I'm going to do a diary too :)

gerbiljo

Hi Cath, my hubby likes it so I guess I'm lucky tho its hard to make it look that nice as we have the dogs and chickens and ducks out there too, but we will get there.
I hope ur plugs survive I haven't dared put mine out yet, they're in the porch still, i did two little cuttings tho which are looking good. I'm terrible with garden centres theyre my weakness at the mo

bad shop of £59 this week, maybe i'd be better online to stop picking up all this stuff i don't need

glad to see were in the yellow for next update of MFIT, although our target is now to clear the mortgage so perhaps I should alter my challenge afterall?

Feeling poorly today so thats it

vl2588

Hope you feel better soon xx

gerbiljo

Thank you am feeling better now

Our tax rebate came today!! So happy nearly £900 actually not the cheque yet but the paperwork confirming, we might be able to claim for this years also in april This will come off the tescos card we need to beat down and some towards the footings for the extension- it seems we have a garden full of polystyrene for it already hopefully get a bit more done in the next month

Got £2 quidco today, bit annoying still not seen the £100 for my iphone grrr

vl2588

£900 = awesome!

gerbiljo

Looking forward to the weekend...hopefully can get started on the extension foundations- got the stuff here now tho the aim is to complete beginning of may so no hurry. Pleased next week is payday week, april is a long month but we have lots of long weekends so that really will make a difference. Starting to feel a bit inpatient again, I never have enough time to do anything usefull grrrr hurry up time hurry up! got a good weekend ahead tho more horse riding!

gerbiljo

Had such a busy weekend, done some constructing for the foundations and hubby did a half marathon and just literally just didn't get anytime. Had a fantastic weekly shop £38 but that included £9.50 for our daughter in clothes and £7 for a birthday present. Don't think tescos can be beat atm! Saturday evening is definately the time to go we got about £20 of reduced bits for £2.
Think I should be getting some survey vouchers again soon...
Have to admit we've been thinking about a holiday, shall see but I think were both feeling we need a break, of course this isn't in the budget but I guess we'll see, tempted to go away if work decline my xmas holiday request...
Not much else to say but I expect I shall come into a bit extra money by the end of the week and of course its payday:j

vl2588

Btw Asda give you money back if they aren't x amount cheaper (might be 5% or something??)...

gerbiljo

I have tried this cheaper business.... I did it for asda with the app and they said we had to wait over 24hours then when we tried to use it didn't work and when we eventually got it to work I found the comparisons 'selective' so if I bought 'smart price pasta' it didn't compare it to 'value pasta'. We did the tescos one also and they seemed to leave half of the list off to compare as well, but it didn't make sense some of the value stuff they compared some of it it didn't. We bought aload of cheap stuff like a pie for 60p and a quiche for 15p and it compared that so it came out loads cheaper, I think as long as u bargain hunt ul never get anything back because something will be reduced enough to push the whole total down...must admit didn't bother to compare this week, maybe I should of? I know the prices of most of our regular stuff I think ultimately for us tescos does cost more as the shops better but the clubcards get us meals out so that is an incentive

vl2588

Sounds like it's more trouble than it's worth to me!

gerbiljo

Wel... I am yet to get a voucher!