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

hypno06 · 7 June 2009 at 11:19AM

The skis get waxed and edged.....anything to get that extra 100th of a second off the time :rolleyes: It's strange - they are able to iron the bases of their skis yet can't work out how to iron a t-shirt :rolleyes:

I've tried having a ski budget but that works about as well as all my other budgets! The fact is that it would just be too scary to add up the costs......

£9 to enter a regional race, £16 to enter a national one petrol and overnight stays in a travel inn where needed plus food. And that is almost every weekend through the summer......for two of them.....although we have been trying more to share lifts this year to help everyone out, and twice this year DS has been taken by someone else which helps.

Then skis - about £400 a pair, boots £200 a pair, poles £25 a pair, helmet £90.......and they grow out of these like everything else. Of course, when they go on snow they have more than one pair of skis - for slalom, for Giant slalom and for superG, and race catsuits.....even more expensive race entry fees.

We do get as much as we can second hand, and also sell on what we can to recoup some of the costs as well, but sometimes their things are so so so worn through there is no re-sale value at all.

Their national level training here and on snow does cost, but all training they get at the club is covered by us working for free at the ski club, so that helps a lot.

OH keeps saying they should give it up and take up table tennis instead as the kit is much cheaper! But I think that whatever sport they do at that level it is going to cost a fair bit.

I will have to try and work it out properly, and set a proper, realistic budget.....

Keeping_Motivated · 7 June 2009 at 2:36PM

hypno06 wrote: »

The fact is that it would just be too scary to add up the costs......

Sounds like you are at the edge of a lightbulb confessional of a newbie

You know better than any of us the importance of facing up and taking control of debt and it sounds like the skiiing costs could/should be the next thing to get the Hypno treatment and be taken by the scruff of the neck and faced and dealt with

:A

hypno06 · 8 June 2009 at 5:50AM

I need to tot up yesterdays spends.....will do it when I get to work and will post then. It won't be pretty :rolleyes:

Mudbath · 8 June 2009 at 9:32AM

hypno06 wrote: »

I need to tot up yesterdays spends.....will do it when I get to work and will post then. It won't be pretty :rolleyes:

Shut your eyes as you type it and it won't be so scary!

Do I put my yankee tarts as an essential or unessential expense....I could use them for work (in theory)! Mmmmmm guess it wasn't essential. I don't like this thread as it's making me analyse everything I spend! :eek:xx

Karmacat · 8 June 2009 at 9:44AM

:hello: It does, doesn't it ... I *try* to be good .... it sort of happened yesterday by accident. I went food shopping while I was at my sister's yesterday, otherwise I'd have had to leave her early. So I said I couldn't go to Waitrose, her supermarket - I just wanted fresh veggies, and they *are* more expensive there, on average, tho not everything is. So we went to Sainsbury's, and she sat in the car vegging for a bit while I went in, with my mum. And tho I've been slagging my mum off this morning on another thread, I have to acknowledge that I bought 2.5 kg of potatoes and some fresh veg, and she paid for it, because she'd put strawberries and yogurts into my basket

hypno06 · 8 June 2009 at 12:14PM

hypno06 wrote: »

I need to tot up yesterdays spends.....will do it when I get to work and will post then. It won't be pretty :rolleyes:

£56.81 spent yesterday on food and drink at a fundraiser (for 5 of us, Indian food, very nice) including raffle ticket which won me a box of Thorntons Chocs....

.....but which I suppose I should put down as avoidable, because we didn't have to go.

And £2 on bread
£10 on petrol

So, total for 7th June - £68.81
Total for June so far - £335.29

Of which £100.60 entirely avoidable

On the plus side - still no shop bought lunches or coffees :rolleyes: