museumworker's quest to consign mortgage to history!

museumworker

£7.65 OP made today from ama$on payment .

Received an expected mailing from lakeland - 2 vouchers for a free box of mint chocolates with any purchase from the new westfield store, worth £3.99 each. We were talking about buying the non-leak water bottles, one each, so this means we will have two teacher presents sorted too . Plus I've twigged we now have a lakeland only 30 min bus ride away, which is just dangerous :rotfl:!

SeriouslySeekingtoSave

museumworker wrote: »

£7.65 OP made today from ama$on payment .

Received an expected mailing from lakeland - 2 vouchers for a free box of mint chocolates with any purchase from the new westfield store, worth £3.99 each. We were talking about buying the non-leak water bottles, one each, so this means we will have two teacher presents sorted too . Plus I've twigged we now have a lakeland only 30 min bus ride away, which is just dangerous :rotfl:!

Clever! Of course you'd have to be more disciplined than I am otherwise those chocies wouldn't make it to the teachers desk!

museumworker

I don't eat chocolate due to the possible link with migraines, so it's just the rest of the household who may foil my plan :rotfl:!

Hello everyone, been a crazy hectic week with nowhere near enough time to keep up here.
Brother's 30th in Cardiff on the weekend - it was lovely to have all the family together . Did mean probably around £100 spent though .
Then drove back sunday morning to be in london for 12.30 pick up - to drive to Brighton :eek:! Seven hours in a car that day, not fun! Had work conference Monday, Tuesday - very useful, if extremely intense. Night out Sunday AND Monday, means not enough sleep and too much personal money spent, probably about £40 of my £150 limit. Coupled with the fact I wanted to put some of my pocket money towards a trip to Sheffield with my sister in November means I've probably only got about £60 left on personal spends - I see a very tight month!

Gave another tour today of the museum store, coupled with my welsh lesson = 'wedi blino'. I hope everyone is well and to get some time to catch up over the weekend. Saying that, I have a friend over for dinner tomorrow, and is my birthday on Saturday and DD's bday on Sunday so I am already fearing for my sanity!

SeriouslySeekingtoSave

So that's a bit over £2 a day. Yes, a bit of a squeeze but doable. Just make sure you take a lunch everywhere so the money doesn't get used up on food expenses.

Good Luck!

museumworker

I'm quite good with lunches (although had to buy one today as OH had made food you can only eat hot, which I can't have at the museum store). My main failings is dinners, lunches and drinks out. I like to socialise you know . But it is 4 x £15 nights out, so one a week. Am sure it'll be ok, just feel a bit panicky!

For those of you sewers and crafty people on here, my friend has started a charity challenge on her blog to make 52 dresses for girls in malawi. It sounds like a brilliant project, and the link is here http://peggyspickles.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/every-girl-deserves-a-pretty-dress/#comment-45
She is asking for help and I'm sure some of you fantastic forumites will be able to offer it.

ETA: £2.18 OP made from ama$on sales.

earthgirl

Wow you are so busy!! I am just looking forward to a rest this weekend!

museumworker

I KNOW! And if you earthgirl are telling me I've overdoing it, it must be true - you scare me sometimes by how much you fit into a day:eek::eek::D:D! October is just crazy due to all the family birthdays. Have tidied house up a bit, ready to collapse into bed now for an early night.

Tomorrow I plan to do a birthday jumble sale whilst OH doing the food shopping, and after lunch we are going on a family trip to a nearby heritage/wildlife sanctuary type place I've not been before. After that we'll be cooking up a storm ready for dinner for 10 :eek:! My only responsibility however is welcome snacks (am planning to try homemade breadsticks for first time, and hm hummuus) and a welcome cocktail (earl grey martinis). Now that I AM looking forward to!

Received mortgage statement. As at 01/10 our mortgage balance is £178,315.93 :j!

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Oooo dinner party!! very nice - enjoy

museumworker

Thanks - needed an afternoon nap as feeling a bit queasy today, but breadsticks are proving and earl grey tea stewing.

£400 OP made today from rent .
Bought 2 x clothes challenge items: M&S navy print dress £7.99 and a wool and cotton long cardi, striped £3.99. Must only have about £10 left now!
Jumble sale was good, spent £6.40 on a big bag of clothes need to sort through. Managed to get an unused Articulate for 20p, have wanted this for years!! And some games/books for DD. Plus the essential squash and hm cake.

museumworker

:shhh: can you guys keep a secret? I'm not telling anyone outside these virtual walls, so I'll know if you don't!

I think I might be a little bit pregnant... have done two first response tests, both have an extremely faint second line on them! My period is due this Saturday, so might do a different test then.

£57.15 OP made today from the £50 odd from taking out a Post Office CC (which haven't even had to use ), and a small Ama$on sale last week.

DD's birthday and mine both went well, have (non-alcoholic _pale_?) drinks planned for Saturday night then looking forward to getting back on the MFW journey. It has been such a hectic few months, what with weddings and birthdays that I haven't been on top of my finances , although I have felt like I've held everything together so can't be too hard on myself.