greent's mfw journey

greent

Morning all

Back from 4 nights at DIsneyland Paris - DS1 was vomiting the night before we went, I awoke on the Sat morning with a sore throat and heavy cold and spent the journey dozing. When we arrived at DP I went on one ride and then kept falling asleep on benches whilst the others rode - so they sent me back to the hotel with a temmp of 102, where I slept for about 15 hours, only waking briefly a couple of times. Felt rough the next day, but nowhere near as bad. DS3 vomited a little bit ion the morning, but we went out to the parks. After lunch DS2 was complaining of a stomach ache whilst we were in a queue for a ride - I picked him up - and he promptly threw up all over me (inc down my v neck jumper - lumps in my bra!!) and the floor - so he and I went back to the hotel and he was sick a few more times but essentially slept from about 4pm - 8am. I needed the rest myself, tbh. The next day DS3 was sick several times....

When we got home (DH has man flu now...) DD announced as soon as we got on the drive that she felt unwell - came in and was promptly sick everywhere...

Apart from that we had a great time!!! lol!


Small OP of £25 just made from TCB payout of £21.50, rounded up... Definitely a case of slowly, slowly at the moment. Really need to sit down and sort out our finances with all the money for the bathrooms and everything - and Christmas coming up!!

CathT

Blimey! You did very well to still enjoy yourselves. Hope everyone is much better soon.

pammyj74

Oh my word greent, sounds awful. Hope you are all ok now

greent

We've had another bug since, but hopefully all ok now!

£10 OP made this month from cashback - we are officially skint now - having spent £10.5K ish on the bathrooms.... (EEK!!) No OPs coming from cashflow for a while - we've put £4k on an interest free CC, so I need to hammer that before OPs. Extra OPs only coming from cashback/ ebay sales and the like ('extra' money) The bathrooms are rather lovely, though....

Balance currently approx £77555. Predicted to be £76420 by Xmas - I wanted to be at £76000, but will be happy with £76400 now..

newgirly

Oh what terribly back luck! Hope you managed to enjoy some of the holiday though x

greent

A whole £5 OP today from cashback claimed!! Teeny tiny baby steps!!! lol

I do have another £56 from my coin tin all bagged up and ready to pay in, so I'll do that later this week and make another OP then..

greent

Morning all!

have decided to bite the bullet and make a large OP and have got balance down to £76000 for the year end Still doesn't bring my MF date forward from 03/2017 though I need another extra £530 to get it to 02/2017 - but I'll get there in Q1 2012.

OPs for 2011 totalled £8845.90 - very pleased with that. Ideally in 2012 I'd like to fully pay off mtge sub ac 02 - currently at about £12600. IN addition to planned/ regular OPs of £543.57 per month that'll mean finding about another £4350 over the year. And we're starting 2012 with some CC debt - eek!! Interest free, yes - but it's still CC debt!!! About £4k, I think, from the bathrooms..... That needs to be cleared by 06/2012.... It'll be a squeaky year (2 school trips costing total £1k to fund, too) - best finally get my bum in gear and ebay, I think!! The house needs decluttering, anyway..

pammyj74

Tell me about school trips but mine are only half what you need to find, cant wait til the kids are older and the trips get dearer :eek:

I am thinking of redecorating the whole house, and paying a friend to do it who does it for a living (lazy I know) but I would like it done properly. God knows how much that is going to cost me but my hallway and bedroom hasnt been done after the first time we moved in 11 years ago!
Good luck for sub ac being cleared next year

greent

£45 OP made today. No idea where I am - laptop has died with spreadsheet on New one hopefully arriving this week and am hopefully getting harddrive of old one piggybacked

newgirly

well done on getting the balance down and happy new year!