Frugal February Day 22

Usually I wear a dress to work - today's was this grayscale one from Target ($4.86 on the clearance rack). Nicky says the pattern looks like little ghosts.





Recently I discovered an old pair of black pants, so after work today I went to Vincenzo's of Caringbah to look for some tops to wear with them. This raspberry Jacqui E blouse was just the ticket, and only $5.





Turns out this style accommodates my man shoulders so that I only needed to buy one size up. Woo! It has belt loops but there was no belt with it. I might wear it with one I already have.





I also spent another $5 on snacks to take to Nicky's to watch Matilda with the girls (hello!). Everyone else provided tasty snacks too. The highlight was Emma's lovely Crunchie cupcakes.

We didn't end up eating my snacks so I will bring them to book club - extra thrifty. We did have an interesting discussion about military strategy. And Matilda is as good a movie now as it was in the nineties. My phone autocorrected that to Nonsense.


Thanks Nicky for having us over! PS: I think I left my hairclip on the coffee table.


Spent today: $10
Spent this week: $10
Spent this month: $303.95

Frugal February Day 21

Given that I already maxed out my weekly budget I shouldn't have gone out today, but I did. On the train I read Domain instead of buying a magazine though. This is doubly thrifty - you don't only save the cost of a magazine, but also the money you'd inevitably have spent on things you saw in the magazine.





I met the girls for lunch at the Dymocks cafe. I got there first so I browsed books for a while. I've wanted to read The Hunger Games for years but Stephenie Meyer's recommendation had put me off a little. And how much do the new Harry Potter covers suck?





I eventually met the girls and we had a fab lunch. I had smoked salmon on Turkish, it ruled.





After lunch we went to Coco Noir for caffeinated beverages.








Here are some of my accessories:











Later I met James for a dinner date.





We had a voucher for GPK - buy one pizza get one free. We chose Barbados (prawns with capsicum salsa) and Morocco (kind of an Indian flavoured beef, bizarrely). Both were absolutely delicious, though one pizza is really enough for two.





We found a little stringy thing in our food! We didn't mind but we let the waiter know so they could make sure it doesn't happen again, and he was so apologetic and offered us free desserts!





Since we already had a voucher for the pizza we felt a bit bad, so we just had a chocolate fudge sundae to share.


It was really tasty, and I was so impressed with the way they handled the situation. Great service! I'll definitely go back and you should too.





After dinner James and I rolled ourselves to Kmart. I got giraffe undies for $2! I bought the matching bra and a blue one too, but I'm going to return them. I wasn't wild about them, and I'd rather put the money toward one of the nice bras I saw today at La Senza. Did you know La Senza products are made by Victoria's Secret?





James and I watched Indiana Jones 3 tonight (The Last Crusade, if you're playing along at home). It was so good you guys! I'm the only person alive who hasn't seen the movies though, so probably you know this already.


I really blew this week's budget :( But since I had all the extra babysitting money I'll let it slide this time. I hope the last week of Frugal Feb will be better.


Spent today: $38
Spent this week: $139
Spent this month: $293.95

Frugal February Day 20

Jimmy came over today for a hair cut (top money-saving tip). He brought pies and milkshakes with him, and afterwards we finished watching Indiana Jones then went for a walk in the reserve.


By the way, did anyone realise Aqua's hit single Dr Jones was based on the Indiana Jones films? Or at least the film clip was. I guess it went over my head back in 1998.



For dinner I had my favourite chicken, pumpkin and pesto pasta. It doesn't look like much but my God it's tasty.

Now I'm at my next-door-neighbours' house minding their super cute kids. We played guns (I'm an irresponsible baby sitter, whatever) and read fairy tales and when they fell asleep I ate a piece of tiramisu cake. Now Miss Congeniality's on. This has to be the best possible way to make money.

Spent today: $0!
Spent this week: $101
Spent this month: $255.95

Frugal February Day 19: Things to do at Tropfest

• Get a free promotional t-shirt for The Star
• Make it into a dress
  
  
• Visit The Original Juice Co tent for a tasty sample of their new juice several times
• Play Harry Potter Character guessing games
• Make a sandwich
  
  
• Find out that someone awesome reads your blog (hello Jess if you are reading!)
• Check out the fashions on the audience (yellow & black seems big, I guess I'm not the only one into bumblebees)
• See an amazing performance by Pluto Jonez
  (this isn't the one I actually saw though, but check out that cool instrument! I can't remember its name, does anyone know?)
• Suspect that Our Nic is on Xanax
• Watch three short films while huddling under a waterproof picnic blanket
• Give up
• Run to the station in the rain
• Wait for a taxi in the rain
• Put on your boyfriend's pyjamas and watch Indiana Jones

I can't wait to get the Tropfest DVD with the Saturday paper so I can watch the rest of the films.

Spent today: $20 (train, cab, bad wine)
Spent this week: $101
Spent this month: $255.95