A Year of Living Frugabulously

taxi73

I know what you mean about Tatco...I hate them as they are the most arrogant store on the planet.They rip off farmers and suppliers and treat customers like idiots and I find they aren't cheaper than anyone else and their special offers are rather dubious.
Glad you've got your new stuff and hopefully the maiden voyage went well

Karmacat

Hmm, no, that doesn't sound fabulously frugal at all ... I love that you and little DD are of one mind tho

Cheery_Daff

Oooh, a challenge! easy peasy i say go for it! :T :T

As for me living in a rambling 'multi-bedroomed mansion with both main & 'staff entrances' in a posh part of town & have many treasures ...' :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: We live in a 1910 end of terrace, officially with 3 bedrooms I believe (although only one of them has a bed in and is actually knocked through to the floor above, whic wasn't classed as a bedroom). We do have many treasures, although pretty much all of them come from either charity shops or skips, and wolud probably be classed as 'clutter' rather than 'treasure'

I am, however, very proud of the fact that this year we have FINALLY manged to open the front door, after 20 years of it being sealed shut, so we now have both a back AND a front door - which clearly sends us several rungs up the ladder :T :T



(er, radioactive sheep??)

vasseur

I hardly ever go into Tatco. The only one we have is in the town centre so no good for big weekly shops. I could drive for 15 mins for one near work but doesn't seem worth it. I've had my clubcard for 18 months and have about 8 points on it

Go for it. I think once a store makes you feel uncomfortable it's time to vote with your feet and go elsewhere - beside sainsbugs has a much better class of customer at least, round here they do

Cherryjack

Is Tatco.. Tesc&?? sorry im not with it this morning or any other lol

vasseur

Cherryjack wrote: »

Is Tatco.. Tesc&?? sorry im not with it this morning or any other lol

Yes...............:D

Cherryjack

Thank you, things make sense now lmao xx:-D

Lula-Hula

Hello your lovelinesses,

Karma & Cheery - not really radioactive, I'm embellishing; they're just very large sheep & the delightful orange glow from the M-way make them look a bit funny

Cherryjack - yes my lovely, Tatco is what I call that place ( I believe it's a term now widely used across DFW :rotfl:) Taxi & I are as one on this monstrosity & anyone with enough time on their hands to have followed my previous diaries will know that I have a deep & pathological loathing of the place; but during the last 4 years, for reasons of debt busteriness I've tried to hold my supermarket snobbery at bay & done a fair bit of shopping there, mainly because the nearby alternatives for a large shop were Waitrose (my first love) & M&S (for people with more money than sense).

Gosh, that was a long sentence. Will be more liberal with the full stops in future.

In the town where I now work there is a Sainsbugs & I've started shopping there more often, but it's not the largest of stores so doesn't carry the huge range of bulk buy household items that Tatco does.

I now have enough stock of household items to last us months - been squirreling away bogofs & offers for a few weeks now - & thanks to this morning's trip to Waitrose where they had my fave eco washing up liquid for just £1.50 a bottle, I grabbed 3 & now my store cupboard is complete .

Yes, I've been paid for home-job, paid for work-job & I was pulling into Waitrose car park at 8.10 this morning while DD slept. It was very civilised in there & I got everything I needed & just a few bits I didn't :whistle: eg orange & cinnamon tea lights are not essential, but wow do they smell gorgeous.

I remembered my new members card & the vouchers so got a free bag of sweets, free roll of fabby wrapping paper & then £5 off my shopping :T

It still came to £76 but £16 of that was on tealights, household bits & a yoyo for DD. I also spent another £6 on chocs, but that was to replace the ones we've already scoffed :rotfl:.

I then took all the charitized stuff in so another job done, all that remains now is to return the lantern & get new lights for the tree - they died, but today the lovely Boots delivery is due so we're hanging about here & slowly clearing up. I'm rather embarassed about the Boots delivery as it's all my stuff but does mean that I'm sorted for beauty stuff for a while.

I feel as though all I've done for the last 3 months is buy, buy, buy ... but it has all been with a purpose in mind & I promise that I will amaze you with my frugabulosity in 2012 (I'll be bluddy amazed myself too if I do manage it :rotfl:)

Well, at least where buying stuff is concerned ... we'll be getting out & about a lot more, so the fun budget is getting a payrise :cool:.

The CCCCC balance must be horrendous by now - I guesstimate about £600 :eek: so need to go spend some quality time with a calculator & list of debits & standing orders & bills in a minute.

I shall report back later ...

The_Dragon

Hmm orange and cinnamon tea-lights, I have one lit at the moment!

short_bird

There were some bargains in our Wa1trose last night: very posh stuffing from over £2 down to 30p (use by date Dec 2013!) and some posh chocolate - caramel and sea salt? - from over £2 to 40p. Can't remember the brand as packaging is in the recycling at home.