Goals for this week : 30-4-06

claireiom

Morning all.

Last weeks thread http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=187537&highlight=goals+for+this+week

Last weeks Goals

1.Make final payment to Barclay Loan Not made yet as Barclays cancelled the S/O!!
2. Transfer money from Paypal account to clear next account Complete and next bill now cleared
3. Amend s/o to moving account.Standing order changed to allow me to save to move
4. Start completing tax form Not started yet as waiting documents from employer
5. Allocate weekly tea money Allocated at beginning of week
6. Order Holiday cash Cash ordered
7. Arrange valuation of house House valued and mortgage sorted onto Buy to let! for move
8. Don't use tumbledryer Used once but only for work shirts instead of full load

This weeks goals

1. Contact bank to ensure final payment goes to Barclayloan
2. Allocate weekly tea money
3. Have 3 no spend days
4. Spend no more than £25 on weekend away
5. Complete forms for moving to buy to let mortgage
6. Set May shopping challenge
7. Do not use tumble dryer.

Good luck everyone

Tashja

Tashja wrote:

Will try harder this week :rotfl:

1) Will only use the dryer once No - seem to be struggling with this
2) Will go for 2 no spend days - erm No :rolleyes:
3) Chase bank statements - YES - here any day now
4) Will clean out the car - No but will try and do this today
5) Will use slow cooker at least twice - Yes - done this
6) Will chase electric company for the card to fix our meter and pay us back the money they owe me. Yes - Card is here but I need to give them another week to sort how much they owe us :mad:

Good luck to everyone else. I hope you all have a lovely week.

T xx

This week

1) Use slow cooker 3 times this week
2) Use the farm shop near us for cheap veg and fruit rather then Tescos
3) Get all financial papers together so we can look at re-arranging better mortgage deal.
4) Use dryer once - will do this !!
5) Start looking in to selling house as need to move closer to work

Good luck everybody !!!

T xx

Willsnarf1983

two goals!

1) spend less than £60 this week
2) start eating properly now

Will

ehallett

Hello everyone

I had an awful week last week, I don't think I achieved any of my goals. I haven't been well and have got a big tube hanging out of my arm (IV line, sorry if too much information!), my drugs don't work (that's a song isn't it??) and I feel like poo!! Therefore I hope it's not cheating if I just scrap last week's goals and start afresh this week :rolleyes:

My goals for this week are:

1. Get another voucher towards my present fund.
2. Get another 2 mystery shopping jobs.
3. Complete the training for AQA and get started earning straight away.
4. Join the £2 coin savers club and get £10 (already got £6!)
5. Aim to get £50 towards paying off Alliance & Leicester loan.

That will do this week. I start back at work full-time again and having the use of one arm really does take it out of you!!

Best of luck with your goals everyone!!

Emily x

Ali-OK

Morning!

Last weeks were:

1. Close shares account - Yep done and they've taken the charge off too, so don't have to pay either.
2. 4 no spend days - Yes, just!
3. Something fun and free tomorrow - Not yet, but local paper should throw something up.
4. File paperwork - Yes, lots done, more to do!
5. No Smoking (week 4) - Yes, achieved!

This week:

1. Repair hems (got Wilko Wonderweb equiv) of 4 pairs of suit trousers
2. Repair light fitting. Long story, broke the bulb holder trying to put in energy saving light-bulb, which led to needing right sized screwdriver, which has now led to needing pliers/wire covering cutters! :rotfl: Wilko's to the rescue!
3. Keep with no smoking (week 5)
4. No tumble dryer use (just once last week)
5. 3 no spend days

Have a good week everyone!

lynzpower

Mine are

1. Scout around further for discounts on my lightfittings
2. relist light fitting on ebay with decent photos
3. hopefully transfer my balances to my new 0% card from barclaycard
4. Clarify whether i am actually in debt to my housing association, if im not then a further 350 comes off my sig
5.Do my ever increasing pile of filing
6. Find cheap van for the boot sale ( going splits with a mate)
7. If van found, do last final sorting for the boot sale and do it on Saturday or sunday next week

I think thats enough? lol

Peppa_Pig_5

Good morning all, my goals for last week were:

1. Post another 4 items on Ebay (Not Done at all)
2. Go through info from Capital One to claim my bank charges and send off letter to them (Done, claiming £303, given them the 14 days. Also sent off for statements for 3 other credit card accounts. Got well organised this week)
3. Send Letter to Abbey, requesting £60 worth of charges back. (Done)
4. Go onto Greasypalm and try to get more cashback.(Done, and have also claimed with topcashback, so money going into my paypal account sometime in May.)

My goals for this week will be:

1. Post at least 4 items on Ebay.
2. Collect commission from Avon and hopefully get more orders.
3. Only Spend £40 on grocery shop delivery from Asda this week.
4. Pay £250 off our holiday, only 7 weeks left to pay for it.

Have a good week all.

Peppa
x

LookingAhead

Hi everyone and good luck for this week. Ehallett.....it's perfectly understandable why you had a bad week! Good luck for this week.

My goals last week were:

1. Only spend money midweek on fresh veggies needed and prescription needed. Failed big style however my purchases were things I needed anyway and I got them through QuidCo to make some money back so all is not lost.
2. Try & get lifts to & from work all week or at least till PayDay (Thursday). Done - all week, no bus needed. Hooray!
3. Am going out Saturday for a friend's 40th birthday meal. Budget £25 includes £15 for food and getting there/back/drinks. Tough budget. Maybe I will drive. I drove and spent £20.
4. Get some exercise!!! Had some walks at lunchtimes every day - some longer than others. Still not really good enough though.

This weeks goals are:

1. Again, try to get exercise.
2. Have at least three no spend days (apart from bus fare if needed - I can't do much about that!)
3. Do some searching/clicking to earn pennies & points via QuidCo & Pigsback
4. Do not use tumble dryer.
5. Search for cheap ways to get to Holland in October.
6. Transfer any money that makes its way into my account through QuidCo or Amazon sales etc into separate account to pay for concert ticket I have booked on VISA card - this must be paid off immediately whe bill comes in!

emylou

I didnt post last week so these are the goals from the week before:
1) call/write to Egg to close and cancel acount yes! They are sending me written confirmation by end of May
2) have 2 no spend days cant remember cos I didnt keep my spending diary
3) list more on ebay or amazon yes and have sold more items and got paid from Amazon
4) get more babysitting/tutoring jobs and use the money to pay more off cc yes and have just written a cheque to over pay cc by £170 :j


This weeks goals:
1) Put all babysitting and tutoring money weekly into ISA or ING account
2) Continue sorting my pile of paperwork
3) To not spend more than £20 on "me" this week
4) Sort sandwiches/tuna pasta meal for Tuesday when I'm babysitting straight from work so that I don't waste money on "snacks"
5) Have 3 no spend days and keep spending diary!!!

Good luck everyone

Ayeshalush

I haven't done this for a couple of weeks:o so need to get myself motivated again!!

1) List another 20 CD's on AMazon
2) Spend 2 evenings working on SIL's accounts
3) List 5 items on ebay
4) Don't have heating coming on in the morning on weekdays (doesn't at weekends anyway)
5) Make £20 in purse last until Friday (including grocery shopping).

kathfisch

Ok, goals for last week were:

Make lunch at home every day apart from friday treat (as usual). Almost - had one extra lunch out with friend but only cost £2.40 :j

Tidy and sort my room - dispose of unwanted stuff in appropriate way (bin, charity shop, freecycle, ebay).Nope, not done at all.

Spend more vouchers when shopping (still some left) Even better - sold £20 worth to my dad for cash :j

Watch dvds from screenselect, then cancel account and return asap to avoid getting charged.Yep, done!

When on essential trip to Ikea ONLY buy what I'm going for (two small cushions - 60p each and a big pack of tealights). This could be hard - Ikea is a dangerous place to go! Ooooh... almost :rolleyes: :rotfl: I bought the cushions, the tealights and two tea light holders - not so bad!!

Buy ink cartridges online to get the best price - need them next week!Yep, done, just waiting for them to arrive.

Post subscription form for magazine (one with loads of the kind of jobs I want to apply for!). Get a £2 discount for using direct debit so do this!Yep, done!

Ok, so some goals for this week:

Take packed lunch on long journey to avoid price of motorway services food. (oh yes regulars, its back to the long journeys for me! :rotfl: ) Perhaps allow one coffee

Investigate the advertised "10 item free listing week" on ebay - apparently only for 'eligible' members but it doesn't say what that means :mad: Haven't got an email about it so not holding out any hope but who knows!!

Going back to living on my own (have been with parents for best part of a month) so get back into the routine of cheap and healthy food shopping. Make a meal plan, then a shopping list, then stick to it!

Do mystery shopping jobs - that'll be a £20 bonus :j

Think that's all for now.

Have a good week everyone