Get a grip !

savingwannabe

I love your food well done on having a productive morning. I am so envious that you are buying jeans I need to get a new pair. 

I am looking forward to cooking when i retire as i never have the time to enjoy it now!  I have a poppy but no pins as they are not giving them out where i work due to health and safety!!! You cant make it up.

I will be starting an emergency fund and will be adding to this after my Christmas fund is used up.

Skint_yet_Again

I have yet to try the jeans on. Have eaten loads of junk today 🐷 

I got a T*sco voucher in the post yesterday for £1.50 off so I picked up the jeans at George then went there and got a 24 can pack of Pepsi max for £7. 

Then went to aldee and spent £24.80 including meat, fruit, veg, bin liners, cereal, bacon & eggs, plus a really cheap bottle of Diet Coke for 17p. I am going to use that to cook the gammon in the slow cooker tomorrow using a slim world recipe I found online. Should be less sugar, but I will probably make up for it with the Jaffa cakes and ice creams I bought 🤦‍♀️

Am tired now work is over, I am having a box of “party” duck spring rolls £1.29 and oven chips for tea 

MovingForwards

Looks like a varied shopping trip, lots of goodies and you can try the jeans over the weekend.
Voucher was well timed too.

savingwannabe

You are  making me hungry again! 

Skint_yet_Again

It is so dark this morning! Forecast today is cloudy but mild. Dog has been sorted &
fed earlier and I will get up and walk her in a few minutes. 

Spent £10 yesterday on some antiseptic spray for the dog. She won’t let me rub cream on a sore patch of skin she has been licking. The spray has good reviews so hopefully it will work, if she is not better after the weekend it will be another trip to the vet. 

I didn’t get round to putting the gammon and coke in the slow cooker so I will do that today. As a result I had no dinner ready last night and felt exhausted so I had a curry delivered. £12.88. Onion bhaji starter (3) with mint sauce and tandoori chilli chicken biriani with veg curry. There was loads so half is left for dinner another time & now in the freezer. Paid for from this months entertainment fund.  

Plans for this weekend 
1. walk dog
2. Put gammon in slow cooker 
3. Wash patio
4. Hang out a wash if there is a good drying breeze
5. Deep clean the bathroom 
6. Hoover the dog hair from the car ready for it going to garage next week for mot/service 
7. Check tyre pressure- I have a little compressor for this that works from the “cigarette lighter”. Do new cars / electric cars still have these ? 
8. Try new jeans on 

I will use my new cordless hoover with dog tool for the car 🤗 Should be much easier than having to carry the corded heavy one out, then open the living room window to feed the cord through and plug it in, then try to reach inside all the car which is parked on the roadside! 

MovingForwards

Have you a radar dish collar thing you can slip round PD to stop her reaching the sore spot, or distract her.

Curry sounds great as does your list.

Re: car lighter, yes but possibly an optional extra rather than as standard.

Skint_yet_Again

Skint_yet_Again said:

Plans for this weekend 
✅1. walk dog
✅2. Put gammon in slow cooker 
✅3. Wash patio

MF do you mean a “cone of shame” ? 😆 We did have one but it was cracked and held together with sticky tape. I chucked it out on a tip run when I thought we were moving. 

Couple of things off my list already. Washing almost finished & will be hung out 

savingwannabe

Yes the cone of shame all dogs have one at some time! I hope puppy doggie gets better. We are both hanging washing out today, I think there is a tiny breeze by me. We shall see. 

MovingForwards

Yes! That's the thing. Sorry there's random words I just can't think what they are and have to describe them instead! 

Do you have any stiff cardboard?  Cut a hole in the middle and DIY a cone. Or if you've a bandage, wrap her leg. There's some self-sticking bandages for sports, it's worth having some at home for times like this; I did it with my grey, put the white cream on, wrap it and she'd ignore it then.

Skint_yet_Again

I’m with you on the forgetting words thing MF. Sorry if it came across that I was laughing at your description, it’s just the name “cone of shame” makes me laugh. I wonder how it came to be known as that? 

I deep cleaned the bathroom this afternoon and watched some old films. Dog towels hung out this morning dried on the line. Hope you got your washing dried too SW. DS’s gf went to work. Dog walk 2 round the pond & nature reserve. Had some of the shredded gammon for tea it was nice but not sure it tasted any different. Just hopefully saved some electric. 3 portions in the freezer. 

DS is now home. Fireworks going off outside just now. Doggy is tucked up in her bed in DS’s room. Her skin problem has almost cleared up so the spray was worth the price.