I'm going to do a diary too :)

vl2588

oops I forgot all about one poll!!!!

gerbiljo

vl2588 wrote: »

oops I forgot all about one poll!!!!

your mortgage wanna be fund is looking great

CathT

I'm barely qualifying for one survey a day at the moment. I still haven't reached payout!

vl2588

Yes me too when I remember to check...

Ayeshalush

CathT wrote: »

I'm barely qualifying for one survey a day at the moment. I still haven't reached payout!

Me too!...and it doesn't help that, this week , most of them have been for prize draw entrys instead of payments.:mad:

A
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gerbiljo

yeah, I went on onepoll on facebook and had a moan about the prize draw surveys and we weren't the only people to notice!!

I think my survey have completely forgotten me, I seem to make up my £5 by lots of 5 points for failiing to qualify!! ipsos are best for me atm, maybe twice a week.

I have been spending a bit (hangs head in shame) today is shopping day so will update later

gerbiljo

We had a good but expensive weekend!!

We went shopping on saturday and our food shop was £45, not helped by the fact our regular dog food was unavailable so what might have cost £3 now cost £11 so that accounts for that a bit. Then we bought our daughter a toy which was £8 and finished that with a meal out for £40 (£5 off voucher used). This was pretty good except the next day we 'popped to sainsburys to get out a tenner I owed my mum and left with £40 of discounted clothes and swimming costumes!!! these are age 5 so for our holiday in 2013, pure craziness what more can I say! We had fun though, went to familys for dinner yesterday so I suppose we have an extra dinner in the bag as a small consolation!

We have 2 birthdays this months and hubby might get a golf day so we have done some revaluing and the tax rebate means we'll be a bit ahead of targets, we will pay £350 off tescos card tomorrow leaving only £200. The plans for this months salary will be...(can u tell I'm looking forward to payday??)

-£1210 direct debits and my petrol
-£2400 mortgage overpayment (usually £2615, might be slightly less depending but this was the month as we go sub £50k that I pay slightly less off to catch up with credit cards)
-£200 to clear tescos card
-£200 petrol
-£150 food
-£700 to reduce sainsburys card to £4300 (presuming it will be maxed by the end of the month £5k so this should be worse case scenario)
-£130 for golf days, birthdays any extra on cards or what i owe to work

The only loophole here would be maxing the sainsburys card before payday (mustn't do that) and then we will stop using it (hence above budgets) and I would like it paid off by jan at the latest (has to be paid by march). Hubbys overtime has allowed us slightly extra lately

Anyway all good, once tescos card is paid (just waiting for cheque to clear) I shall confirm it on here then we can set budget for the next steps on building and I have another money making plan also so we will decide if we are going with that too.

Looking forward to payday as I feel like august onwards I shall be more positive:rotfl:lets just see, I'll be regretting saying that!

ps shall update and just say some of my recent spending has been due to planning my daughters third birthday -november!, so will mention this now as think it will come up again in the future!! so far i think £15ish

gerbiljo

Just to confirm we paid £340 off the tescos card leaving £210 ok, £10 less than planned but definately in the right direction so pleased about that.

Having a gas/electric dilemma need to find some time to sort it...grrr, maybe tomorrow:rotfl:

gerbiljo

OOOOOOOOOOOOOh wasn't expecting CB until next week, so I must have calculated my weeks wrong. Went to pay 80 off then realised another 5 gives me the mildly amusing figure of 52525 (didn't venture into the pence sector!!) could resist so....

£52525:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

oh sorted my sister bday present, £25 sorted, shame I didn't have some amazon vouchers at my disposal also but there u go, gotta sort her a cake too but I'm sure that can be incorporated into the food budget!!

Will update at weekend!!:j:j

beachie

Wow. Congratulations! You are doing so amazingly well. Really wish I could make such big payments!