Mooooving Into 2010 - Bovine Adventures In Budgeteering!

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

OOOhhhhh I'd included council tax and mortgage repayments in my figures, if I deduct them it makes an enormous difference to my total. I might just do it after all. Not that I can deduct them as I've done evrything in biro and I'm not writing it all out again.Haven't had the balls to work out just how much we've spent over the last few days but its not pretty and I'm thinking its going to be £300 ish.

The Live On 4k For A Year folk don't include these so I hadn't. They don't include "essential" bills, but include power as non-essential and if I were the quibbling type I would rather pay for heat than the council

*Jellie*

You're reminding me that I've started to slip on tracking spending. I was being really good but recently I keep forgetting to mae a note. I'm going to try and keep better track from now on.

I like the idea on the money cow! Might have to search for that myself!

tomtombeanie

reading through your weekend posts, i MUST MUST MUST do my figures tomorrow. receipts are piling up and i don't like not knowing where i am.

i am excused from this task today, though, as i am recovering from a school trip - lovely day out at tatton park in tudor times. knackering but a lot of fun. xx ttb

Lurker1972

Can't offer any advice on presents for small people, but cat food.....

Special Kitty is on hills prescription diet so always has the same dry food & is quite content, 2 kilo bag costs me just over £18 & lasts her 6 weeks so its just over £3 a week, have ordered 5kilo bag which will last 15 weeks & bring cost down to £2 a week....bargain!

mooomin

Lurker1972 wrote: »

Can't offer any advice on presents for small people, but cat food.....

Special Kitty is on hills prescription diet so always has the same dry food & is quite content, 2 kilo bag costs me just over £18 & lasts her 6 weeks so its just over £3 a week, have ordered 5kilo bag which will last 15 weeks & bring cost down to £2 a week....bargain!

Mr Fresian is resistant to having the kittehs go onto dry food only. I think if we bought Iams etc it would be quite cost-effective as they don't need as much of it...

Lurker1972

flying_fresian wrote: »

Mr Fresian is resistant to having the kittehs go onto dry food only. I think if we bought Iams etc it would be quite cost-effective as they don't need as much of it...

Exactly!!! & its apparently better for them too
Special kitty has occasional treats - little bit of chicken or tuna, but is 100% content on dry

kissjenn

What butter makes the codes to make the coos? We usually have lurpak spreadable but no idea if it has codes anywhere...if it does they're all yours.

EssexHebridean

Her ladyship has been on James Wellbeloved turkey and rice dry food now for absolutely ages - 2kg bag costs about £11.99 at full price but can often be tracked down on special offer. Seems to last ages too - I'd say easily 6 - 8 weeks (obviously I do have a note on the calendar of when we've bought it (tragic eh!) so I can keep track but I can't be ar*ed to walk to the kitchen to look - sorry! We used to have a lot of trouble with her being sick on a fairly regular basis but not anything like so often now - and the vet always comments on how healthy she is. (Her ladyship, rather than the vet, although I'm sure she's healthy too!) Again, she gets the odd treat here and there, but 99.9% of what she eats is the dry stuff.

By the way - when I did a comparison a few months back I found the James Wellbeloved worked out cheaper than the more mainstream Iams, purina etc.

laura2481

flying_fresian wrote: »

Mr Fresian is resistant to having the kittehs go onto dry food only. I think if we bought Iams etc it would be quite cost-effective as they don't need as much of it...

Harold has a bit of a mix- biscuits down most of the time which he 'snacks' on and 'wet' food once a day, or twice if he is extra hungry. He costs us about £5.75 per month as a 6 pack of tins costs about £3.39 and a 950g box of biscuits costs about £2.36 and both last a month = £1.43 per week. Don't know what you are feeding your 2 at the mo

mooomin

kissjenn wrote: »

What butter makes the codes to make the coos? We usually have lurpak spreadable but no idea if it has codes anywhere...if it does they're all yours.

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Anchor has the Coo Codes, all donations appreciated. I will even bake cookies with the Coo Coooookie Cutter when I get enough codes

EssexHebridean wrote: »

We used to have a lot of trouble with her being sick on a fairly regular basis but not anything like so often now - and the vet always comments on how healthy she is. (Her ladyship, rather than the vet, although I'm sure she's healthy too!)

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

That gave me a rare "proper LOL"!