Old Style Diary Archive - FEB 06

manicdays

(((moggins))) hope you are ok babes.

Today I have spend no money! Yesterday I ionly spent the cash I had lying around. I will not go overdrawn this month. I have £64 in my b/a & get paid on saturday!.

I am getting my friends slowly into OS-ing. Today my friend complained about her dishwasher not washing properly. I got her to take the bits off & wash hem. They were namky & then I told her to put a wash on with vinegar & soda crystals. Soon she will have a lovely shiney dishwasher!!!

I am about to make my bathroom cleaner. Have had some in the kitchen for a while now but have had to use uo the mr muscle in the bathroom!

Lisa

bettyboop61

:hello: Hi all,
Have been tracking this site for a while now, and trying to get my head around budgeting but its proving to be more difficult than I imagined. Anyway this is how it all pans out

4 adults and 2 cats and 1 dog live here :wall: and that is how I feel most of the time.
OH currently out of work, 1 son working, 1 son about to start working and I am a domestic engineer, come taxi driver etc. hope u get the picture....
current income approx 1000.00
credit card debts stand at 15,000
mortgage 660.00 pm
car loan 107.00 pm
What i'd really like to know is what sort of realistic budget do you think i should have for grocery shopping bearing in mind that since last thursday I have spent about £100 on groceries!! Think I will stop here for now it could get very boring, but am looking forward to reading your replies on how i can get things in order.

FunkyFairy

smokey112 wrote:

Hey FunkyFairy - good luck - is this your first Auntie stint

No this will be my 4th nephew.

I have not heard any news yet.

Will keep you all posted and thank you for the posts.

squeaky

bettyboop61 wrote:

Have been tracking this site for a while now, and trying to get my head around budgeting but its proving to be more difficult than I imagined. Anyway this is how it all pans out

There's a very recent thread about having just £40 for groceries and it's full of hints and links to all sorts of threads that I'm sure you'll find useful.

£40 budget


For other help with credit cards and debt management try the debt free wannabee board:-

Debt Free Wannabee Board


And they, I'm sure will point you at Martin's Budget Spreadsheet and the credit card forum and so on. There are lots of different ways you can save and manage what you have - you've got lots of reading ahead of you.

Good luck.

smokey112

Bl***dy hell

just had the loudest clash of thunder ever - lasted for about 1 minute - the ground is white with hailstones - just another rumble of thunder OMG - not normally bothered but by god it is loud

Hi Bettyboop61 - welcome to OS - at work at moment so just popping in and out Our house consists of 2 AD 2 CH (weekends only) (1 teen boy with large appetite) and 3 cats - our spend so far from 19/1 - 16/2 has been £345 for food, cleaning things and petrol and alcohol.

take care all

Ang
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thriftlady_2

Hi,Bettyboop,welcome to the board,
You're sure to find help and inspiration here.

Moggins, hope you and the kids are OK.Honestly some people

Nice peaceful day here in the Thrift house.Took thriftlings to local woods for a very muddy walk after breakfast.Spent rest of day pottering around kitchen,doing ironing while thriftlings played in the road with neighbour kids.Dd is now singing praise songs and sticking in her scrapbook,boys are watching The Revenge of the Sith(again).

I'm off to make a start on supper in a mo.

Ticklemouse

Hello again

God, I'm sooooo tired. House - bomb - tea not on - kids runnig around - you get the picture Except for DS2 who is sitting in my bed watching kids tv and feeling very sorry for himself. Ran round like a loon this afternoon doing all my jobs but I've got home and hit 'that' wall.

Hmmm - coffee I think - then I'll make mash and slice the rest of Sunday's roast beef, bung it in the gravy and do some veg. Should keep the wolf from the door. If there's not enough, I'll have the portion of fish pie in the fridge. It's DS1's parents evening tonight so I'll have to drag my sorry !!!!!! back to school at 6.30.

Best go and get on. Still haven't ironed DS1's Beaver uniform yet........

ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

dorry_2

hya all! :grinheart

pp - hope u enjoyed day at sisters!

moggins--- u should have taken his reg number and reported him! he 's obviously a nutter!

well last night i was up all night like tm and nicki! ds2 was burning up and delerious nearly all of last night!! oh slept on sofa, didn't know we were awake !! anyway took ds2 to doctors he had raging tonsililtus! got meds so hoping for a better night (fingers crossed for us alll!!!)

anyway whilst off caught up with housework stuff, everything spick and span now!!


breakie

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hot cross bun
lunch chicken and stuffing buns
tea--- tesco southern fried chicken with cubed roasties and beans


funky fairy , keep us informed on new arrival

love dorry :kisses:

RacyRed

Moggins ((((((Hugs))))) so glad you are all OK. What on earth makes people think it is OK to behave like that!!

Welcome BettyBoop61 :wave: .

Got some serious junk sorting out done earlier despite feeling so rough, but my head keeps hitting the keyboard now! Will sort dinner then get an early night.

mossy

Moggins sorry to hear you had such a scary experience what a nut bar

Bettyboop61 good luck sounds like its hard work in your household but you've definately found the right site. Have you read Martins book??? The spreadsheet that squeaky mentioned it really good as it splits everything out so you can see exactly what your spending etc. I'm sure you'll find loads of advice on the site.

Well I went out for my four hour walk with munch couldn't find pedometer though, messed around in the arboretium for a bit :j and did a bit of seed shopping, wilkos seeds were a bit pricey but they did have a bogof offer on (cheapest free) so I brought 4 packets but paid two at a time and managed to save an extra 20p that way Also picked up some parcel paper ready for wrapping my ebay items which finish at the weekend.

Went to the library and picked up two books on veg gardening one of which was container veg gardening so will look at those this evening, tried to find a slow cooker cook book but there wasn't ANY in the big library, Martins book was out as well so I paid 15p to reserve it.

Dinner is in the oven and I'm feeling very proud of myself lol, although front room is still a tip as is dinning room. Might (ummm) do ironing tonight and tidy dining room a bit while the 'boys' have their meeting.

Thats about it might have a quick tidy now before DH gets home, have a good evening everyone. :smileyhea