Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Riding has been cancelled. Dragging the DDs to the shops. Oh joy. Anyone would think I'd suggested ripping their teeth out with a pair of rusty pliers.

moo2moo

After eight failed attempts at downloading the software and three aborted attempts to upload shopping barcodes I've finally worked out how to use the shop & scan clicker. It helps if you hold it the right way up. Will wait to see if I'm £10 richer on Monday as promised. Fairly quick and painless apart from the irritating beep each time you click on a barcode. Still I can put up with a few thousand beeps for £83.50 a year based on the £1.10 per week for uploading barcodes and 50p for till recipts.Won't make me rich but it will go a long way towards Christmas 2010.

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

After eight failed attempts at downloading the software and three aborted attempts to upload shopping barcodes I've finally worked out how to use the shop & scan clicker.

I'm sure I tried to register for this but can't remember. Could you ping me a link via PM?

Intergalactic_Floozie

I'm sure I volunteered for them ages ago and never heard anything since.

moo2moo

Clearly maths is not my strong point. Went to calculate my month end totals but have changed cateegory headings over the month as my book wasn't big enough for my original selection. Having shuffled things about a bit I couldn't get them to add up. Thats because my initial totals were £1847 a month and not the £1667 I'd been working on. Having deducted savings out of this working on the theory that I haven't spent that amount its still available in times of crisis I'm now back to £1667 with a marginally more generous everything else allowance which includes council tax and mortgage repayments.

Formatting sucks. Annual figures in purple, monthly in black and Januarys in green (within budget) or red (mamoth overspend).

Groceries 3000 250 213.22
Domestic Fuel 2040 170 280.06
Comms and Entertainment 2664 222 129.62
Insurance 1260 105 38.52
Cars 4200 350 119.83
Clothes 480 40 0
Fags and OH 1200 100 51.59
Everything Else 5160 430 770.28

Total 20004 1667 1603.12

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

Formatting sucks. Annual figures in purple, monthly in black and Januarys in green (within budget) or red (mamoth overspend).

Groceries 3000 250 213.22
Domestic Fuel 2040 170 280.06
Comms and Entertainment 2664 222 129.62
Insurance 1260 105 38.52
Cars 4200 350 119.83
Clothes 480 40 0
Fags and OH 1200 100 51.59
Everything Else 5160 430 770.28

Total 20004 1667 1603.12

Looks like despite the whopping Everything Else spend that you're down in other places though so it evens out? Well done on being in-budget in Month 1 though :T

moo2moo

Only in budget because OH had 12 days of January off saving two tanks of fuel or around £100.

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

Only in budget because OH had 12 days of January off saving two tanks of fuel or around £100.

Still in budget though :j

Celebrate with some cake and a book

Intergalactic_Floozie

And you're only over on fuel because it's January and it's freezing! Come July / August, you'll even up

moo2moo

DD1 is learning about the solar system as part of this terms science topic. Donned our outdoor gear and hi-viz jackets and went out after dinner in search of some stars. Clearly DD1 has been absorbing data like a sponge although no matter how hard we looked we couldn't find the 3 star constellation named Apple Juice. Even Google struggled on that one. DD1 is adament though thats what her teacher said.

Did see lots of spectacular sights including a shooting star that pulsed red and green (clearly this was NOT an aircraft). Apparently I know nothing. Ticked off lots of constellations in the spotters guide provided by school. Not a clue whether or not we actualy saw them. It was a bit like a random game of dot to dot. you could connect anything to anything else and make it into any shape you wanted. Best part of the whole evening was the moon as the mountains were visible making it look like the moon had a smiley face which DD2 thought was fab. Trudged home in the snow which is getting deeper with every passing hour. Oh joy.