Our attempt at being MF!!

CathT

Haha, we did baking in the sco0by d00 mansion and were chased by hulk and spiderman!

Have been enjoying the last of the bank holiday weekend, have finished off the house work. To be honest, going back to work will be a break from the endless hoovering and cleaning the kitchen. My children also create a phenomenal amount of dust!

Dh did extra hours yesterday and has worked today at double time so next paycheck be healthy my efforts were to complete 2 y0ugov surveys earning us £1.

Dh did a small shop on the way home. I thought he was joking when he said the total spend was £3.24!! @ldi 25p offers are brilliant!

In an affort to be healthy have made a juice I saw on a page on fb. I think I was being a bit optimistic and this one will definitely be drunk in 'shots' rather than by the glass!

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Hi CathT!:wave: Just popped in to say hi.
Fingers crossed here for your pp to come through too - it really needs something certain to hang the whole process on, or else it feels a bit like nailing blancmange to the wall. We were lucky in that our council was trialing a process where they came to do a site visit on receipt of the application. 2 planning officers and a building regs inspector spoke to me for about a hour about what I wanted to achieve and made several suggestions that would save me money. In the end I resubmitted the plans with their suggestions included - they didn't charge me for the resubmission - and could feel fairly confident it would go through, as my neighbours were onside too. I felt like I got a really good service from them, but also wondered if it couldn't help but cost a lot more to do that way! Reading your diary I realise how much stress they saved me and feel very grateful! We got our pp about a fortnight ago, and build is scheduled to start in a month. Eeeek. Only home 2 weekends in that time, Better go do some of my jobs towards it all!

juliejim

Fingers crossed for the PP

CathT

Thank you, I shall be frequenting the council website today!

Had to cave in and put the heating on today, its been off a couple of days but I was so cold throughout the night despite two smalls and a hot water bottle for company.

Current account looking OK, 41p Tilly tidy made from food account.

Weather forecast keeps changing for our weekend away, we are now back to rain!

Have a good Tuesday everyone, I think I may survive a 3 day working week :j

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Have a good day, well done on the tiny food spends. We are Aldi fans too and plan our meals around the veg that is on special x

debtfreeoneday

Hi,

Saw you post about Pcone surveys on another diary, I really struggled to get accepted, but keep googling invites to join pcone and try a different age, I signed up via a link where it was looking for 30*40 years old (not my age bracket) and *whispers* adjusted my age by 10 years, but now when I complete surveys I just enter my actual age. As Ali said, it's fits and starts with their surveys,

CathT

Secret_Saving_Squirrel wrote: »

Have a good day, well done on the tiny food spends. We are Aldi fans too and plan our meals around the veg that is on special x

We try and do it with fruit too as it can get expensive replenishing the fruit bowl. Its great my children love fruit but we get through a lot!

debtfreeoneday wrote: »

Hi,

Saw you post about Pcone surveys on another diary, I really struggled to get accepted, but keep googling invites to join pcone and try a different age, I signed up via a link where it was looking for 30*40 years old (not my age bracket) and *whispers* adjusted my age by 10 years, but now when I complete surveys I just enter my actual age. As Ali said, it's fits and starts with their surveys,

Thanks DFOD, that's helpful. I won't give up!

CathT

Not that much to report midweek (can you believe its already wednesday!) Have started checking accounts twice a day to move tilly tidies (50p yesterday evening and 53p this morning). This is from food account as there is no activity in the current account as we don't really spend much money!

Posted phone off to mus1c m@gpie so hoping for funds by early next week, went through tcb for an extra 30p :cool:

Stopped myself from spending yesterday with the mindset that i'm making an effort to earn £14 so am not going to throw away the odd £1 on extra bit of fruit or chocolate that's reduced just for the sake of it!

Still pretty cold here and we are having a quick blast of central heating twice a day for 30 mins each. WM on and will get washing on the line before work.

We have started a frugal food shopping list for our mini break and tbh we will mostly eat what we normally eat at home. Will be fish and chips on the first night though which is what we always do when we go away to the beach. Last time dh and I shared though, I don't let the finances slip that much when on holiday! Even ice creams etc we tend to buy a box from the shop rather than individual ones. No point throwing money away!

CathT

Still no PP news :mad:

Dh has done a small top up shop ready for our mini-break. Spent about £10 and total spends for the month are..........

Food. - £161.98
Petrol £167.08

Total £329.06

I am really amazed at those spends, we are a family of 4 with 2 cars!!

Must remember to update mortgage and wiotw figures later

smallholdingsister

No news is good news xxx