what do your boys do to their beds f0xh0les?! I read your diary from the start over christmas & replacement beds seemed a frequently seen theme, I wish you luck when they start getting girlfriends etc
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Honestly I do not know what the flip they get up to! So I have made the executive decision now to do the 2nd hand option for bed frames - solid wood ones, rather than throwing my money away on new ones they trash in a few months. I sat on DS2s bed the other day and he has a huge dent in his divan, so it was like falling down a sinkhole. I mean at 17 and 15 they are a bit old for bouncing on their beds, they must have just put a knee through a weak spot or something.
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E/F £19,750 but I still need a new roof and an extension and the loft boarding out.
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you my dear are a saint with them, i'd leave them with a mattress on the floor if they kept doing it. ooh just an alternative thought, buy some lumber and get them to make their own it doesn't have to be complicated or very high off the ground (think 6" tall bed shape frame with planks/reclaimed scaffold boards across the top) but would keep them busy for a weekend or two, probably be cheaper in the grand scheme & teach them some skills
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Well, Mr A's shopping emporium is going to help my shopping bill, which has been creeping upwards due to fussy kids and what goes in their lunchboxes (only 2 will eat a sandwich, sometimes only 1) but instead of the £1 pasty from Mr M's 3 have been having, they have announced the 4 sausage rolls for £1.15 are delicious, and the 2 (not) beef pasties for £1.20ish are a perfectly acceptable swap. So all I have to do is put them in the oven when I get up in the morning, and then let them cool and lunchboxes have just at least halved in cost. Right, now that is all sorted, I need to clean the kitchen a bit before making the kids their tea.
Is that the vegan ones F0xh0les? I bought the sausage rolls and they're fab (I'm not even vegan but OH is veggie) you really wouldn't notice the difference. We have the not-beef pasties too but haven't had those yet.
The pasties are very peppery. Which the elder boys love but DS3 can't cope with - he is so not my child. The absolute best thing I love about the sos rolls and pasties from Mr A is that there is NO PLASTIC. I bought some from somewhere else (I forget where) last month and there was a plastic tray and it was wrapped in plastic and the box was twice as big as it needed to be. I just thought what is the point of making a plant based vegan food and then shoving it in a load of unnecessary plastic packaging? I do not know many vegans who do not give a stuff about the planet.
Hopefully, by the end of the day, I will have two fixed tv aerials - the one on the top floor stopped working, so I need that sorted, it might just be a loose wire connection so while he is up there he can check, and hopefully (again with the hope!) the drunken fairy aerial can just be bolted back onto the chimney stack with one of those wire tension garrotte things. I am budgeting £60 odd if it is only a repair, and £59 each if it is a new aerial job. I am bored of waiting already and it has only been 90 minutes. They will ring me to tell me what time they are coming.
Mexican food for supper tonight. Chili, salsa, guacamole, salad- the kids and dh can have wraps and rice with it. I have lost 7lbs so far this diet journey and I am 13 and not quite single figures (possibly by the end of the weekend). I have about an inch to lose before my coat does up again, and having stood on the playground this week in a hail storm, that turned into a snow storm, and with another storm predicted for the weekend, having a coat that does up is right up there at the top of my things-to-have list. So, even though I have not had a major dramatic loss, it seems to be slow and steady and I am noticing an inch loss already, even when I am only losing 1lb a week.
MFW#65 Oct 21 = £80,900.00 next target = sub £80k in December 2021 Daily interest £3.99
E/F £19,750 but I still need a new roof and an extension and the loft boarding out.
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Congrats on the weight loss. I'm now about 15kg down with 3kgs left to go (and then I have to learn to maintain), and having clothes that fit is a bonus. Mind you, I've now shrunk out of those and had to buy new ones, but at least with coats I now have ones that there is room to wear lots of layers under Much more moneysaving to shrink bank into your coat rather than buy a new one. And I've also found that eating less saves money, although given the ravenous horde of boys you are feeding, you may not notice that!
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Emergency fund £5.5/5.5k & £200/200 cash.:j
Weight 24/02/19 14st 7lb now 13st determined to stop defining myself by my mistakes.
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Yeah, I know, slow and steady wins the race and all that, but as I am 'shaking' twice a day and being very sensible with the solid meal, I would have loved a fabulous, dramatic, first week weightloss. Tbh there does not seem to be any slowdown if I sub my homemade soups for the shake, so that is a bonus and a bit of variety.
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E/F £19,750 but I still need a new roof and an extension and the loft boarding out.
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Aerial man came out last night, just as it started to get dark, and quoted £500 to put up a new aerial to do all the tvs in the house - not what I asked for, not what I wanted, but he had a look and was desperate to get himself out of there. Even had the head shaking and fish impressions. That was funny. DH had just come home. It always puts the price up. Will try again. He was convinced he knew my name from somewhere ....erm, no you don't, there are not that many of us about. Unless he is a regular at the foodbank, or takes the emergency boxes I pack for one of the satellite hubs.
MFW#65 Oct 21 = £80,900.00 next target = sub £80k in December 2021 Daily interest £3.99
E/F £19,750 but I still need a new roof and an extension and the loft boarding out.
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E/F £19,750 but I still need a new roof and an extension and the loft boarding out.
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- Student Loan gone
Swagbucks, Mingle, GiffGaff, Prolific, Qmee & Quidco; thank you MSE every little bit helps
MFiT-T5 knocking down the mortgage to be freeee
E/F £19,750 but I still need a new roof and an extension and the loft boarding out.
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ooh just an alternative thought, buy some lumber and get them to make their own it doesn't have to be complicated or very high off the ground (think 6" tall bed shape frame with planks/reclaimed scaffold boards across the top) but would keep them busy for a weekend or two, probably be cheaper in the grand scheme & teach them some skills
- Student Loan gone
Swagbucks, Mingle, GiffGaff, Prolific, Qmee & Quidco; thank you MSE every little bit helps
MFiT-T5 knocking down the mortgage to be freeee
E/F £19,750 but I still need a new roof and an extension and the loft boarding out.
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Emergency fund £5.5/5.5k & £200/200 cash.:j
Weight 24/02/19 14st 7lb now 13st
determined to stop defining myself by my mistakes.
Progress not perfection.:T
E/F £19,750 but I still need a new roof and an extension and the loft boarding out.
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E/F £19,750 but I still need a new roof and an extension and the loft boarding out.
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