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

museumworker

The chairs sounds like a real bargain! Buying something at an auction is on my list of 40 things to do before I'm 40 - and the finished result definitely sounds like it will be interesting and cool looking for a grown up designery victorian house!!

Making good progress with the CC debt, and congrats on another mortgage OP :T:T:T! For me, getting rid of the CC debt would also be one of my priorities, just for the mental relief of knowing I only had the one debt to attack.

Any more viewings on the flat?

tootallulah

Hi MW, great to see you, a museum curator who has never bought anything at an auction???????????? Get thee to the sales room at Greenwich or Lots Road excellent bargains.

Just one debt by Christmas is the aim, I hardly dare review my 25 aims for 2011 as I am sure that I won't have done many still no doubt I will get there by hook or by crook.

Not a dicky bird on the flat I think that I need a new plan, perhaps turn it into a rental????? No doubt I will get a plan.

tootallulah

No spend day yesterday. My nephew is arriving today to help me dig up the garden and get out some big bushes that need to go. It is autumn, where did the summer go?

tootallulah

Paid off the Eggg card today, woo hoo. "Just" the £4000 on 0% to go now..........Still I am aiming for that to be gone by Christmas so some Ebaying and extra consultancy work is needed. I feel a bit more motivated at last, log may it continue.

museumworker

tootallulah wrote: »

Hi MW, great to see you, a museum curator who has never bought anything at an auction???????????? Get thee to the sales room at Greenwich or Lots Road excellent bargains.

Just one debt by Christmas is the aim, I hardly dare review my 25 aims for 2011 as I am sure that I won't have done many still no doubt I will get there by hook or by crook.

Not a dicky bird on the flat I think that I need a new plan, perhaps turn it into a rental????? No doubt I will get a plan.

I know, our acquisition budget is a bit too squiddly to go crazy with, but I have some gaps in the collection I have identified so hoping can go out with a shopping list at some point soon! I think its quite common in the museum community now that the skills of purchasing objects (auctions, dealers etc) are now becoming rarer and rarer.

Sure the flat will sort itself out, a rental sounds like a good little earner. Has the estate agent suggested why it might not be selling at the minute?

Glad to hear you're motivated, and good luck with the consultancy/ebaying. Not that you need luck after your last amazing stint as a seller - have you been back in the Post Office since? :rotfl:

tootallulah

A very busy, motivating and challenging week at work, plans are coming together well.

The month is flying by and I am being careful, the best thing for me this week is that since the beginning of the month I have spent £8.76 on food as I am eating my way through the freezers and cupboards. I have hardly made a dent in what I have so I am confident that except for milk I wont need to buy anything else this month, or perhaps even next, eek I have a food buying issue I cannot by-pass yellow stickers. I am coping by not entering the supermarket. At some point I will just be left with various bags of freezer surprise but that is a long way off.

Really looking forward to the week-end.

gallygirl

tootallulah wrote: »

Really looking forward to the week-end.

So was I. Torrential rain started when I was 10 mins from home :cool:.

Hope you have a good'un

tootallulah

I have just cut up my Egg card I don't know why I just got the urge, now down to just one card, Halifax, I can get access to for emergencies. So now what I have left except for the mortgage is £3800 on 0% with Mastercard. I need to work out exactly how I get that paid off by Christmas. Off to have a jolly good think.

tootallulah

I had a good end to September and entered October by paying £1200 off my credit card debt, part of the necessary paying off for all my credit card debt to be gone by Christmas. As so often happens with me I am trying a new way of spending less money this month. I have withdrawn £100 in cash and that has to pay everything: fares, food, cleaning lady, going out. We shall see. I have paid for my travel pass, paid the cleaner, shopped for fruit and veg at the market and I have £43.00 left for the rest of the week. I have cooked up a storm today with tomato soup, chicken soup and sausage goulash portioned and in the freezer ready for the week ahead. Also today I have made a hen and an owl door stop as part of my "hand made" Christmas. How lovely to be sewing in the kitchen with the doors wide open in glorious sunshine, hard to believe it is England.

I have been following the people who are saving up an emergency fund, I have no savings beyond a couple of thousand in premium bonds - probably need to have a think about the reality of that.

tootallulah

Coffee £2.20, Groceries £12.78, ice-cream £2.20. Not the greatest start to my low spending week but hey, ho done now. I also got a cab today for no reason £8.50. I think that I had better just call it a bad day and start again tomorrow. I am also on a mini fly lady thing, today it is the kitchen floor, sink and all surfaces.