NST October ORGANISE OCTOBER

thriftylass

Last wee top up shop for me and the kids as OH is away tomorrow till Mo or Wed. Mainly cheap foods like eggs, bread, ham etc. About 20 quid left now and plenty of food in freezer etc

Will meal plan tomorrow till payday.

Kids got free tea today as the community centre based holiday club had sandwiches left over and gave them away. Hopefully now SFDs till next week.

Sausage, mash, onions and mushrooms for our dinner incl LO for my lunch

ilovetea

Usual boring post from me.
NSD 14/31.
Check in 16/31.
Food from fridge and freezer. Enough for 4 portions so will have to find room in the freezer for at least 2 of them.Hoping to get it run down so I can defrost it.
Went round to a neighbours for a cuppa and ended up there for 2 hours. Put the world to rights and had a good laugh.
Surveys all up to date and a few bits on ebay have bids.Looks promising.

ilovetea xx

mothernerd

Bailey's Babe can confirm that petrol purchase alone will not lose you an NSD.

Bizzie congratulations on the extra shift.

Fmess and all the other teachers - hope half term is really special (take an extra pj day)

laurenh1 and thrifty of course you can do it. Any diy planned for when OH is away?

Dancing Dragons I love pinecones

misstara I dare not even look at he Christmas aisle inn our local B**ts

Toni'sfriend good idea to have a clear out even if it has been forced on you.

Scrimps very important to listen to your body

f0xh0les reading, watching films and baking sounds lovely - hope you get outside tomorrow

greent hope the holiday is good for you both.

Kerry Woman I enjoy a quiet holiday too

DebtFreeDuo glad you are back on your bike

ilovetea it's not boring at all. You cooked using stuff you had in, had fun with your neighbour and you are making extra money - all these little bits add up.

mothernerd

So yesterday I bought food for mum on the way there. We did a bit of concreting and lots of small stone clearing (found at least 3 more edging stones that I will be digging out at some point). Came home at 9pm, sewed until midnight, short break than carried on. Fell asleep after 3pm, woke and was on my last square of sewing.

This morning I woke, had a bath, went over the blankets tying off any loose ends, repairing any holes and taking out any pins. Dressed and delivered the sewing before going to mum's (quick look round the town centre but cba queuing).

Today I have painted 3 and a bit fence panels (was more but water had got in the first tin and it was more of a wash than a stain and had to go over it). Mum put more little stones in a bag and found the beginnings of two more edge stones. Opened a third tin (first 2 were partly used) to finish off a panel, used my left arm/ hand as much as possible as right is still recovering.

Stood on the tin lid to close the can, it fell over and I fell the other way (not far). Smashed my sore arm into the fence and now it really hurts. Had a shower - I was very blue and got spots of paint everywhere including my knickers. Had to crawl back in the shower to clean it after I was dressed as dried paint spots were still floating around.

Made tea for us both and lay on the couch. luckily I had put mum's bin out earlier. I can embroider but even shutting a door hurt my arm and shoulder. Tomorrow will be interesting.

Today I am grateful for getting things done (slowly and a bit painfully), for food from mum's fridge and freezer and for having completed a task that was getting me down (not difficult just time intensive and not very interesting).

bizzie

mothernerd hope you feel better soon.

Check in #17/31 and another NSD to the list.
Dinner from stores with no leftovers.
Load of washing dried outside. Wonder for how much longer feeling very chilly tonight.

Planning some catchups over half term and a good clear out.

laurenh1

Just checking in

Today will be NSD number 12 :T I dont intend to go anywhere but work. Possibly m&s with my voucher. Lunches made (salad & fruit as I need to get 11 lb off before xmas)

I am up early this morning as it occurs to me Im getting up late then grumpy with my LOs because were rushing, which isn't fair, so I am determined to work on that.

Heating has gone on :eek: I was hoping to hold off but its cold and I have a baby so it was necessary although all the kids slept better for it :A:

I have written a rough meal plan for next week and so far only need one thing from shops :money:

Debating buying another clothes horse, currently got washing hung from everywhere! :eek:

Have a lovely day everyone xx:D

Fmess

Morning

SFD number 9 yesterday. I'm pretty much out of money and have so many expenses coming up next week - new windows, car tax, MOT and service and a 50% deposit at the kennels for my holiday next year. I think I'm going to have to break into my savings which I've only just started but it's better than putting it on the credit card indefinitely.

3 more days at work

misstara

Ouch mothernerd hope you're not too sore today.

Organise - breakfast and lunch taken to work. Tea was roast chicken legs, chips and tomatoes cooked in balsamic vinegar and sugar. The tomatoes were going squishy so that used up a few. Still a couple left which will be used tonight.

Budget - £127.46/£150 food, £15/£20 social

NSDs - another one yesterday so now at 12/20

Exercise - over 18,000 steps, got a run planned for tonight

Extra income - few surveys completed

thriftylass

mothernerd wrote: »

thrifty Any diy planned for when OH is away?

:rotfl::rotfl: You know me too well.

Just want to finish painting our bedroom (still not done the edges around the skirting etc.).

Other wise just tidying the garden up, Christmas planning and the like.

Might find sth else yet

NSD today. lunch to work and gym. Tonight I will sit down with my planner and organise my to do lists. Meal plan and maybe start some more herbs for the kitchen window sill.

Oh, and found £10 on TopC@shback and transferred it to my PayPal only to realise that I had changed my email address with PayPal but not in the PayPal settings for TopC@shback. So it disappeared just now. But surely it will just bounce as there is no PayPal account with my old address now? Waiting for a reply from them. EDIT: sorted, so got another £10 back up till payday, or might just put that into savings, not sure yet. Depends on how my meal plan etc goes tonight.

laurenh1

I missed off extra income- I got some cash back ill use for xmas x