst it's being done. I remember coming home after a 13.5 hour shift to awful dust after the builders had knocked through from the garage to the dining room. No matter how much I cleaned it just kept appearing and settling!

Don't babies grow far too quick - I often want to freeze time.

gratefulforhelp_2

Babies do grow sooo fast. The dust is everywhere but the space is so much bigger and really looks like it could be a shower room instead of just a loo.

Riding for DD1 today and Church activity for DD2. Also DH is going to get me a new mop, guess who ate the last one??