The "Pay ALL your debt off by Xmas 2012" challenge - PART 3!!!

I think Jemma was right in terms of the expense of a bank holiday weekend...spend a little too much on beer and my dad's birthday didn't help either. Hoping to pay off some more before the end of the month, but not sure how far along I can get. If I hit 35% by the end of the month I'll be happy with that.

Not to worry...I'm sure things'll pick up next month!

I haven't worked out the full financial hit on the weekend yet but it won't be cheap! Managed to buy a beautiful material for covering my dining chairs to protect them from spills, thought it was going to be forty pounds but it was only twenty plus we're going picking a Dining Table and chairs up for our daughter's new house today, the set was originally £500 but we've found one on Gumtree for £150 - still more than we hoped but spent all day looking for something cheaper which turned from a four to an eight seater, It's perfect where space is limited but you can open it out if you have guests. We've still a washing machine and a bed base to buy but due to the overspend on the table she won'tbe having lots of little extras like matching bedding lol. I didn't sleep well again last night so I'm hoping for a relaxing day pottering, a movie day would be ideal lol. Don't know if I mentioned it but we had an emergen y trip to the vets on Fridaywith our very old cat (she's 19) she had Cystitis the poor thing anyway that was an unexpected £40 spend to start the weekend!

Have a lovely day everyone, well done to Kerri and Gemma and I'll have a look at that app, I use old fashioned pen and paper at the moment but I might bring myself up to the 21st century.

Good Morning DFBX'ers

Well I feel cac today, thought last night that my throat was starting to feel scratchy, had a horrible disturbed sleep where I kept waking up in pain and have got up this morning to massive glands and tonsils Have had to cry through swallowing pain killers just so that I can numb the pain enough to eat some breakfast

Got to try and do a shopping trip today (would send the husband but he wouldnt stick to the list as he cant read it, would buy lots of extras that 'looked nice' and probably forget the one item I was actually desperate for) I was going to do a 2 shop trip but tbh im not up to it, i'll suffer through one and they can live off the food thats here till next weekend.

Well Done everyone thats paid some debt, sorry for the vagueness, cant retain anything ive just read this morning

Hi all, well it's carp here today so instead of the promised day at the beach with fish and chips, it's a sofa day with borrowed DVDs! Tbh the kids look knackered as it's been pretty full on this weekend and they can concentrate on decluttering Easter eggs!!

So reckon I'm up £20 so have just paid that to the cc, feeling like I should polish my halo, cleaning the kitchen floor instead!!
#319 £2694.53/£6109.94
Sorry to hear you're feeling rough jakes-mum, that shouldn't be allowed in the holidays. And good luck with the garden Jemma, sounds like a fab trip to the garden centre. That's one of the places I've had to ban myself from this year!!:o

Sharronej - that's some great bargains you've picked up there and I'm sure your daughter will appreciate it more than having the little bits that she can go and purchase herself Sorry to hear about the cat I hope she's feeling better now.

Spagbol - it was a very yummy chili, although the recipe uses too much chili and cayenne pepper powder for my liking, so I think where it says "3T" it actually should be 3t for teaspoons instead of tablespoons. Either that or the woman likes REALLY hot food. If you do follow the recipe and it gets too hope, just add some demerara sugar, that tamed it for me recipe here

Jakes-mum - hope you feel better soon I think it's the change in temperature that's knocking people for six at the moment, I was feeling really rundown last week. Although there is that thing of when you have a holiday weekend you always end up sick, real pain though *big hugs*

Jemma - Aw I've just got into gardening too, although I'm growing my veg from seeds as although it'll take a little longer it's really quite cute watching them coming up Lettuce is really easy to grow from seed if you get the chance to find some more, I'm still waiting for the little pea to make his appearance, he's been poking through the top of the soil but not emerged just yet. You are defo right though, the money you spend now will be saved when it comes to harvesting the fruits of your labour

Barbeduk - after staying up until 3.30am listing thing on fleabay I'm with you on the movie day I'm doing nothing today, absolutely nothing!

Well TCB have just reported that my n3tflix payment has been approved and is sat waiting in my account, I have over £18 on there now which I think I shall convert to rainforest vouchers, but need to decide what I want/need from the rainforest. I do want the 3rd book in the series that I'm currently reading (it's a book that was popular in film quite recently, about a girl with a tattoo of a dragon ) I've not seen any of the films yet as I'm reading the book first. Although saying that I do need some tupperware, so maybe I'll split between tupperware and a book

I've just paid my daily £1 to the c/c, quite liking paying it everyday and £1 doesn't seem like very much when I'm doing it like this. Have also just scheduled all my items to active on fleabay, so I shall await the watchers and the bidders. I was going to try to list the additional 33 items to get me to the max of 100, but I don't have it in me to attempt it after spending so long yesterday doing listings.

Anyway, #005 £2628/£5030