greent's mfw journey

greent

Few more pieces sold on ebay yesterday, so another £25 OP made

Need another FLW from ebay now.... have got rather used to them of late and don't want to lose the momentum whilst I have it!


ETA 27/4 - FLW tomorrow & Sunday - yeay!!

greent

I've had a pay rise - so another £45 OP made as a result - what you don;t see you won't miss....

Will look at increasing regular DD again in June, I think - will have had a couple of months of DH's salary and can do a new SOA and see where we are - am sure can def manage another £100 then


Ooh - also finally managed to open an ISA for this year up yesterday - only transferred £1000 in for now, but will hopefully manage more over the coming months

pammyj74

I would be seriously panicking if I had a to do list like that!! :eek: I do have a list of things to do in my house but it gets swept under the carpet. I would love to redecorate the whole house. Or rather I would like to go on holiday and come back to it all being done!! Or even better 60 minute makeover or restoration man!

You have a similar timescale to me but I can bet you that you will finish well before me!

greent

Ah, pammy - it doesn't matter how long anyone takes, the important thing is that we're all doing it in the first place

As to the list of jobs, it's huge and NOT all planned for this year! Very much a would like to list, more than anything else


Well, first of the month today, so our regular OP of £643.57 has gone out. I also claimed £3.87 from tcb, so have OP'd £5 for that. We're just sub 67k now, which is great I'd like to find another £300 OPs this month if I can. No interest on any of my ebay stuff yet, though. We also have a couple of large credit card bills this month, so we'll have to wait and see..

greent

Another small payment claimed from tcb, so another £5 OP made

Hopefully towards the month end I'll be able to manage something a little more substantial.

Bathroom at BTL is costing more than originally anticipated due to electrical/ wiring issues - grrr! Still, needs definitely must when it comes to stuff like that!

greent

Morning Nothing really to report. I have 60 items listed on ebay ending tomorrow. Bids on 4 or 5, totalling £23+ at the moment, with watchers on a few others, so fingers crossed I may make it to £30 if I'm really lucky, but at least some bits will have gone at the very least. Trouble is, as fast as I'm getting rid of stuff on ebay I'm finding more stuff to add to the pile! I need another flw this weekend or next weekend. I'm going to bundle together clothes which are the same size and put them on at a cheap starting price - I'd rather they go for something than give them away and hopefully I can clear a bag's worth all at one go

I've got quite tight with my donations to charity shops - I still donate books/ toys/ bric a brac etc (after trying to sell most of it first! ) but very rarely give clothes - I try to sell them at NCT (childrens), WI, ebay or even cash for clothes as a last resort. Mind you, not that I get rid of many of my clothes anyway - most of mine end up being only fit for the rag bag! The jumper I'm wearing today has a small hole at the front hem and the linen trousers are beginning to fray at the bottoms (downside of being a short person!) I'm such a tramp!!:o:rotfl::o

We've been spending out again over the weekend on camping related stuff - needed a trailer to fit the camping gear in and also bought a 3way fridge/ coolbox and a mains hookup - oh, and some self inflating pillows for me & DH - the kids seem to cope fine with the 'inbuilt' ones on the airbeds, but us oldies need a bit more support!:D Also bought a cheap chopping board and a couple of cheap sharp knives to keep in the camping gear. Just need to go away and try it all out now!!:rotfl: (Although we need to get a towbar fitted to DH's car first - more money!:eek::cool:)

DD has been through a growth spurt in the last couple of months - have bought her lots of (much needed) new underwear and she has grown out of 5 pairs of jeans in as many weeks. Bought 2 new tshirts (sales) at weekend for her, but need to hit town for new jeans and shorts. SHe's also now fractionally (less than 0.5cm) taller than me:eek: She's eyeing up my shoe collection (think spiky knee high suede boots, red pvc stilettos, blue snakeskin stilettos with gold heels etc) - thankfully her feet are a full size smaller than mine at the moment!:D:D DS1 is also growing and needs new bottoms clothing wise - thankfully I think he has enough tops which still fit for the Summer! DS2 and DS3 mainly live in hand me downs - they're still young enough not to care!

Have spent a full 90 minutes handwashing this morning - part for our WM still not arrived:mad: Am seriously contemplating buying a new one instead - there's only so much goodwill I can use up with doing washing at other people's houses - and we create an awful lot!!

Still need to finish planting my potatoes:eek: - will try and get on with that later - as we actually have a few dry hours expected today!! Will be spending an hour at the dentist/ hygienist, though - so expect some ££s there - and possibly more to come, as I have 2 teeth which are giving me a bit of gip

greent

Actually, do you know what, I've been on a massive downer this weekend So just to cheer myself up I've just made a rather rash move - and paid an OP of £3K!!:eek::eek: The money was sort of earmarked for other stuff, but it's gone now!

Mortgage balances now:
Sub acct 01: £61 040.64
Sub acct 02: £ 2 869.35
TOTAL: £63 909.99


Think I'd better leave off any OPs unless they're extra money like ebay/ cashback FOR SEVERAL MONTHS now, before I go totally crazy and drain all our accounts....;):o:p Oops....

newgirly

:beer: well done on the op, most people go shopping to cheer themselves up, we are are funny lot us mfw's

museumworker

Wow, what an OP! That would cheer me up too . Well done :j!

greent

Nope, I'm still glum and grumpy today - probably even more so. Weather not helping, nor is a really poor night's sleep

Anyway, on a more positive note I have bids totalling £50 on my unwanted items on ebay. Couple of hours still left, so I may even squeeze a couple more £ from bidders yet