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How Much Have You Spent Today? Sunday 13th August 2006

LookingAhead
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Boo hoo!!!!
I had two no spend days in a row (Friday & Saturday) and today I have only spent £33 on the weekly main shop.
I was feeling so proud of myself....then....on the way home the car battery light came on and has stayed on.
Waiting for the RAC to come out & diagnose now.....hell!! Is it going to be something simple like dirty battery conenctions or has the bl**dy alternator gone bang?
Watch this space.....
Yours, gutted.
LookingAhead
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I had two no spend days in a row (Friday & Saturday) and today I have only spent £33 on the weekly main shop.
I was feeling so proud of myself....then....on the way home the car battery light came on and has stayed on.
Waiting for the RAC to come out & diagnose now.....hell!! Is it going to be something simple like dirty battery conenctions or has the bl**dy alternator gone bang?
Watch this space.....
Yours, gutted.
LookingAhead
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Bank Balance: In the black for the moment.
Sainsburys Loan: Cleared July 2010
Credit cards: AMEX Airmiles Card: direct debit set to clear balance monthly
Sainsburys Loan: Cleared July 2010
Credit cards: AMEX Airmiles Card: direct debit set to clear balance monthly
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total spend today-nothing!
Hope it's nothing serious with the car battery.Debts Jan 2014 £20,108.34 :eek:
EF #70 £0/£1000
SW 1st 4lbs0 -
£14 in Tesco today. A few bits were toiletries style though
They had an absolute mass of fruit on sale though. I bought 7 big tubs of organic Blueberries for 40p each. They were £3.99 originally :eek: 4 tubs of raspberries for 22p each, lots of organic grapes for 15p and so on. It's all gone in the freezer, so that's my fruit salads for work sorted for the forseeable future. Was well happy about that. The woman I pushed out of the way to get to the reduced stand didn't seem too chuffed though :rotfl:DFW Nerd #104 I :heartpuls my Kittenand my hat :heartpuls
OD Girls on Tour 08 - Barcelona - HUGE SUCCESS!
OD Girls on Tour 09 - Dublin - November!!
If you believe you can achieve innit!
Sexy beer?0 -
Today:
B&Q £7.50 (was £15 but husband paid other half)
Morrisons (husband paid) £0.18 for 3 bottles of 2 litre value sparking water, 3 uncle bens microwave rice and NOTW paper. Used 3 x free uncle bens microwave rice and NOTW free product coupons.
Yesterday:
Lunch and later a coffee £13 (it was a shock to my purse but was meeting a friend)
M&S: various magazines but used a gift voucher
Debenhams: OK magazine £1
River Island: belt reduced to £6 (originally £19.99, then £10), used a £5 gift voucher and £1 cash
cinema and dinner: £0 as it was my husbands turn to pay
Got a free Christian Dior compact mirror and lip gloss after handing in a page from Grazia magazine after my free consultation.Tesco points: 101 (£21.50, £19.50, £7.50, £21 & £5)
Boots points: £0.28
Pigsback points: 715 (4 xBoots£10 & 1 xPizzaHut£10, 2 x £10 clothing vouchers)
Mutual points: 3417 (redeemed 8250)
Rpoints:redeemed 28925 points)Cashbag:£8.91(£20)0 -
Hooray! The nice RAC man tightened up the fan belt and the battery light has gone out! but he did say we need to get it into the garage for a new one fairly soon....:rolleyes:
Still that's not a big job so grateful for small mercies.Bank Balance: In the black for the moment.
Sainsburys Loan: Cleared July 2010
Credit cards: AMEX Airmiles Card: direct debit set to clear balance monthly
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£15.95 on a cd which I'm putting up for OH's birthday, but I had £10.01 left on on a gift card so it really only cost me £5.94 ;-D
98p on a wristband for my 7 year-old cos his baby brother broke his other one yesterday.
And £23.60 yesterday on groceries at Tesco, but then got £9.92 of it back in r+r, so really only spent £13.68.Debt free since December 2015. It can be done0 -
Nothing so far! But going to parents for supper and have to get petrol on route, prob put a fiver in. Went out last night, but only spent a tenner, plus £42 on babysitter, but my friend gave me a fiver towards babysitter as I gave her a lift home, which was really kind of her. This week hoping to go really cheap, away fri sat sun with work so need no funds for that, and DS is staying at Gparents so no food for him. Hes at nursery tues weds thurs and they provide all meals so going to try and not go to tesco at all this week!
Glad car is ok, hoperfully fan belt will keep going for a bit longer.
lil'HRiding out the receession.........0 -
i thought i was gonna have a no spend day but my inability to resist a complete and utter bargain over took!
i went to choice the next outlet dockside chatham and brought 2 prom style dresses and they were reduced from £56.99 to £3.75 each (so i had to get both colours!) so £7.50 gone. but xmas party dress and a dress for a wedding next weekend is sorted!!0 -
I spent £1.39 on milk and tried to buy a choc bar, but miss-counted my change and didn't have enough (Boo Hoo), had to put choc back. That will teach me to count properly before getting to the counter!Total Debt November 2016 =£9,660.52 :mad:
Monthly Repayments = £593.09 :eek:
Goal to be debt free December 2017/ Savings £500 :T0 -
loopyloulou wrote:i thought i was gonna have a no spend day but my inability to resist a complete and utter bargain over took!
i went to choice the next outlet dockside chatham and brought 2 prom style dresses and they were reduced from £56.99 to £3.75 each (so i had to get both colours!) so £7.50 gone. but xmas party dress and a dress for a wedding next weekend is sorted!!
wow thats fab
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thanks rachie - just means i cant put on or lose any weight between now and xmas!!0
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