monday 8th January 2007

Penny-Pincher!!

Thanks for all the lovely replies:D ...I feel better already! The shingles spots are on my back and in my right ear:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: and it bleedin hurts:rolleyes:

BargainRzl-I need your help hun:cool: Ive had a couple of PM's about not believeing how cheap I get bargains from Sainsburys & Tescos locally. Can you confirm that Im telling the truth:D :rotfl:

OH has gone to get DD, hopefully she had a good day but wasnt feeling to well this morning.

Need a cuppa. Hugs!

PP
xx

catznine

Elona - so glad you all found some comfort from your Dads memorial service (((hugs))) We went to one a year after my Dad had died and lit a candle for him. There were quite a few other families there and I got a bit choked up when I saw all the candles and realised how many others were going through the same grieving process.

PP - (((Hugs))) shingles! poor you as if you don't have enough to contend with. Hope it turns out to be a mild case and you recover quickly.

((((Hugs)))) also to everyone else feeling poorly!

Thanks Kaz for your message. Feel a bit really as Mum died 13 years ago and so many others are going through so much worse at the moment but I still really miss her.

Anyway I have managed to put 7 portions pork steaks, 13 portions salmon fillet, 12 bags of sausages into the freezer so we shouldn't starve!:D Snaffled 2 pork steaks and 2 sausages for tonights tea with some roasted peppers, onions and tomatoes. Pudding will be some ice cream as we didn't get around to that over Christmas.

Love Catz x

Bargain_Rzl

Penny-Pincher!! wrote:

BargainRzl-I need your help hun:cool: Ive had a couple of PM's about not believeing how cheap I get bargains from Sainsburys & Tescos locally. Can you confirm that Im telling the truth:D :rotfl:

Yep, she's telling the truth! And she probably gets even more bargains now that I've moved away from the area so I'm not shopping at the same places You can get really lucky at the Sainsbury's Local 5 mins from PP's house on some evenings around 9pm, as they always seem to overstock on really good quality stuff (like organic chicken breasts and Taste the Difference sausages) and often have them reduced to 20p late in the evening :eek: although other evenings there's nothing except a pile of prepacked chillis - oh and those oatcake things...

The Tesco's near there doesn't carry much of the premium range stock unfortunately, but occasionally you can get very lucky on the bog standard stuff. Like ordinary/value chicken breasts or mince, down to 10 or 20p.

By the way I'm sorry to hear about the shingles. Hope you feel better soon hun!

You just have to be in the right place at the right time... Personally I swear by various branches of Tesco in Central London on a Sunday afternoon...

jellycat40

PP I am gobsmacked that anyone would pm you to say that you are telling untruths. Why would you do that???

Sometimes I get lucky ing Tesco but mainly they have knocked about 10% off and that is still expensive. i did however get a carved ham joint twixt Xmas and New year for -£2.70. It was reduced to £2.30 and it was an offer that if you bought something else you go £5 off - I must have picked up the other thing and could not believe my luck. I got loads of stuff for a few pence that day.

I believe you, jealous folk may not.

Louise

peony40

Good Afternoon

Sorry to hear that so many of you are under the weather or have family members who are unwell, it must be that time of year.

Hello to all the new posters. I am new myself, and I am very glad that I decided to join in on this OS Board.

I went to work today although I am still feeling rough. I wish I hadn't gone in however, as I wasn't mentally sharp and I think I have made a clanger with a customer account:eek: (I'm trying not to think about it too much, head in the sand moment.)

Oh how I wish, like many others I am sure, that I needn't work. I would so love to be a full time housewife......with the cost of living as it is however, I can't see it happening anytime soon.

I can't believe that I put a load of washing on the other day, emptied the clothes into the washing basket and then forgot about them. I've just found them, and have had to put them back onto wash as they were a bit smelly:mad:

One piece of good news is that my copy of 'Thrifty Ways..' came through the post today:T I am looking forward to sitting down and have a read of it, with a cup of tea.

Take care

moggins

peony40 wrote:

Oh how I wish, like many others I am sure, that I needn't work. I would so love to be a full time housewife......with the cost of living as it is however, I can't see it happening anytime soon.

We worked out that we can't afford for me to go back to work so even though the kids are at school, I'm still at home LOL

Nelski

PP Really sorry to hear about the shingles - you have awful bad luck hun :mad: hope it gets better soon along with the shingles:o Who the heck has the nerve to question your honesty with the sainsburys stuff as well - send em over here hun Im in the mood:mad:

Well I am practising every technique I know (and thats a lot ) to stay calm and not blow a huge fuse with a couple of my lovely customers.

Remember I said I had been up since 2am to coordinate travel for some courses (all booked on non refundable of course) well they have now "postponed" 2 courses so making all that a waste of time:mad: I feel an expense claim going in very soon - and then we wonder why we dont always get the best deals from our financial institutions - cos they are wasting it on bad planning:mad::mad:

Rant over sorry:o

Got a nice piece of chicken out for dinner and going to wrap it in bacon and cheese and have it with veg - need some comfort food today:D

Rzl you can tell your back at work:rotfl: lots and lots of posts:T :Tand you can tell im back cos im reading em

Craftyscholar

Roz_V wrote:

Afternoon everyone

Got up early this morning and went to the uni library in order to get some work done as I don't seem to do anything when I'm at home Got there, sat down and plugged my laptop in, worked fine for ten mins then the librarian came over to me and said that they were turning off the portable plug-ins for the day in order to do maintainance :mad: I wasn't the only angry one either - there's apparently major deadlines for lots of other courses tomorrow so lots of people are stuck :mad: so in half an hour I am going to unplug my wireless card and get on with some work!!

:grouphug:RozV :grouphug:

And a hug too for the librarian. Not their fault. Maintenance just announce they are going to do 'x' and nothing anyone can do about it. BTDT.

Roz_V

moggins wrote:

We worked out that we can't afford for me to go back to work so even though the kids are at school, I'm still at home LOL

please tell me how you manage this?! how can't you afford to work IYSWIM?

I soooo want to be a housewife (eventually a stay-at-home mum). Everyone thinks I'm loopy as I've spent the last 3 years paying for a degree - i think it's the thought of having to go out into the big wide world that's scaring me!! I have been looking at jobs today (anything to get out of writing this silly report that's due tomorrow :rotfl: ) and I feel vastly underqualified for any of the jobs I want to do as they all want "experience" :mad: how am I supposed to get this experience?

lil_me

Sorry to hear about those who are poorly, especially PP having Shingles, something I have never had a don't want, sounds awful.

Blairweech the bought thinking put in freezer is where I used to waste the most food, mine is also very small, nightmare isn't it! All those reductions in shops but never anywhere to put them so I have had to stop buying them

Had a busy day but think I have managed to source a trailer off freecycle for my son which is a bonus and will save us some money this month Spent a little on top up shopping to go with meal plans, but resisted a lot too!