A Ditherer's Diary (again)

WinterWarrior

Your dog sitter sounds ideal. We don’t leave ours as we just don’t have anyone close enough to us I would trust. She’s my baby and also sleeps in our bedroom. She has her own bed, but likes to come on ours before lights out and then again about 4 or 5am, when she moans and shakes her collar (rattle, chink, rattle, like some Victorian ghosty rattling its chains) until I switch my lamp on, because she’s frightened she’ll land on a cat in the dark 😖
My husband is a few years older and was terribly smug to get his vaccination about a month before mine, but we were given different ones, so I have an appointment to get my second and he is still waiting for stocks! I’m glad of the delay though as obviously he nearly died with the first (man flu -cough, cough) and may well expire a second time with his next one 😬

Naomim

@WinterWarrior your dog sounds like mine. He sleeps in his bed on the floor next to me then at 4 -5am he will put his front paws on the bed and I know he wants to get on the bed and I have to lift him up. It's too high and he cant jump it. He also talks to me. He'll give me a low grumble and tap dance if he wants to go in the garden. I know the difference in what he wants.  However like a toddler, it's always me he wakes up, never MrM.  I thought my years of getting up in the night were behind me! 🤣

MrM has his first jab booked for Friday. Im also preparing for the worst.🤦‍♀️ 

I did well tonight as 11yo has scouts and we've got into the habit of picking up a pack of cookies as she leaves as she's usually starving.  However this evening I collected her and deliberately left my purse at home so no spending. 

WinterWarrior

You have my sympathy, I do hope MrM makes it through the weekend...perhaps you should have a team of nurses on standby? 

Leaving you purse at home was genius...although I haven’t been in a shop for over a year and it’s not slowed me down any 🤷🏻‍♀️

Naomim

I could ship him off to his Mum's! 🤣 she's a complete hypochondriac and my 11yo is the same. I have nicknamed her Little Miss Munchausen. 😂

Can't believe you've not been in a shop for over a year!  Although I have only done supermarkets and the front door of NEXT to collect or return something I've ordered. 

Nothing to report on the money front this week. I bought a coffee this morning when on the school run but it was from my little Sainsburys and they have their own machine so it's £1.60 a lot cheaper than the Costa machines in the local Co-op.  We've run out of tassimo pods at home. I have a subscription from Amazon so hoping they are going to come today. The payment is pending in my bank account.

15yo wants to earn £5 for a pc game he want's to buy so I'll see if I can get him to cut the grass when he gets home from school. He wanted to do it yesterday but we had a very small amount of rain so it was a no go.

Better crack on with some work. Have a good day all.

Naomim

WinterWarrior

My husband is the same, he’ll take to his bed at the drop of a hat 🤣
I knocked Next on the head a few years ago as I was buying things I didn’t need, especially when the sales came around, spending £400 on half price stuff is not a saving when you don’t need it 🤔 i always wanted to pay it off straight away so a nice spend one month resulted in poverty the next.
We get our food shop delivered and there are no shopping centres up here, just local shops which were mostly closed. I even started getting parcel collections instead of going to the post office, so I won’t know what to do in a shop these days, I’m out of practice!
I have a bean to cup machine (extortionately expensive at half price in the sale, but has been used so many times a day for years that it’s paid for itself a million times over) and get beans on subscription via Amazon. I wouldn’t survive work without it 😁
Have a great day.

rugbymadfamily

I'm the same with the coffee machine at home! We bought a cheap one in Lidl a few years ago and it gave up the ghost so we bought a more expensive one (got it in the sale and with a discount code so as MSE as an expensive purchase can be lol). Am sure its also paid for itself with the amount of coffee we no longer buy outside the house. I'm a bit snobby about my coffee beans (sorrynotsorry), currently buying from Presto as its very good! But always on the look out for a new supplier!

WinterWarrior

Sorry to hijack your thread @Naomim, but @rugbymadfamily we shopped around a long time and by trial and error found that coffee masters full bodied espresso beans via Amazon are our favourite. Not the cheapest, but still a good deal compared to a lot. 

Naomim

No worries @WinterWarrior I'm mainly a tea drinker and only do a latte in coffee. I'm that person that asks for 1 shot. I might aswell drink hot milk 🤣  we've had our tassimo for years but really had our money's worth from working at home.

I usually get food shopping delivered but didn't this week so going to have to brave MrT's today.😬

As for Next, I'm pretty good and only usually get kids school stuff on there. I think I owe £15 at the moment.  MrM and I used to go and brave the boxing day sales at the crack of dawn like a tag team. He'd govat 5am and I'd go when he got back. It was great when the kids were tiny and a few years ago I got both a big fluffy dressing gown and winter coat for half price.  Im still using both.

Naomim

Morning all, bit of a spendy day yesterday 😥. I took my MiL shopping in the morning to get some birthday presents. I bought 11yo some pj's and slippers in Primark as she's off to PGL at the end of the month.  Then in the afternoon 11yo asked me take her into tbe big shopping centre. I bought my niece's birthday present but also McDonald's, bubble tea and extortionate parking.

Today will be cleaning and updating my bank account. 

Ive also upgraded 15yo's phone.  He's been on sim only for a while but his phone is dying. Got a new contract and went via Topcashback, think I should get £110 back but its tracked at £40 so I'll keep my eye on it.

Happy bank holiday everyone. 

Naomim 

WinterWarrior

The cash back will be excellent. It sounds like you had a good day ☀️