The
6 week's holidays are here, we check out our diary's and the many
unfilled days seem to have a different impact now your child/children
are off school/nursery for the 6 week summer holidays. Doing housework
and other 'boring' stuff is just not suitable for my son, so off I went
and brought a cheap 29p note pad from Asda and was determined to fill
it with idea's to pursue during the 6 week's off school.
- Monday 30th July - Arts and Crafts, Park later depending on the weather.
- Tuesday 31st July - Trip to Nanny's and then baking gingerbread men.
- Wednesday 1st August - Cinema.
- Thursday 2nd August - Town to spend weekly pocket money.
After
having our breakfast and getting ourselves ready for the day, I remind Spud of how much he has to spend, I always give him a little talk about
how much he has to spend, I want my child to know the importance and value of money, there have been a number of times where I have been
in a shop and Spud chooses something above his pocket money price, and I
end up paying, but seeing as its the summer holidays and we have a few
exciting trips planned, today I was determined Spud must stick to his the amount for me to save spending money for our day trips planned during
the summer holidays off school. Then off we went to catch our nearest
bus to town.
After
a 30-minute journey on the bus to our local Town Centre, with all the moans of the elderly and the screams from the tantrum toddlers, the pings of the bell and the sound of the passing cars we finally made it. The first stop on my list was the mall that our bus had stopped outside,
inside I wanted to visit the £1 shop to pick up any good bargains and
Wilkinson's to check out there toy's as we have a birthday party to go
to on Saturday.
I collected my bits from the £1 shop that we needed, and
headed to the upstairs of the shopping mall to go to Wilkinson's,
literally, as I was walking through the door, I heard a member of staff
telling another member of staff they had reduced loads of kitchen stuff,
and that was it, I was off on my search to find the reduced items. After finding the kitchen sale, I left Wilkinson's 3 bags heavier
filled with Kitchen Utensils, Placemats, Glass Chopping Boards, Oven
Gloves, Cups and some other kitchen bits for the grand total of £4.20, I
do love a good bargain (see the end of the post for a picture of a few of my fab bargains).
We also had some lunch in town, we chose Pizza Express as it's just across the road from the shopping centre, then it was Spud's turn to shop, but to my surprise, Spud said it's ok Mummy, I will save my money for Legoland next week. Gobsmacked is really not the right word to explain it, my talks about the
importance of money this morning must have done something. Instead of Spud
leaving town empty-handed, I brought him a magazine from the local Tesco
Express and off we headed to catch the bus back home, and thankfully,
It wasn't that bad if I must say so myself. Roll on the rest of the fun filled school holidays!
Until next time,
Jade x
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