Hypno's spending diary for June.....

hypno06

I wouldn't mind, Mudbath, but I have been really good this week and not bought sweets or chocolate.....no shop bought lunches, and not a single latte!

And I have STILL spent waaaay too much!

savingholmes

HI hypno - I think you are brave posting your spends... I was thinking I have been good today... £1.17 on lunch and was smiling smugly to myself...

then remembered the 40p on the sweet machine at work (Twix) and then petrol on the way home £39.59 but plus Polo 29p (started pack) and Bounty Dark 49p
(not eaten yet)!!

I can get some petrol and lunch (but need receipts) cost back - just not the sweeties - so for me avoidable spend would be £1.18 scarily more than I spent on lunch!

Cleaning£22.00Coffee£2.00Confectionary£6.08Fruit£7.89Garden£32.00Interview£2.00Lunch£5.16Nuts£3.58Petrol£39.59Soft Drinks£3.125 days spend£123.42Av daily spend£24.68

Oh well you inspired me to look at my spending this month so far (ignores OH spends) - I wouldn't mind but not done proper grocery shop yet - the fruit and stuff was just a top up/extra!

hypno06

Savinghomes, yes it is amazing how much stuff just creeps in......!

Today has been a ski day so never cheap, but it could have been worse - I did take pack ups but it was so cold there I ended up buying hot chocolates for the children as well as endless coffees for me to keep me awake for the journey back home!

I put £30 petrol in the car, which got me there and back, but with nothing much left over.....and spent £25.81 on coffees, hot chocolates, cereal bars and sports drink (not Lucozade, the shops own version), raffle tickets and breakfast at McDonalds (which was £5.07 - I got a free coffee).

Of that, I could probably cut out half of the £25.81 by taking a flask and not buying the raffle tickets. We had an early early start (5am) and I just wake the children up, get them dressed and put them in the car at the last minute, so we don't have breakfast before we leave (otherwise we would have to be up even earlier :eek:) so breakfast a bit later on works best for us.

Hmmmmm...........ski, ski, ski - such a big part of our life and so expensive!

So, spends today £55.81 (all ski related :rolleyes:)

total spent in June - £259.48

of which entirely avoidable - £41.79

And it is still only the first week in June :rolleyes:

slowlyfading

dont worry this will just open your eyes, don't be ashamed! more to you for actually posting, i dread to think what mine would look like if i did this!

hypno06

I forgot something from yesterday!!

DD needed a text for English Lit at school - £7.........they can have a school copy but they are not allowed to write notes or highlight, which is fair enough....and it is for GCSE so I can't really complain at it.

So my total for June is £266.48.

SF, yes it is certainly opening my eyes - all these odds and ends really are eating into money I either cannot really afford, or should (and want to) be paying off the debt!

moo2moo

Hypno why not buy a camping stove. Even a deluxe all singing all dancing 2 burner petrol coleman with coffee filter machine would be a fabulous investment. A couple of litres of water, jars of coffee, hot chocolate and milk, a pack of bread rolls, bacon and eggs and voila paid for in no time. You'd have all the hot food and drinks you wanted when you wanted without having to resort to take out.

hypno06

hi moo2moo! We have been doing the race circuit for about 7 years now......we've done the camping stove thing for several of those. But if you could see the amount of truck we have to cart to these events you would understand that sometimes I just cannot face another thing to lug and clean......it is like going camping for a week, but just for a day!!!

Also, there are lots and lots of people with gazebos, chairs, waxing stations (with generators and hot irons), 200 kids who can't keep their stuff in one place, so sometimes these places say no to your own barbecue/stove - partly for health and safety, partly because they want to see you their own burgers and coffee!

Part of the "problem" yesterday was that this particular complex has a "starbucks" Most sites don't, and I make more of an effort to take a flask then :rolleyes:

But yes, that is why I put some of the costs down as "avoidable"......

Keeping_Motivated

Hypno do you do a budget for Ski/Racing? I know it might be hard to do a budget for the actual racing as you don't know how many and where maybe but could you allocate so much per month for 'ski sundries' and when its gone its gone?

Mudbath

Hypno - waxing station???? Do people have beauty treatments whilst they're waiting???? Or is it a skiing technical term???? Sorry, had to ask! xx

duchy

Erm I think it's the skis that get waxed not the skiers :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Although swimmers get waxed to cut down resistance.........so maybe they should......... Hmmmm.... Hypno-just found a new earning op for you-skier waxing !!!