PaP/Moozie's What will you spend/have you spent today Wednesday 3rd September thread

rog2

Good morning everybody :hello: :hello: :hello:

It is not really the nicest of days down here - grey, overcast but not actually raining - at the moment. Certainly looks as though Autumn has 'snuck in' with a vengeance this year. :sad: :sad:

Anyway - I am spending the morning 'near the computer' as I am waiting for an update on my job interview from the other Friday :eek:

So - it should be no spending - this morning at least, for me. Am also, dutifully :rolleyes: , starting off today's 'Spending Thread'.

Please join in, whether you're a regular, newbie or just a 'serial lurker' - it really is quite simple just post your daily spends, budgetted or not, and stick with it, to watch your spending habits change.

That really is how 'simple' it is - you get no actual 'prizes', just a few 'thanks' and acres of encouragement, but the long-term rewards are great. :T

And it's all due to those three little word's from 'moozie' - the original founder of this thread:

'Keep it Low'moozie

And have a great day :wave: :wave:

peb

Hello

Yesterday's post seems to have disappeared - probably a good thing as I was whinging about unneeded spending.

Yesterday was a NSD and so will today. There are 2 budgeted costs - one a bill and one for a course at the local FE but as they cannot be described as frivolous I am not counting them!

Have a good day all!

**Amy**

Morning

Fingers crossed for the job interview Rog... hope its good news! :beer:

Well i forgot my lunch this morning... i can tell you exactly where it is in the fridge at home... not that that helps! :rotfl:

So will be buying lunch, but something small as I have a nice dinner planned.

No more than £2.00 i hope!

x

Piquant_2

Morning Rog and Peb

The sun is shining, bit watery, but there!

I had a mishap today and my NSD turned into a chocolate day - oh dear :o and it was a large green & blacks bar and it was £1.70...:o:o

Yummy!! I will share it later :j

Piq

ps Good luck with the job, Rog - fingers crossed for you

rog2

peb wrote: »

Yesterday's post seems to have disappeared

Hi Peb - I 'wondered' why you didn't post yesterday - that explains it.

Well done on the NSD. :T

peb

Oh Rog - I missed you had an interview; I remember you putting in a few applications a while back when ASDA were being pains in the posterior. Good lucka nd do let us know the outcome..

rog2

peb wrote: »

Oh Rog - I missed you had an interview; I remember you putting in a few applications a while back when ASDA were being pains in the posterior. Good lucka nd do let us know the outcome..

Thanks, peb - ASDA continue to be 'pains in posterior' as you so succinctly put it.
I did put in about a dozen on-line applications, of which only two got more than a 'thanks but no thanks' reply. This particular job was one of those and I got a really good feeling about it. My first interview was almost one month ago now, and was conducted by the Management Consultancy company who are acting for the actual recruiter. My second interview, with the General Manager of the Company, was on the 22nd of August. Both interviews went, at least in my opinion, very well and, at my last interview I was told that a decision would be made within 10 days. Today I have received an apologetic Email stating that they are running late and hope to make a decision by the end of this week.
I can't fault the girls from the Management Consultancy - they are going out of their way to 'update' me. The GM was a really 'decent' sort of chap - very down to earth, affable but obviously a 'hard grafter' - in fact just the sort of person I could work with. Both interviews have been extremely 'professional' and I really do feel that I could not have done any more. If I don't get offered a job I will, of course, be disappointed, but it will genuinely be because the competition is so good, so it won't be the end of the world.
It's just the waiting that annoys me. :eek: :eek:

I ought to be used to that by now. :rolleyes:

Lelc

Well I tried to 'encourage' more chocolate today but it appears everyone has got wise to me and is pretending to be on a diet (although I notice they keep disappearing under their desks and I'm sure it's for a sneaky bite of choccie). So I had to buy my own - 45p worth:mad:

Next week I'll buy double amount of chocolate with my weekly shop so I can bring extra in to work each day.........or I could go on a diet I suppose ...Nah I'll buy double;)

rog2

Lelc wrote: »

So I had to buy my own - 45p worth:mad:

Could have been worse, Lelc - they might have expected you to share your cocolate with them.

:shhh: :EasterBun :shhh:

poorbutrich

rog2 wrote: »

Anyway - I am spending the morning 'near the computer' as I am waiting for an update on my job interview from the other Friday

Any news? I wonder how much chocolate you've eaten during the wait?

rog2

poorbutrich wrote: »

I wonder how much chocolate you've eaten during the wait?

Hi pbr - would you believe me if I said 'None' as that is the truth - there genuinely is no chocolate in the house. :mad: :mad:

Mind you - am sorely tempted to cycle the couple of mles up to ASDA, armed with my 24p for a 100 gramme bar of the old 'Smart Price' roll-back Milk Chocolate. :think: :think: