Here I go again :-)

millionaire_in_training

Just put £150 onto my ASDA account via works discount scheme ao I got it for £142.50. Started doing an online shop but stopped myself. I have been buying monthly and it hasn't been great as kids ate everything they could get their hands on :rotfl:so going to do 2 weeks at a time and go and buy it myself. I'll go to ASDA, Farmfoods and butchers and get everything I need for next 2 weeks. I'll do that on Thursday night. I reckon we can just about cope until then. No doubt the kids would tell me otherwise :rotfl:

millionaire_in_training

Good evening. I have not stopped since 6.30am today and still not finished :eek:. Am bloody shattered. Life should get a bit easier after today though as DS has stopped tae kwon do :j so no need to work late on Mondays and Wednesdays whilst I wait on him . I'm so happy as it means I will have 2 nights per week all to me :D. And it'll save me some money . I've told him I'll get him a gym and swimming pass each month instead which will be about £5 cheaper. He's happy, I'm happy, a'body's happy .

Been baking since I came in tonight as we are having a charity day tomorrow for motor neurone disease. I have made tablet ( which will sell out in seconds) choc fudge muffinas and bakewell tart. So I reckon I have done my bit. The sad thing is that hardly anyone will bother baking. It seems to be a dying art these days . I spent a few pounds tonight on ingredients but it is worth it.

Payday tomorrow :j . DD asked me if I could lend her £210 to buy a T in the Park ticket and I said she could put it on my card as purchases are still at 0%. She will pay it back from her birthday money in April and I will pay it straight off of the other interest paying card. Every little helps . So am away to ice my cakes and I'll be back tomorrow

nonnie44

Hi MIT, that's so nice your making so much for your charity day, it really struck a chord with me as that's what my dad had, terrible disease.
Bet your right about the tablet, always the first to go, making a ton of it for ds for school on friday for sciaf - love scrapping the pot tho :rotfl:

jellybean39

Think u can comeroind mine for some baking! What is a tablet? Have heard them mentioned a lot but don't know what there are?
Glad to see your interest coming downxxx

millionaire_in_training

Nonnie, horrible disease indeed. We have a different charity each month so this month was MND. We should have made a few bob today as we had a few things going on in the office. I'm glad I made the effort now that you said your dad had it We need to do our bit for these things. I have long long memories of my mum scraping the tablet pot and puttin the scrapings on spoons until they cooled. Sometimes we couldn't wait and put them under the cold tap so we could eat them quicker . I do this now with my kids and they race downstairs when they hear the scraping going on :rotfl:. I have inherited the tablet 'pot'. cos everyone has got to have a tablet pot!!

Jelly, tablet is a home made scottish sweet and it is awesome. I have never met anyone who doesn't like it. It's made from condensed milk, sugar, butter and milk and it is yum. I have made loads of cash from it over the years for various charity days.

Pay day today so I have paid back the £150 to my Christmas fund (that I used for asda card the other day)paid £100 to my mum, so only £200 to pay her back and that's 1 debt gone:D. £37.30 payment to a CC and since it was payday I treated us to a takeaway so £15.90 for that. Kids were delighted though so worth the spend. Going to reel it in now though as MOT due on 24th and I reckon I might have money to spend this year as car getting a bit older.

Never mind. Everything will be paid and all is well

amber03

Well done MIT on bringing your DFD forward. I love home baking i was brought up on home baking, my mum never weighed any ingrediants she just had a eye for it. I made tiffin the other day but realised itsmostly me that is eating it cos the rest of the family are healthly bods. Have some bananas that are really ripe thinki will try either banana loaf or muffins. Hope the MOT is not too painful.x

Seaxwyn

Hey MIT, good to catch up on all those very positive posts. Go you! Wish I could catch a bit of your oomph.

jellybean39

That tablet sounds good! Think I will have tomake one and eat it all x

millionaire_in_training

Hi Amber. I hope it's not too painful too. I love Tiffin nom nom. Make banana muffins. They are yummy. The guy on superscrimpers put white chocolate drops in his the other night .

Sea I am feeling pretty good just now but have just done my monthly finances and they are enough to burst anyone's bubble :rotfl:.

Jelly there is about a gzillion calories in a whole batch of tablet :eek: always the same though that nice stuff is always way too high in calories .

Anyway here is my monthly confession and a shocker i is too :o:o.

Groceries now at £625.88 for the year so far :eek:
Miscellaneous was £143.26 that's £31.50 up on last month
Lunches and fast food- £218.68 up by £45.29 !!!!!! :eek::o
Petrol- £122.29 which is down by £25.21
Gifts £23.50 down by £6.50
Socialising- £38.20 down by £6.80
Clothes £37 down by £24

I mean really !!!! Do I think I am a rich person? !!!!!! is that lunch and fast food figure about. Seriously!! Slightly in my defense my mum was in the hospital and I was mega busy but jeezo that just has to stop NOW. I could have paid a chunk off of my card with that. I only havea budget of £800 for the year and I am almost half way through it already :eek:. 10 lashes for me and a sackcloth jumper .

Seriously though I need to call a halt to this. I'm going to report each day on here what I spend and hopefully it'll curtail this madness that has overtaken me :cool:

millionaire_in_training

I was all commando like in ASDA tonight with the toilet rolls. I went through them all peering at the prices to check the price per unit. The cheapest of course was the smart price ones, but hmmm too many incidents with fingers going through .............. yuk so I draw a line at buying them, and imagine my delight to discover that the next cheapest was the kleenex triple fancy ones. Bliss!! nice softness on botties this month. Little pleasures :rotfl:oh and no finger incidents either