My rags to riches, weight loss, yummy mummy stuff and 'owt else i can think of diary!

mummy2mygirls

Rags sorry about the car and not being able to pay more of the debt - but think before lbm you would of just shoved it on the cc and not worried (well i know i would!!)
Hope you have a good day - nice that dd can go and play in the garden! I cant wait till its a bit warmer and can do trips to the park and playing in the garden.....
Have fun doing all the house work!
x

ragstoricheswannabe

Thanks mummy, doing the housework in bits, done the kitchen and hoovered, now having a brew and a browse on here, then will do the polishing............ not got the kids on fri as they will both be at the childminders (ds2's first time ) so am going to do all th erooms throughly then.

well have got the door people coming on thurs to measure up for a quote, we said we will still get the quote so we can see how much we are looking at and we may be able to still get them depending on how much a new car costs, seen a nice gun metal grey mondeo we both like for £3500, hoping to get at least £1300 for ours so may be able to squeeze the doors on with it....................... not dfw really but a need, the lock on the back door is getting harder to unlock...............

got the bank statement for jan-feb and we only over spent by £100 (despite being so close to the limit) according to the money in and out bit which is pretty good for jan. Think it will be a little more than that this month, although oh has got overtime to go in..................:rolleyes:


Well on the ebay front, 1 item is selling, 2 items have watchers and 1 item has nothing.............finishes tomorrow so fingers crossed!!

mummy2mygirls

it might not be dfw but its nothing like my car!! I pay £279 a mth for 5yrs!! the car cost a fortune but we got loads of other rubbished added on like protect in case the car is a right of and we owe more on the finance and extra warrenty (which isnt worth the money!!) I did need a new car as i cant fit three car seats in my old car - but no way needed to spend that much and get all the extra rubbish!! so you need a new car but you will be doing it in the best way you can - so thats not to bad!!

hope you get some more bids on the ebay bits! Ive been doing the same today (and yesterday etc etc) do a little bit of housework then sit down with a cup of tea for a bit!!:)

ragstoricheswannabe

O.k, to meet my target this month, i need to pay another £30 out. Will wait to see how much the car is going to come to but not holding my breath there.
Still waiting for my fella's overtiime to arrive so can get all the bits i need this month to go back to work so will be able to use the money off that (if there is any??!!) Have got over £25 in paypal but really want to wait till it reaches £50 so dont have anymore taken off it in fee's (think they get enough already)

:mad: bit mad today as last week i had met my target and then some, thought i was going to be ahead of myself......................bloody car:mad: :mad: :mad:

on a good note, have cancelled order for doors from annoying firm, although they are keeping the price for 12 months for me if i decide to go back and will be getting my £60 deposit back. This will go to the debts but not sure if it will reach here in time for this month. Cant add the egg2 payment to this month as it is due to go out 2 march, so will be in next months amount.............................

so need to make and have £30 in a week and a half, any ideas??

ragstoricheswannabe

Whoo hoo, the garage has just rung and its only gonna cost £155!!!!!!!! whoo hoo, that means will meet my target no probs now..........

natsplatnat

YAY!!!!!!! :j :beer: :T :T :beer: :j

That is such good news.... and now I'm jealous!!

ragstoricheswannabe

ragstoricheswannabe wrote: »

O.k, thought i had everything sorted in my head, but have got too many numbers swimming around that i need to jot it all down and get it straight. need to jot down extra coming in and extra things i need to get this month.

so, need to buy:

• car seat for ds1 (for my fella's car for when he picks him up)
• car seat for ds2 (for both nannies when they pick him up)
• [strike]cool bag of sorts for ds2's food and bottles[/strike] £7 from asda, its a pretty big one too and will fit bottles and food in for the day
• new work pants
• new work shoes (my pregnant ankles kindly stretched my work shoes so now i have chicken style ankles now they no longer fit...)
• [strike] car needs breaks, heating sorted and ?bracket for the exhaust[/strike] £155 and it wasnt the exhaust, it was the front drivers side spring
• matteress for ds2's cot
• final bits for ds1's room so we can move his stuff (curtains etc) to ds2's room

need to pay:

• [strike]egg card £150[/strike]
• [strike]mil £100[/strike]
• [STRIKE] ?loan £173.80 (if not then more will be going off egg and mil)[/STRIKE] Loan not gone out but not able to overpay much due to car, may be able to pay for quad with left over money.
• put some money aside for quad

Extra money getting this month:

• [strike] one morning overtime £16[/strike] got
• [strike]extra from last year £80[/strike] got
• 1 day overtime a 2 weeks back £80 ish
• 1 day overtime yesterday £88 ish
• 1 day overtime for a friend (not sure how much, my fella needs to ring him)
• [strike]scratchcard £20[/strike] got and paid off egg1 card

There, all down in writing. Hoping the extra money coming in will cover what i need to buy extra, its turning out to be a dear do going back to work............... plenty of scope for some cashback though!!!!!!

need to get back into the swing of doing a meal plan, spesh for when i go back to work, have a feeling my days off will consist of making everyones food for the days im working!!!!!!! a womans work is never done........

havent included any of the cashback from the daily clicks as that will be going straight to my debts.

ramble over, feel free to uncover your eyes now!!!!!

Still a way to go with the things i need to get this month, maybe i need a lot more money to come in........................................................

retrocircles

Really glad to hear about the car! That was lucky!

natsplatnat

Hi Rags!! Yay on the car - thats quite a result and good that you can meet your target!!

Apologies for not being on here as much as usual, work is unfairly bus and I simply haven't had the time! :O(

I will be back in force as soon as I can.

In the meantime, keep up the good work, Nats x

ragstoricheswannabe

Hello peeps,
hope you all have had a good day?! went to look at a car today, but walked away as it was not very good, found loads wrong with it, dont want to end up with another turkey to throw money at!

Got a final bill for my gas at £156!!!!!!!!!:mad: :mad: This will of been when the boiler went haywire and wouldnt turn off so heating was on 24/7. This may hamper me meeting my own target, not going to meet it this month as so worried about it coming out and hitting the overdraft wall.

Should hopefully have over £30 in paypal after my ebay items finish tonight.........only £20 to go till i can withdraw the money. Still havent got my finger out and done anymore photo's.........................kick up the bum please!!!!!

Found an advert in our local paper advertising for people to deliver the yellow pages, gonna look into this, we worked out my fella could drive along in the car with the boot open whilst i deliver them!!! can even have the kiddiewinks in the car, ds1 would love to play postman!!!!!!

So feeling a little one step forward and six hundred back today......................................