SeriouslySeekingtoSave strongly strides straight into slaying her mortgage!

SeriouslySeekingtoSave

SmlSave wrote: »

I'm coming over yours this weekend SS2S Mine was sooo boring compared to yours!

Keep going with the 'use up the food'

You'd be most welcome

Food cleanout is going great, used up a chunk of my cheese, all of my milk (which was due to expire) and my last two getting rather soft oinions by making macaroni cheese. Yesterday was stirfry with chicken that might possibly have been better off being binned. I made sure I cooked it very very well...

SeriouslySeekingtoSave

Well I appear to have survived the chicken in the stirfry unscathed I'm having a bit of a rest before hurling myself (hurling I tell you!) into my house work. Oh the joy...

cha97michelle

I love your motivation and energy. From 0-60 in so little time. That food bill is impressive.

I have to say, with food we eat a lot that my mum would kill me for not throwing out. Yoghurts dates 10th of this month are being finished off by the kids. I still have a bag of sprouts in the fridge i bought a week before christmas and by some miracle they are still edible. A few black spots on the outside but they will be fine by the time i am done.

I try not to give the kids anything too dodgy, but DH is a willing volunteer.

It will be great if you do manage to empty your freezer before you leave, but expensive when you come back no doubt to start with nothing again.

SeriouslySeekingtoSave

Or, you know, I could just sit on my !!!! and read forums.... :rotfl:

cha97michelle

SeriouslySeekingtoSave wrote: »

Or, you know, I could just sit on my !!!! and read forums.... :rotfl:

Why not, that's what i do

mummalove

cha97michelle wrote: »

Why not, that's what i do

and me too!!! Case of getting nowhere fast...I try to do some surveys whilst flicking from forum to forum to justify all the time I spend on my laptop!!!

SeriouslySeekingtoSave

cha97michelle wrote: »

I have to say, with food we eat a lot that my mum would kill me for not throwing out.

I am soo glad to hear you say that! I was worried that I might be getting my hand spanked for eating unsafe food . I do the smell test before eating. So long as it passes the sniffer with a solid 6 out 10 (!) it's good to go . I'm more relaxed with food I cook as well. I figure if you cook it well it will kill any nasty germs that might be lurking.

Still standing anyway!

I'm not too worried about not having anything in my fridge when I get back. My fridge is usually pretty empty and my freezer not too much better. I'm viewing it as an opportunity to suck my mothers brain for good food ideas and when I come back it will be like a clean slate ready for the domestic goddess that I feel lurks within me! :happylove

SeriouslySeekingtoSave

mummalove wrote: »

and me too!!! Case of getting nowhere fast...I try to do some surveys whilst flicking from forum to forum to justify all the time I spend on my laptop!!!

cha97michelle wrote: »

Why not, that's what i do

:xmassmile I actually felt guilty enough to be spured into a frenzied bout of activity. I can now see the floor in my living room. Well, mostly...

SeriouslySeekingtoSave

Also meant to say, on the money making front (schemes and plans 'evil laugh') I have had some overtime approved for writing up some training sessions on a new system we have coming into work. I have a real interest in training and I love doing it so I'm looking to try to create a niche for myself at work as we don't have a training department and it really shows.

I was given the task of training my new team member when he joined 3 months ago and I took a chunk of overtime then too and put together a proper training manual and plan. It has taken around about a year to train someone fully up in my role in the past; I put forward that with a proper training guide I would be able to cut that time in half, and have them fairly much fully productive in 6 months. Well, this guy is now better at his job than my colleague who has been here more than 3 years! Of course it is the 'woe is me I'm sick and I'm passing all my work off onto other people' team member but still. Kudos for me .

Even better is the fact that my pay increased on the 1st of Jan so this overtime is 14% more valuble to me!

I'm sooo looking forward to my paycheck at the end of the month, not only do I have my new pay rate but I also worked the 3 bank holidays at double time (although only New Years Day would be at the higher rate). Ho Ho Ho - Merry Christmas!

:xmassign:

SeriouslySeekingtoSave

I thought I would post my list of things I want to have ticked off by the end of this weekend. After last nights rather feeble effort I’m banking on this keeping my motivation up as I will be reporting on Monday with what I got accomplished. So shame on me if this hasn’t all been done!

I’ll see if I can make any inroads on it prior to Saturday but I’m planning on a couple of hours OT at work tonight (rubs hands in scroogelike glee!) and possibly Friday as well so that will cut into my time. Still I think I should be able to manage a bit of blitz cleaning…

• Totally clean Living Room, Kitchen and Bathroom
• Pack my suitcase
• Do at least two loads of washing
• Sort out my recyclables and put them in the recycle bin
• Go into town and shop for some gifts for my young nieces (ideas on where to go will be gratefully received!)
• Get my eyebrows done (I look like Mr Munster…)
• If I have any spare time after that I need to sand down some of the plaster that should be dry by now and keep painting my bedroom.