Fresian's Final Push...Mooooving Towards Freedom

mooomin

Souk08 wrote: »

Thanks lady, ace to meet you too. We passed Primarni later and I hoped she wouldn't want to go in. It was heaving!!!! We didn't go in. I will need to invest in some tights later this week but I can't stand it. It's mental at this time of year. I visit Edinburgh quite a bit to see the galleries etc so I will give you a shout, oh debt free one. X

Whirrooo! That would be lovely Just consider yourself warned that I might use your Mystical Styling Powers to stop me looking like a Weeble...

beanielou wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I know!! I was totally gutted

InaPickle

Glad you all had fun.

Still wishing that PADing worked for me, but am devising devious strategies to circumvent it.

gilligansyle

flying_fresian wrote: »

I'm going to put one of my crisp tenners in my Sealed Pot as well. Just to feel virtuous :A

Go you :T

flying_fresian wrote: »

On a non-financial note, I had a brilliant time with DT and Souk today. I had seen pics of DT on Facebook so thought I knew who I was looking for, but she's done so well on her diet (5 stones lost!!) that I didn't recognise her

I was the same when I met her, thought I would recognise her, but she has lost so much weight she looked fantanstic. Cue lots of texts about "I'm near x"

mooomin

I'm just back from an epic trip to Asda with Mr Fresian. We're still not sure it's a good idea to drive the Scrapsmobile given the volume of snow, so decided to trudge up the hill. I'm knackered now! We did celebrate a safe return with bacon sandwiches (Om nom nom!) which helped warm me up after being rugby tackled into a foot of snow in the garden

I spent about £16 while there, but all of it was needed. I'm making soup today, so got loads of onions and tatties - I should make enough soup to last the week :j I also got two massive leeks for 17p - the self service thingie weighed them wrong (or I made some kind of error....?) and the Bored Youth manning the checkouts just approved the price. Given the normal price of leeks I'm quite chuffed with that! We also got essentials like teabags and bacon (the bacon was essential as Mr Fresian refused to come with me unless there was bacon at the end of the trip :rotfl:)

I paid cash for it, so the change is off into the Sealed Pot and I'll pop the actual amount from the Groceries account into the Spends account later on.

Best dash - 2kg of tatties won't peel themselves :eek:

Double_Trouble

Had to smile about the non recognising me posts from FF and Gill.

Well you wouldn't recognise me now FF as I have packed away OHs grey coat that you lot made me take to glasgow:eek: and I have now got the most gorgeous full length red coat - I am now the lady in red :rotfl::rotfl:

Had a great time in Glasgow and definitely hope to be north of the border again and would love to meet again

please get those cards done before I get the sack from you know who

DTxx

mooomin

Evening folks

Well I've had a reasonably productive day...after the Long Walk To Asda - I really can't wait for the snow to go away and for Scraps to be able to drive freely again! - I came back and made over two litres of soup. I haven't had any yet, but it certainly smells amazing. I did lose a little bit of my finger to an errant tattie peeler, but it meant that Mr Fresian finished peeling the tatties so that particular bleeding cloud did have a silver lining

I've wrapped most of the Christmas presents, which has made me feel quite smug, but there's still a few to do tonight before I go to bed! Tomorrow, finish the Christmas cards!

Money situation at the moment is:

PAD/Spends - £24.42
Entertainment - £141.79
Groceries - £66.99
Purse - £33 + £35 cheque
Outstanding debt - None
ISA - £12.69 (Woo, double figures!!)
Virtual Sealed Pot - £19.64

mooomin

Morning folks

The money situation is about the same as yesterday - a little more in the ISA and a little less in the PAD account though

I got most of the Christmas stuff wrapped, but it looks like Santa's Grotto exploded in the living room, so I need to fix that when I get home from work :rotfl: Today's plans involve possibly going to the bank to pay in a cheque, although it really depends on how icy the pavements are. I can cope without it in the meantime.

Stay safe and warm all - especially Beanie, I noticed on your FB that you've had more snow :eek:

mooomin

Ooft, what a day!

I can normally leave my house at half eight and be in work before nine. Today it took me an hour and a half to get to work because of the whooring blizzard battering Edinburgh this morning. I lasted till one at work by which time all public transport had been cancelled. Thankfully there was space in someone's car and I got home without having to walk the couple of miles home through blizzard + a foot of snow :eek: It's bad Up North today - some people have been on the main motorway between Edinburgh and Glasgow for over six hours.:eek: I really hope they get home safe.

I'm exhausted today - tired and feeling rotten. I was so exhausted by the time I got into work today that it's really affected my mood. I've felt like sh*t all night and have done nothing apart from sit and stare at the telly. I think part of the problem is knowing that I don't have long to go until Holidays - I finish up on Thursday until Christmas. I wish I was on holiday already and didn't have to leave the blooming house in this god-awful weather. We knew it was bad when it made the Proper News....normally weather only makes the news if London gets an inch of snow :rotfl:

I need to find some spare pennies from somewhere too as I realised today that I haven't bought my brother a Christmas present. Bah!

Still, some positives from today:

• Had some of the soup I made yesterday and it's yummy
• Managed to make a PAD into my ISA today of over £3
• Also paid £4 into my change tins. Given that I feel Very Skint at the moment, that does make me quite happy!
• I'm going to paay some change into the bank this week as I already have a full bag of 50p's - this will be another PAD to the ISA

I'm off to bed now, in the hope that I wake up tomorrow in a mood which is more full of happy and less full of MEH

InaPickle

Poor Fresian.

I think this weather really gets to you after a while. Not so much the weather, but the fact that doing day-to-day things is made so much more blummin' difficult.

Chin up - this can't last too much longer as I've put in a special request with the Almighty and he owes me one or two. x

mooomin

InaPickle wrote: »

I think this weather really gets to you after a while. Not so much the weather, but the fact that doing day-to-day things is made so much more blummin' difficult.

I think that has a lot to do with it Pickle. Even getting to the end of my street is exhausting and having to walk any distance in snow is killing my legs - it's like a gym workout but without the cozy feeling of being indoors. I know it's bad to moan and all that, but I can't wait until I'm on holiday (5pm Thursday, WOOOOO!)

In slighty more positive news, I got my mobile bill yesterday and buying an extra £5 of mobile internet has really worked. Last month's bill was £49 and this month we're back to £35 I know it's a lot to pay, but I really like having a phone that's shiny and does internet when I'm on the go, so it's money well spent for me. I didn't want to be short of funds to pay for it, so had too much money sitting in the bills account. I've been able to PAD an extra £25 into the ISA today, which has given me a nice fuzzy warm feeling - much needed in these harsh temperatures

Money

PAD/Spends - £24.50
Entertainment - £141.79
Groceries - £64.49
Outstanding debt - None
ISA Savings - £42.10
Purse - £27 cash + £25 cheque

I also have £10 of coins sitting in my bag, waiting to be paid into the bank along with the cheque, but they're for the ISA not for spending.

There are 10 days until payday (we get paid almost a week early because of Christmas) but I would really like to be able to ignore the wages sitting in my account until my normal payday on the 23rd so I don't spend all my money and spend all my time in January living in poverty.

That being said, if the Big Freeze does what it should and b*gger right off, then we'll be piling in the Scrapsmobile and heading North to visit Maw and Paw Fresian for a couple of days before Christmas and the extra pennies will come in handy to pay for diesel. Hmmm....plenty to think about.