The ultimate incentive worked! Now onto phase two

Dinah93

Sounds awful Cinny, maybe you're pushing yourself a bit hard.

Birdie85

Oh dear Cinny, that does not sound good! I think you need to relax your strict budgets, you don't earn that much money so don't go making tough targets for yourself! Enjoy going out and spending some money; you deserve to spoil yourself from time to time! And once you get your Cupcakery up and running you'll be too busy baking and making a fortune to go shopping for pretty things!

Cinny91

Thanks you two, feel really foolish now and pretty drained. I think I need junk food to refuel?
After board and savings I have £40 left for the week, so tomorrow I'm going into town and having a good mooch around the sales/charity shops, let myself relax a bit.

Dinah, if this is how I get from just paying off £235 I don't know how you managed 16k of debt and stayed sane!

Dinah93

Spending money stresses me, not the other way around I just wander about thinking 'what a waste, I'd rather get a house/holiday'.

Be a good message to you not to borrow even small amounts, and always save up for things you want/need.

I wouldn't really advise junk food, sugar highs and lows are unlikely to make you feel better, is there no fruit in the office? Natural sugars apparently don't cause the same peaks and troughs and provide energy gradually.

wendz86

http://tinypic.com/a/wbcg/4 There you go, finally managed it! The date went a bit mental though haha. One pic is of the Britains next top model finalists showing us how it should be done hehe.

Hope you are OK Cinny, don't stress yourself out. You are lucky your debt is with your parents like me and I am sure they wouldn't wnat you to stress yourself out over it.

Dinah93

Unfortunately work blocked that link, so will have to look later.

Just got free tickets to The Proposal, been wanting to see that one so very happy.

wendz86

Ohh thats good! You are good at getting these tickets.

Dinah93

All thanks to the lovely posters on the cinema codes alerts thread.

Cinny91

Love the pictures Wendz, You're so pretty! Is it weird I'm thinking the Charity Shop 'chic' doesn't look too bad?!

Boo, do I have to have healthy food?

Thankfully it's all paid off now, just owe them the money for OHs laptop which is already saved up. Feels like a big weight off, though I feel a bit lost without an aim now!

Well done the on the tickets Dinah!

Dinah93

You've still got your end of July target Cinny? Why don't you join the £10 a day challenge and put all the makings into savings, see if you can have 5k in savings by the end of the year or something, and not touch them! If you did the £10 a day challenge for the rest of the year that would be nearly £2000 without even counting what you already save from your wages.