Bargains

 Nearly at the end of our no spend /low spend month, but there is another to follow as we have the other half of that bill to pay, as well as hazels birthday in July and ivy's at the beginning of August. Sometimes it feels relentless and I have to remind myself that we are the lucky ones, we are not poor, we just have a big bill to pay that we hadn't accounted for. All we are is silly.

I have had one final unnecessary spend this month- I have been trying to knit and crochet just from my stash this month, which has been good, but I have been starting to run a bit low, and have completely run out of aran, so although I shouldn't have really I had a quick look on gumtree to see of anyone was selling any bundles. Luck would have it there was a lady selling two bin bags for £20,which included lots of aran and even a couple of nearly full 400g balls.

So I gave myself a break from my little niece's Cardigan and crocheted myself a Cardigan using one of the yokes I had already made. There wasn't quite enough of one colour so I did myself some fancy sleeves.

Now I must get on and finish my niece's Cardigan, although to be honest all there is left to do is the button band.

Will found us another bargain. When he was dropping off some rubble at the tip he hoiked a couple of concrete troughs out of the skip. We removed the rocks that were concreted across the top of our front wall, so this weekend will bolted the new troughs on instead. It's much friendlier.

Now I've got a day of housework ahead of me, I've let it get on top of me for too long. I distantly remember there was once a time when I had a clean house, and that felt good. 

Wish me luck.