The ultimate incentive worked! Now onto phase two

Lara44

I just checked my uni application on the online tracking system and it says ...

:j Unconditional Offer :j

Super YAY!

Dinah93

Wow that's fantastic news Lara! Huge congrats!

Tete_en_l'Air

Unconditional - wow! Well done and congratulations!! How are you going to celebrate? Do you start in the Autumn?

Lara44

Thanks guys

Everybody is working today and OH is working crazy hours for the next 2 weeks, so I might just take myself out for lunch today.

I am really excited, it's only part time and I start on October 1. Better get my backside into gear and get those fees saved!

NIM sounds like a brilliant guy, that's a lovely email he sent you Dinah. Am sure you'll get through this month and next month your spends will be okay. Sounds like you need to keep some of that MS money for spends this month x

poddle911

That's fab news Lara! Congratulations! What's the actual course title? I'm very interested in other people's postgrad studies, and a little bit jealous!

NIM's such a sweetie! I'm sure you'll muddle through a tough month and hopefully things will even out soon - £180 sounds fairly reasonable. But it seems to me that unexpected expenses always pop up at the wrong time, though as long as they're balanced with unexpected income you should be fine!

wendz86

Congratulations Lara!

I think you do great to manage to only spend that amount in a month. Wish I could manage it, sure i could if i had to.

Birdie85

Congratulations Lara!
NIM's such a sweetie and you'll get through the tough month, maybe just use some of your extra earnings to help you through until next month. Unexpected spends are always cropping up and you just have to roll with the punches and accept that not as much money can be saved some months as it can in other months!

Dinah93

We've been on a mcuh tighter budget than £360 up until now. Plus the £360 doesn't include contact lenses, gym membership, dental insurance, petrol or plane tickets, so I really don't see how we could spend nearly £100 a week on 'stuff'!

NIM remembered he has a coin jar his brother is supposed to be putting into the bank for him, so that will be about £40-50 into the spends pot for the month, and he has e30 in his wallet he's going to try to swap with a bloke in the office who is off to France at the weekend, which if the bloke is amenable then that'll be £25 too, which sorts him out nicely.

Dinah93

Birdie85 wrote: »

NIM's such a sweetie and you'll get through the tough month, maybe just use some of your extra earnings to help you through until next month. Unexpected spends are always cropping up and you just have to roll with the punches and accept that not as much money can be saved some months as it can in other months!

If this was a car breakdown or the computer died or something, yes I would agree. But this is entirely spending on luxuries and socalising, so I'm not willing to drop the savings for those as its the entire point of budgetting to be able to stick to it! I do agree NIM is a sweetie though!

Dinah93

Oooh lovely lunch, spent my half an hour in the sunshine laid on the grass between our car park and the factory next door, reading my very sarcy housebuilding book. AND I get to clock off a bit early today, 4.45ish, as I will be meeting NIM at the gym.