I want a debt free life

Well i ended up exchanging my breadmaker.
This one works lovely now.

Friday was a low spend day. I had to buy bananas and i spent a little £1.20 in work on tea and toast.

Yesterday was a spendy day.
DS1 does football and has needed new astroturf shoes and football boots for a little while now. I have been holding off for a while until i knew for sure that the team would be continuing this year.
They are but that meant new boots.
I managed to get astroturf boots for £26.99 in sports direct sale, along with shin pads £5.75.
I got his football boots at a £12.00 bargain in Reebok. The only other thing i need to get is football socks. They need to be the same colour as his kit and sports direct had every othe colour besides the one we needed.
There were also some other smaller spends - £1.70 in costa for cup of tea for DS1, £2 in greggs for a baguette for me as i had not eaten lunch.
I picked up a spiderman cap for £5.99 for DS2 birthday next month.
I also spent £6 on a phone case but DS1 will be paying for this out of his pocket money (he forgot his bank card).

DS1 asked if his friends could stay over. I stupidly said yes. I said to him he could play XBox for a little bit and i got them pizza £30.80 :eek:. I told him not to stay up too late. I reminded him when i went to bed at 10pm
4am :eek: i woke up and they were still awake. They were not being noisy but still 4am.
He is very tired today :laugh::laugh::laugh:
Im just glad i made him do all his homework yesterday otherwise i would have had a right battle today.

Today however is a NSD :j

So far that 2/10 - Not great but still 16 days to go.

Hello all

It been a few days since i posted. I have been reading my subscribed diaries though

On Monday DS2 had a little bit of a meltdown about Tae kwon do. He's decided he doesn't want to go anymore. To be honest i think he liked the idea of going because DS1 used to go but hes not really that into it. I just wish he would have told me this before i paid £36 for his license. :mad:

I went to the Comp Monday night to enroll for the maths course. I didn't realise but its a 3 hour class every Monday for the whole year (exc half terms etc).
They also said in theory if they have the numbers each year you could go through years 7 to 11 and do the G.C.S.E again with the kids. :rotfl:
DS1 would die of embarrassment if i did that. :rotfl:

After all that i went shopping. £45.50 in Aldi and £7.46 in Asda

Wednesday DS2 had swimming which went OK.
OH requested authorisation to buy some Sealskin gloves for winter on his bike. They are £30 a pair but they are very good.
I grudgingly said yes.
He went to Halfords and found out they were being discontinued. There were only two pairs left. One black £10 one yellow £15. He went for the black.
The lady on the till couldn't get the tags off and ended up damaging the gloves. OH decided to go with the Yellow pair so they gave them to him for £10. He asked what they were going to do with the damaged pair with the tag still attached and they ended up giving them to him
So he came home with a black pair with a tag still attached and a yellow pair all for £10.

Today has been quiet apart from DS1 hurting his ankle again. He is now sitting quietly with an ice pack.

Tuesday and Today are NSD
so that's now 4 / 10 NSD with 12 days left.

Hi Steerpike88

thanks for subscribing. Cant promise any interesting happenings though:D

I do however have some fandabulous news.
OH just rang me to say he is getting a pay rise of £2362. This is approx and extra £130 take home each month :j:j
Not only that he also got a Bonus of £1100. :j:j:j so about £550 ish after tax & NI :j:j:j

This will completely clear overdraft and Egg will be cracked

Evening all

Today has been pretty good.
DS1 had football. They drew the match 1 all though there were a couple of fouls. one against DS1 where another kid literally shoved him in the back . He was fine and they played a good game.

Shopping day today also so £50.80 spent in Aldi and £4.16 in Asda
I also filled the car - £51.00.
I'm £28.96 over budget on my groceries :mad: though im under budget by £11.77 in fuel. Im only over in groceries because of a meat order from Westin gourmet. The meat should last all of next month also so i should come in under budget next month.
I have adjusted my budgets in YNAB. I shouldn't need any fuel now until payday so i'll move that to groceries.
The only thing i might need for groceries until payday will be milk and poss fruit.

Hello all.

Well i got most of my list done on Sunday. I still need to do the car and do some more studying.

So Monday night was Maths night at the school.
It was a little boring as it was quite basic but i had a good chat to some of the other parents and i learnt how the kids are doing long multiplication now. It different. Slower but less chance of mistakes. I still prefer the traditional way though

Monday and Tuesday were also NSD:j

Today i had to buy milk in work 30p and i had to get milk and coffee on the way home. £5.14.

NSD day total is 6 / 10

4 more to go and only 6 days left in the month