An in-between phase

Blackcats

thank you thank you for thinking of me and my mum.  I miss her all the time but appreciate how lucky I am that she was my mum.

Glad that Ernie is being quite generous towards your flat pot.  Fancy garlic bread tried to lure that £1.20 out of your purse and therefore away from your flat pot.  Well done for resisting.  I was always drawn to the fancy packaging, deluxe branding and over the top descriptions of the premium brand food products.  I still sometimes feel like the more I spend the better it will be and that makes me a marketing company's perfect victim.  

PennysIntoPounds

Thanks @Sun_Addict, given my paltry earnings I'm always super excited by a PB win of three figures! Must keep my head and not go swanning around in a ballgown as befits the owner of two hundred whole pounds 😁 (okay, maybe a tiny bit of swanning in a ballgown)

We're all vulnerable in that way I think @Blackcats, you're very far from being a mug! After all there's a point with most products where investing more if you can for something that's not a false economy is really worthwhile, but no human no matter how savvy can be an expert on every cheese, washing-up liquid, jeans, shoes, wrapping paper, oven and the other squillion things we have to buy. But you're right it's important to have self-awareness, I walked past a charity shop yesterday and found myself thinking 'ooh they have classy stuff, would be worth spending a bit extra there if they had any bits suitable for presents, that'd still be really money saving' then I realised that they had a nice large window with enough space to make nice arrangements and have nice lighting- I could easily have walked in and paid five or ten quid on multiple items thinking I was being mse when I wouldn't have paid over three quid in a less attractive setting!

Sun_Addict

Oh you do make me laugh - swanning about in a ballgown 🤣🤣 On the other hand why not you’ve got £200 😆

PennysIntoPounds

Slept late what with being woken up in the night by upstairs, but today's small mse wins:

Brunch was Olio pastries from the freezer

A couple of receipt surveys

Entertainment doing the free paper crossword

Entered some competitions, today I'm mostly looking forward to winning two thousand pounds

We looked into that HSBC 'bribe to open an account' offer but as it requires a credit check and we don't want to compromise our credit ratings any more than a couple of moves over a couple of years will, we decided against. Much as it's a nice sum to put in the pot, £200 isn't going to get us a flat but a mortgage will (hopefully!)

Emailed a survey provider as they'd sent an email saying I hadn't completed a survey that I had. It's one thing being annoyingly chucked out but I'm not having their tech issue deny me my earned points!

Checked if TfL had refunded us for the day the trains were cancelled and looks like they have

Early supper of beans on cheese on toast, the bread also from Olio and the other bits own-brand

Evening entertainment is going to the pub quiz with our friends to use our previous win's bar tab so just the cost of the train fare to pay

Was hoping for more of a walk but too tired and achey so will try to make up for that during the week

Hope everyone and their furry/scaly/feathery companions are coping okay with the fireworks this weekend. Classic FM has a special pet soothing show on this evening if that's of interest to anyone. Fortunately our cats aren't too bothered although I really don't like all the loud bangs!

Slowdown

I tried to copy and paste a list of your comments here with the 🤣🤣🤣 emojis all around. I’m too inept for that. 

You are seriously keeping me entertained and I’ve put your name down for next year’s Fringe Festival under a gig entitled “This week I am looking forward to winning…..”. 

From ball gowns to stabby knives and chat bot rants - you’d win hands down! 

PennysIntoPounds

Aw thanks @Slowdown I'm glad my inane ramblings are keeping you entertained 😁

PennysIntoPounds

We won the quiz again so very pleased with ourselves- and our new bar tab (not that it stretches far, it's £6.50 in that pub for a pint. Ouch.)

Did a Sainso receipt survey, a Yougov survey, and emailed opiniumium as since they updated their site it doesn't work. Typical technology!

Managed a gentle 40 minute walk which I was pleased with though had to have a bit of a lie-down after which is somewhat pathetic but at least some steps were got

Did an actual client job, hooray

Cat who decided he was no longer eating food from a tin has at least licked all the jelly off so hopefully we can wean him back onto the cheaper food!

Going to have a lidl beer that was lurking in the fridge rather than wander up to the pub so I can maintain my no spend day, then crack on with some small productive evening bits and bobs

Dinner will be a peculiar but nutritious 'use it up' meal whilst re-reading 'Rebecca', a perfect gripping and brooding book for this time of year

Blackcats

Do please tell what your peculiar but nutritious use it up meal is.
I love Rebecca too - when I first read it many years ago I didn't fully appreciate how well written it is.  

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" one of the most enigmatic opening lines of a book in my opinion. 

PennysIntoPounds

It didn't turn out as peculiar as I'd feared from the pile of tupperware boxes in the fridge @Blackcats! It was leftover stuffed pasta from dinner a few days ago with broccoli I'd frozen, which had blanched and frozen quite well which is pleasing as I never have the space to do as recommended and spread veg out to part freeze first. With a lone pitta (lightly toasted) and the remnants of a tub of hummus on the side. And red wine and chocolate for afters, purely to keep with the use-it-up theme, you understand 😁

But I've used Rebecca up too and am missing it already! 

Sun_Addict

I love Rebecca it’s my all time favourite book. I love the film too. £6.50 for a pint blooming daylight robbery 😱