Mooooving Into 2010 - Bovine Adventures In Budgeteering!

mooomin

kissjenn wrote: »

Congrats on lovely new diary and exhausting levels of motivational energy (pop some in a jiffy bag and post here ... please :T). I'd do :j but it looks far too energetic.:o

Hehe! Looking forward to our DFW night oot!

I have just withdrawn my Ebay money (£45!) so that should be with me soon. I am leaving about £4 in there to cover fees, hopefully that will be enough.

I need to run and package everything up now - I'm trying to remember where I hid the last stash of envelopes I liberated from work....

cocalls

Good luck on your challenge FF I'm sure you'll do it!

mooomin

Shopping list for today:

• Razor blades
• Cough syrup
• Shampoo
• Black waistcoat/hat for Mr Fresian

I also need to set up a spreadsheet of spending. I'm thinking of the following categories:

Bills (Essential), Bills (Could save on), Groceries, Going Out, Other Sh*te

It's the Other Sh*te that costs

Anything else I should have? I was going to have tabs for each of these and have a front page into which I input the totals to see how I'm doing against target. One spreadsheet per month until the end of the year.

Do I offset income (e.g. my Ebay sales) from the challenge amount? So many decisions!

Intergalactic_Floozie

Hello there and thank you for your new diary! I wish I were as organised as you. I am well impressed at how much you have busted your debts by!!!

Primula

I don't know, I miss one night on here and come back and you have flitted! Happy new diary. I like your new challenge and will be watching with interest, if anyone can do it though, you can. Good luck hun.

Off to subscribe now.

laura2481

Hi F_F! Have followed you to your new diary! Continued good luck with your budgeteering!

mooomin

Spends for today so far:

Coco-Pops (Mr Fresian is 30 going on 13) £2 (On offer from £3.07!) Groceries budget
2 x Herbal Essences (BOGOF) £3.37 Groceries budget
Razor blade £6.79 :eek: No wonder I'm normally hairy...Groceries budget
Tissues £2 (2 multipacks - handbag size) Groceries budget
Cough mixture x 2 £3.38 Groceries budget
Tights £1.25 Other sh*te reduced from £6 and lovely!
Cotton buds £0.59 Groceries budget
4 bottles Pepsi Max £2 Groceries budget
Bubble wrap £1 Other sh*te
Envelopes (padded) £2 Other sh*te

I love Poundland - 8 small jiffy bags for £1 That'll help with the Ebaying!

Total spends so far today:

£20.13 Groceries budget
£4.25 Other sh*te

Direct debits for:
Scottish Sodding Power £122 Essential bills
TV Licence £11.95 Essential bills

Total for today so far = £158.33 :eek:

I'm now off to make myself a lovely spreadsheet to better record this!

MellyB_2

flying_fresian wrote: »

Antics? Whatever do you mean?!

I love how a challenge motivates me. My kitchen is sparkly clean and the dishes are all done. Why? No idea! But I have a new challenge and therefore am productive!

We had roast chicken for dinner and the bones are on a plate waiting to be made into stock for soup tomorrow. The leftover meat is on another plate as it's going into a nice leftover dish. Woo!

Plans for tomorrow are:

1. Go to college with Mr Fresian to talk about getting him a last-minute place on an IT course
2. Make soup and freeze it for future frugality
3. Wrap and post Ebay sales (Post Office closed today)
4. Mourn the loss of the Lovel Bag (Made £35 inc postage though!)
5. Pray to All The Gods that the Laptop Of Purple Glory doesn't arrive tomorrow while I'm out and about...

Wooohoooo - Happy new diary F_F!

Well done with the lovely bag - made more than you though which is always good!

I'll get back to catching up with it now - 2 pages already!

x

angelicmary85

flying_fresian wrote: »

Spends for today so far:

Razor blade £6.79 :eek: No wonder I'm normally hairy...

Have you thought of investing in an epilator?? I got one a few weeks ago when Braun were doing a 1/3 off. Not used a razor blade or shaving gel since...hopefully it'll save me a packet!

yukkibear

I have loads of different columns in my spreadsheet from bills, savings, loan payments, groceries, through to wasting money (ie supermarket that I don't need), luxuries, birthdays, alcohol, takeaways/meal out. Then I know how bad I was on a certain area and can try to "beat" it next month.