There is light at the end of the tunnel

girlatplay

Wedding today. Just about to go and get ready. It is raining though Hopefully it will clear up. Wedding is at 3.30pm.

£3 to PAD today Maybe I will have some money left over from tonight for a PAD tomorrow :beer:

Enjoy the weekend everyone

Gap x

Itsadogslife_2

Hi Gap, hope you had a nice day at the wedding

Weather wasn't great, hope it didn't dampen their day

girlatplay

Had a really good time at the wedding. The weather was pretty miserable but it was a good day. It was all indoors, we didn't have to go outside at all. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I got told in no uncertain terms that "the men pay for drinks, the women don't" so I didn't put my hand in my purse all night :j There were 12 of us at our table (7 men, 5 women) so we did rather well! Each round was approx. £30 and I know Mr G spent £90 and I am fairly certain it was done quite equally so 21 rounds were bought (I don't drink much so I didn't have as much as everyone else - I'm such a cheap date!! ) £630 :eek: That is a lot of drink! And that was just our table, in total there were 10 tables and the top table :eek::eek: Think the venue did rather well in takings. It was Mr G's friends who were getting married and that lot are all big drinkers who earn decent salaries. I couldn't justify spending that much, especially on alcohol.

Anyway, I had allowed £50 for the evening (just in case) so I paid for the taxi home (£10) and gave Mr G £20 towards the drinks. He was quite chuffed that I wanted to give him something towards it, I just didn't tell him I had allowed £50 It meant that I could go to the supermarket yesterday to get lunch stuff for LM and I for the week and put £10 to PAD :T All in all, good weekend.

I have now beaten my target of £51.39 in PADs for this month's loan payment so I will keep going and see what I have by the end of the month. This is soooo addictive!! But, it is a good addiction to have.

Have a great week everyone

Gap x

girlatplay

Mr G says we didn't have as many as 21 rounds but he was drunk, I was sober, what would he know?? :cool:

Have upped my target for PAD just for this month since I have already beaten it by half way through the month :j For one month only it will be £71.39 (£20 on top of the original target). I am quite pleased with myself. If I keep going at this rate it will be paid off much quicker than I could have hoped. Not going to raise my hopes too high though, just going to keep plodding.

That's it for today

Gap x

POSITIVE_AND_FOCUSED

Hi Gap, just come accross your diary. Good on you for getting sorted and working your plan. Reading about your pad addiction I think I will get started with that . I did intend to at the beginning of the year. Need to work on my self discipline!!!Keep going ...

tootoo

Hi GAP,
Found you! The diaries move very quick, I struggle to keep up with them most days!

Your PAD sound as though they are going great. I started this month and have so far raised around £70 without even thinking about it! Little and often really does seem to work well.

Tootoo

girlatplay

POSITIVE AND FOCUSED thank you for joining me. I must admit, I have lurked on your diary for a while now, you are soooo inspirational!

Tootoo thank you also for joining me. Do you have a diary? You are right, the diaries do move quick. I try to post in mine once a day. Sometimes I remember things later and have to come back, purely to remind myself when I read back in the future!

I am loving PAD. I am really addicted. I did try it a few months back and I just couldn't get to grips with it and only lasted a month. This time round though I just can't get enough of it! Now that I have it sussed I would recommend it to everyone. It is one you can continue with when you are debt free just by PADing to your savings account. I look forward to that day! I cannot believe what I have PADed so far, like you say Tootoo, without even thinking about it :T Most of the time I only PAD the bus fares that I don't use and the occasional £1 or so in my purse but this month I got an extra tax credit payment so PADed £20 of that and had a wedding on Saturday and PADed £10 left over from spending money. It is exciting watching my total go up and knowing my loan is coming down by that. Oh, and the people are lovely there too!

£1.30 to PAD today. Mr G can't give me a lift home today because he is going to help out at the school. I decided that I still wanted to make my bus fare PAD today so I brought my trainers and I am going to walk home :A

Have a nice day everyone!

Gap x

Itsadogslife_2

Hi Gap, the wedding sounds like you had great fun. I do think men have a tendency to underestimate how much they have had to drink

PAD also fantastic :money:

mooomin

Found you

*subscribes*

Nice to have another Edinburgh-based PADder around the place.

*puts kettle on*

girlatplay

Thank you for coming along FF. Edinburgh born and bred, me. Pull up a chair, there are virtual cakes, scones and biscuits (zero calories :j), help yourself! :coffee:

An unexpected £1.30 to PAD today. We were running late this morning and when we got to the school I realised I had also forgotten my bus fare. Luckily, Mr G drops Step-Little Miss off at school on Thursday mornings (she stays with him on Wednesdays) so I managed to find him and persuade him to give me a lift to work!

Got a hen doo tomorrow. Ladies Day at the races then limos to the restaurant and then a nice meal. Looking forward to it. Taking the day off work so the weekend is starting early for me :j:j We have already paid for the limos and a deposit for the meal so I don't have that to worry about. Got spending money put aside so just have to make sure I keep enough aside for the rest of the meal. Mr G is working tomorrow night so I will get a lift home from him (the perks of having an OH who is a taxi driver and works nights and weekends! - Mind you, that is the only perk, the rest of the time it is rubbish )

I might not get a chance to come on here tomorrow so have a lovely weekend everyone

Gap x