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sarahb123_3

Lula-Hula wrote: »

& a teeny weeny little Cadbury s Twirl that was of course a patriotic show of support for keeping Cadbury s British yes, I went to the Sarahb School Of Justification :rotfl:

I taught you well;) Excellent justification:D

Shoe_Gal

sarahb123 wrote: »

I taught you well;) Excellent justification:D

:j:j:j

Sarah - you need to buy clothes (as per Lula's request ) and justify :j

Horace

Kraft chocolate doesnt sound as unctuous as cadbury dairy milk - keep cadbury with the cadbury family I say:D

Lula you are doing better than me with the spends - I spent a ridiculous amount today:eek: £10 on a handmade italian umbrella (I did want the £50 one but decided that I couldnt justify spending that much ona n umbrella for day to day use:eek:) and I bought a gorgeous lamp - I couldnt stop looking at it yesterday or today so I went and bought it for £55 - it retails for anything between £165 and £200 depending on the shop:eek: It looks gorgeous in my living room:cool:

I also met an equally gorgeous man - he is one of my facebook friends and he suggest that I visit him today in Hall 2 (the kitchenware hall) - the company he workds for sells gorgeous kitchenware to places like Lakeland and the V&A - the saucepans were too good to use as they were quite colourful (blimey, I can even make cookware sound sexy:rotfl:). Whilst I waited for him to be free of customers, I sat and had a free cup of espresso coffee and was given a free copy of Good Food magazine which is full of yummy recipes which I shall try this week.

I had better get my flat tidied and my office as I am due to have a work station assessment done next Wednesday by a man from Action for Blind People (courtesy of Access to Work), I am hoping for a new laptop paid for by the government:D

Lula-Hula

Happy & sunny morning to all

Horace, phwoarrrr to tasty young man; keep him close, I love Lakeland stuff . Well done getting a bargainous new lamp, and chic new umbrella, I dont actually think £10 is that much. Our local Woolies used to sell boring old Totes ones for that price & they werent very fab or chic so I think you have another bargainous find there .


Life in Lulaville is still trotting along according to the general plan. This morning I had washing on the line by 9 & was chopping up the branches of the birch tree that had mysteriously become detached from the main trunk :rolleyes:. In truth not so mysterious, On monday I heard a knock at the door & peeking down the stairs I saw what appeared to be the grim reaper standing there .... in fact it was he-who-doesnt-deserve-to-be-mentioned-here with a long pruning hook type thing. I ignored his presence & off he went. Not sure whether this would work for the real grim reaper.

It was only the next day when hanging out washing that I discovered the branches & assumed that he had either belatedly - about 2 years :rolleyes:- decided to get on with lopping the tree as requested, in an effort to appease me or, just wanted to be destructive . Who knows / cares, the job is done, he's gone silent again & today I took all the stuff to the dump. I like my bonfires but there was far too much greenery & I also dumped the old keyboard & phone too. Out recycling centre is ever expanding & today I noticed they now have a bra bank & it's pink .

DD1 was delighted with my plan to commandeer all her birthday treasure & turn it into a laptop. Small DD is not so delighted that I have decided to commandeer all the coppers & direct them towards my bank account. I've said she can keep saving the 5ps but I need the rest more than she does & they are all generated from my money in the first place so there .

The funds have all been topped up & are as follows :

Gas & electricity £100
Car tax £ 40
Presents £ 50
DDs clubs £ 70 ( paid £25 Brownies subs yesterday)
Car £ 20
Clothes £ 10
Groceries £ 35
Miscellanea £ 10

Although I have gone over this weeks grocery budget by £1.01p & will probably need to buy more milk tomorrow I am expecting to spend less next week as we still have a lot of basics left so I'm expecting to be buying fruit & fresh veg + a few tinned items.

The new miscellanea category has been introduced to cover things like parking ( airport collection tomorrow), window cleaner, random stuff like that. I hope not to have to use it often & if not used then it will go into the bank toward the CCs. I suppose any unused Grocery cash should also go in there .... will see how I feel about that if/when it happens :rotfl:.

Plan for the rest of the day is to clean, wash, dust, polish & hoover everything. Best get on with it then ...

Tixy

Hi Lula

Only just caught up with reading this new questing thread. From your opening post

Lula-Hula wrote: »

At present out petite maison is full of shabby & just waiting for the chic to emerge. Over the next 2 years I plan to overhaul the whole place on a very petite budget & continue to declutter at the same time. I long for simplicity & aim for DD & I to be people who do stuff rather than people who have stuff. Yep, I still want the camper van & that comes under doing rather than having as it will open up such huge opportuntities for travel within the UK.

Just wanted to say this might have been a sentence that you just rattled off but it really struck a chord with me. I know I am materialistic but wish I was not - I'm going to remember this phrase for those moments when I'm hovering over purchasing more unnecessary stuff (because most of it is just 'stuff' not things that mean a great deal really).

Good luck questing!

Lula-Hula

Morning,

just a flying visit (ha ha) as I'm off to the airport soon to collect my aunt. I have cleaned, tidied, scrubbed & even decided to do a spot of late night painting too.

Tixy - thanks for popping in & as to my mantra; it kind of came into my head as I was thinking about how I wanted to change my/our life. For so many years I have aspired to own stuff & that attitude has certainly contributed to my little debt heap, to the extent that we struggle to afford to do stuff. I see no point in having fabulous stuff if all I can afford to do is sit at home surrounded by it. A tad Miss Haversham perhaps but thats enough to scare me back on to the right path.

The minimalist in me is screaming to be let out & should start in my kitchen cupboards where there is wealth of equipment that I never use / wouldnt have a clue how to :rotfl:. The less things we own , the less cleaning & tidying there is to be done :j.

Off to to burn up some fuel now ...

Lula
xx

Lula-Hula

Hello again,

I've had really lovely social couple of days. I collected my aunt from the airport ( £4 for one hour's parking :eek:) it took ages to get back here, but we di it enventually, had some lunch, collected DD from school & then dropped aunt over to my grandmothers place. Plenty of miles done but due to the vagaries of the M25 we shuffled along at a very annoying 30 -40 mph so didnt get to burn too much fuel.

I spent about £6 in the co op on lunch bits so owed next weeks groceries about £7.00. Today I was up & about early stripping the beds & hanging washing out. Pootled off to the shops & spent another £8 out of next weeks grocery money. Decide to make some hobnobs to take along to the pool & barbecue party this afternoon but didnt have enough sugar so DD offered to go back to the shops by herself :eek:. I was scared but she promised she would be fine so off she went on her own for the first time ever ... & returned safely having managed to avoid either being squished by a car or stolen by a weirdo :j. She was actually more impressed that she had managed to not spend the change in the sweet shop :rotfl:. I did point out to her that it wasnt actually her oney to spend & that she would get the rest of her pocket money when she has tidied her room :rolleyes:.

Anyway, we had a fab time at the party, played in the pool for ages, sat in the sun, caught up on everyones news, had lots of lovely healthy food & everyone enjoyed the hobnobs, apart from me who didnt have any - Bowski's challenge - & the woman who is vegan :rolleyes:.

I'm quite pleased that we're keeping busy since coming back from holiday as that was the plan; doing stuff rather than having stuff .

I did have to buy a bottle of wine on the way home from the
party as I seem to feel it necessary to have a couple of glasses in the evening at the moment so my treats budget is pretty low as well. I havent spent the £5 off voucher at Boots as I realised that it couldnt be used with the 250 points voucher & I didnt actually need any make up. It's only a saving if I actually need the stuff.

I have about £10 left for shopping until next sunday which could be interesting, about £30 left in the treats budget & £3 in the miscellanea

Will have to be very canny & creative with the food next week.

I have clean sheets tonight so looking forward to bed time & may struggle to get up to the allotment tomorrow morning ...

Shoe_Gal

What is it about clean sheets that's so inviting I love them too

Lula-Hula

Shoe_Gal wrote: »

What is it about clean sheets that's so inviting I love them too

I have accepted that this is why I will probably always live alone - I dont want to share my clean sheets with anyone :rotfl:( except Johnny, & that's only a maybe )

Lexxi

I love clean sheets, unfortunately so does the dog so they're never clean for long and he smells extra bad this week

And, sharing sheets is a slippery slope, you'll be walking behind them with the laundry basket in no time, picking up after them and all that hassle