Lunar has a house and lots of shiny new debt to get rid of!

savingholmes

Well done it looks like your efforts are really paying off. Hope you have a good time with OH's parents when they arrive... Where are they flying in from?

lunar

They live in India, they have been over once before when DS was born. I am hoping to get some more cookery lessons this time. Last time I only managed chicken curry and egg curry. I hope to master her veg somosas this time!

savingholmes

wow that is one long journey - the cooking lessons could be fab. I went to an indian cookery session once - I loved the food!

penguin83

Ooh jealous of the cookery lessons! OH's dad was from Sri Lanka and OH can knock up a mean curry. Hope you all have a nice time xxxx

hypno06

Hey lunar, how did the in-laws visit go? Did you manage to master the samosas?

lunar

The in-laws are not here yet, I have just under 3 weeks to get the house into a respectable state for guests! I will master those somosas when they get here though.

Its been a bit of an odd month, we ended up getting the new boiler installed and some new roof insulation so that was £2000 spent form our saving pot, I got the £400 scrappage money which made it just about affordable. Hopefully I will see a difference in our gas bill this month.

In other news I have lost a stone this year and am not really on a diet so it has felt really easy so far. when I have been on diets before it has always been about depriving myself of things I love, counting calories and drinking water! Well I always managed fine for a week then got sick of it and gave up. I am eating 3 normal meals a day and snacks if I want them. I am just making sure to drink lots and eat slowly which seems to have reduced my portions without leaving me hungry.

I tried the paul mckenna thing with the book, CD's and the tapping thing really hoping that would work but it just made me think about food more! maybe I just didnt get it.

I am really hoping to get to a healthy weight as it can only help in trying to get pregnant again.

hypno06

The weight thing seems to be working for you, and sounds like a very healthy way of doing things. I've just scoffed a doughnut, so I haven't quite got to grips with the sensible way of doing things

We had a new boiler fitted about 4 years ago, and it def made a difference to our bills, and has not given us any problems since we had it fitted. It was expensive, but worth it!

penguin83

Hi Lunar, well done on losing a stone.

Hypno - now I want a doughnut, see how easily led I am?

I'm refusing to speak about boilers at the mo! xx

savingholmes

ouch to all those extra costs - at least you had a saving pot for it to come out of....

Will it cause a problem to the holiday spends for when the parents are over?

lunar

Hypno, you made me go buy morrisons jam donoughts! its all your fault I have no will power. I did only eat one out of a five pack though so that is some progress!

Penguin, what happned to your boiler?

SH, there will be no overpayments for 2 months now and we wont be doing any overtime. We have £2500 in savings so we are hoping that will cover things. We will be careful with money but we wont scrimp on things we want to do while they are here so may end up using the credit card a little towards the end of there stay.

Just updated my sig, we wont be debt free for my 30th but I am not too dissapointed as we didn't include buying a house in that equation. I will be looking forward to getting under the 10k mark though!