Back in debt but not out

I started a new job two months ago, slightly more money than the old company and much better prospects than the old one. It does mean that DD is with the childminder more but 7 months time, we will save money as DD won't be there as much.

Plan is as follows:

Meal plan - Food shop done and delivered, meal plan done, just need to stick to it.
Lunches - I need to take my lunch with me to work, I'm spending far too much money and being based in central London its easy enough to just grab something.
Budget - Although I am going to be on a money-fast, I can't completely avoid the shops on my way to site, so I plan to budget £10 per week and anything left over that week gets rolled over to the next one.

A lot of this I have done before, I just need to get back in to the old way of thinking again.

I'm on holiday this week and next week, DH is off next week and the week after, so DD will only be with the CM for a week and a half, so we save some money this month.

Morning debtaghh,

It feels good to be back, need to keep the momentum up again

Pm02
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Evening,

Just a quick post.

Had a great day with my friends boys, took them and my two to the local park with their scooters and treated them all to KFC. Was a LSD as we didn't spend masses so quite happy there.

Have photographed and uploaded the kids clothes to eBay, if all sells we will make £31, not a massive amount so need to find more lol.

London trip tomorrow. DH has a site visit and then working from the London Bridge office, so we are going up slightly later. I'm going to show them my site too and then off to HMS Belfast on the way back. Aiming for another LSD so we'll see.

Morning,

Well looks like our trip to London is out of the window today, all the trains are screwed up. Managed to drop DH at the station for the only on time train this hour :shocked:

DH is back at the office tomorrow, he works in Egham so we're going to go there instead, lots of charity shops and a park too.

So today instead, I'm going to bite the bullet and go through the finances, something I've been putting off.

Need to go to B&Q to get some paint, I was going to do that tomorrow but may as well do it today. I can make a start on DS's room this afternoon, as we are planning on moving at some point, everything we paint at the moment is white, I have a voucher that I can use so it should be a cheap trip.

Meal plan this week has gone to plan so far, will be the first week in a long time that we've stuck to it.

Will update later, once I have the measure of things financially.