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Missy, Roo and May Stretching out every last penny whilst drowning in Budgets, groceries & laundry!

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  • There’s nothing wrong at all I’m using their as money for shoes! It’s so much better than choosing a toy which will be their favourite for about, oh, five minutes (or is it just my little ones that do that?!) :)
  • Sorry that should have read ‘there’s nothing wrong at all in using their Xmas money for shoes’!! My autocorrect has a mind of its own and the edit post button wouldn’t work! :rotfl:
  • missymoo81
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    edited 9 January 2019 at 9:50PM
    Thanks wannabe. Dropped Roo off at Beavers so I decided to take May to Tesco to look at shoes. I went to Lidl first and got eggs, bread and malt wheats i spent £2.72. and then went to tesco and got Jam for 28p. So £17 left for the week. We tried on a lot of shoes for May but they were £20 and none of them fit that well. I've found a couple of new pairs on Ebay for £10ish but I don't know if they will fit. I'm going to the city tomorrow so I can have a look in Primark then. Another way I've saved money today apart from taking BF lunch is me and May usually have a coffee and babycinno whilst Roo is at Beavers. We ran out of time but I decided even if we had have done, I would only have had a tea instead of a coffee, so it would cost £1.55 instead of £4.10.

    I have so much to spend out on at the moment. I have an unpaid solicitors bill of £300 i need to find. Roo needs a haircut at £8. I have 2 kids parties to buy presents for at the weekend so thats £20 (we'll make the cards!) I have a night out which BF will mostly pay for but I'd like to contribute something towards it. Both children need shoes. I need to pay May's rainbows invoice. Roo needs new Pyjamas! Randomly and I know this is stupid, I need to buy a pencil sharpener! The children draw all the time, but we have established that we have 100's of pencils and no sharpeners!!! So I need to buy one of those.... I need to write a cohesive list of amounts and then work out how I'm going to find the money!!!
  • missymoo81
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    Hey mummypinksparkles! thanks so much for popping by!
  • WannabeFree
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    I think your DS is much smaller than mine isn't he?

    I'm not sure if it helps but. I buy all the smalls PJ's from Character.com when they have there sales on. They go to 1.95 & 2.95 a pair. Smalls school shoes this time are from Asda but I usually use Shoezone.

    Does the budget for the children's parties have to be £10 each? Could you not pick a small game or something smaller up in Mr T or similar? they have loads of good things in for £3 & £4.
    “Once you hit rock bottom, that's where you perfectly stand; That's your chance of restarting, but restarting the way.”
  • missymoo81
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    I think your DS is much smaller than mine isn't he?

    I'm not sure if it helps but. I buy all the smalls PJ's from Character.com when they have there sales on. They go to 1.95 & 2.95 a pair. Smalls school shoes this time are from Asda but I usually use Shoezone.

    Does the budget for the children's parties have to be £10 each? Could you not pick a small game or something smaller up in Mr T or similar? they have loads of good things in for £3 & £4.

    Roo is 7, in 7-8's I saw lots of reduced PJs in Tesco but they had nothing the right size. I have looked on gumtree and Facebook but everything I've messaged about has already gone. I have never heard of Character.com! I will have a look! I will have a look in Shoezone too!

    I looked in tesco also and saw nothing that looked decent enough for presents, one is for a very good friends son, and the other is a boy from school. I will have a quick look on amazon and maybe £1 land....
  • With the gifts, could you do a re-gift or have a look in the Christmas gift sales? I picked up two gifts today for £2 each, were originally £5 each :)
  • Apologies didn't realise on the cross posting, my things were from D3benh4ms :)
  • WannabeFree
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    If you have prime Amazon is a good idea. I never spend more than £5 and even then I try and do less :o Or Argos 2 for £15? not saving as much as halving the cost but still a little.

    Yeah my DS is older in Age 10. I buy from Character usually twice a year. They wash amazing and don't shrink! Mine live in PJ's at home so are washed and back on quite often.

    x
    “Once you hit rock bottom, that's where you perfectly stand; That's your chance of restarting, but restarting the way.”
  • missymoo81
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    In other news, smalls really didn't like the stew..... I didn't give them anything else though. I misjudged and theres only enough for BF's dinner. I will probably have some porridge or i bought some pasta and sauce things the other day, I could always have one of those. Also when i was in tesco, I picked up some slippers for me...now i don't tend to wear them but i do get cold feet..... I carried them around and then decided that I have tons of slipper socks I should just wear those instead, and in reality I probably wouldn't wear them... I put a load in the charity bag the other week, I think I still have the bag... will rifle through it later.

    it really is a switch in mindset for me...
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