Mrs Sparkle's sparkly debt diary

Mrs_Sparkle

southernscouser wrote: »

Well done hun! That is bloody brilliant! :T

Thanks hun. What's all this I hear about you PMing virgins and married women??? Obviously I fall into the latter category but can I PM you please

southernscouser

Mrs_Sparkle wrote: »

Thanks hun. What's all this I hear about you PMing virgins and married women??? Obviously I fall into the latter category but can I PM you please

Aye go on then!

jessicamb

Woohoo Congrats Mrs Sparkle :beer:


Long time no see but well done on getting DF and new house sorted.

sarahm1977

hi, dont know how you manage to spend 75.00 on clothes when pregnant i can never find anything, and you may be able to stop your gym membership lie and tell them your doctor as advised you not to exercise as the pressure in your pubic area is agonising they didnt ask me anymore questions gave there sympathys and cancelled my membership:rotfl:

Snaggles

Congratulations on the job and the house sale....oh, and the debt reduction - wow, loads of good news! :T :T

Well done on putting your foot down about the house deposit, I'm so impressed!

Mrs_Sparkle

Oh Snaggles, look at your gorgeous avator- so cute!

Snaggles

Thank you!!

She has been throwing up all day, she's got me about 6 times, and even threw up over tigtag (who I met for lunch) this afternoon!

Then she looks at me with her big smiling eyes, as if to say 'it wasn't me.....'!!

taxi73

Long time no see Mrs Sparkle....what a lot of good news...you have done brilliantly...loads of debt paid...bigger house...less outgoings...gorgeous baby...well done you...you're a star...new job and saving all that travelling money..yippeee....all great news

Mrs_Sparkle

Amazing how much things have changed for me these days. I spent only £44 in Tesco's today and that included some baby pots and a beaker. I used to spend in excess of £400 a month on food shopping before I found this board

I spent this evening making more batches of baby food and I now have a freezer full to bursting full of pots and cubes of food. He's a good little eater so I like to be prepared.

DFW things that I MUST do this week:

-apply for new mortgage
-apply for £50 grant from council for cloth nappies
-pay off small balance on M&S card (£197) with the £200 expenses I got from work this month
-get into habit of doing topcashback clicks as well as quidco (how have I missed out on that all these months???)
-change some cash leftover from a weekend in Prague- think there must be about £25 there
-pay in 2 cheques which have been sitting in my purse for months- around £40
-put my Pampers money-off vouchers on eBay. I don't need them as I use clothies at weekends and cheapie Tesco nappies during the week
-have at least 1 no spend day

Hope everyone is having a fab weekend.

C x

Mrs_Sparkle

What a week... I don't recommend moving house just before Christmas. I paid off my Egg loan this week :j

I'll be able to clear some more in the next few days as we still have some money left over from the house sale but we have to see what else is going to come our way first. We already lost out on £2.5K on the house sale due to the buyers renegotiating at the last minute, plus an extra £3K on estate agent fees as we had to get rid of the cheapie ones who were going to do it for 1%- can see why they were cheap, they were rubbish. We've also just had to shell out £1700 for a new boiler :eek: 5 days after moving in....we knew it was ancient but thought we'd have a bit of time before it fell apart but no, day 3 and it all went horribly wrong. No heating or hot water this time of year is a miserable existance! So, anyway, the bank balance is dwindling faster than I'd like but hey, no egg loan now which saves me £400 a month. The new mortgage is £200 a month more so that leaves me with an extra £200 to plough into the remaining debt. I'll be so happy to get it under £10K- that's my aim.

Hope everyone else is doing well and forgives me for not being more faithful to my diary or the DFW board

C x