my non-mortgage mortgage free journey

tessie_bear wrote: »

your diary is a real inspiration as you always seem so positive...we paid off our mortgage 6 years ago and have never looked back...good luck
tess

Aww thanks i'm quite a positive person, well i am now things are going right for me i'm really looking forward to owning my own house without paying the bank any money and it will be the way i want it.

I had to pay my creditcard yesterday i didn't relise it was due, so i pinched some from the savings, will put it back over the next few weeks.

Our dogs due to pup soon (i LOVE puppies, i must remeber we aren't keeping any) but she's in with another dog at the mo, as our dogs live outside we pup outside, she wouldn't know what to do if we let in her for more than half an hr, so i need to go today and get a heat lamp, puppy food, a food bin (cause i pinched the old one for my house bin now i have no bin collection) and a grate cover, we're pupping her at my in laws they have proper plumbed with drainage down pens so alot cleaner and she will have her own pen, but there last dog eat the grate cover and if puppys fall down well.....you get the idea

Went shopping on tue night, hubby wanted doughtnuts so i went whoopsie shopping, didn't get much but i did get a £2 off £20 spend in sainburys which i then used in tesco, i can't find my receit so i'm rounding up tp £22 i got

4 loaves of bread
2 packets of frying steak
chips
wedges
chicke keiv's
15 eggs
10 custard powder
some heart burn tablets
some pain killers
2 boxes of cornflakes
2 cereal bars
pepsi
fizzy orange
a small bottle of fizzy juice (for yesterdays soft play area)
2 packets of doughtnuts (reduced to hald price)
2 cupcakes (reduced to 20p)
two 4 packs of cookies reduced to 17p
fruit bag reduced to 6p
oranges reduced to 9p
counter ham reduces to 17p
mr kipling fruit pies reduced to 20p
milk
sliced cooked chicken
toilet roll
scratchy sponges
chocolate mousse
porridge
2 packets choccy digestives
tea bags

i think thats it, i got a small trolley full

yesterday we went to the soft play area spent a total of £6, £3.75 to get in then ds had a pack lunch because he never sits long enough to eat a whole lunch so i gave up buying him, you get a voucher for a kids meal if you go in the mornings so i used it for my lunch it was £2.25 and not great

Off to get puppy stuff now, post off my hi life card and pray it comes back quickly, and collect my clothing order from tesco and next, first official non training day of work tomorrow

Hiddenidenity wrote: »

Only in Ireland

Really? i didn't know that, i do it all the time i find sainburys dear for basic bits that i can't live without like biscuits and they don't do the wee 23p bottles of fizzy juice the kids like.

I true mse style i shopped around for my heat lamp and got it £12 cheaper :money:

ammonite wrote: »

Well done for your heat lamps! I will give it a go one time despite not living in Ireland!

Mine has a huge banner up saying they take all coupons, i used a sainburys price match one last week aswell (which wasn't mine i don't buy brands the person infront of me had left it in the till )


I really shud get up, i'm gonna fill my new coffee mug before i go

Wow i'm feeling sooo ill, i've been being sick all morning, it's my own fault for having chippy tea, i had my gall bladder out oer 5 years ago so i really should know better by now, not a nice start to the day tho

dog spends so far are

£30 in local farm shop (should have been £30.85 thats another plus of going local, b&q wouldn't let you off with 2p never mine 85p)
£33 on puppy food, will prob need more before we're done, again very mse, we only use one puppy food we always have, pets at home had 2 small bags for £11 or a big bag for £38, big bag was 15kg, 18kg of the small bag worked out at £33
£16 on bin and grate


I also spent £2 in home bargains (it wasn't £2 but the chnage got pinched for the childs moneybox) i wasn't that impressed, of they had some ok things but nothing really worth the trip.


Whats even more impressive is the fact that i went into a tesco to collect a clothing order and came out with just a clothing order and nothing else!!!

Off now to get a metal bucket (which i also phoned around for qoutes for the cheapest aswell) and if i'm feeling up to it take the child to the libary for story time and to get new books, him grandad gave him £1 so i'll bring him to poundland dor a bag of sweets aswell.


I've come to the conclusion he's spoilt rotten, he's always either getting sweets (he doesn't eat that many we still have some left from the last bag and he shares with his brothers when there home from school) a wee toy or like the lunch box he got or wee cups ect, or we're going somewhere i seem to take him alot more places than i did the twins. but then he's sleeping really well lately because he's so tired come bedtime so i must be doing something right and that means the twins sleep better aswell


Sat tomorrow we're going to fill the car up first thing then we'll be helping my mil sort her kitchen out for the plasters coming on monday, will prob get tea there or come home for something quick, might grab a few cheapo jars of pasta sauce incase i still feel sickly later.