Skint Spice's journey to being less skinty and more spicy

skint_spice

Phone contract sorted - £20 a month saved

This week has been spent mainly gardening and visits to the tip so very low on spends (and on excitement). Need to buy weedkiller, such fun stuff.

I've decided not to do the charity event I usually organise this year for various reasons - takes time to organise and costs me a fair bit so I'm just waiting for the fall out! if someone else organises I shall go help though.

Still undecided about the gym and not had time to ask on my fleeting visits but will ask about discounts soon.

skint_spice

Well I asked - no student discount available .... I think I'll keep it for now and try and earn the money to pay for it.

boredofbeingathome

Doing well there-boo to no student discount!

Butti

skint_spice wrote: »

just watching last week's Superscrimpers and woman spends £42 a week on chocolate:eek:

That is some serious chocolate addiction.

skint_spice

Butti wrote: »

That is some serious chocolate addiction.

It was all boxes of chocolates and chocolate oranges - a riot of packaging:eek: If she'd just bought the equivalent amount in bars of chocolate it would have been much cheaper I think but she managed to cut it out completely...

skint_spice

Well this weekend I have been mainly looking at bathrooms - where is that eye rolling smiley when you need one ? turns out that the one that seemed to be half the price when we started pricing turned out 1.5 times the price of the more expensive one by the time taps etc were included....very sneaky!

Have also been to the beach and eaten lots of yummy icecream so not all bad:D

ZTD

skint_spice wrote: »

Well this weekend I have been mainly looking at bathrooms - where is that eye rolling smiley when you need one ? turns out that the one that seemed to be half the price when we started pricing turned out 1.5 times the price of the more expensive one by the time taps etc were included....very sneaky!

Yup - that's why they do it...

skint_spice wrote: »

Have also been to the beach and eaten lots of yummy icecream so not all bad:D

All's good...

skint_spice

So where was I???? This week has been mainly decorating....zzz... hopefully finished now just the rehoming of all our stuff to do.

Having a lazy morning sorting out ironing and watching cookery shows

skint_spice

Moneywise it's been quite good this week, DS back at school and footie etc and had put money aside for footie which it's turned out was not needed so between that and underspend on entertainment that's another £40 towards DS holiday fund only £40 remaining.
Have fixed gas/elec at continued discounted rate and they've almost halved the DD as I was overpaying due to savings from new boiler, hopefully once new bathroom is in then the shower v bath savings will help a bit too.
I'm sure there was a third piece of happy money saving news but I can't remember what it was... have been spending money on decorating and gardening but keeping it reigned in:cool:
Have finally run out of soup and frozen batch cooked meals so I think there will be some cooking done this weekend, makes a change from painting I suppose:)

skint_spice

OK, now started college, DS back at school and life has changed a wee bit - all good so far though:D.

This weekend's task is to empty wardrobe and only put back things that a) fit (still lots of too big stuff in there) and b) that I wear....
No need to keep 20 pairs of black work trousers when I never wear them and some are pretty faded and worn, I NEED SPACE MORE!!!

Money wise doing ok but need to allow a few pounds for lunches at college a couple of days a week, and also need to start putting a few pounds a week away for Christmas:rudolf: