NST February frugality and frolics

crazy_cat_lady

apple_muncher wrote: »

CCL - I was thinking the same about March. I'm happy to volunteer, tho you may all be fed up with me doing it again!

Never fed up of you apple

apple_muncher

crazy_cat_lady wrote: »

Never fed up of you apple

Awww, now you are making me blush!:D

mothernerd

Go on apple, buck us up. Other turtles, put your thinking caps on, unless you are horrendously busy for the next few months. Think about me - you can operate from a position of perceived 'weakness'.

f0xh0les

Afternoon all!
All stuff in, ready for lunchboxes, all PE kits folded and bagged. Blazers laundered, DS2 still has not come out to buy shoes, so now it is his own fault, and I shall kidnap him tomorrow after school and make him try on shoes before I agree to drive him home. It will officially be a shoe hostage situation. He can get counselling later.

Finished all the' silly bits' shopping this morning, mostly with gift cards, so low spend, well, it has to be, I have about £20 in the bank until Thursday. After Thursday I am laughing, but it is the few days before payday squeeze. It is the time of year where payday and child benefit collide, so the month end seems long and lean.

Stressing at DS1, he has not done any revision this half term. So tomorrow I am going to go and find a ys wall hanging monthly calendar and write his exam dates on them and hang it in his room. I am glad he is not being stressed out, but that is because he is not even thinking about them. The Box of X however, is his main concern. Muppet.

I have read 6 books this half term. In laws have not contacted us after DH told them 'no' 3 weeks ago. I fear they are sulking. Ho hum.... la Vie, and all that. Bless!
I have finally cancelled my gym membership. I have not been for over 6 months. It only works if you actually go. There is a perfectly decent park at the bottom of the road to walk/run in (plus squirrels - bonus!). Paid for after school clubs for the next half term (ouch! it went on the credit card until payday). Will bake in a minute for after school snacks and lunchboxes.

Grateful for: having a perverse sense of humour, a massive pile of books to read - even if they are historical romances, not really my thing, but hey, if nothing else it will improve my trivia knowledge, and give me a few bits of new (old) vocabulary. No zombies though.. or werewolves. Shame.

Got that 'Sunday afternoon before going back to school feeling'.

Brilliant that you got rid of the stuff mothernerd in case you have the urge to plant stuff in the garden the foreign supermarket that rhymes with middle has an offer on seeds 5 packs for £1 for most flowers, herbs and cucumbers and 5 packs for £2 on tomatoes, beans, peas, gourds etc. I might have spent £4 this morning. I already have pots and soil. It is feeling majorly spring like the last few days, but I am still predicting snow in March/April.

Right, tea and plotting and planning.

If I can afford to do nothing, I might as well just do the things that cost nothing to do, and consign the rest to next month frog-dom.

Toni'sfriend

NSD No 10.

Had a rubbish sleep. In fact hardly slept at all so I've done nothing today apart from make dinner. Well, Himself did all the chopping and peeling and I chucked it all in the slow cooker. Just got up from having a nap but still feeling really tired. Think this bug is just taking an awful long time to go away.

Thanks for the tip about the seeds F0xh0les. I need something for the porch and I would like to grow some herbs. Got lots of pots but will need some soil.

Hope everyone who is back to school tomorrow has a good day.

mothernerd

Love the shoe hostage situation f0xh0les.

Whatever doesn't kill us - gives us a very dark sense of humour and a load of unhealthy coping mechanisms.

The pigeon made me laugh as well - only a variation on DS3's 'beat you with experience but good. The pigeon manager always raised a laugh as well - they fly in, sh*t all over everything and fly out again.

Sorry you are all out of vampires and zombies, I've read some strange things in my time - on holiday at a relatives when I was 8, I read loads of those small squarish comics with stereotypical evil Germans and brave tommies, belonging to their 19yo son (also learned all the words to Bridge Over Troubled Waters (album) and Jim Reeves songs (I hear the sound of distant drums) as they were all they had (having a record player was a novelty).

My grandma was an avid reader. One of her friends asked would she be interested in 'Saints books' as they had a boxload doing nowt. Thinking of the Leslie Charteris character (as played by Roger Moore pre- 007), grandma said yes. Box was duly delivered - small hardbacks giving the lives of various 'Saints' and their legends.

I read all those as well. After a stay in hospital, grandma convalesced with us and when she went back home, I went to stay with her for a few weeks. I was working but could pick up bits of shopping on the way home.

So it could be worse although I do sympathise as I get twitchy when I don't have enough serial killer novels to keep me going until the library opens again.

dolly84

Called at the co-op last night for some wine, used some vouchers so only paid £3 in the end, it is in the wine rack ready for a glass tomorrow to celebrate our anniversary.


Have spent quite a bit of time in the garden today and got a few overdue jobs done, also cycled and walked the dog. Spent £3 in the charity shop on a top for me and one for DD, that is it for our spending this month.


f0xh0les - I have a son who is obsessed with the xbox.

Kerry_Woman

NSD - 18/20.
Went for walk in the park this morning. Was nice weather this morning.
Sorted out a few household chores.
Chilling out and doing self care.

greent

OH ruined the NSD by taking his car through the car wash. He then finished it by hand back at home and did a thorough inside clean too.

I've discovered a piece of homework that DS3 needs to do, so he's currently doing that (facts about sloths) - with no hassle - always a bonus!! School bags are packed (exc lunch) and we are essentially good to go - except DS2 is running a temperature of 101 and is feeling alternately hot and cold. 2 paracetamol, a blanket, a bottle of water and a wheat bag have been dispensed

DS3's bedroom has finished being totally blitzed and is looking (and smelling - thanks to rhubarb Meth0d) fab! A pile of books has been ejected - some will go to school for the library, some to Z1ff1t and I may list the boxed set on fb00k. Various little bits of rubbish have gone to bin/ recycling and all stray teeny pieces of leg0 have been rounded up and put in their storage boxes :T The twiddly stick for his blind (to change angle of slats) has been put back on (it fell off sometime last year, but as we never change the angle, just open or close the blind itself, it didn't really matter) which he is very pleased about

Today I am thankful for the sun eventually getting rid of the mist and fog, flowering bulbs in the garden, getting DS3's room finished, having more than enough, getting all of the ironing done!

apple_muncher

My current reading material is the 2008: live on £4K thread run by frugaldom. Wow- it is riveting! It has taken me until today to finish it, and I've now started the 2009 thread. I'm playing 'which names do I recognise as still being around today' - there are a couple and I suspect I'll find more as I get within more recent years. But it does fry my brain for getting to sleep so I need to get some lightweight paper stuff on the go.


Today I am grateful for a supremely lazy day. I hardly moved off the sofa! Yesterday's recorded rugby, My Neighbour Totoro (studio Ghibli), today's rugby, setting up dd's fundraising with Save the Children (she's going Barefoot for a month),and finishing the 2008 thread. And I really needed a day at home, vegging out before returning to work tomorrow. I am also grateful for dh giving me space and staying upstairs (on his computer, so not a great hardship) for most of the day, and for dd getting out on her bike and playing. She also found 6p roadkill which went straight into the pot for Dec 1st.


I shall put my thinking hat on and get a challenge running for March...unless someone else fancies it...?!