By any means!!

cady

Good morning!!!!

Ok well ive decided now that aswell as paying my debts off im going to sort xmas 2009 out as with bubs due at the end of sept i thought id try and get xmas sorted out too ive already got my present drawer ready got cards and wrap ect and all the birthday cards in for the whole year decided that ill get presents in if i see something cheap in the shops and will put them away so that when autum - winter comes i only have a few things to buy and wont have to get all the little stuff in and rush round the shops ect so thats my plan for now got a CD for £3 in asda which has gone away and i have a list started i think lots of people will be getting a picture frame with baby in too lol so will be on the look out for some nice ones too!!!

so far i have saved some money:

* £6 in paypal
* nearly 2 £10 vouchers from pigs back
* my silver tin
* using quidco when can to add to paypal funds

so just a bit of an update on whats going on !!!!

cady xxx

Flower08

Hi Cady!

Nice to hear that you are doing okay, and well done for paying off the avon debt, thats great news!

Great idea about the freebies for the baby, i am sure you will manage to get lots of helpful things that you need. And also great idea about being prepared for christmas! Every year i say i will be more organised for christmas but it never seems to happen, maybe this year will be different!!

Good luck and keep us updated!

cady

Merry Monday!!!

Hiya well today i have to go to the bank and pay some money in for the bills, get some cards from the card shop to put away in the drawer (i have all of them but want a few more plain ones and friend ones too) maybe some plain wrapping paper for brithday presents ect. The other day i got my dads birthday present and fathers days present too as HMV had a great sale on and i used £1 voucher too so bargins there too im going to make my xmas list and baby list soon so i can get my bargins in. Roll on next payday so i can keep going i need a better plan for my debts tho as i think all this baby and xmas planning is distracting me so need to work harder as just doing min payments on it as was workign on others might start the PAD again to get it kickstarted again.

Thanks for reading my ramblings!!

Ill keep you updated love Cady xxx

cady

just paid £10 off egg to get me kick started and im so pleased its now under £700 whop whoop feeling good!!! oh and i wonder how ocme my diary is not on the diary board??? hmmmmm

cady

Good Morning,

Today im rather pleased with myself ive just checked my funds and so far i have!!!

* £20.87 in paypla account
* 2 pigsback account 100pts short of getting a voucher
* a half full tin of silver
* £5.54 in quidco

all towards my xmas/birthday fund!!!!! eek im getting somewhere!!!

staceydaisy

cady i absolutly love your diary ive had a great time reading it. Your situation is very similar to ours. im thinking of starting a similar diary lol.
I gave birth to a lil boy last august the best thing that could have happened to us. Please remember when your 25 weeks pregnant you will get £190 one of payment from some where you will have to look this up.

ps i didnt qualify as only been brought in April

lots of luck

staceydaisy

cady

Good evening!

i still get really excited when irealise someone has actually read my diary so thanks staceydaisy!!! its made me feel a bit better knowing your having a similer experience to me it gives me hope that there is other people out there getting through these things too!!! im at the moment having a bit of a panic as dont really have any plans in place for what we need to buy or how we will cope on my maternity allowence so me and OH have had a chat today and i think all my lists and conversations have sunk in so were gonna sit and sort all that out over the next few weeks too .... let me know if you start that diary as id be interested in a read!!!!

cady xx

cady

Good morning

well im feeling rough today been sick a lot and got a head ache but im off work tomorrow which is good i suppose havnt really done much money saving stuff apart from havnt spent any money at work as have been taking my own lunch in and i havnt used much petrol as i havent been anywhere really so that about it!!! going to start making my baby lists and putting them into order of importance ect as going to start buying things bit by bit so will make a start on that too me and OH are doing the whole grown up responsible sit down and talk about money stuff so the only things we will be doing is planning, planning and planning ...... so mental caps on and calculators at the ready!!!!

Cady xxx

Flower08

Hi Cady,

Good to hear that you are doing okay (except for the morning sickness!!).

Scary stuff all this adult stuff isnt it? Lol.

Bet your excited about starting to get some bits for the baby. Good idea to start getting it a bit at a time now, instead of leaving it all til the last minute. I know when my friend recently had her baby, in her last 3 months of pregnancy she would put extra bits in with the weekly shopping (such as nappies, baby toiletries, wipes etc) then she has a little collection of them when the baby was born and it wasnt such a strain of the finances.

Hope your doing ok!

cady

Hi Flower nice to see you again!!! how are you doing?? im doing good still sick but thats just the way it goes at the min!!!! we are buying extra stuff like soap powder ect when its on offer so we dont have to buy this stuff later on so we can then put the money we save on the shopping towards buying the baby stuff in our shop too!!! well today im going to pop to asda today as they had the bottles of bailys for £5 so going to get one of them for a friends birthday so there is my bargin then later im gonna start making my baby lists of what we want/need to get in for baby oh im getting more and more excited now cnat wait!!!!

Well have a great good friday everyone!!!

Cady x