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benbenandme

Morning all, I've just managed to bag a couple of travelodge rooms in their £9 sale, one night in April and one night in August for me and ds and we'll go to Legoland / Thorpe Park / Chessington with the merlin passes for a few days :j That will be paid for with the money I had put away for a holiday next year.

Right, need to go and get dressed now, friend will be here in about an hour to go and look at the car

benbenandme

2 more travelodge rooms booked, so we now have one for Easter hols, one for half-term, and 2 for the summer holidays, which will give us 8 days out at theme parks, not including any day trips we may do Total cost = £36 :beer:

pinkladyof66

benbenandme wrote: »

2 more travelodge rooms booked, so we now have one for Easter hols, one for half-term, and 2 for the summer holidays, which will give us 8 days out at theme parks, not including any day trips we may do Total cost = £36 :beer:

how do you managed to find the rooms as when i do search it only brings up full price rooms, thanks:D

Ellidee

pinklady this is the post on the grabbit board http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=39443326&postcount=1 |HTH

benbenandme

Sorry for not replying earlier Pinklady, we were at mums with the car; friends other half thinks its just a flat battery and has taken the battery home to charge overnight, so we'll try again tomorrow. Hopefully this will save me a large garage bill

So, back home again, ds is incredibly tired and grumpy so has just put on the British Buses dvd kindly given by Moo2Moo :T and hopefully now will chill on the sofa while I attempt to update the end of year finances

benbenandme

Okay I know this will probabaly sound like a really wierd one, but I'm currently trying to devise myself a housework schedule. I've had a look at flylady but don't think I'd stick with it; my plan is to get everything up to date before we go back to school and then maintain it with the new schedule

I was given two calendars for Christmas, one is a big organiser one which I have already filled in, the other one is just sat in the hall waiting to go to the charity shop. Howver, I'm now thinking that I will use that for my schedule instead I am thinking of sticking it to the inside of a kitchen cupboard and writing on it various tasks. I have some tasks that are daily tasks, such as loading the dishwasher, making packed lunches etc, which will be printed off in a list and stuck next to it, some other tasks that are weekly, such as changing the beds, tidying ds bedroom etc, and other bits that are less often, eg. reading the electricity meter (want to do this on the 1st of each month), cleaning the windows etc ...

benbenandme

Hmmm, I have spent hours last night and this morning trying to sort the finances, and somehow I seem to have ended up balncing the books, BUT ... this leaves nothing left over to pay Next I can't figure out whats gone wrong, I've been tracking everything really carefully and thought I had about £100 left over Grrr, I will need to sit and go through it again later :cool:

stressed.mum

Hope you manage to balance the books this morning benben, you will find the money somewhere, you always do :T

Stressed xxx

benbenandme

Well I've been over and over it all and I can't see where its gone, but I think it probably just disappeared on overspending on xmas presents I have tried to track stuff but one lesson I've definitely learnt from this year is that I need to simplify my accounts; I currently use 5 different accounts, one of which has 10 different 'pots' in it, as well as having money at various bookies / paypal etc.

So, lesson learned, I need to (a) not spend anything today or tomorrow, (b) be really ruthless about the next order (the jumper and cardigan I wasn't sure about are going back), (c) track everything, every single penny!! and (d) simplify where my money is

So onwards and upwards, nothing is lost, just means that I will have to clear my Next account some other way

benbenandme

£10 profit from a games offer