June 2010, 80 payments to go............

tootallulah

Very tired, long day. £6 on a taxi to be claimed back.

SmlSave

Morning toot, hope you slept well.

Just wanted to say well done on being honest and posting what you're spending

tootallulah

Thanks SmiSave I'm going to carry on because it is quite shocking and today is no different. By the end of the month I will have a very clear understanding of what I already know. £7.32 on food and £10 on a taxi. Dearie, dearie me I am a woman with eight arms and they are all spending.

tootallulah

Taxi £10, lettuce £1, sweets £3.25, sausages £1.25, coffee £2.00

WILL POWER 0

tootallulah

Round in the pub, £13.90, coffee £2

goldmercury

tootallulah wrote: »

Round in the pub, £13.90, coffee £2

you can buy a whole jar of coffee for £2 or ground for £2.50

makes say 50 cups buy a flask and make a days worth what the saving?

£2/ x 200days = £400
flask £20 ( a nice flask) + £20 (4 bags of the best ground coffee) = £40

save £360 a year do this for the next what 6 years of your mortgage

£2160 - thats probably 3 mortgage payments right there

tootallulah

£2 coffee, .89p ham, £20 taxi. Thank goodness it is the end of the week, it has felt endless. Hoping to have a lovely week-end.

tootallulah

And £74.90 on my train fare.

But £19 paid off the mortgage from a book sold on Amazon.

kaych

keep going! it's always hard in the beginning.

Looks like you are spending quite a lot on taxis, do you get to claim those back? or it's the trip between your home to the station?

tootallulah

Hi Kaych I got rid of my car as it was really an unnecessary expense in London but my reward to myself is always to get a taxi on Friday if I am carrying a case. Other than that taxis are to be claimed from work. In all truth I am not really trying that hard this month I am just going to make myself understand where my money really goes. Today I bought a small round in the pub at lunch £5.90, zips, fabric and bias binding £19,90, fruit and veg £8,98. I am taking my niece out for dinner tonight and will be paying her for doing my cleaning, she is about to go to Uni and is always broke so her doing my cleaning is of benefit to us both.