Clawing back - the second half

milann

I've got courgettes growing on my windowledge and tomatoes and something else that I can't remember LOL - will have to see if I've still got the pack or if dh has thrown it out as he 'helped' me LOL. I've planted sweet peas straight out and some cut and come again lettuce. Did a few bits last year but it was very hit and miss - ended up with hundreds of tomato plants last year as I couldn't bear to throw any little plants out - ended up with pounds of tiny green tomatoes that I had to bring in cos the wind blew them all over and broke the plants (they did all ripen in the end) - this year I have bought a pack of tumbling plants with just a few seeds in instead. I too am limited in space and only grow veg in pots - so it's a matter of trial and error to see what works.

Good news on the DFW being so close - you won't know what to spend all the extra cash on LOL

Milann

Claw_back_money

Warning - hormonal post ahead!

Yesterday was a rubbish day. I did a presentation in the evening for my voluntary work - and didn't convey enough enthusiasm to the would be volunteers. My car's windscreen wiper has lost a spring and doesn't work - and will need a new bit from Vauxhall. I dropped OH's laptop and looks like the CD drawer is broken (though mercifully the rest is ok). And dropped a cup of hot chocolate in the lounge - it was split between a chair (light grey) and the carpet (beige). I feel a bit fed up!

No change money-wise - but expenses coming up for the car and the laptop.

Seedlings in pots are ok but the ones in the raised bed are not coming through - where I've watered them the ground looks very hard and packed - so maybe they can't push through? I'll have to watch the film on bbc digin again to see how its done!

Bah humbug

Cbm

sharpy2010

Claw_back_money wrote: »

Warning - hormonal post ahead!

Yesterday was a rubbish day. I did a presentation in the evening for my voluntary work - and didn't convey enough enthusiasm to the would be volunteers. My car's windscreen wiper has lost a spring and doesn't work - and will need a new bit from Vauxhall. I dropped OH's laptop and looks like the CD drawer is broken (though mercifully the rest is ok). And dropped a cup of hot chocolate in the lounge - it was split between a chair (light grey) and the carpet (beige). I feel a bit fed up!

Unbelievable.

People are ill in hospital and would LOVE to have the extremely minor issues that you appear to be dealing with.

Sorry to post such a negative comment, but jeez, what you've written makes you sound very selfish.

Sun_Addict

Hi Cbm

You obviously had just one of those days when little things go wrong that normally bother you but when hormones are raging everything gets to you no matter how trivial it may seem. Hope today is better.

Well done on the new total you are so close now. What will you do when you're debt free? Will you be doing that strange thing called saving!!!

Lemon_Tree

hope you had a better day today, don't worry you're allowed to have grumpy days without feeling guilty, we all have them, molehills feel like mountains etc, if you can't vent somewhere then it's likely that they will turn into Everest.

milann

Hormonal days allowed - that must be the only one I've ever read on here - you are usually very positive. It's your diary and therefore you are allowed to whinge to your hearts content about spilt chocolate, broken windscreen wipers or whatever else has happened to rankle you at the time, this in no way makes you selfish.

Hope the stain came out, the wipers aren't too costly and that you have a better day today.

Milann

Claw_back_money

You are all so lovely! Hormones are a right pain - the 'poor me' that I used to feel at 15 has given way to 'carp me' when I feel inadequate and clumsy (although the evidence would suggest that I do get, exceedingly clumsy :rotfl:). Windscreen wiper bit is £25 new, OH said we can go to a scrapyard and probably find one there. Manager from the presentation wasn't too unhappy; I just hope I haven't lost them volunteers. Laptop is a new CDRom - OH is going to look into it and find it. Chair and carpet got well scrubbed with frustration and look ok - phew.

Wages from job #2 are not in bank as expected today, maybe I'll get paid it in May, so with that and the unexpected expenses (car, laptop) I think it will be DF at the end of May instead. I am still going to pay the CC off tomorrow, which will force my bank account overdrawn but it is cheaper iyswim.

Day off today and tomorrow - I'm off to body balance now. Have a good day all.

Cbm

Claw_back_money

I got woken at silly o'clock by birdsong - it was so lovely to have time to lie in bed and listen to it! I've been up for quite a while and done clicks and banks etc - all is in order. I've won a book from the Bangzo giveaway which is really lovely too - it's more like a lucky dip than a competition and very easy.

Money wise I've transferred the CC to the bank account, so I'll be overdrawn for a week, which seemed to be the cheapest option. I didn't get paid from job #2 - they messed up and I'll get it in May, the administrator was very apologetic but its really just one of those things. Money from edigital not here yet either. (counting and chickens spring to mind).

I've started to think about life after debt. The accounts are separate; most of the money is in the joint account with a bit left for each of us in a personal bank account.

Joint account (monthly):
- mortgage is increasing by about £100
- gas & electric is increasing by about £50
- we want to give DS1 & 2 a bit more money for Uni - amount TBC
- savings - for replacing appliances etc £100
- food shopping needs to be held to a limit depending on whether DS is home or not

I think thats quite enough thinking and computer time for one day. Today OH and I will do beds / dust / hoover / bathrooms (yippee for all that) and then hopefully out into the garden to replant the pots and work out where the courgettes can go in due course.

Have a brilliant weekend
Cbm

Lemon_Tree

oh courgettes are haunting me, i must get the bloomin things in trays!!!!!

thanks for the book giveaway link i've signed up, love books

Claw_back_money

I had to pot on the courgettes yesterday LT - don't they grow fast! The little pots they were in was full of root! Is it too cold to pop baby beans and things out in the daytime? I've got one of these plastic greenhouse type things (which is absolutely rubbish and full of holes already) and I've been putting the trays out there in the day and bringing them in at night. But I'm not sure if some of these should be in all day until it warms up a lot?

Money wise no change at all. Its the boring time of run up to payday.

I've been thinking more about life after debt.. at the moment daily I check banks, ms money and spreadsheet, and try to do a few daily comps and clicks too. They're saved as favourites in internet explorer so I just open all the tabs and work through. But its a bit time consuming and I may be able to let some of that go. We'll see! I might start thinking very seriously about the weight I need to lose, and put some of the time and effort into that.

And completely unrelated.. wasn't Dr Who brilliant! OH and I were off out but I persuaded him to let me watch the end before we left; but what a cliff-hanger I can't imagine what he is going to do!

Cheers
Cbm