Put away your purse & become debt-averse

foxgloves

Ahhh, but all those botanicals in it, @EH......it's practically a health drink!
F

foxgloves

Hello Bluebells,
Hope everyone is well & has had their hands firmly on their pence today. We have had a spendy day but it was planned & financed from the appropriate savings pot. Really it's been a day of garden progress:
*Visited village garden centre to arrange topsoil/compost delivery. Now that the front drive/courtyard is finished, it's over to us for the beds & planting.
*Dug a big trug of homemade garden compost into greenhouse bed & planted up my 6 indoor tomato 🍅 plants.
*Potted on the remaining 12 outdoor 🍅 plants so that their growth isn't checked before it's time for them to be planted outside.
*Planted aubergines into their growbag.
*Set up next greenhouse job by finding suitable final pots & stakes for our chillies.
*Decluttered a pile of magazines to my sister's bag ready for meet-up & added home made jam, marmalade & a chunky bundle of rhubarb.
Mr F made himself useful shifting stuff I can't lift (my hands are sore atm, will have to dig out my 'assassin's glove'), weeding the garlic bed, starting another pile of shed crud for the tip, moving stuff back to front courtyard now builders have finished, turning all the compost bins & is now cooking roast chicken.
I just want to read & drink tea now, so that's exactly what I'm going to do.
I'm gearing up for a productive week next week. Again, no job list, just intend to go with the flow & see where it leads me. I think garden tasks will be quite a lot further ahead by this time next week. I'm motivated more by carrots than sticks, so the 🥕 will be a city centre trip & BBQ next weekend if I feel I'm in a position to reward progress. 
Cheers m'dears - hope at least someone out there's having a wild Saturday night.
F xx

foxgloves

Hello Sunbeams,
Lovely time with my sister & nephew this morning, having arranged a meet-up somewhere fairly equidistant. A bit on the spendy side, but most of it on the list of planty loveliness required to get the new front beds planted up......tbf, I have shopped a lot of plants from home by doing divisions from stuff in our cottagey back garden borders & growing from (often free) seed. My sis was pleased with all her plants & she'd bought a lush geum for me for the new front courtyard. We also swapped some magazines, which is always worth doing with them being so expensive these days.
Got back to her car to help her pack plants & there was a note on her windscreen saying "Your offside front tyre is flat". We pumped it up but it deflated swiftly so she called the AA (don't think she trusted me & Mr F to change it, lol!) We waited with them for the AA who were really quick, then set off.....& had gone all of about 3 miles before learning that the A1 was closed in both directions up at our end (I swear that damn road is closed more than it's actually open). So we came home cross country.....which was quite green & pleasant though I did have to stop to avail myself of crisps & a prawn sandwich when I realised that my titchy emergency banana was not going to hack it! Another small spend, therefore, to get me home without kicking off!
I can't believe how much I'm looking forward to my productive week starting tomorrow. It will be my first whole week for well over a month without builders & I aim to be ON FIRE with jobs.
But tomorrow's another day. For the rest of today, I intend to do pretty much sweet b all.
F x

foxgloves

Oh.....& will I get verbally kicked to the kerb for confessing I bought 2 (stage whisper....) Christmas presents this morning?
F

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

evening foxgloves
No wild excitement here!  I worked on the elections Thursday and Friday so I was shattered yesterday.  I had a nice potter round town though, went to the library and the zero waste shop - they had run out of couscous so i just bought pasta shells and olive oil - £12 in total!!  Also bought myself a blouse from a CS. No spends today though
love Deni 

foxgloves

Oooh, I'm getting charity shop envy, @Deni_debt-free_dreamer. I love a good charity shop treasure hunt & apart from our fab Oxf*m B**kshop, I haven't been in one for ages. I defo need to do something about that!
F x

foxgloves

I have just eaten an Irish cream walnut whip though.......
F

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

I have a CS in walking distance, plus a few in the nearby town.  I think half the contents of my wardrobes are from CSs I'm trying not to buy new stuff anymore ... 
I have irish cream walnut whip envy - I didn't know that was a thing!
Dx

foxgloves

Neither did I, @Deni_debt-free_dreamer!.A garden centre find this morning AND.....it gets better......they were yellow-stickered!
F

Sun_Addict

Ooh Irish cream walnut whip sounds delicious 😋 I bought a pair of brand new jeans from my local O*f*m for £2.99, still had the tag on, bargain.