Put away your purse & become debt-averse

QueenJess

Great to hear you’re feeling better and I hope Soot is onboard with the no wastage programme and will eat up the whole mouse..

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

hi foxgloves
Glad you are now negative and hope you continue to feel better.
I have now finished Spiral and feel bereft! The characters felt like friends. Now need to find something else to watch - thinking Borgen or Shetland.
Love Deni 

milann

Pleased to hear you have tested negative Foxgloves. Please don’t think you’re superwoman and try to do everything now you feeling more like yourself.
Sending positive vibes that it’s ‘just’ a cyst K 🤞

Tescodealqueen

Deni_debt-free_dreamer said:

hi foxgloves
Glad you are now negative and hope you continue to feel better.
I have now finished Spiral and feel bereft! The characters felt like friends. Now need to find something else to watch - thinking Borgen or Shetland.
Love Deni 

You must try Shetland but do it from the first series. Loved it and all the books too

foxgloves

How lovely to sign in on a wet dreary afternoon to find so many people have been contributing to my diary. Many thanks for all your comments. Yes, it was high time I started feeling better & I really am getting there now.
@EssexHebridean - I am going to make a note of that podcast & listen to it. Thanks for the recommendation.
@Kantankrus_Mare - Oh dear, that is such a worry for you. We all trot off for our breast scans dreading that they'll find something, don't we? It's pointless telling you not to worry, but it's probably a good idea to stop googling the subject (which is what I'd be doing endlessly + catastrophising wildly) & wait to see what the biopsy comes back with. Hopefully, it will be a benign cyst, as they seem to think. In the event that it isn't, then the key words here are 'small' & 'found'. Fingers absolutely crossed for you for a good result, anyway.
F x

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Tescodealqueen said:

Deni_debt-free_dreamer said:

hi foxgloves
Glad you are now negative and hope you continue to feel better.
I have now finished Spiral and feel bereft! The characters felt like friends. Now need to find something else to watch - thinking Borgen or Shetland.
Love Deni 

You must try Shetland but do it from the first series. Loved it and all the books too

hi
thanks - i have seen some of the later series of Shetland so i know how the penultimate series ended and what Donna did!!
Dx

foxgloves

Hello Frugal Friday Folk,
Some thoughts for today........
1. The obvious places are not always the cheapest. Mr F was just about to swing into the 'cheapest supermarket petrol station in town' to fill up this morning, when he realised that doing so would make me late for my hair appointment, so he intended to go back. Later, we pulled onto Waitr*se car park & the unleaded there (a branded petrol station, not a supermarket one) was £1.59 compared to £1.63 at the 'cheapest fuel' supermarket. 4p a litre difference. Worth remembering that reputation is one thing, but actually BEING the cheapest locally can change over time.
2. Eco-refill shops are not as expensive as many people probably think they are. Today I took in my various containers & bought the following: Loo cleaner refill, washing-up liquid refill, cinnamon, almonds, glace cherries, mixed dried fruit & a small amount of salted peanuts. Total cost = £6.84. I thought that was very good, especially as the cleaning products were environmentally-friendly ones, which are usually more expensive, & the washing-up liquid was a large bottle. I queried the cost (again!) & was told 'Remember you're not paying for packaging'.
3. Being an 'everyday planner' pays off in times of adversity. I've been to a discount pharmacy today for stocking up our household meds box, which was looking a little depleted after our bout of covid. As I keep the box well-stocked with emergency unbranded basics, it meant that we had all we needed without having to worry about going out while poorly & infectious. Well worth doing, especially in time for winter lergies.
4. Prices really are going up everywhere. Of all the places I've been today, from a discount pharmacy/toiletries chain to Waitr*se, everywhere was displaying very noticeably higher prices, except for our market butcher. I don't know how he does it. He really does look after his customers.
5.Energy use - thermostat set at 18 degrees from 6am to 10pm (then turned right down at night when we are tucked up in bed) Radiators did come on first thing yesterday morning, but haven't been on since then. It just hasn't been cold enough. We haven't been feeling chilly, so I've been thinking what a waste of money it would have been to have the thermostat set higher 'just in case'. 
6. It is normal when getting fully over Covid to start feeling a bit weird in the cat food aisle but to have recovered by the time I got to the peanut butter! I wasn't too weird to take advantage of some yellow-stickered cat biscuits though. No, they are not Soot & Ash's 'biscuit of choice', but everyone in the house needs to contribute to sticking within October's grocery budget & this includes felines. I'm expecting daggers looks & downturned whiskers from tomorrow when the new bag is opened.
There isn't a 'Thought no. 7' because 6 thoughts in one day is quite enough. 
Looking forward to 'Extra Slice' tonight & maybe finishing my book.
Cheers m'dears,
F x

Sun_Addict

I’m glad you’re getting out and about again. My cats are really fussy but are loving Lidl’s own make right now which is a lot cheaper and smells better. But you know cats, they’ll be turning their noses up at it next week.

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

@Sun_Addict   I thought my cats were fussy too and only gave them the queen of Sh*ba food . Then i tried them on whiskers which they are happy with and they have Mr T dry food.
I agree foxgloves re zero waste shops - i'm going to ours tomorrow to stock up on porridge oats and rice. 
It feels like prices have increased every time i go to the shops

Blackcats

Glad to hear you sounding so much better (can you "hear" on a written diary?)

my cats gave false hope with the lid-l own brand food and OH became very triumphant that his intermittent but ongoing campaign to down shift their brand of choice had finally succeeded.  They are back to gourmet perle now - only fish flavour and only in gravy.  Not sure how the oldest cat who lived rough for 6 months managed?