Abba1772's Debt Free Diary

stepuptothepl8

You're back! :hello:
And hurrah to Miss Abba, clever thing!

abba1772

Finished painting the window frame and have contacted the guy who did my blinds to come out and measure the window for a set of blinds and to give me a quote for the rest of the rooms, boys need black out blinds and I want a glitter blind for my hallway so I will see what the damage is lol xx

Working from 8am til 5.30pm older two are off to a club at the school so once they are there I'll take the little ones up to the town as got a few bits to do then if it stays dry we will head off to the park before coming home for some lunch xx

clearmydebts

Lovely to see you back!

abba1772

clearmydebts wrote: »

Lovely to see you back!

Thank you xx

Checked out the Argos card and the balance is sitting at £336.23 so I rounded down my account and sent £8.93 towards it :T so it's official I've started on my next target :cool:

Took the kids up to the town sent away the cheques for the playgroup I'm organising, nipped into farmfoods got juice for Abbie £2.50, juice for me £2 large bag of chips £2.39 and a box of chocolate bears 99p then we popped to home bargains and got washing up liquid 99p, bread £1 juice 29p potatoes 99p onions 39p so I'm happy with that xx

Took the kids to the park but it was short lived Kk needed the toilet and she a toddler needs to go they need to go :rotfl: que a mad dash to tesco as that was the nearest toilet but he made it :T thank goodness so after that we decided to just catch the bus home and get some lunch, kids ate theirs whilst I brought a washing in and out another one out :cool:

Decided to make stew casserole with mash potatoes tonight so the stew is currently cooking away in the slow cooker, trying to use up everything in the freezer as I want to give muscle foods a try but might look at the local buyers to see what deals they are doing as want to cook more wholesome dinners if that makes sense xx

Can't believe the time need to go pick the boys up from their club at 3.30pm one mindee gets picked up a 4pm another mindee gets fed at 4.30pm and they both get collected at 5.30pm so it's flown in again.

My job today is to make some sense of the playgroup accounts tonight whilst hubby sands down the remaining walls in the bathroom to prepare them for the lining paper, once he's done that it means I can get on with painting the bathroom........the end is in sight as to regards the bathroom poor hubby it's been a long slog but the difference is amazing will need to see if I can get pictures up once it's finished xx

clearmydebts

Would absolutely love to see photos. How are ye settling in?


We are 4 months in ours now and starting to feel very settled. We've done as much improvements (cosmetic) as we can now so time to knuckle down and pay off the debts, then we can look at it again.

abba1772

clearmydebts wrote: »

Would absolutely love to see photos. How are ye settling in?


We are 4 months in ours now and starting to feel very settled. We've done as much improvements (cosmetic) as we can now so time to knuckle down and pay off the debts, then we can look at it again.

We've settled in nicely I reckon only been in properly just over a month Abbie's room is completely done, the living room is done it's just pictures and mirrors etc that need put up in these rooms

Bathroom is nearly done :T so is my bedroom as I just need my wardrobe to be adjusted as I underestimated how big our bedroom furniture :rotfl: so hubby's joiner friend is going to do it and boys room just need the bit of wood the curtain rail goes onto so I can get their other set of curtains up

It's little jobs that's needing done at the moment so not too bad........then it's just the kitchen and hallway that needs done but need to save up some money for this as hallway will cost us £400 and kitchen doesn't have a price at the moment :rotfl:

Right off to peel potatoes for dinner tonight got. Headache that painkillers aren't shifting xx

abba1772

Evening :hello:

I am shattered.......started work at 7am finished at 5pm been a long day especially with mindee not listening to a word I've been saying.

Took the little ones to the local garden centre spent £7.60 on cakes and juice then we had a little wander finding different coloured flowers, went to matalan to see what they had in their sale spent £26 in there got two tops for Kk a floaty top for myself and a few wooden games for my childminding like golf, dodgems and sack race so I'm happy with that.

Came home made lunch kids fell asleep so I just chill out for a change feel a bit better for it then the blind guy came and measured my window so it's £58 for my blind so gets paid on Tuesday xx got him to quote for two roller blackout blinds for the boys room but he wanted £110 will just get them off eBay still have a Lego light and Lego curtains to sell so will get them on eBay then I'll buy their blinds as I can get made to measure for a fraction of the price...........also got him to price up a white glitter blind for the hallway when we decide to redecorate he's quoted me £90 :eek: will scout out online to see if I can get it cheaper xx

Rounded down my account sent over £7 towards it so want to try and get in under the £300 mark by the end of the week we shall see xx

moneyonmymindsam

Hello Treacle


House is sounding beautiful - love the glitter blind idea


Hope you are looking after you along with everyone else


Thinking of you and wishing you well


Sam xxx
P.s Aint abby the best £160 saving on getting the dancing funded ... well done that girl!!

abba1772

moneyonmymindsam wrote: »

Hello Treacle


House is sounding beautiful - love the glitter blind idea


Hope you are looking after you along with everyone else


Thinking of you and wishing you well


Sam xxx
P.s Aint abby the best £160 saving on getting the dancing funded ... well done that girl!!

Hi Sam hope your well xx

I'm trying to look after myself but sometimes it doesn't pan out that way xx

Well today has been a spendy day........had playgroup today £1.50 where 28 kids :eek: turned up safe to say opening up the playgroup during the holidays has been a success :T xx

Then it was off to the shops for Abbie and my mil's birthday presents and cakes.......spent £8.50 in card factory on cards and some gifts and wrapping paper then popped into Argos and picked up items I reserved for kks birthday next month seeing as they were half price so spent £16.03

Nipped into sports direct for trainers for xander, he's only turns 10 in August yet I'm having to buy him gents size 6 trainers :mad: so spent £31.99 then it was off to tesco picked up some juice crisps and a cd for my mil's birthday so spent £16 there then we went to Asda as tea is birthday cake selection was rubbish so ended up spending £14.50 on clothes for the boys in the sale and spent £22 on cakes and some other bits :rotfl:

Really should be doing the ironing but can't be bothered but it needs done as Kk has no ironed trousers left :rotfl:

No debt repayments today but will see how we get on during the weekend xx

abba1772

Well skinto again :eek:

Spent all the money this weekend.....got paid today kept £60 back for the blinds being fitted tomorrow and sent £30 towards the barcalycard.......need to remember to send another £30 towards this card on Friday to cover the minimum payments :mad:

Checked the bank thinking I had more money in there........now I have 93p in there til Friday :rotfl: good job I went I went to lidl and got some food in spent £34 in there so that should tide us over til Friday xx

Had the day off today from work but still had playgroup to run which had 20kids today :eek: then came home finished that mammoth ironing pile I started this morning, got a wash on and out on the line, started the first coat on the window in the bathroom, scrapped the tile adhesive off so that's that wall prepped for painting, and got the rest of the broken mirror off the boys ward rode just need to to get something thT takes of the sticky adhesive xx

So I've had a productive day xx