My shopping from Saturday, we went to Booths as Alan fancied a cooked breakfast for a change, it's usually just a bacon bun. I just had a toasted teacake, well half of one actually I just wasn't in the mood. I think I have reached saturation point for eating out, although I did enjoy my coffee.
My total was a £39.05, which seems quite steep for me, but then there are two bottles of wine for Christmas, two boxes of fish to consume during December, two packs of batteries as we have run out completely ... and four items for Alan's Christmas stocking. We set ourselves a little fun challenge, buy one or more small items from the middle aisles. We don't go mad for presents for each other, just one main one, a couple of things that we need and some surprises in our Christmas stockings.
The eagle eyed among you will notice that there are no bananas on the receipt, that's because Alan bought four and gave me two. There are two packs of batteries one for him and one for me which I paid for.
To balance costs out Alan paid for the biscuits and a book off the charity book table in Booths café ... yes we have an upstairs and a downstairs version of the charity book table now. They are currently raising money for our local Foodbank to restock them after the Christmas holidays, so I had to support them didn't I. 😁
The biscuits are to be used as a crumble topping for a couple of little 'Oddly Good dessert pots that I have, one for each of us in lemon and caramel flavours. It's a much cheaper alternative to buying ready made cheesecakes. Just one biscuit crumbled on each little pot.
It might be Christmas, but I can still watch the pennies. 🎄
Sue xx
I misread your title and thought the wine and fish were the stocking fillers!
ReplyDeleteI always used to find something interesting bits and pieces in Booths. I do miss calling in the Penrith one when we went up to the cottage. I bought small jars of Cherry Curd from there to cover my plain cakes underneath the coconut instead of jam. Just used my last one and our nearest store in Ripon, near my daughter, has closed down.
I find your money arrangement of who buys what quite fascinating. We have only ever had one bank account, even as students we pooled both our grants into one bank account. I always laugh when DH says to the girl in the Wetherby Costa "I'll pay" as she thinks he is being generous! What he really means is don't rummage around in your handbag for your purse, I will get the bank card out of my wallet it will be quicker.
Haha, wine and fish in our stocking would necessitate a very last minute filling. 😄
DeleteAs we live and cook separately we each buy what we want , but there are crossovers. Our joint account pays all the household bills and fuel for our cars. Alan is being very generous while he has both his pensions this year and I have only my miniscule one. ♥️