Old Style Diary Archive - AUG 05

Badgergal

Ah right, well you live and learn I guess...its a shame we have to lock ourselves in at all times, but I suppose that's the world we live in now...

johanne

jw1096 wrote:

Yey for you too! Sound like you have been bargain hunting in ernest today! I got thinking about the double bed thing - often, the Ikea cataloge tells you the dates when a particular item is going to be on special offer - ive seen double beds really cheap there - and the cheapest mattress isnt so bad - but does wear out quickly (about a year....) but would last until a more expensive one could be bought. Although, I reckon if you go to a local bed merchant type place (there are loads of indepandants around) you should be able to barter, e.g free mattress, or free duvets and pillow sets etc.


Anyway - thank you all for your congratulations, I really appreciate it, and with me only working 35hours a week - long live O/S!!!

Edit - Johanne - have you done the great vouchers by mail hunt yet? Its in the online and offline vouchers board, you can get a load of vouchers against shopping for free if you use the right tactics (compliments, not complaints!) and freebies board is great for getting stuff for nowt - like bits of food, coffee, jelly beans, baking tray, clocks etc etc - you get the drift! As they say in Tesco - Every little helps! Would probably allow you to save £20 on food to buy something more fun, like, err... a breadmaker!!


Jo xx

i have seen a gorgeous bed i want.. ok its not the cheapest but i have a victorian fireplace in my bedroom ( :j ) so really wanna design my room around it. This is it

http://www.housetohome.org.uk/Pictures/Paris_D.jpg

Its "only" £135 for the frame from my local independant place we always use for our beds... His matresses are are £40-£100 so even the best one means the bed in all is £235 and thats what all the other places have been charging for just the black frames then £200ish for the matresses.

I am going to look at that great vouchers by mail hunt... might even get my mum to do it aswell and my best friend (who still lives at home) and get triple the savings!

Freebies board is another "to do" already got some things from there - i have sooooo many MSE things to do i think an internet connection is gonna be one my first priorities! :rotfl:

BWZN93

lol! Nice bed!! You got get those vouchers and youll have the bed in no time!

Jo xx

BWZN93

Poor you Moggins! Well done on getting him out - I keep a large umbrella by my bedroom door for instances such as these, a couple of months ago we had a prowler looking in through one of our flatmates bedroom windows at 4am, and now keep an implement there for safety - he ended up moving out because it worried him so much. I hope you feel better soon, and again, well done for forcing him out!

Good luck to Lillibet too - Im sure spud will be here soon in dramatic fashion! Hows about putting a letter to spud in the time capsule? maybe you could tell him about what you were like and stuff, and memories that are fresh in your mind now. Id find it quite illuminating to read now what my mum was like when she had me!! Or maybe a family tree if you have one.

Ancasta - Well done on job, and sorry about nightmare SOB - itll all be over soon!

Pooky and DD - Im glad things are ok, and being magnetic would be a great party trick, she will get so many new friends with that one!

Johanne - Hope the furniture hunt is going well!

Been running around town today and doing various tasks, but am now waiting for the landlord to !!!!!! off so I can go and make some dinner, and then I think ill do some more quilting while watching the eviction tonight. Hopefully Derek will stay in - and I want Craig and Makosi out as soon as possible next week, they are awful!

Jo xx

Sweet_Pea_2

Hello :wave:
Ive not been very OS today because I have been shopping all day with my mom and 2 dd's.
BUT Im very excited because my mom (bless her heart) :A has bought me a yoghurt maker, (we went to Lakeland first) and I cant wait to try it.
Also went to the Farmers Market (my first time, I was a farmers market virgin ) and I bought organic beefsteak sausages, (OH wont eat sausages because he doesnt like pork, but Im hope he will try these) and a nice little lamb joint (organic too) for the slow cooker. Very reasonable priced too.
I also bought DD1 some school uniform from M+S and I got £9 off with some vouchers that I had. Perhaps the day was more OS than I thought. :rolleyes:
DD1 is reading this as I type and wants me to add that nanny has taken her and her sister to the Teddy Bear Factory and spent a small fortune. (Not very OS, but at least it wasnt my small fortune!)
So Im going to spend the evening cooking sausages with pasta, making yoghurt and sewing in name tapes.

Ticklemouse

I really MUST invest in a wally trolly! I have informed Mr TM of this momentous decision tonight when he phoned and he's said that I'd better not be seen out with him, with it. However, as we don't do the 'family shopping experience' in this household, I think that's OK. I have also said I will be fully camo'd up when I set forth

My reason for this decision? After dragging both ds's around town today to get the necessary jobs only done, I ended up carting this lot back to the car: DS1 - bag with school uniform. DS2 bag of chicken pices from market. Me - bag containing 7lb of beef, 4 bags of fruit/veg including lightweight things like spuds, 1/2 tonne of apples and cauli the size of a small planet, plus a bag of bits from Tesco. Oh, and had handbag! I can now manage a full rendition of 'The Funky Gibbon' with appropriate actions and have a stoop that it took my grandma 90 years to perfect.:rolleyes:

I noticed last time I went to Lidl's they had them for £5. I know it was recommended to get the deluxe 'S class' of trollies, but as I only need to get items to the car park, shouldn't be too much of an embarrassment. Maybe I can get another MSE sticker for me trolly Must check out the free ads forst though

moggins

I must admit I've been severely tempted by a wally trolley this week too, I've spotted some little streamlined ones with sporty wheels and handles and burberry checks £10 each at a funny little shop in town. Hmmmmmm may wait until the kids go back to school so I don't humiliate them too much.

ancasta_2

Got home from the airport today to find my casserole had turned to mush and all the liquid had gone which is REALLY freaky as it has NEVER happened before and i cooked it exactly the same.

As that was the last morsels of food in the house till OH can take me for the weekly shop, it looks like were going to have to dial out for takeaway but its not too bad... its our "welcome OH home night"

We could always eat the Olives, garlic cloves and Cashews i bought on the way tot he airport... all things he HATES.

mmm garlic stuffed olives. mmmm

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi There

Well didnt make it over to Thurrock...not too good, but managed to get over to Makros and get a few bargains! Got:

400 3in1 disahwasher tabs for £13.50 (3peach-last us over a year!)
2.5kg back bacon for £4.99 (split into 12 lots)
36 Lux loo rolls for £6.99
3 x Meat & pot pies (enough for the 3 of us with spuds & veg) rduced from £3.99 to 80pence each :eek:
3 x Guinster Pasties reduced to 10p each
3 x Walls sausages (12 per pack) reduced to 40p each
Imperial Leather soap (4 for the price of 3) 0.79 for 4 bars
4 litre of Robinsons squash for £1.99
6 Cod in breadcrumbs reduced to £1.40
6 Haddock in breadcrumbs reduced to £1.00

Total £35.00 and enough food for about 14 meals, loo rolls for 12 weeks, dish tabs for 13 months, bacon for 12 breakies, soap for 6 months+.

Only out for just over an hour but better than staring at the same walls again. Gonna suffer tomorrow but not much on so will watch a film or something and rest...properly :rolleyes:

Hope everyone has had a great day.

Penny-Pincher!!
xxx

Zziggi

se999 wrote:

Hello,

Lillibet, what about the smallest outfit they fitted into, and a picture of them in it. When they're toddlers and growing up they love to look at them. They can never believe they were that small. Also where we're renting they have mounted and framed plaster casts of their daughters fist and foot, it looks incredibly sweet. You can just frame hand & foot prints but you'd need advice on what paint or inks are safe to use. Little ribboned bundles of baby hair after first hair cuts are the traditional thing I think too.

My dad buried (!?!) a bottle of whisky and a newspaper from the day my brother was born in our garden. Fortunately my parents never moved and they dug it up when my brother was 21 in 1999.

I've saved my little un's first outfit that i bought them. Most stuff they had was given to me but i did allow myself to buy them just one outfit in the first size for them to wear, which they did for the whole of a bout 2 weeks! In my religion it's customary to shave the head of any hair that the baby is born with [apparently aside form this been a religious practice, it is supposed to make the child's hair grow thicker] I saved this hair in a little freezer bag. I also managed to get the tag that they give the baby in hospital off the foot without snipping it. It gives you an idea of how thin their leg was when they were born. I also saved their first pair of shoes from when they were toddling. As for the plaster cast of feet/hands. i;ve seen places that do this and they charge a FORTUNE! You can do it yourself with some very fine plaster of paris. When OH saw how much they charge for this he threatened to go into business doing this himself.

I've also taken great pleasure in taking a pic of my DS aged about 2 weeks in a pink babygro (he'd been sick down all the others and i hadn't done the washing etc etc). ANd then again about 3 weeks ago my DS (aged 3) decided he wanted to dress up in his sisters tiara and dressing up shoes and then do some dusting. SO i got a pic of him in a tiara, high heeled shoes with a duster in one hand and a play handbag in the other (?!?). Should be a good laugh when he's about 18. I'm just such a cruel mummy.......