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benbenandme

Morning all, I had a pretty pants sleep, for some reason I really missed ds last night and couldn't settle

Anyhow, the snow has now gone but that does mean I can get out and about and get some jobs done. I'm dressed already and am off out in a minute before it gets too busy; I need to get a birthday card, a shirt for ds school play, a bag of rock salt, have alook at the artificial trees in homebase, and see if I can pick up any more bits and pieces for Christmas

Once I get home then I will carry on with the flat blitzing, I'm going to get out my Christmassy doormat today, I hav a lovely one with penguins on I got in the John Lewis sale a couple of years ago

tigzem

Sounds a lovely morning, hope you find a tree. DD is still poorly but has perked up after having calpol. She's writing out her Christmas cards

I want a christmassy door mat

Sea78

So do I!!

Have a great day xxxx

benbenandme

Am back, its cold out there!!
Spent: ..... £1.50 on car park, £27 in sainsburys (not even a weekly shop but did include 2 large jars of coffee on offer, a box of crisps, a new striplight for the bathroom as it went yesterday and various other bits on offer. £3.50 on a gorgeous wooden reindeer at the xmas market , 89p on a christmas card, £7.50 in m&s food (£5 of which is a present), £6 on rock salt.

The artificial trees were pretty poor so may go for a real one after all again. Am now back home in the warm, I have a friend coming round this afternoon so need to get the hoover out soon, but I need to defrost a bit first

benbenandme

Just been adding up my spends, seeing as I had £22 to left for the rest of the month I have clearly overspent today, so will use some of the money I made yesterday towards it. So, I have spent a total of £43, and I had £22 left this month and i had made an extra £39 towards December, so this means I have spent all my £22 and have £18 left of the extra money to go towards December This also assumes I don't spend anything else over the next 2 days, I will need bread tomorrow but other than a couple of quid I shouldn't need to spend any more

Off now to work out Decembers budget

benbenandme

Morning all Another pants sleep here, I'm really uneasy about ds being away this weekend, can't wait for him to be home at 3 today

So, the list I made for the weekend isn't looking too great, I didn't get decembers budget sorted last night either. It was lovely to see my friend yesterday afternoon but it made me ground to a halt with my jobs So, today I'm not planning on going any further than the shop over the road for some bread, so I need to crack on iwth stuff before ds gets home. A quick update first, then I need to add lots more bits to the list ...

• [STRIKE] buy a birthday card for Andy [/STRIKE] DONE
• ironing
• [STRIKE] buy rock salt[/STRIKE] DONE
• sort out ds xmas play costume WORKING ON IT
• write out xmas advent activities and put them ready in the calendar
• finish writing xmas cards
• plan decembers budget
• decide what to do with tesco vouchers
• make some money!
• clean, clean, clean!!! WORKING ON IT

Extra bits to be added;

• move money between accounts
• bath
• shred
• finish ds homework
• update birthday money list (work related)
• meal plan for the week
• buy bread etc for lunches

benbenandme

Progress is being made, albeit from under the blanket on the sofa

• buy a birthday card for Andy DONE
• ironing
• buy rock salt DONE
• sort out ds xmas play costume WORKING ON IT
• write out xmas advent activities and put them ready in the calendar
• finish writing xmas cards
• [STRIKE]plan decembers budget[/STRIKE] DONE
• decide what to do with tesco vouchers
• make some money!
• clean, clean, clean!!! WORKING ON IT
• [STRIKE] move money between accounts[/STRIKE] DONE
• bath
• shred
• Finish ds homework
• update birthday money list (work related)
• [STRIKE]meal plan for the week[/STRIKE] DONE
• buy bread etc for lunches

hypno06

on the sofa with a blanket is as good a place as any in my experience!

Hope you manage to get most things done!

benbenandme

Time for another quick update ...

[STRIKE]buy a birthday card for Andy[/STRIKE]DONE
ironing ONLY GOT 3 BITS IN THE PILE SO THIS CAN BE LEFT FOR LATER IN THE WEEK
[STRIKE]buy rock salt [/STRIKE]DONE
sort out ds xmas play costume WORKING ON IT - ORDERED BOW TIE, WATCHING A SHIRT ON EBAY
[STRIKE]
write out xmas advent activities and put them ready in the calendar
[/STRIKE] DONE
finish writing xmas cards
[STRIKE]plan decembers budget [/STRIKE]DONE
decide what to do with tesco vouchers HAVE TRIED BUT STILL CAN'T DECIDE ...
make some money!
clean, clean, clean!!! WORKING ON IT
[STRIKE]move money between accounts [/STRIKE]DONE
[STRIKE]bath[/STRIKE] DONE
shred
Finish ds homework
update birthday money list (work related)
[STRIKE]meal plan for the week [/STRIKE]DONE
[STRIKE] buy bread etc for lunches [/STRIKE] DONE

So overall its not going too badly, I spent £2.24 on bread / milk, managed not to buy anything else :T

benbenandme

Ds is home, I haven't got anything else done off my list other than his homework which he has done beautifully :T We have booked to go and visit santa on friday after school and we'll get the tree at the same time and put it up next weekend

He was telling me that next time he goes to his dads they (dad, dads g/f, dads parents and his sister) are all going on a santa special steam train at £13 per head :mad: How lovely for them to pretend to play happy families while he contributes absolutley nothing towards his sons upkeep :mad: :mad: :mad: Beyond dispicable :cool: :cool: