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debtfreewannabe321

debtfreewannabe321 wrote: »

Afternoon

This morning i went into town with my friend and hit the charity shops:rotfl:

I bought:

black linen trousers (Dorothy P)- £1
Beige linen trousers (M&S) -£1
beautiful skirt (next)- £4.55
cardigan (m&s collection)- £8.99 -is lurvely tho!
Top (topshop)- £4

Dress (tommy hilfigar)- £8- for my sister for her b-day

5x trousers/shorts (diesel/peter storm/gap) - £1 each :eek::T to sell on ebay at profit :o:o

Also spent £10 on food & drink

Got kids some bits from charity shops too so another £9 there (dressing up dress & jigsaws)

SO spent around £50. But got 11 items of clothes, 2 jigsaws & one dressing up dress and was all budgeted for anyway :T.......although clothing budget very empty now :rotfl:

Pfffffft. Make that 7 items to sell on! The linen trousers don't fit properly !!!!! I seriously need to lose weight

debtfreewannabe321

am off to mums tomorrow as dh's grandad is ill has been for a while but they've all been told to go up to the hospital just in case......so i will go to mums with kids & some food i have for her. Petrol is budgeted for so shouldn't be any nasty shocks on the budget this month :eek: !

slm6002

Sorry to hear about DH grandad. Good news though on the finds at the charity shops. I found a lovely cardi that is just my mums type of thing for £3 the other day - birthday pressie now all sorted

Box_of_Fluffies

Well done on your charity shop finds, even if the linen trousers don't fit properly.

5x trousers/shorts (diesel/peter storm/gap) - £1 each to sell on ebay at profit

I used to do this too when I lived in the UK. Sometimes you can make quite a bit of money from them. It's very MSE don't you think.

I'm sorry to hear DH's grandad isn't doing too well. Sending hugs for you and DH {HUGs].

abba1772

sorry to hear about dh's grandad xxxx

debtfreewannabe321

Thank you for your kind wishes dh said that his Grandad was very frail but out of bed and speaking so that's good. I saw a picture though and he's lost an awful lot of weight. The whole of his face has dropped on one side also from the stroke I think ds2 kept him amused though with all his running around

I went into town with my mum whilst dh was at the nursign home. I spent £10 on food :eek: & £6 in poundland :doh: & £24 in primarni .....got shoes for the kids though & sunglasses for all of us :T so works out cheaper than anywhere round here. My clothing budgt is ummmmmmmmmm EMPTY now.

My mum has not had a fridge since i last visited her.!!!. she didn't tell me it had broken as she didn't want me worrying. So she couldn't even offer us a cup of tea today as milk had been thrown out I have been looking all evening on ebay/google for a good deal on one. I have bidded for one on ebay ...well put an offer in. They want £100 but i really don't have that. It is 10 mins from mum in the car though so i have offered them £80 and asked if they could deliver for that price too (fridge is new ) i doubt they will say yes but you gotta try huh! Otherwise i will get her one out of my yearly savings when it has matured (end of month i think) have found a few for £100. Not brill but not bad and def better than none at all! Bless her she is just like me and had got a screwdriver to it and started taking it apart trying to work out what was wrong with it! She couldn't though so no fridge ! Why does :(everything go wrong at the same time huh! I need a bit of luck like my mate with the tax rebate! :rotfl:

Am planning on quite a few NSD's next week lol need to catch up on them and also save some money

Tomorrow i need to :

• do beds (didn't do other day! tut tut!)
• make a meal planner for week.....using stuff we already have hopefully. Want a nice cheap shop next week
• Tidy up
• do washing
• put clothes away
• see if i have won cheeky offer on fridge :rotfl: won't hold my breath though:rotfl:

debtfreewannabe321

debtfreewannabe321 wrote: »

Tomorrow i need to :

• do beds (didn't do other day! tut tut!) they've been stripped, it's a start lol
  
• [STRIKE]make a meal planner for week.....using stuff we already have hopefully. Want a nice cheap shop next week [/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Tidy up[/STRIKE]
• do washing -Have a few more to do yet...2nd one on already though
  
• put clothes away
• see if i have won cheeky offer on fridge :rotfl: won't hold my breath though:rotfl:

Off to do the food shopping this afternoon as dh wants to go, no idea why as he's not here from Tues onwards! I've written a list though and don't need too much that is expensive (i hope!).

If we need petrol i may put a tenner in whilst we are at the shops too...have cleaned house already so once the shopping is done we can relax :T

Still have clothes to put away but they've made it upstairs at least....half way there :rotfl:

Need to check ebay but they have 48hours i think so i'm not expecting an answer straight away

I have a £9 off a £60 te$co shop so i think we will go there as i do need some meat for the week/month so can easily make it up. Also need some sort of scrubbing brush for carpets, the kids have ruined the carpet in the living room (beige) with squash and all sorts trodden into it! I do scrub it with carpet cleaner but it doesn't seem to get all the marks off hoping some bleach and a brush will do the trick

Hope everyone is having a good day :A

mandz1

Astonish upholstry cleaner is brilliant for getting stains out out carpets, and its only about a pound from wilkos or savers. Worked brilliantly on my old houses living room carpet, so i didnt have to pay out for a new one for the landlord

slm6002

Thanks for that i might also buy a bottle! Kids and carpets dont mix in our house. Hope you get to relax soon

slm6002

Try freecycle as well for the fridges - might mean looking on one in closer area to her but even if you only get an old one that lasts a few months it then gives you and your mum a chance to find a little money for a better one