Taking it slowly, but doing it well.

I don't know where yesterday went, but I fell into bed exhausted about 9pm and couldn't keep my eyes open long enough to post an update.
We are still in the midst of holiday unpacking here. Just need to get it done tonight and to stop faffing around.

We did a monster food shop today as the freezers & cupboards are empty of ingredients, meat and useful stuff.
I used my supermarket it was semi successful, but hubby came shopping and many additions were added. I'm hoping I can fine tune the app as I continue to use it. I put all the receipts in receipt hog and won nothing on the spins (boo) but I did level up. It's going to take forever to cash out especially as I'm going for the £50 jackpot...

Pickle are the last of his oaty bars at tea today so I'm going to make him some rather than buy more (I've got all the ingredients in)
Hubby picked up his new car and the old one got scrapped.
Pickle has horrendous nappy rash so I'm suspecting it's going to be a long night.

Updates below.....

August Goals:
1) reduce mortgage capital by £340 - require overpayment of £128
8/8: £63.73/£128
9/8: £64.83 (TT)
11/8: £68.90 (TT & under budget on landline bill)
20/8 £71.30 (got some post holiday TT to do, but need to charge the iPad to do that. )
22/8: £73.84 (TT - I'm a bit behind target, but looking at what I've got left in my YNAB pots I should be ok at month end.

2)keep an accurate cash spending diary
9/8 ✅
11/8: no cash spent today
20/8: nope, not done this.. restart tomorrow. (Haven't taken any cash out of the bank all week though, so haven't actually spent a lot. )
22/8: no cash spent

3) cash out £30 of survey site rewards✅
8/8: £24.80/£30 (£15 voucher & £9.80 cash)
9/8: £55.16/£30 (£25 vouchers & £30.16
11/8: no change today, but pa reward has cleared to circle, just waiting for it to appear in my bank now
20/8 no change as I've not done any surveys while I've been away. But the circle payment is in my bank and I've just opened the envelope containing the boots voucher from VO.
22/8 no change. Pa has gone very quiet. I've had nothing at all today.

4)reach the middle of July on temperature blanket
8/8: up to 29/05/17
11/8: completed May
20/8: up to 3rd June oops, did more reading than knitting while I was away.
22/8: ha ha

5)get a job or sign up to 1 agency.
9/8: X
11/8: X
20/8 : x (but I have been on holiday)
22/8: x

Tomorrow: (Today)
Unpack 'going away stuff' - getting there
Wash all the washing and gang up to dry or take to laundrette to dry. ✅ £7.00 to get three loads dry at the laundrette is good enough for me
Clear out old, dead car.✅

Wednesday
Put all the dry washing away
Mum and dad coming so bake something nice
Do some knitting.

Thanks for dropping by pinky,
The oaty bar recipe is likely to come from Pinterest and will more than likelube oats, butter& fruit. It didn't happen tonight. Never mind. Tomorrow is another day.

why am I so blinking sensible?
I'd really like to improve the toy storage situation in the front room and we have space for some storage from the blue and yellow pleasure palace, but.. due to buying a camping tent style travel cot, new shoes and a new flat cap, the Pickle spends pot on YNAB does not have enough in it until the child benefit gets paid on Monday. My original plan was to go shopping for it tomorrow, but I just can't bring myself to spend money I don't physically have yet. Why am I so blinking sensible? I just can't do it!

In other news. Thanks to a hmrc/student loan mess up my student loan had not been fully paid off in June 2015 as I had thought. I owed them £164.20. Thankfully I've just received a tax rebate of £200 so I paid the student loan off with the tax rebate, have £35 to put towards the toy storage and have TT the shrapnel to the mop pot. No other TT today as I've spent only whole pounds on the card.

The 'spends' account is looking quite healthy for this point in the month. (All figures are 'what's left' amounts)
£48/£250 in groceries
£19/£100 in household goods
£33/£100 in spending money
£66/£100 in 'stuff I'll forget' (this spend has been stuff ordered for hubby from Amazn as he gives me all of our bills/spends/housekeeping money I really can't ask him for a refund.
£70/£70 in fuel (this is because we took hubby's car away with us on holiday) there's about 160 miles left in the tank, I'm really hoping I don't have to fill up in August so this stays in tact and I can put the £70 for september's fuel money elsewhere.
Only the gas/elec and the milk deliveries still to pay for from the Bills account this month, so there will be a bit more for the mop pot.

Tomorrow is a cafe trip with Pickle and friends (money will come from restaurant pot) then baking during nap time and after bed time (already got all ingredients) we might do a park trip after nap time if it's nice tomorrow.

Hubby has left for the first of his 3 back to back jobs, I'm still standing (so far)

But now Updates....

August Goals:
1) reduce mortgage capital by £340 - require overpayment of £128
8/8: £63.73/£128
9/8: £64.83 (TT)
11/8: £68.90 (TT & under budget on landline bill)
20/8 £71.30 (got some post holiday TT to do, but need to charge the iPad to do that. )
22/8: £73.84 (TT - I'm a bit behind target, but looking at what I've got left in my YNAB pots I should be ok at month end.
23/8: £97.92 (TT and a massive underspend on the bacon subscription this month due to being away)
24/8: £98.71

2)keep an accurate cash spending diary
9/8 ✅
11/8: no cash spent today
20/8: nope, not done this.. restart tomorrow. (Haven't taken any cash out of the bank all week though, so haven't actually spent a lot. )
22/8: no cash spent
23/8: no cash spent
24/8: no cash spent

3) cash out £30 of survey site rewards✅
8/8: £24.80/£30 (£15 voucher & £9.80 cash)
9/8: £55.16/£30 (£25 vouchers & £30.16
11/8: no change today, but pa reward has cleared to circle, just waiting for it to appear in my bank now
20/8 no change as I've not done any surveys while I've been away. But the circle payment is in my bank and I've just opened the envelope containing the boots voucher from VO.
22/8 no change. Pa has gone very quiet. I've had nothing at all today.
23/8: a couple of 25p vo surveys, nothing on pa again - what's going on?
24/8: a survey on PA woop woop.
PA at £6.90 Vo at £5 not expecting any more August payouts but this is a good start towards September's £20 cash out target

4)reach the middle of July on temperature blanket
8/8: up to 29/05/17
11/8: completed May
20/8: up to 3rd June oops, did more reading than knitting while I was away.
22/8: ha ha
23/8: about to do some knitting when I've finished here
24/8: none today

5)get a job or sign up to 1 agency.
9/8: X
11/8: X
20/8 : x (but I have been on holiday)
22/8: x
23/8: x
24/8:x

Thursday.
More washing stuff!✅
Make brownies. ❌
Plan my decluttering process. -started

Friday
Make brownies &a lemon drizzle
Normal washing
Tidy round

long, tiring, but lovely day today Pickle and I headed into the city, on the bus, to meet a friend who's justfinishing her masters in a city over the hills. We used this as an opportunity to run some errands too - dropping hubby's suits in to be dry cleaned;
Pay birthday cheques into bank (and see if they have a coin deposit machine - they do)
New strap forhubby's watch
Somemystery shopping challenges andsomefree/reduced stuff on shopm1um.

Met up with friend, who's never been to this city so wentto the art gallery and a general wander round. I paid for both lunch & coffee & cake as she is a student and had paid for a train ticket to come and see us.

All in all a lovely day, I ache now though, all that walking with Pickle in the Meh deh.
Leavingthe pushchair at home was the right decision, but there were times I wished I brought it. Usually when he was charging roundplaces when let loose to walk.

Budgets are depleting quite rapidly now it feels, but September and a reset is coming.

Tomorrow is a trip to an arty/craftymarket, need to take cash and some drinks with me so I don't go crazy on the spending, then start on my 'illusion' cake for Tuesday night's bake off bake along.

Night all.
Updates....

August Goals:
1) reduce mortgage capital by £340 - require overpayment of £128
8/8: £63.73/£128
9/8: £64.83 (TT)
11/8: £68.90 (TT & under budget on landline bill)
20/8 £71.30 (got some post holiday TT to do, but need to charge the iPad to do that. )
22/8: £73.84 (TT - I'm a bit behind target, but looking at what I've got left in my YNAB pots I should be ok at month end.
23/8: £97.92 (TT and a massive underspend on the bacon subscription this month due to being away)
24/8: £98.71
25/8: 119.81 (underspend from August's milk delivery pot and TT from child benefit)
26/8: £120.85 (TT - nearly there)

2)keep an accurate cash spending diary
9/8 ✅
11/8: no cash spent today
20/8: nope, not done this.. restart tomorrow. (Haven't taken any cash out of the bank all week though, so haven't actually spent a lot. )
22/8: no cash spent
23/8: no cash spent
24/8: no cash spent
25/8: no cash spent
26/8: ✅ £3 in bus fares

3) cash out £30 of survey site rewards✅
8/8: £24.80/£30 (£15 voucher & £9.80 cash)
9/8: £55.16/£30 (£25 vouchers & £30.16
11/8: no change today, but pa reward has cleared to circle, just waiting for it to appear in my bank now
20/8 no change as I've not done any surveys while I've been away. But the circle payment is in my bank and I've just opened the envelope containing the boots voucher from VO.
22/8 no change. Pa has gone very quiet. I've had nothing at all today.
23/8: a couple of 25p vo surveys, nothing on pa again - what's going on?
24/8: a survey on PA woop woop.
PA at £6.90 Vo at £5 not expecting any more August payouts but this is a good start towards September's £20 cash out target
25/8: lots of surveys today inc a £3 one on pa, I'm now half way to the next payout on both sites so I think a £30 September target should be set.
26/8: no survey's today but £2 earned on roaml3r. I also did some shopm1um shopping today - free (when the money comes through) chocolate, which I've eaten because I was tired and hungry. 3 bottles of non-alcoholic grape/elderflower presse stuff which can go into the cellar for Christmas.

4)reach the middle of July on temperature blanket
8/8: up to 29/05/17
11/8: completed May
20/8: up to 3rd June oops, did more reading than knitting while I was away.
22/8: ha ha
23/8: about to do some knitting when I've finished here
24/8: none today
25/8: why did I set this unachievable target?
26/8:never going to happen!

5)get a job or sign up to 1 agency.
9/8: X
11/8: X
20/8 : x (but I have been on holiday)
22/8: x
23/8: x
24/8:x
25:8: needs to be a September target I think
26/8: x

Saturday
Jobs in town✅
Make creme egg topping for brownies✅
Declutter coat cupboards.❌ too tired tonight, I know it's not a big job, but I just can't face it.

Sunday
Make cakes for bake off bake along
Declutter coat hooks
Cleaner proof the house