I guess the frugal part of this is that I wanted hubby to take it to the dump and he said no he was too tired LOL. So that's ok - it will now no doubt sit there for another 2 - 3 weeks as he is away soon and I don't want to dump it by myself. We filled the green bin too so that will get emptied in 2 weeks time with the free bin service. Hubby said he wanted to put these out in the back in the big empty gardening patch we have as it will break down and make the soil nice and I said NO - no more weeds or dry grass or stuff or anything in that area. LOL. I'm 'trying' (very trying) to clean it out so I can start a vegi patch but like anything 'it's on the list...' it's going to take a little while to get to....
For lunch ... "Let them eat cake" LOL ... Master 9 said 'cake' and then he said 'ta da' and he had seen the pictures on the back of the box, worked out what we needed - he can read some things (when he chooses too cheeky) and then put everything in the bowl ready. I was VERY impressed with how well he did! So we cooked the cake, cooled it in the freezer and iced it and fed it to the family! Everyone said it was great! It must have been super yummy because more than half of it 'dissapeared' at lunch time and so we had the rest for desert tee hee.
At 4.30pm I headed over to the local westfield as the fruit shop always does end of day specials. Got a bag of grapes for $3 and a bag of banana's for $2.50. Always worth a trip over there. Master 9 also came with me as he had his pocket money to spend. Naturally he bought more lego - he just had enough - phew... I love watching little kids trying to work out how much money they have and what they can buy but it does break my heart when they say 'I don't have enough' LOL.
The kids like to buy a thing called a Moshi Magazine - there's an online game called Moshi Monsters - you can play for free but you can also pay $6.95 for a month or $24.95 for 6 mths you also buy the card with the code at the shop. I was on alternative months helping them to buy these but now I have told the children 'anything' they want to buy now is 'their' responsibility. DD12 walked in to give me her money to get these as she didn't want to go to the shops and Master 9 said I'll have it too so I said yep 'money please' so he ran off and had a little cry but then came back 5 minutes later dressed ready for the shops LOL. Then when we get there he changed his mind (as I suspected) and went straight for the lego area! I feel for him this is a much better use for his money!
I also feel that by making them responsible for their own money it's going to stop me spending so much on all those 'incidentals'. Hubby and I get our own pocket money each fortnight too and it always was seeing by the end of the week that I never had much money left and yet I could tell you that I haven't bought anything for myself with that money. I do have my cash bags which 'sometimes' I have in my bag with me if I know I need it get 'Fruit & Veg' or 'Incidentals' for the milk but I try not to carry too much cash around with me.
Did two loads of washing today and got DD12 to help hang out thank you as we were busy with the garden. It's been too hot to do it throughout the week and also I just kept forgetting or just never had the energy! DD12 still had her load to do which is also now her responsibility as per her chores! I'm becoming a tough love mummy! I do feel it's for the best though as then I know she will be ready for the world when she is older to do the basics plus sooo many other parents tell me that children younger than 12 have their own responsibility of doing a load of washing so I thought right, let's go!
Hope you all had a great Saturday XOXO
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