What do you have planned for the weekend?

Today was a 'day off' for me, with no uni or work. I did a very early run (5.40 am!) with puppy and came for breakfast and coffee once he was good and tired. Tidied the house, checked over my grocery list one more time and hit the markets.

The butchers had a lot of great markdowns, so I stocked up a little. I got two packs of chicken mince, two packs of lamb, herb and garlic sausages, slow cooker steak, a grade rump steak and some dog bones. For $22! We are so blessed to have such a place around the corner.

We are also very blessed to have already learnt some of these frugal ways, because my partner lost his part time job since my last post. We are both still studying, and receive centrelink payments, so relying heavily on those and our part time jobs. He is currently doing his thesis in his last year of uni and is finding it difficult to find a graduate job is his electrical engineering field, so I fear that we may not have even seen the worst yet....

In the meantime, we are sticking strictly to budget, he has cut out all the little extras he was allowing for himself before... We will make the most of free entertainment out and about and at home, hone our skills further and I will be stashing any extra money away in my savings account. Thankfully we both have a little over $3000 each from saving hard recently.

Christmas is coming up, I will be buying him a playstation game as a combined anniversary, graduation and christmas present. His gift will be there only gift I am buying - last year I gave homemade christmas gifts and my family/his family begged for me to do again, I am only too happy to comply! It makes christmas such a more meaningful time when you see people enjoying your gift (and the astonishment on their face when they realise it's homemade).

So we are trying to keeps our chins up and work hard in the mean time. I am quite a stressy person and he is a bit of an internaliser so we're trying to have regular chats to keep things ok.

How is everyone's weekend looking?

I have work in the morning, and then we will need to vote of course. The afternoon will be taking up with some studying.

Sunday I will run early, then my friend wants me to do a gym class with her and then go shopping (not my thing really and I don't wish to spend any money so I will stay strong).


Have a lovely weekend everybody

Aimee xx