twinparents07's joint diary 'doing it together'!!

twinmum07

Thought I would swing by and see how we are doing on our 100 day challenge. We have just got my Virgin bill through the post so have updated our snowball and signature as that concludes our bills for the month. i feel quite pleased to have paid off 8.3% of our debt since June, especially as my income has gone up since then and our mortgage has reduced. Very excited to see how that figure reads in December 2011

Our 100 day challenge

HOUSE - hmm, not so much done yet!
-Declutter kitchen
-Declutter dining room
-Declutter larder
-Declutter front room
-Clear mount ironmore
-Declutter bedroom
-Declutter junk cupboard

MONEY
-Pay £1443.41 off Virgin card - £727.70 paid off so over 1/2 way already
-Make £1000 over the 100 days - £309.09 made so far

US
-B lose 20% of Oct 10 body weight so lose 41lb - 23lbs lost so far
-J lose 15% of Oct 10 body weight so lose 33lb - 15lbs lost so far
-B to be able to run 5k (no walking!) - bloody snow!

BUSINESS
-Get all stock on website
-Sort ending franking contract
-Sort ending World Pay
-Move 10 categories to ebay - 3 categories on so far
-Do 5 craft fairs - 2 done
-Do SMC accounts - head in sand
-Do P accounts - head in mud!

I have also started a 101 list over on Day Zero Project, which I am really enjoying http://dayzeroproject.com/user/twinmum07

Right the little man has just woken from his nap so best dash

DancerSupreme

You are making some amazing progress and over 8% already is fantastic! What a great way to finish this year and start a fresh next year. Big pat on the back is deserved!!

xxx

twinmum07

Thank you. I guess with snowballing it just starts quite slowly so can't wait to get to the point where it all just starts to disappear more quickly. I am really excited to see where we are this time next year - how geeky does that sound?
I look back at our spending so little on Christmas pressies and think that I got that figure from last year, where i spent months making a lot of the pressies and saved a lot that way but this year I didn't have time so the budget should have gone up to allow for that. This year the twins are a year older and a year more expensive plus we have a new addition so we did really, really well to keep it under £150. Go us!
This is by far the longest we have been 'on track' for so I am confident that the debt will be gone and hopefully way before April 2016!

twinmum07

Have withdrawn a £15 voucher for Amazon from Toluna so looking forward to getting that sometime in the next few months - could be handy in March as we have tons and tons of birthdays within days of each other.
Tons to do around the house but just chilling on the sofa with the kids at the moment.
Have bought a cheap running jacket and some tracky bots for DH.

Happytogetdebtfree

Heres to a happyhealthywealthy 2011 xx

twinmum07

I still can't get onto the dayzero website to work on my list. I really hope the list I made isn't lost as it took me ages and I don't have a copy of it - grr!

I am feeling very inspired by getting a £15 amazon voucher the other day through toluna so i am surveying like a crazy lady again today. I think I will have a dull day of housework and surveying and see how much I can 'earn' today.
I wrote all our thank you cards yesterday so it will be nice not to have that hanging over me for the next few weeks

twinmum07

Hooray - Withdrawn another £20 amazon voucher from MySurvey and have my e-voucher through already.

Happytogetdebtfree

Thats great stuff twinmum keep up the good work and the positivity xx

twinmum07

I am having a fun evening trawling through the up your income board. I have looked at medical trials (not sure how I feel about them and if i would dare do them) but most are based too far South so probably won't be viable. Might keep an eye on them just in case as I would be very up for trialling slimming pills, liposuction or botox.

I have just applied to join taste radar - not entirely sure what it entails other than commenting on taste of fruit and veg then getting £25 back for your shopping bill each month so has to be worth a shot!

we have been to halfords today and bought the twins their first proper bikes with money they were given by their great grandad for their birthdays and Christmas so looking forward to getting them all put together and seeing them play with them properly in the morning

Happytogetdebtfree

That's lovely :-) I'm not keen on health trials not since the news stuff when people ended up critically I'll :-/. Oh's bonus should be through soon I was nearly talking myself into new bathroom but unwilling be sticking to my plan of paying it to Richard Branson card :-/ il be happy in the long run lol x