Live on £4000 for a year - Part 3

JAMIEDODGER

sophiesmum wrote: »

Good evening Frunchkins:D

Nyk - my mum grows french marigolds amongst all her veggies she says it keeps bugs and carrot fly away from the veg - looks nice too:D

Mumzy - see you in morning:D

jamie - Have you got chickens at home? I am so jealous:p I'm hoping to get some once we get the allotment sorted,:j i have wanted chooks forever.

No spend day today:D but that could all change tomorrow when I go to town with mumzy:rolleyes: Got some vouchers though so may take them and have a spend.

yes we have 2 chickens and the eggs are lovely!:D

DdraigGoch

[sounds a bit like, "[U]What I Did On My Holidays[/U]"!!!:rotfl:]

warning - long post

Having decided to be as MS as possible, I drove to the railway station and bought a day return, £5.20, thus saving myself 23 miles there and back [at 25p/mile that's £11.50 saved already] and the parking fee [another £12, making £23.50 saved and I haven't even got there yet]. Met my chum and went to a REAL restaurant - wow!:D - and she said, "my treat" - my day just gets better and better! - so we walked in and were given a flyer each, guess what, 3 course lunch for £9.95 including a large glass of wine :cool::T So, I was feeling very cheerful :beer: Oh, and as I paid for the meal [I felt guilty:o], she insisted on giving me a £20 note [so that's 10p up again, making £23.60 saved]

Next, off to the Howell's where I went to the Clarin's stand and was given 4 free samples:j. I also managed to find a perfume I have liked for years at less than half price, plus a free sample.... and some perfect lip glosses in the sale for my DD's Christmas present ...............................

only I forgot to buy them:wall::rotfl: [thus saving myself £19.50, so far that's £43.10]

So, if you take the money I saved [£43.10] away from the money I spent [£5.20] , today brought IN a grand total of £37.90 ... if only life worked like that :rotfl:

All in all, a good day was had for £5.10 [I did actually end up 10p richer!]

Off to collect a NEW [only used 4 times] Krups Coffee Machine tomorrow, and an antique wardrobe on Monday. I love Freecycle :happyhear

DG

sophiesmum_2

Glad you had a lovely day Draig:D Love your method of accounting:D


I'm off to town in the morning with mumzy - have been trying to think of something I need to buy but haven't come up with anything yet:rolleyes: . I used to go "shopping" every week with DD and waste money on frivolous stuff but I struggle now to justify buying stuff:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

It is really warm here tonight, have just been sat out having a coffee on patio with OH at 2am:eek:

Janey51

Tom was laid to rest yesterday in glorious sunshine. It was a huge funeral with so many friends and family.
I feel more peaceful now but life will be hard for a long time. He was such a great great man.
I will be posting again but have blown the budget for the next few years I would say. But M&S came up trumps and not a scrap was left! Tom would have loved it.
I put money behind the bar for everyone to have a drink on him. I have taken roses from the flowers to dry.
Books were left out for everyone to record their memories of his life. I will get round to reading them soon.
We sat by the river after and remembered him.
The sunset was breathtaking.

JAMIEDODGER

hi janey, sounds like your day went exactly how you planned it for tom (((hugs))) im sure everyone would say that the budget wasnt important. i hope you keep posting on here xx

JAMIEDODGER

spends yesterday totalled £31.37

total spent to date july £178.67

left out of budget - 3289.03

will be having a NSD today:)

sophiesmum_2

Janey51 wrote: »

Tom was laid to rest yesterday in glorious sunshine. It was a huge funeral with so many friends and family.
I feel more peaceful now but life will be hard for a long time. He was such a great great man.
I will be posting again but have blown the budget for the next few years I would say. But M&S came up trumps and not a scrap was left! Tom would have loved it.
I put money behind the bar for everyone to have a drink on him. I have taken roses from the flowers to dry.
Books were left out for everyone to record their memories of his life. I will get round to reading them soon.
We sat by the river after and remembered him.
The sunset was breathtaking.

Janey that sounds like a beautiful day and a lovely memory:Afrom start to finish.
Please keep posting.

Mollymop5

Janey I'm so pleased your day went as you wished.The books for everyone to comment in are a lovely idea and will be of comfort to you when the time is right for you to read them.Don't count any of it in your budget.That isn't important.Keep posting and take care x

mumzyof2

Janey im so pleased your daqy went as well as it could of. Keep posting xx

lingojingo

Janey, I'm sure Tom couldn't have asked for anything better. what a lovely send off.
Whenever you feel like 'talking' about Tom we'll be only too happy to 'listen' - I always looked forward to your hilarious posts and I'm sure, in time, you'll be able to do many more.

Huge hugs (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((()))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) thinking of you
Lingojingo x