Ladies & Gentlemen, please fasten your seatbelts ...

benbenandme

Yep, sometimes I do appreciate having some time to myself, but would just prefer it if ds was with my mum or anyone in fact, rather than the person I trust least on the planet

In better news, Man Utd winning has meant I have just bust out of another offer making me £40 profit :j As much as I feel like I've wasted the weekend and been non-productive, actually I've done well with the matched betting and getting some bits on ebay, so all in all its not been so bad really

benbenandme

Back from an hour at the park, managed to read another chapter of my book while ds played We're going to do a meal plan tonight for the week and nip out in the morning to get bits. Tomorrow I've got an old friend coming overfor the day with her three kids and we're going to hit the beach

benbenandme

£1 spends today on choccy on the way to the park
Also have 10 watchers already on ebay stuff so am pleased with that

benbenandme

Morning, we've been to tescos and spent £35 which should hopefully last most of the week, maybe a few top-up bits will be needed later in the week.

Picnic is made and we're now waiting for our friends to arrive so we can go out for the day.

I've tried to withdraw £10 from the scratchcards today, will see if it lets me and then that will be it I think for them, its too much effort now for a few pennies

benbenandme

We've had a lovely day today, a friend from where I used to live came to visit and we went down the beach for the day. She has three kids and they all played really nicely with ds, then they came back here and we had tea and we had a good catch up while the kids played

Total spend today (other than tescos this morning) was £4 for the car park

benbenandme

Morning all, today is going to be an indoor day; neither of us had a good nights sleep; ds had an itchy back (remember the rash when we went swimming before?), he had piriton at bedtime but woke up during the night itching so needed another dose. I just couldn't get back to sleep after that so we're both a bit sluggish this morning.

I've written a nice long list of bits and pieces to get done today, nothing excting but all need doing;

• strip bed and remake
• clear washing pile
• ironing
• clean bathroom
• clean kitchen
• clean both bedrooms
• clean lounge
• hoover through
• rubbish out
• post friends cup left here yesterday
• post letters
• ds bath
• pay in cheques
• take stuff down to the garage
• order a new garage fob
• send email to friend re. meeting up on sunday in London
• sort kitchen cupboards
• ds to the library
• sort airing cupboard
• make a banana cakeMake apple crumble
• ds bedroom walls (putting posters back up that have fallen down)

Most of those things are small, 2 minute jobs, but if I don't write them down I will forget all about them

Ds is booked into a UFO making session at the library this afternoon, a freebis and it will give me an hour to pop into a couple of shops near there while he's doing that

benbenandme

The list is progressing nicely, just stopped for lunch ...

[STRIKE]strip bed and remake [/STRIKE]DONE
[STRIKE]clear washing pile [/STRIKE] DONE
ironing
clean bathroom
[STRIKE]clean kitchen [/STRIKE] DONE
[STRIKE]clean both bedrooms [/STRIKE] DONE
clean lounge
[STRIKE]hoover through [/STRIKE] DONE
rubbish out
post friends cup left here yesterday
post letters
ds bath
pay in cheques
take stuff down to the garage
order a new garage fob
[STRIKE]send email to friend re. meeting up on sunday in London[/STRIKE] DONE
sort kitchen cupboards
ds to the library
[STRIKE] sort airing cupboard [/STRIKE] DONE
make a banana cake
Make apple crumble
ds bedroom walls (putting posters back up that have fallen down)

Also made £9 profit on a betting offer

benbenandme

Home from the library, ds has made a shiny silver foil ufo and an alien I managed to get a few bits done off the list in the process (rubbish out, stuff into the garage) and we both went and paid in the cheques. For the last 12 months ds has earned £9 interest on his account, (no money has been taken out of this account), the previous 12 months he earned £36 :eek: ... think I might check around for childrens accounts as that interest rate has clearly dropped massively. He's currently got the Nationside Smart account and am happy to change it except it was opened when he was a baby and his dad and I are both named on it so wouldn't be able to close it without spekaing to him Think I'll have a look round and maybe open another one for him with a better interest rate (if there is one these days).

I did spend some money while we were out; I spent £2 in tescos on some biscuits and porridge oats, £3 on sweets in the sweetie shop £1.20 on plasters in another shop and £1.49 on one of those fisher price old telephones (a la toy story 3) for ds to add to his toy story toy collection in a charity shop and £3.75 on a new thing to hang socks on to dry, and a notebook. Total spends = £11.45 :eek: this will all have to come out of my day to day money, I'd been doing really well and that suddenly seems quite a lot of money for not a lot of stuff Then again, we're not spending money on doing stuff today so I guess its all relative.

dueyb

rather than close the account could you not withdrawn nearly all the money and put it some where better??

benbenandme

I think I need him to sign for any withdrawls too, will def look into it though