Getting shot of the mortgage sooner than 2049!

Bluegreen143

Good day, fairly slow paced at work and I got three loads of washing away and the place tidied and hoovered. 

Picked up kids as planned (including extra child) and took them to the party which was fun. A good time had by all, children high on sugar 😂 and deposited extra child home before coming home ourselves. 

Dinner was mac & cheese bake (with broccoli and peas in) which Red cleverly made last night ready to pop in the oven for us coming home. He also made the Christmas Eve lasagne and froze it. 

I’ve finished both kids’ PJs! Pics below, though it’s hard to get good pics if they aren’t being worn.

In other exciting news, we’ve discovered £95 of clubcard vouchers! And added to our Christmas delivery to reduce the price. We have added extra alcohol now we know there’s extra money there, but this accounts for about half of the vouchers. The rest we will just allow to offset the delivery which will stop us going over our grocery budget this month.

Have to give credit where it’s due, it was Red who remembered about the clubcard vouchers though he had no idea we had so many.

KajiKita

Yaay for the club card vouchers! 😊🍹🍸🥂🍾

Those jimjams look really professional and I love the fabric ❤️

KK

beanielou

PJ's look awesome.

Baileys_Babe

Those PJs are fantastic, you are so talented.

Debsnewbudget

We use our clubcard vouchers to pay for ferries to Ireland, RAC membership, trips to cinema and vouchers for eating out. You get 3 times the value rather than just face value against price of shopping.

badmemory

I use mine for magazine subscriptions.  Years ago though when you could still get 4 times the value I paid for a foreign holiday, I wouldn't spend anything like enough in there now though.

Bluegreen143

Oh I know, lots of people do manage to use their vouchers to great effect which is brilliant 🙂 I always feel guilty for not doing this which is why they’d built up quite a bit, I end up just keeping them forever! 

Previously I’ve used them to pay for our delivery saver (think you get 1.5x face value) but we’re nowhere near renewal for this, I forgot to add the vouchers as a payment method in the summer when it renewed.

The issue with the clubcard partners is we don’t go to the cinema, eat out (except when invited by family), go abroad or read magazines 😆 I have in the past trawled through the clubcard partners and none of it was ever anything we actually needed at the time. Whereas we always need groceries 😆

Plus it put a huge smile on Red’s face today as he had declined to put a bottle of whisky and bottle of baileys in the shop (usual Christmas treats) due to cost so when I discovered the vouchers he was really pleased to be able to have them guilt free. I’d rather have that happy face of his than use them book a meal out that we didn’t really want 🙂

Next time they build up I will check the clubcard partners again just in case there’s anything useful at that time though, it’s a good reminder! 

Bluegreen143

Looking at it you only get face value now if using them to pay for delivery saver 🙄 as I remembered, most of the attractions and things are based in England. But some of it may be useful as the kids get bigger if they want to go to a theme park etc, so I’ll keep that in mind!

Baileys_Babe

In the past, I've used my club card points for buying rail cards and magazine subscriptions. As well as when eating out when we are away.

I am not even sure I have earned any points this year, I can't remember the last time. I went to Tesco.

QueenJess

Ooh - I ❤️ your choice of fabric.