Live on £4000 for a Year, 2009 Challenge, part 1

xnatalie81x

o and rbs writing back to accept my f&f settlement and NDR doing the same

savingfortravel

Positives:

• Body Shop Sale stuff arrived with 10% off..got mum a nice lippy as part of her Mothers' Day pressie. Nail vanish to go with cheap No.7 one for my cousin's Christmas present.
• Free lunch today was yummy veggie lasagne and salad. Resisted pudding.
• Had my HM soup for tea with Jacket Potato (which I love) and tuna with LF salad cream. Yummy.
• Had a much more positive day today..rose above everything! Positive Mental Attitude was in full force.
• Want to stop snacking from tomorrow. Just eat at meal times.
• We nearly stockpiled all of our Branston beans but the deal is over now but could see us through the year. If not I'm sure they'll be another deal this year. Also picked up 15 tins of half price Princes tuna in tesco.

Scrooge2008-Thanks for your message. I love the caring attitude on this thread.. Wish I could invite you all round for a MS lunch!!
Hugs to Candygirl
Marru-Hope it ok to post to do list here still. Not sure I could keep up with another thread.
Nyk-So sorry but I missed (not sure how) the message about 3 weeks/3 month moments. Could you repeat??
Redglass-Great frugal lunch
Jtb2412-Leak and potato soup recipe please.
Take care everyone. See you tomorrow.
P.S. Hustle was great.
P.P.S Hugh Jackman in Australia... gorgeous and such a nice down to earth actor!!!

candygirl

Hi SFT I just chop 3 leeks and a few spuds, and cook in water and 3 veggie oxo cubes , then blend it down later for potato n leek soup:p
How's the TT going?It was the worst year of my life:eek: :eek: Make sure you have time for yourself hun:A

Skint_Lynne

Evening all,

not much to report today except a no spend day:T :T :T . DH called tonight, the goalposts keep changing re: work, he might be abroad until September now. If this is the case, I will be going there on holiday, but it won't affect my budget as he would be paying. He is in charge of entertainments, so that would be one:p .

I'm going to dig out the knitting pattern book I've got with the toys in it, I would like to make some for the wee fella for next christmas. I know this one has just passed, but it would probably take me a year to make one thing.:rotfl: :rotfl:

I'm filling in my spends into my wee book everyday and will put these into the spending diary at the end of the month with my DD's. Then we will see how I have done.

Marru, you have some amount of books, how did you get all of these? I think in this case, you have done the right thing re: the shelves, if you get rid of those boxes alone, you will feel a lot better. I don't know if you could try and find a 2nd hand book shop, would they take a load of them off your hands all at once? Make sure you look at them all though in case of any valuable ones lurking about.

Speak later all, xx

Frugaldom

savingfortravel wrote: »

Nyk-So sorry but I missed (not sure how) the message about 3 weeks/3 month moments. Could you repeat??

[STRIKE]It was one of yesterday's posts[/STRIKE] Back again - it's here

Menotmoneyexpert - The £4,000 in my personal challenge is for everything except rent & council tax and this is my third year of working to a strict budget.

Guesty6

Had a NSD today! :beer:

Colleague bought lunch and snacks today, I went with him but didnt buy anything.

Normally on a Thurs after football I would go get food out but again I decided against and made something when I got back.

Every little helps

Sarah147

Oh dear... forgive me Lord, for I have sinned.

Had a lovely start to the day, spent nothing, homemade lunch, nipped out to post a letter (Martin's DVD offer), spent 75p on a Curly Wurly and some pop, went to sisters for tea (lovely Quorn spaghetti bollognaise), got the bus back (£1.05) as it was freezing outside and couldn't bear the cold walk back. So a nice low spend day.

But then... I go and spend £50 on a ticket to a gig tomorrow.

I am almost ashamed to say who it is for, but go on then... New Kids on The Block! :rotfl: I loved them as a kid. I am going to retire, embarrassed to the corner to think about what I have done :rotfl: Sure it will be a very entertaining evening though ha ha.

So spending way out and I will reign it back in next week. And the week after... and the week after... :rotfl:

mumzyof2

Evening all,

Today I drew out £90 and spent :

£1.90 on bus fare
£4 on some new trousers for me (reward for getting to day 4 of non smoking)
£4.17 in quality save
£0.58 on conditioner in boots
£4.78 on my DD bday present in argos..its a barbie scooter and should of been £16 odd..but was half price at 9.78 and i had a £5 argos voucher so only cost me $4.78
£0.99 on milk
£5 on electric
£20.00 on gas
£5.50 on tv licence

Total spend
£46.92

Also paid £5 to a debt but not counting and debt. Put couple of pence in sealed pot from change

£38.00 to last me the week. easy done now im not smoking and i dont intend to start.. I even sat with 3 people smoking in a room today and didnt even feel like i wanted one!!

My Mum is sending me a cheque for £650 to pay off my 3 lowest debts and im paying her back at £10 per week.

wornoutmumoftwo

New Kids on The Block! :rotfl:

I like them too, saw them at Wembley first time round.

In_Search_Of_Me

hi there...couple of days without update so thought I'd say I'm still here!! Had busy couple of days with w*** so little time/energy to do much. Did quick mr t shop yesterday and day out with w*** today but managed expenses (all will be remibursed but will add to spends!) so still happy with things. Still feeling reluctatnt to spend money and did picnic etc so I wouldnt have to pay extortionate food etc elsewhere!!hugs those that need them...wll catch up tomorrow but now off to bed I go!!