Cup_Cake's Debt Free Journey...

Keeping_Positive

Dont beat yourself up too much. At least you were MSE in your spends you could have easily spent double or triple that.

Keep plodding on

Cup_Cake

Hi all,

I went to the supermarket last night and spent £11. I got tea for last night and tea for tonight although we've decided to go for a carvey this afternoon so the sweet and sour can save until tomorrow night.

Soo, Current Money:
£37.17 - Spends
£39.00 - Food
(£200 for rest of month - 2 weeks)
26 days to payday

Money is as it should be. I spent £10 on diesel this morning, I really dont know where all the diesel is going at the moment but DB has put £20 in in the past 2 days on top of my £10 today.

DB got a call yesterday saying that he is almost certain to get a contract which is coming up so i'm keeping everything crossed for that as the money would be great.

I just have to be really careful next week with my money as anything saved will be helping towards Centre Parcs. Me and DB have also decided that we'll be using the money from the signature towards Centre Parcs (apart from the pennies). I should have around £100 spends which i'm hoping I won't need.

I'm going to try and use this weeks grocery money to buy the Centre Parcs supplies, hopefully they shouldn't cost too much. Now just to find some reasonably priced alcohol, only for me though as DB doesn't drink.
I'm also making my dad a birthday cake so i'm hoping I can do that quite cheaply.

I'm on holiday next week so I will post everyday. I think I need you guys to make me feel guilty about wasting any money. Although not today as i'm really looking forward to my carvery .

Have a fab day all!
Cup_Cake xx

Cup_Cake

Evening everyone,

So we ended up at the all you can eat chinese instead of the carvery so a very unhealthy option. I'm annoyed at myself as it was horrible as well as being bad for me. I spent £8 as I went halves with DB, this has come out of my spends budget.

I then went to Jack Fultons and bought the following:
£6 - 6 Weight Watchers meals
£1.09 - Bread
£1.49 - 2 tubes of toothpaste
£2.69 - Tuna
£1.49 - 6 cans of Tango
78p - 2 x tins of vegetables
Total spends - £13.54

Soo, Current Money:
£29.17 - Spends
£25.46 - Food

I've been for a nice jog and blown the cobwebs away.
I'm going to have an early night so I have some energy for the weekend.

Night night all,
Cup_Cake xx

Cup_Cake

Morning all,

So yesterday was a spendy day but some was food which couldn't have been avoided and the rest was some clothes which I don't mind too much as I loved what I bought. So here's what I bought:

£5 - Evening top for Centre Parcs
£7.50 - 2 bracelets
£20 - 2 tops and a necklace. My mum bought me these though

So 3 tops, 2 bracelets and a necklace all for £12.50 for me.
I also spent £3.50 on 2 coffee's and a cake for me and my mum. Not too bad I thought.
All this has come off my spends money so nothing went on the overdraft which i'm happy with.

In the supermarket I only spent around £8 which was for our chilli con carne for tea last night, milk, a bit of choccy and some mouthwash.

I'll do a money update later.

I have a lot to do today so best I do a list me thinks.
To Do Today:
- Wash up and clean kitchen floor.
- Dust living room and sweep floor.
- Sweep hallway and vacuum stairs.
- Dust bedroom and vacuum.
- Sweep bathroom floor.
- 2 loads of washing.
- Go for a jog.
- Make dinner and tea.

Wow I have more to do than I thought, i'd better get on,
I'll post a money update tonight as i'm going to the supermarket for some more bits today. We always seem to need something.

Cup_Cake xx

Cup_Cake

Morning all,

To say i'm on holiday i'm up waaay too early! I was up at 8:20.
We had a power cut last night so I though i'd be best just to go to sleep so I had an early night.

I went to the supermarket yesterday and spent around £12. I really hope I don't need to buy much more as I don't really want to withdraw any more money this week.

£9.67 - Spends
£2.78 - Groceries
(£200 2 weeks)
23 days till payday!

Looking pretty dire really. I'm deciding whether to buy a new swimming costume for Centre Parcs. I've seen one for £7 which would be fine.

I did most of my to do list yesterday but I still have some more things to do. Sooo:

To Do Today:
- [STRIKE]Dust[/STRIKE] and sweep living room.
- Sweep hall and vacuum stairs.
- [STRIKE]Wash up[/STRIKE].
- [STRIKE]2 loads of washing[/STRIKE].
- [STRIKE]Go for a jog[/STRIKE].

I pushed myself to go for a jog last night and felt better for it. I'm going to go everyday this week so that I feel better at Centre Parcs.

Speaking of Centre Parcs, i'm going to go food shopping for it on Wednesday I think and I need to make a cake probably on Wednesday as well.

Have a good Monday all,
Cup_Cake xx

Cup_Cake

Afternoon MSE'ers,

You'll notice the debt that i'd paid off has now not been paid off. I had my shower this morning and went to straighten my hair and they kept fusing. They have been doing this for a while but I couldn't even get them to my head so I needed to make an emergency purchase this afternoon. Anyway i've bought them and it's set me back to square one. If you could see me without straight hair though you would understand that I couldn't do without them!!

I've also bought some more cereal, milk and some cans of pop for DB who needs them for the sugar.

Great news for today though DB got a contract yey!!! It's only a week long contract but it will pay him £1400 after tax so he can pay his half of the bills next month and I can put my next months spare £450 towards the debts. He will also be able to pay the money back to his tax which he had to pay unexpectadly to HMRC. He is also going to pay off his final credit card which has £300 on it. This will mean that we will literally only have left the debts in my signature which I am really happy about it as all our debts are with the same bank then.
Any further contracts that he gets can now can pay off the debts in the signature . Oh i'm a happy cup cake today!

I've made a to do list for before Centre Parcs and I do have a few odd bits to do which i'll post later.
Anyway I need a kick up the backside so i'm going to go and get on with my list and i'll post later.

Hope everyones having a good day, Cup_Cake xx

Keeping_Positive

:j the contract at the straighteners but some things are just needed.

Cup_Cake

You're right KP it can't be helped. At least the good outweighs the bad .
I just want to say a thank you for listening to my babbles, it really helps knowing that someone is out there listening to me .

So I haven't spent any more money today although i'm going to be a busy bee for the rest of this week. Hopefully everything that i'm doing should be reasonably cheap though as I only have a little change in my purse. I won't bother putting how much as I know it's only around £3.

Nothing much else to report really, I did well on my list today and i've crossed off what i've done on my previous post.
DB also gave me some loose change so that's gone into my pot.
I've been worrying a little today about how much i'm going to spend at Centre Parcs but i'm just going to have to be extra careful not to go out every night for tea as that will be where most of my money goes. DB loves swimming so we'll probably spend all day everyday in the pool so maybe i'm just worrying for nothing.

Anyway thats enough babbling for today, night night all,

Cup_Cake xx

Cup_Cake

Happy hump day,

Nothing much to report for yesterday really. I didn't do much.

Today I have a lot planned, i'm going out for dinner with DB and his mum and then afterwards i'm going food shopping with my brother for Centre Parcs which i've guesstimated should cost around £30 which is going to come out of next weeks grocery budget given that it's technically next weeks food.
DB is working for an hour this morning so he should get £65 for that .

I'm also going to do the final bits of housework today and pack for CP as it'll show me whether I need to buy any extra bits tomorrow.

Anyway as money stands there is nothing much going on, i'll just have to be uber careful not to spend much money onlunch as this will have to come out of my overdraft, I dont know where my money has gone this week. Definately need to start with the spending diary again next week.

Anyway, have a great day all, Cup_Cake xx

Cup_Cake

Evening all,

I've had a lovely day today!
I laid in bed this morning until 10am and watched Glee, i've tried to like it but I just can't.

This afternoon i've been for a lovely dinner with DB and his mum which was lovely. DB's mum paid too . She also gave me a £2 coin which has gone into my pot.

I'm spending this evening watching my soaps and then DB and I are going to watch Piranha in 3D on DVD which DB bought today.

Today i've spent £40 on diesel to get us to Centre Parcs and back. My brother should be giving me £15 back as we are all going together so he's helping with the price of diesel. I haven't spent anymore today though so i'm happy with that. The £40 came off my overdraft but i'm not adding this to my signature yet as i'm going to see how much I spend at CP first and then i'll add it all on together.

I have a reaaaally busy day tomorrow, I don't seem to have done anything yet. I'll make a quick list here so that I don't forget:
So, tomorrow's to do's:
- Sweep living room, washing up, sweep hall and vacuum stairs.
- Go for a sunbed and go for a jog.
- Go food shopping.
- Buy a swimming costume (i've found it, just need to buy it).
- Pack.
- Clean out car.
- Collect diesel money from brother and Withdraw my weekly/CP spends.
- Paint fingernails.


I think that's it but there's quite a lot to do there so it'll keep me busy. I'll need an early night tomorrow too.
Anyway i'm going to sit with my feet up for the evening, have a good night all.

Cup_Cake xx