How much have/will you spend today Monday 20/11?

moozie_2

LookingAhead wrote:

£1.50 bus fare to work
£15 on a top (put it on the debt card :rolleyes: )

I'm on a downward spending spiral at the moment....I think I am possessed by a spending demon.

Hey LA :wave:

Good to see you! What's causing the spending? Is it the 'it's Christmas and I should be spending' bug or something else? Hope it goes away soon!

kathfisch

rog2 wrote:

Chepstow is beautiful - but difficult to justify that bridge toll.:mad:
I remember when it was 50p and they put it up to £1, but this was declared illegal, and they had to revert back to 50p for years - seems like they're getting their own back now:eek: :eek: Still it would be a LONG drive up to Gloucester to save a few pence!:rolleyes:

I know... I think its gone up by 10p a year for quite a while now but there aren't that many years... when the hell did it jump up to many pounds?! :mad: Last year there was no price increase because of some ruling about vat and they were charging vat when they shouldn't or something... but now this year its going up by 20p instead of 10p grrrrr!

Can you tell we have little else to get worked up about in Chepstow?! :rotfl:

Thank heaven this is only a christmas job... previously unemployed so this is still better :rolleyes:

rog2

kathfisch wrote:

Can you tell we have little else to get worked up about in Chepstow?! :rotfl:

You mean they've stopped running coach trips to watch the traffic lights change??:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :beer:

moozie_2

D&DD wrote:

Confession time..I had to spend £16 on a cab today..someone pass me a valium! Real day from hell today,got a phonecall DS2 was taken ill at school (he gets transport due to his brace)no way to get him home :eek: Had to get a cab to get me,go to school,get him and bring him home.Meanwhile OH comes in ill :rolleyes: ,then DS1's school phones to say he's gone into meltdown..actually sod the valium anyone got any vodka!!:rotfl:

Oh dear :eek: Day from hell it seems D&DD. Sending you lots of virtual vodka, nice and cold! :grouphug:

lynsayjane

hey folks, it's 11pm and i'm not long in from work and i start at 6 tomorrow morning so unfortunatly i can't read all your posts, hope you all had good days and big hugs to those who didn't.

i promised moozie i'd be on here more often (see im being a good girl! ) and i have started this week with a big fat stinking NO SPENDER! (does that make up for my dress yesterday?)

anyway peeps, i'm finished work at 2 tomorrow so i'll be online at a more sensible hour then.

ttfn
x

kathfisch

postingalwaysposting wrote:

yep katfisch... i hate it ahh i work in makro hehe its a small world westbury on trym is a stones throw (ish) away from me i must admit the toll is really silly... loads of people work in bristol from wales but its sooo expensive why i dont know

Ahh, cool, I shall think of you when I drive past there now

As for why its expensive... the government decided it would be a fab idea to privatise it in order to palm off the debt onto someone else. Then it was realised a second bridge was needed, cue more debt. And, lo and behold, the tolls have gone up to this ridiculous level! We are now in the situation where the governement still pay much of the upkeep - it doesn't come from the tolls - they just go to service the debt for the two bridges :rolleyes: And now they've found huge corrosion in our bridge... the old one... which will cost more money *sigh*

Ok, will shut up about the bridge(s) now As I said, there's nowt much else to trouble us over here :rotfl:

And speaking of work and that... I need to be at the mall at 9 in the morning so I'd better be off to bed.

Night night all x

kathfisch

rog2 wrote:

You mean they've stopped running coach trips to watch the traffic lights change??:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :beer:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Well it makes the front page of The Chepstow Free Press if someone's shed gets broken into... I love it! :rotfl:

Couldn't be more different from living in Sunderland town centre as a student :eek: :rotfl:

rog2

kathfisch wrote:

And speaking of work and that... I need to be at the mall at 9 in the morning so I'd better be off to bed.

Night night all x

Excellent Idea - Goodnight Kath, Goodnight Pap and, of course not forgetting Moozie - see you tomorrow :beer:

LookingAhead

moozie wrote:

Hey LA :wave:

Good to see you! What's causing the spending? Is it the 'it's Christmas and I should be spending' bug or something else? Hope it goes away soon!

Hi there Moozie :hello:

Overdraft gone mad. Also credit card getting hammered.

For various reasons really.

It's Christmas, I've had bills to pay (yeah yeah I know - ain't we all? ) that were unexpected, had to pay BF some money back, had to replace some work trousers that I ruined with bleach (d'uh), had to get something to wear for Xmas 'do' (but luckily got that for £8 less 20% with voucher - result!)....plus a squillion other things I can't remember right now.

I feel awful. And a failure.

But, I'll keep on plugging away...no choice really!

moozie_2

LookingAhead wrote:

I feel awful. And a failure.

But, I'll keep on plugging away...no choice really!

Oh LA you are not a failure. We all have bad days or even bad weeks. Getting back on track and trying to recover is what makes us different to our previous selfs (or is that selves? ).

You do have a choice, to go back to just paying minimum payments, barely managing from month to month and not looking at being debt free one day. But you are here, plugging away and being helpful and supportive to others at the same time. That just makes you special, not a failure.