what have you spent today 20th june 2006?

ms_london

Thriftylady wrote:

I've spent £125 insuring my car......its freezing cold and pouring with rain, and the combination of the all three of these is making me want to cry....

Dont cry Thrifylady ((((((hugs)))))

(where are you if its raining?..and cold for that matter?)

xx

Lucie_2

ms_london wrote:

I see you're going to Oz too - is that for a holiday? Where & for how long are you going?

Yup, 3 weeks in November:
2 days in Singapore, fly to Brisbane, 10 days on Sunshine Coast, weekend in Brisbane to watch the rugby league, 3 days to make our way to Sydney (we're hiring a car), 4 days in Sydney then fly home. I am sooooooooooo looking forward to it, November still feels like a lifetime away.
We're managing to save just over £650 a month at the mo, which means we should have over £5K saved by the time we go. My plan is to transfer most of it into my Nationwide Flex Account (no, they won't give me a debit card either :rolleyes:) & pay for as much as possible by cash.

ms_london

Lucie wrote:

Yup, 3 weeks in November:
2 days in Singapore, fly to Brisbane, 10 days on Sunshine Coast, weekend in Brisbane to watch the rugby league, 3 days to make our way to Sydney (we're hiring a car), 4 days in Sydney then fly home. I am sooooooooooo looking forward to it, November still feels like a lifetime away.
We're managing to save just over £650 a month at the mo, which means we should have over £5K saved by the time we go. My plan is to transfer most of it into my Nationwide Flex Account (no, they won't give me a debit card either :rolleyes:) & pay for as much as possible by cash.

You'll have £5,000 for a 3 week break? :eek: Makes me feel as though I wont have saved enough.....?!

That sounds like a fab trip!! November will be gorgeous weather too......

Glad I'm not the only one who cant have a debit card (apart from all the 12 year olds out there of course!!) :rolleyes:

southernscouser

ms_london wrote:

Glad I'm not the only one who cant have a debit card (apart from all the 12 year olds out there of course!!) :rolleyes:

I've got a debit card. And I'm not 12. Well maybe only in mental age!

ms_london

southernscouser wrote:

I've got a debit card. And I'm not 12. Well maybe only in mental age!

:T :T :T You're talking sense for once !!

I do have a debit card with Lloyds & a credit card, but Nationwide obviously werent happy with my credit score (and I cant blame them), but its annoying since I am now a reformed character. Doh!!

jessicamb

No Spend Day for me today! Yippee

Lucie_2

ms_london wrote:

You'll have £5,000 for a 3 week break? :eek: Makes me feel as though I wont have saved enough.....?!

That sounds like a fab trip!! November will be gorgeous weather too......

Glad I'm not the only one who cant have a debit card (apart from all the 12 year olds out there of course!!) :rolleyes:

We'll have to pay for the car hire & most of the accommodation out of that £5K though. This is going to be a once in a lifetime, never to be repeated, grand scale affair. We don't want to be constantly saying "can we afford to do that?" or sacrificing one thing in favour of another. I don't imagine we'll spend all of it either - I'm not very good at "wasting" money. I'm reckoning on spending about £3K in total. It'll just be nice to have that buffer & not have to put anything on a credit card.
Nationwide won't give us a debit card because we don't pay our salaries into that account, it's an old current account from years ago that we kept open. My reply to them is that I won't pay my salary in to it until they give me a debit card - so stalemate!

Have you got a "ms_london goes to Oz" thread with all the details of your trip? I NEED to know all about it (cos I'm incredibly jealous) but don't want to hijack this thread any more.
BTW, what have I spent today - nothing so far & I intend it to stay that way.

newleaf

Dentist & Hygienist today, £52.

wotnext

Spent £4.95 today - £4.00 on petrol and 95p on milk for ds.

milliejon

Oh no - another expensive day.

I started work today after 6 months off, and found that I only had one pair of trousers that fit me (I've lost weight - yeah!). So I had to pop to town after work and pick up a couple of pairs in Primark. I also had to pick up so more bits and bobs, so a total of £25.82 today.

I did take lunch to work though so saved there.

Here's to a no spend day tomorrow.