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Sea78

Hope you've had a good day

Sea xxx

Seaxwyn

Morning all.

I'm doing housework today - have to sort the sitting room as part of Hypno's housework challenge. I've roped in DD2 to help and she's rather miffed about it so putting in some good angry energy!

Meanwhile DD2 is lying on her bed reading catalogues and fantasising about what Christmas would be like if she had a different family!

However it won't be quite so lean this year thanks to OH's large pay packet. He's decided to spend £30-£40 on each child, so they should all get something good for that.

He loves being able to splash the cash around when he has it so I'm going to let him do it. My purse is staying firmly closed til Christmas. Yesterday he spent £150 in Lidl (yes it is possible!) and today he has taken DD3 into town to buy some crafty bits to make Christmas cards.

hypno06

Sounds like a good day - I am battling with the challenge, but I WILL get there by the end of the day - maybe not to the standards that I would dream of, but it will be acceptable, so that will have to do!!

Sea78

Well, at least he's enjoying it and the bills are paid! Has he given you the money yet?

£150 in Lidl - blimey! I'm impressed!! lol. Must have bought an awful lot for that - booze for Christmas?

Sea xxx

Seaxwyn

Hi Sea

He transferred the money to my account online.

£150 Lidl shop included eight bottles of olive oil! (His main reason for going as he's very fussy) Plus wine, beer and lots and lots of jars of mushrooms in oil, cans of mussel soup, and other strange products not available anywhere else.

Sea78

Strange products that you all eat?

Good about stocking up I guess - means you'll have them in now for quite a while! Nice that he's gone to get crafty things - my heart is always warmed towards my OH whenever he does extra things with the kids!

Sea xx

dreams_R_free

Great minds, Seaxwyn! I always buy olive oil from Lidl as it's so cheap but excellent quality and taste.

Not sure about some of the weird and wonderful stuff in jars though . What are the mushrooms in oil like and what do you actually do with them? Might try them next time. When I go I stock up on several big jars of shredded red cabbage. It's not like the UK pickled sort in vinegar:eek: , its yummy and we love it just heated up as a veg.

Seaxwyn

HI Imp!

Great minds indeed - he bought some of the shredded red cabbage too!

OH is a great foodie and he is very enthusiastic about some of the Lidl lines - particularly olive oil and tinned fish products. The mushrooms you just serve as an aperitif, and they are nice.

I'm pleased with his Lidl haul as our storecupboard is well and truly full.

Sitting room is HUGELY improved, thanks mostly to DD2 bless her. I am really happy about this. Big thanks to Hypno for the housework challenge.

I'm going to sneak out and pick up a box of 'teenage girl's books and bits' from a freecycler, hoping it might yield some stocking fillers.

chevalier

Your Lidl must be more up market than mine. I don't remember any mushrooms in jars the last time I was in there!
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taxi73

HI Seaxwyn...it's amazing the quality of some of the products in Lidl...people in Germany go shopping in Lidl in there big BMWs...so it's high quality there and I think they have decent quality cooked meats as well..he must've got loads with £150!!!..well done to him going to Lidl instead of Sainsburys/waitrose