Coffee and chocolate

MatyMoo

Hi Miggy

Just to let you know that I am now following your thread with interest.

Haven't tried approved food, in fact I don't do any online grocery shopping... yet!

Keep on, keeping on

Maty

miggy

Hi and welcome, MatyMoo!
Virtual jaffa cakes and coffee tonight, help yourself! Or would you prefer tea or a hot choc?

No Spend Day for me today!

miggy

This is it, the big round thousandth...
I think I shall celebrate with coffee & chocolate!
:coffee::EasterBun

Kepp

Hi Miggy!

Thought I'd drop by!

You're doing well, keep it up!

miggy

Lots of munny stuff today so I thought I'd try to work out whether I come out on top.

• attended a meeting at work that I didn't have to be at (but might get me Brownie points and shoould pay me an extra hour and a half's wages). (About +£10 to the tooth fund!)
• went to the market and spent £5.60 at the discount foods stall, not on junk either before you get suspicious! (Est. saving £+2.38).
• Home to find freezer alarm bleeping - did the usual things like making sure the door was shut - it bleeped relentlessly on - *thinks* MONEY!:eek: DEFROSTING FOOD! :eek: However after an exploration of the instructions and a few hours of the temp staying up, it appears to have righted itself. :j I think the door hadn't been properly shut so it may have build upa bit of ice, which it's designed not to do, and it gets in a flap until it's sorted itself out. So do I.
• Did Lightspeed surveys last night - gained 70 points (I think this = +70p).
• Entered a Ribena code for the £1,000 draw - still on my freebie texts so no costs... hoping I can add a big red £1,000 here tomorrow but slim chance, LOL! (Edit: they have just texted to say they're sorry but... ).
• Another trip for the market: I used to be sooo good at buying there even if it meant rather too many cheap cakes and sausage rols. It helped us get through some hard times. This time I looked a bit more carefully and there are still bargains but some of them aren't as good as they were and some might be better. Got a new watch strap for £2.50, which is going to be neither a plus or a minus because the old one was damaged and I have the money to make my watch nice again and feel that bit smarted myself. Went to Boyes for a particular cleaner which wasn't in, but gained thinking time and ealised I can do the job with stuff I alrady have - saving +99p. Bought pet food - £3.50. Back to discount stall for some coffee I'd taken a fancy to and realised it was sweetened so I didn't get it - saved +£1.
• First fruit stall selling things off - bought a large cauliflower for 30p (saved +57p) and apricots (saving +50p?) - felt like Memorygirl with the cauli, she is a genius who makes all sorts of gorgeous food with cauliflower! Second fruit stall, succumbed to oranges and huge rosey plums for £1.50 - saving +50p?
• Treated myself to a trip to Wilkos - don't ask me why but that place attracts me strangely, I can't seem to walk past! Spent 97p on a pretend orange chrysanthemum but can justify that because it will cheer up my other pretend chrysanths which are elegant but a bit dark and which make the living room look nicer in winter.
• Home via Tesco. Spent £3.92 but saved £+2.29.
• Rejoined the library on the way home and got out 'Cottage Economy' by William Cobbett, which I wandered across and looks as though it could be thought-provoking. Watch this space in case I quote!
• 11p to change jar! (Which I won't count in my day's total as I'll add the jar up again before making a payment & don't want to double up).

Total savings for mortgage overpayment today £8.93, plus £10 for dental fund! I am so pleased! Also, although this is time consuming, I've realised I can justify what I've bought and the only 'poor' buys were the oranges and plums which weren't nearly as good a bargain as the other fruit, but we'll love eating them and would be buying them anyway so maybe i don't have to make a big saving there. I'm thankful we can afford it. There was a time we couldn't.

miggy

Oops, need to take the Lightspeed points off that as they're earmarked for an airbed (nearly there with that one).
So today's total = £8.23.

miggy

Bread, milk and stationery today - necessaries though I guess the stationery could have waited a few days or weeks.
I am also due to be refunded for a mis-described item on ebay, but I think I'll leave that in the Paypal account for now.
Shifts have been changed again at work so I get the extra hours back and won't actually get paid extra for this week - ah well, nice try on my part!

miggy

I have a day off today then a whole lot of half days so I need to get my act together and do jobs that involve going into town, as experience tells me they don't get done on work days.
DH and DS may be doing a Boro shop for clothes for DS, who needs various stuff. I might go with them. Actually:

• I might go with them as a reward to myself if I can manage to get DS to deal with some of his existing clothes! (Pass on, sort - even put in the wash - now I'm getting ambitious! LOL.)

• As for me - make my first ever mortgage overpayment!!! Why does that make me nervous? (Because it's new, Miggy, and it's just another business transaction to them, it's none of their business how much you put in. Just go and do it - you don't need makeup and high heels - if you go in looking scruffy and pay off 20p, what does that matter? But actually they aren't fashion police and you're paying off more than 20p.)

I have been reading the 'Are you 'secretly poor' ? thread, which is very sad in parts, but a number of posters there have reinforced my suspicion that in many ways I'm secretly well off. Not that I have a lot of cash or a posh house, but I don't have debts and I do have most of the things that matter to me - those that money could buy, anyway. If I haven't, and I want them enough, I can work out a way to save for them. If I don't do that, they are obviously lower priority with me (hence saving for the dental work but not to go abroad).
Of course there is an element of manyana here which might explain some of the laid-backness!
Other things to do:

• Tidying garden and more tidying garden,

• Put in the rest of the entries for the Pepsi £1,000 draw!

• Do latest Lightspeed survey.

miggy

Quite a successful day:

• spent 37p (cotton buds)! Would have spent more but couldn't find the vacuum cleaner bags I needed.
• DS and I sorted out some of his clothes and he has now gone to camp for a week.
• Checked lightspeed and only found a tiny survey, but did it anyway.
• Put in the rest of the Pepsi codes for the £1,000 draw - I'm not counting on it!
• Progress in the garden.
• No shopping trip to Boro needed.
• Didn't get as far as the mortgage overpayment! Never mind, still saving.
• Eating out of the freezer is becoming a habit. Today it was spagetti bolognese using sauce made by DS in cookery class, red spagetti brought back from holiday in France (quite nice too) and storecupboard sweetcorn.
• I have also 'paid my future self' by mending a sweatshirt ready for cooler weather. Need to sort through coats & shoes really and get repairs and cleaning done while we don't need them.

knitwit67

Hi, does red spagetti taste any different?, or is it just colouring. I'm guessing it's beetroot they use for colour.