A treehouse for the twins

A very spendy weekend as the boiler decided to break on Friday evening :eek: £457 paid in repairs so looks like the majority of the £500 I just paid into savings will be on it's way out again

It could have been worse though - at first it looked like it had completely died, so was actually relieved when it was just a costly repair. A valve had gone so water had been leaking onto the boiler electrics :eek:

Payday on Friday so hoping to do a Tilly Tidy of the accounts mid-week to make some OPs.

Would have liked to have stayed in this afternoon, snuggled up on the sofa away from the cold and snow but have a feeling that the little ones will have other ideas This is the first time it has snowed that they are old enough to appreciate and enjoy it, so I am sure we will be going on a snow walk or something similar this afternoon.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!

Had a lovely weekend out and about with the boys and DH. Lots of visiting new places, a very muddy walk at a national trust property, and singing jingle bells in the car (simply because the boys love singing along to it!). We had a free 2-night hotel stay with some points that DH has been collecting over the past year. He really is very good at collecting and maximising points schemes and it's something he enjoys.

However, I have discussed with DH that we are overspending (by a lot!) and was cross with DH for not taking it seriously. Every time he seems on board with keeping spends down, the next day he will be asking if he can spend money on something. Not sure how to handle this one, as he works hard and I want him to be able to buy what he wants, however, the budget that we have in place would work very well if we could just stick to it! :mad:

Once the mortgage, bills and direct debits have been paid, we then set aside a £600 budget to spend on a cashback credit card which is then paid in full every month. This £600 is to include food, petrol, clothes and any other bits and pieces we want. Considering that we spend £250 on food and around £100 on petrol, this leaves us with a nice £250 to spend on what we want. Sounds great, right? So why over the past six months have we spending almost £1000 a month? :eek:

Last time we did an audit of credit card spends we found a lot of additional top-up shops which we really need to cut out completely. I need to start making a list of what we have in the cupboards and freezer to save money and stop spending unnecessarily on food. Does anybody have a food shopping system that works well for them that they care to share?

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend! :j

diamondsonly wrote: »

Our youngest loves the Christmas songs too, although he cant say santa clause or father Christmas he calls him HOHO instead :rotfl:

:rotfl: I love this age. They say the funniest things and find the oddest things fascinating. Current fascination with ours is eyebrows....and counting them...on everybody :D:D