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benbenandme wrote: »Its been a while since I treated myself to nice undies Louise
Always one of those things that there is never enough pennies for, so I thought what the hell, I'm worth it 
Well I wasnt actually sure of what you had ordered, you can get some interesting stuff from Ann Summers;) :rotfl: nice undies are a necessity I think they definitely make you feel just that little bit special:)But these things take time, I know that I'm, the most inept that ever stepped.0 -
And the parcel was my Ann Summers stuff, all very nice, I've got 3 x knickers, 2 x bras, pj trousers and cami top, 2 x basques ... all for £27 (36 quidco to come too) :j :j
I had ds parents evening tonight too, was lovely to see his work, his writing is improving but still a long long way to go
Spends today = £3.11 on lunch
and £1 on a raffle ticket from the sixth formers at school
Mortgage Total: £50,550/ £75,000
Mortgage Overpayments Pot £16800 -
Bah, out of the sweepstake
but, one of my friends had Spain and a group of 4 of us are going bowling next week, so we had agreed as one of us was guaranteed to be in the final that whoever it was would put the money towards our night out, so all is not lost 
I've also added up the Ann Summers stuff, and full price it would have cost £166 :eek: :eek: Not that I would have paid anything like that for it, but wow, definitely got a bargain or two there :beer:Mortgage Total: £50,550/ £75,000
Mortgage Overpayments Pot £16800 -
benbenandme wrote: »Its been a while since I treated myself to nice undies
Ohhhhhhhhh! It was undies was it?:D0 -
I was a good girl and cycled to school today :j It was knackereing, I only live a couple of miles from school but I was shattered when I got there
Ds wants to cycle again tomorrow but I'm not too sure yet ...
Spends today = £1.15 on lunch and I do need togo and get somemilk so will spend a bit more yet.
Nothing much else to report, off to make tea and then ds wants to go out afterwards
Mortgage Total: £50,550/ £75,000
Mortgage Overpayments Pot £16800 -
We went out on the bikes and I ended up buying more than just milk
I spent £5.86 in tesco on milk, choccy, croissants and a bag of lettuce. We then picked up a bag of chips to share for tea which were absolutely gorgeous 
I've also done just over 10,000 steps today too :TMortgage Total: £50,550/ £75,000
Mortgage Overpayments Pot £16800 -
I've not been good foodwise today, people brought loads of cakes into work and lots of those little chocolate bite kinda cakes, so have been picking during the day

Ds has gone to his dads now, not sure now what to do for the weekend, I do want to crack on with jobs but I also want to go out and do something, but my mates all seem to be away this weekend, well no thats not true, the ones that are single and happy to go to the pub at night are away
Mortgage Total: £50,550/ £75,000
Mortgage Overpayments Pot £16800 -
I know what you mean my dh is away this weekend and I am stuck at home with nothing much to do just resorted in going to the beach to take the dog out for an hour, guess I will be watching tv all night cant wait for BB
Make £200 by end of January... £20.42/£200
Grocery Challenge £200 pm Jan £0/£200
January no spend days - 1/310 -
Pinklady - was going to comment that it's nice that some people can just 'pop' down to the beach, and then I realised who it was that had posted and thought 'Whoops, we live in the same time'. I don't consider our beach a beach!!! Am thinking that we will go down to Lyme Regis tomorrow - haven't been there since the oldest ds was about 8 months old! and he is now 11!!!
Benben - sorry to hijack. Is it the New Forest that you cycle around? Is it far from you?0 -
Yep its the New Forest, its only a mile or two from me, I am sooo lucky, a maile or so to the forest and about 200 metres to the beach


Mortgage Total: £50,550/ £75,000
Mortgage Overpayments Pot £16800
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