Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

miss_corerupted

I'm loving Money Dashboard, I'm going through and tagging all my transactions into categories, so sad although I bought a kindle off Amazon £47.50 and then they dropped the prices so sent it back for a refund just noticed the refund is £43.49 hmm. A chat is needed i think.

Picasso7

I didn't have any luck with Christmas stuff in either T or A at Horwich today or in my local A. The best thing was half a Brie in a box rtc £1. Just what I need for tomorrow.

bubbs

miss_corerupted wrote: »

Got a 2kg rib of beef defrosting ready for tomorrow

I love rib of beef but dh dont, too fatty he says, thats what gives it the flavour, with horseradish sauce mmmmmmmmmmm

bubbs

miss_corerupted wrote: »

I'm loving Money Dashboard, I'm going through and tagging all my transactions into categories, so sad although I bought a kindle off Amazon £47.50 and then they dropped the prices so sent it back for a refund just noticed the refund is £43.49 hmm. A chat is needed i think.

whats money dashboard?

rhosynbach

bubbs wrote: »

Good glad you had a good one:T:T
Money grabbing woman:( at least it has made you realise what she thinks of first and its deff not you:( good luck with your search xx

Thanks. What's worse she pays the youngsters so little £2.50 an hour and I an not allowed to give then drinks or lunch unless they pay. :mad: that upsets me as they work so hard. I have a pot with my tips in which I use to pay for things for them as its so unfair.

Sunshinemummy wrote: »

That is what we keep men for!



So when are you going to start doing wedding catering.... especially afternoon tea speciality!!!!

Oh suggested the same. He has suggested we look into seeing how much it would cost to turn our old laundry into a working kitchen, so that could be a long term plan .xx

TrulyMadly

Congratulations to SSM and sad dad for their great money saving year:T
I'm sick of ham now:rotfl: I thought we would finish it today but there's still loads left. Might have to freeze it. I can't stand it another say:rotfl:

rhosynbach

Rose your boss sounds as bad as mine, its horrible isn't it. Hopefully we can bithfind somewhere we are gappy and appreciated. I love the photo of dd and dgd. They both look so happy it made me smile xxx

rhosynbach

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Congratulations to SSM and sad dad for their great money saving year:T
I'm sick of ham now:rotfl: I thought we would finish it today but there's still loads left. Might have to freeze it. I can't stand it another say:rotfl:

Ours went in freezer ,in small bags and pies as everyone was sick to death of it. Pies will be handy for when I am home late as ds3 can put them on for me .xx

Sunshinemummy

rhosynbach wrote: »

Thanks. What's worse she pays the youngsters so little £2.50 an hour and I an not allowed to give then drinks or lunch unless they pay. :mad: that upsets me as they work so hard. I have a pot with my tips in which I use to pay for things for them as its so unfair.

Oh suggested the same. He has suggested we look into seeing how much it would cost to turn our old laundry into a working kitchen, so that could be a long term plan .xx

When I was a child, my mum did catering for weddings from our own kitchen.... but I think that the rules will have changes since then! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Congratulations to SSM and sad dad for their great money saving year:T
I'm sick of ham now:rotfl: I thought we would finish it today but there's still loads left. Might have to freeze it. I can't stand it another say:rotfl:

I still have a considerable way to go...hopefully there in a few years time! I am really pleased for sad_dad.. aka happy_dad now :D:D

I have good a gammon today....and well as beef.

TrulyMadly

bubbs wrote: »

I might do frugal feb:o but do apg's etc count or just cash?

I've given this a bit of thought bubbs. It would take me too long to log everything....wombles, cashback, etc and then I'm starting off with a fridge and freezer full of food so it's never going to be accurate.

As this is the first time I've done it, I'm going to keep it simple and only monitor the actual cash I spend.

Today for example. I've used wombles and picked up wombles but spent only 46p cash. I think I spent about £3 in wombles but picked up £5.96. However I'm only putting the 46p down as my actual spend for today.

In fact I could be in credit as I was given 2 of those 50p smiley things from a SA:). But that's another story:D And a £2 gift card:)

So at the end of January I will tell you exactly what I've spent in hard cash:)

The bit I'm unsure about is glitches. It's daft not to buy stuff cheap if I need it so I'm not going to miss out. Just need to think about that a bit more.