Ladies & Gentlemen, please fasten your seatbelts ...

benbenandme

Evening, I've finally made it home :j I went to dads last night to look after him and stayed there with him today, before going shopping with my sil and niece, then back to mums for dinner and xfactor. Finally made it back, catching up on here this evening then tomorrow I need to get loads sorted before back to work on monday

Thankyou Tigz for the text xx

Spends today = £5 on chocs and sweets for xmas (again ) and £2.40 on the car park.

hypno06

I can't buy chocs for christmas until the very last minute - otherwise I have to buy them several times over!

enjoy the rest of your weekend x

benbenandme

Morning all Not a great nights sleep, but I have just done todays 2 offers from a matched betting advent calendar, one I lost a tenner but it gets refunded on monday, the other one I played £5 and won £40 making £35 profit :j :j Happy, happy happy!!! That will get added to the monthly totals, and is definitley helping take the pressure off this month

I really should get out of bed soon, todays plan is to get the flat done before ds comes home this afternoon, to try to get myself a bit more organised for the week ahead as I feel totally clueless at the moment, and generally get on top of things again

Hypno, this isn't the first time I've been xmas choccy shopping

Food: £90 / £200
Petrol: £15 / £60
Other: £47 / £195

benbenandme

Forgot to add in a couple of other spends from friday; £10 for the remainder of my xmas meal at work and £4 towards ds lunch account at school.

Just won a fiver on roulette too, woohoo, which means I have basically doubled my 'other' money this month, its a good day

Food: £90 / £200
Petrol: £15 / £60
Other: £60 / £200

When I was at dads I have set up me new spreadsheet ready for next year for keeping track of my pennies, looking forward to January now

benbenandme

Good progress is being made so far, dishwasher on, washing machine on for the second time, guinea pigs cleaned, hoover done in the lounge, had my bath, now need to get dressed and nip to Siansburys before ds gets home Then I need to think about sorting out xmas cards, secret santa gifts, a birthday gift for thursday and a million and one other bits

benbenandme

Aaaaghhh .... ds is home and has announced daddy has a new job at the supermarket at nights ... guess who's gonna be caling the csa first thing in the morning cos I bet he hasn't mentioned it to them :mad: :mad:

He also hasn't put in the £5 for ds xmas play dvd that he wanted ... so I'm not ordering one. Why should I pay for it?? :mad: :mad:

benbenandme

Spoke to my sister and she thinks I should still get him the dvd, any thoughts ???
Also found out my mum has sent his parents a christmas card, now I know thats up to her but I feel a bit hurt by it, am I being unfair??

Keeping_Motivated

Did she send just his parents or him too?

As for the DVD could you get it and send a note with the request for the payment of the £5?

benbenandme

Just his parents KM, normally she sends to him too (although he hates her ), I don't know why I'm so bothered, maybe because she hadn't said, I don't know ... She hasn't seen them / spoken to them for at least 6 years either??

pinkladyof66

ben ben is the dvd for you to keep or for your ex - if so i would certainly not buy him one, you need to think of yourself, and yes I would feel a little put out to about sending his parents a card, especially if they have not spoken or seen them for that long time.