Trials and tribulations of a Debt Free Wannabee!

savingholmes

well if DS had fixed it straightaway - could have done it for £55 - leaving it a bit longer - he caused another £15 worth of damage!

savingholmes

OH - has DS's ipod in bits at work now - but has had to ordered a specialist tooklit to undo 1 screw! He's fairly hopeful he can fix it! He also has an old phone and charger DS can have saving him buying a new one - Now I just need to find the £5 free orange sim card I got before xmas!

My umbrella company have replied with loads of questions - which are going to take me a while to answer and seem really complicated. I still need to submit my expenses and my sick note. May need to log onto my work email address to find some info.... Potentially quite stressful!!

My leg is a lot better today - but still not convinced that I am up to my long commute - want to test the journey out first before I go back. Need to ring GP tomorrow and try and get a renewed sicknote - and let work know!

I have paid the very painful £90 to the afterschool club - plus the £20 DD owed on dinners - ouch, ouch. She wants to go back to packed lunches but I would prefer her to wait until it is a bit warmer.

On the organising / decluttering front. I have re-hung a picture in our bedroom that goes beautifully with our decor - which came off the wall at least 6 months ago! It is of a knight slaying a dragon and rescuing a damsel in distress LOL! I have also completely emptied a chest of drawers in our bedroom - and binned some of the contents. The rest is still strewn all over the bed - I now need to resolve this before OH gets annoyed!

Hope everyone else is okay.

By the way - I need you to keep nagging me re expenses, accident claim form and tax credits!! Please don't be surprised if I run away and hide.....

savingholmes

one bright spot in my week - my brand new cardigan that I thought I had wrecked with wax at the start of the year - is now fully recovered. I used the iron and kitchen paper suggestion made by one of you - poss lucielle? So thanks again!

*Jellie*

Dropping by for gentle nagging duty!
I know how rubbish it is having to sort out this kind of stuff.
Finished work about 9pm last night and then had to force myself to spend another hour sorting out replies to questions raised by my buyer/solicitor. 10 questions ranging from those requiring me to rummage through paperwork to sort out my replies to the seemingly absurd.....have I ever paid money toward the maintenance of the chancel of the parish church???

bigzippy

Consider this your gentle nag

savingholmes

hi jellie - agree those questions are random

hi bz

I still haven't done it! Major procrastination alert!

*Jellie*

So is today the day you're going to make major inroads into that to do list??

savingholmes

still procrastinating!!!

Met OH for lunch and nipped into Matalan.... spent £33 and got about 5 things. I have organised another sick note.

My knee is finally on the mend - have managed to majorly scale back the painkillers despite driving today. Plan to test driving the distance to work at the weekend with OH in the car - so he can take over if required! Also trying to fix up for kids to stay away at the weekend - DD to MIL's saturday-sunday and DS to sis and bil's! That will give me and OH some much needed time to ourselves as a couple which would be good. Unless my knee has another flare up - think will be back at work next week.

Sis also has a vgc bed we can pick up while we are there - saving the £100+ I would otherwise have spent on one... or at least post-poning it!

lucielle

Rather spend money in Matalan, than on new tyres. Your day sounds so much better than mine.
L

savingholmes

lucielle wrote: »

Rather spend money in Matalan, than on new tyres. Your day sounds so much better than mine.
L

From your diary your day sounded really hard work - made me almost ashamed of the laziness of mine!:o

Well it took me over an hour of searching but finally found the info I needed for tax credits and rang them! Woohoo. They will start to pay me £10.50 a week asap and then when the renewal pack comes through in April they will pay a me a few hundred pounds in backdated money. I was really worried that they might not backdate it the whole year as I hadn't told them of a change quickly enough - but since I was already on their system - they said it wasn't a problem. Which was a great relief :cool:

I think the reason I was struggling with doing it so much is that last year my total income was around 4 times as much as I have earned so far this year! :eek: Really depressing!

I still need to work out which days to claim mileage for, claim them, send off fuel receipts and send off my sicknotes to the umbrella company. I then also need to try and pull together some info re my accident for said company too! I am really struggling mentally with doing such basic things at the moment - which I think is another symptom of hating my current job!

Hope everyone else is okay