MFin5 - my diary to make it happen

nikki1520

Radishes are great too! Especially if you have youngsters as they grow quickly.

To avoid the slug attacks, mash up some eggshells and place in a perimeter around your plants - the little squishies can't get over it, as it's like crawling on broken glass!!

craftingmad

Wow thanks everyone - I feel that my little fingers on each hand have already become green after all your great advice.

And the great news is that I already have some salad leaves, courgette and radish seeds which I found for free on the freebies section so all I need to buy are some peas and tomatos. We also have some carrot, french bean and basil seeds (plus some sweetcorn seeds awaited) so might have a crack at them too.

The kids and I are really excited about our planting day on Saturday so hopefully the weather will be good and we shall end up with a bumber crop! What sort of compost do I need to get?

SmlSave

And the great news is that I already have some salad leaves, courgette and radish seeds which I found for free on the freebies section so all I need to buy are some peas and tomatos. We also have some carrot, french bean and basil seeds (plus some sweetcorn seeds awaited) so might have a crack at them too.

Me thinks you signed up to the BBC Dig In campaign

I just get standard compost and from the Council if i can as its cheaper here. St Johns Innes is a good make as well. My garden is a mash of flowers, fruit and veg no set area for any of them

You should have seen me dancing round the garden last night when i realised that my raspberries have baby flower buds! :j

craftingmad

SmlSave wrote: »

Me thinks you signed up to the BBC Dig In campaign

I just get standard compost and from the Council if i can as its cheaper here. St Johns Innes is a good make as well. My garden is a mash of flowers, fruit and veg no set area for any of them

You should have seen me dancing round the garden last night when i realised that my raspberries have baby flower buds! :j

How did you guess!!!!

Thanks for tips re compost. I'll look into seeing in our Council sell it. If not I've just seen an advert on tv for a local shop which is selling 6 bags of compost (large packs) for £10 so this sound good - I think.

Well done on the raspberries. Good for you. :T

pammyj74

I got mine from aldi 40l for £1.99 and its good stuff. they have a few cheap garden bits as well.

craftingmad

Ok better late than never here's the daily progress for yesterday (tuesday 27th). I was'nt feeling too clever yesterday so went to bed earlier than usual and did'nt get round to posting.

Little

1. 5 piggypoint clickthrough.
2. Wrote 2 reviews on dooyoo (addicted now!)
3. Daily Quidco clicks - 4p.

Large

1. Had response from leaflet company and supplied further details requested.
2. Took on self employed advertising executive role for local magazine selling advertising space to business. Earn 10% of all bookings made.

Todays Mini Challenge - Write to QVC re outstanding credit totalling over £20. - Not completed

Money added to mortgage pig today:- 0p

Tomorrow's mini challenge - Write to QVC re outstanding credit totalling over £20 and phone 3 companies regarding advertising (see above).

pammyj74

Thats great on the new role, well done, is that something you have done before. I am not pushy enough to sell things lol, which isnt good in my role when i have to ring customers up for outstanding debts!

Hope you are feeling better. x

craftingmad

pammyj74 wrote: »

Thats great on the new role, well done, is that something you have done before. I am not pushy enough to sell things lol, which isnt good in my role when i have to ring customers up for outstanding debts!

Hope you are feeling better. x

Hi pammy,

I have done a bit of sales before but it was a long time ago in my younger (and pre-kids) days when I was desperate for cash and so telesales for a window company - I was only for about 4 weeks though as they decided they did'nt want to pay me so I left!

However I managed to phone a few companies yesterday and some more today and so far I already have one definate (which will earn me £17.85 in commission) and lots of possibles which I need to chase in a couple of days time to hopwfully convert to cash for mortgage piggy.

I have to say that using any money earned to OP the mortgage is a real incentive!!!

pammyj74

wow thats brilliant, do you have to be quite pushy? Do you get some rude people that just hang up on you lol.

craftingmad

I was feeling pants yesterday and both kids were throwing paddies for most of the day so I did'nt manage to acheive much towards my MF dreams so I'm not going to do a list for yesterday. I did however get 5 piggypoints from a clickthrough and managed to complete half of my mini challenge so its not all bad news.

However I currently feel like strangling my OH. After all my efforts for this month we had just under £1,500 spare cash sitting in the account before he got paid yesterday. This is mainly due to my no craft spend, reduced shopping bill etc, etc and so I asked if we could pay an additional OP for say £800 to try and gain our (or should that be my?) MFin5 dream. He flatly refused and launced into a torrant of abusive saying that we already OP plenty. It seems he wants to be MF too but just not as quickly as I do and without having to take any more money out of joint account doing it!!!!

He finally agreed to an additional overpayment each month of £80 which will take our monthly OP to £700 from June (as it was too late to change DD for May and our mortgage provider only accepts one off debit card overpayments payments for £200 or more).

Maybe I am being selfish as I know I don't work so don't contribute anything to the account (although I have saved money from this account as mentioned above and never spend so much that the account is O/D) but I know that this month my hubby has a good sized pay packet as he has always been working sop theres lots of OT tincluded and the following month will include the £1000 (less tax and NI) earned from his recent away trip so we will not need this cash for anything else. We already have savings amounting to just over 3 times his average monthly salary so if anything did go wrong and we needed cash it would be available.

What do you all think? How can I make him see that I want this for all of our benefits and the savings we will make in the long run make it all worth it?

Husband swap anyone?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!