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Had a really good DFW week!
lil'H
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Hi everyone, first week of living on my new budget and thought I'd let you know how it's going.
OK bad points - Mobile bill was £30 over budget
but have remember I had £48 in paypal account so that will pay for that one!
Good points - Was my greaduation yesterday and parents took me out for lunch, was stuffed so didn't end up eating in the evening, resulting in really cheap food day.:j
Lady at station gave me her train ticket, which work pay for so bonus £7.10:T
Still have £40 of cash spends/food budget left, to last till monday. Going to a wedding later so could go wrong there, but hopefully there will be some free wine and I won't have to spend!
Petrol budget has done really well, adn doubt I'll have to put the whole £25 in on Monday to fill up.
Needed shoes for wedding today so went to get some old ones reheeled for ^6.95, but the woman was REALLY rude. Complained to head office and when I went to pick them up today sh apologised and didn't charge me!
Market was open today so brought some bits, got 3 boxes of spiderman cake mix for £1 so have activities for my son for next few weeks already in cupboard at 33p each! (he loves cooking with these).
So all in all a pretty good week, and I'm finishing it feeling really motivated. So keen to get rid of debt (not big I know but until know I was only making it bigger) then if I can carry on living on this budget I can start saving for a deposit for my own place one day!!
How has everyone else done this week?
lill'H
OK bad points - Mobile bill was £30 over budget
but have remember I had £48 in paypal account so that will pay for that one!Good points - Was my greaduation yesterday and parents took me out for lunch, was stuffed so didn't end up eating in the evening, resulting in really cheap food day.:j
Lady at station gave me her train ticket, which work pay for so bonus £7.10:T
Still have £40 of cash spends/food budget left, to last till monday. Going to a wedding later so could go wrong there, but hopefully there will be some free wine and I won't have to spend!
Petrol budget has done really well, adn doubt I'll have to put the whole £25 in on Monday to fill up.
Needed shoes for wedding today so went to get some old ones reheeled for ^6.95, but the woman was REALLY rude. Complained to head office and when I went to pick them up today sh apologised and didn't charge me!
Market was open today so brought some bits, got 3 boxes of spiderman cake mix for £1 so have activities for my son for next few weeks already in cupboard at 33p each! (he loves cooking with these).
So all in all a pretty good week, and I'm finishing it feeling really motivated. So keen to get rid of debt (not big I know but until know I was only making it bigger) then if I can carry on living on this budget I can start saving for a deposit for my own place one day!!
How has everyone else done this week?
lill'H
Riding out the receession.........
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Well done on graduating :T :T :T :T :T
And enjoy your wedding today :beer:
Sounds like you're doing really well :j
L
xxDebt 28/12/06 £26,467
£20 grocery challenge per week
Savings £400
£2 coins - £8.00
DMP £357 pcm (CCCs) commenced 1/10/06
DFD :think: proud to be dealing with my debts0 -
Hey lil,
You are doing brilliantly!
Its amazing when it all starts to come together and you feel in control isn't it?!
Congratulations on graduating and enjoy the wedding!
scottishspendaholic xMBNA = £4,000 / Next = £925 (approx. tbc on 19/8)
Tesco = £2,910.11 / Smile overdraft = £500
Bank of Scotland = £2,782.830 -
You've had a great week, well done!Official DFW Nerd No 096 - Proud to have dealt with my debt!0
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Cheers guys I feel really positive and in control, and I think if I wasn't posting on here I wouldn't have the same motivation to keep track of everything, so thank you DFW board!
lil'HRiding out the receession.........0
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