Lois_E begins a long MFW journey

Lois_E

Another £500 transferred across to savings account today. There will be plenty to pay off the Christmas spending on the CC when the bill comes, and (I hope) plenty for the builder, who's supposed to be phoning me this week to make arrangements for when he's going to come and start doing stuff. And something came up at work that might earn me an extra £250 next month if all goes to plan.

Peonie

Lois_E wrote: »

Because I was sending them some money for something unrelated, and realised that if I rounded it up a bit, I'd be able to get that blue number in my sig crossed out and replaced with a new one, so it would look as though I was making progress!

Good thinking bat(wo)man.

Do you change the crossed out number each month and cross it out again when you pay some money off or will you keep the number and keep it crossed out for the rest of the year? My OCD needs to understand your system.

Lois_E

Peonie wrote: »

Good thinking bat(wo)man.

Do you change the crossed out number each month and cross it out again when you pay some money off or will you keep the number and keep it crossed out for the rest of the year? My OCD needs to understand your system.

I'm going to keep them. The crossed-out figures are from Sept 2011 - borrowing at its highest. So as time passes, the difference between the crossed-out and un-crossed-out figures should get bigger and bigger.

ETA And I totally understand wanting to understand someone's system. I'm that way too!

Lois_E

Grrr! Kids have lost almost all their uniform jumpers, and one of the ones that isn't lost has developed a hole on the front of the shoulder. Have had to buy a new one (£7.50). At least they are nearly the same size, so as long as somebody's jumper turns up, the new one will do for the other child, and the one with the hole will do for spare.

Washing machine leaked last night. Have checked the filter (fine) and drain hose (fine) so fearing the worst. Am running it tonight on a quick wash and watching it to see what happens. Will make me v late to bed, but at least I will have a clean top to wear to work if I give it a 10 min tumble when the wash finishes and then put it on the radiator so it will finish drying when the heating comes on in the morning.

Lois_E

Well, I ran the machine last night and it did a whole wash without any water on the floor, so am really hoping it's just a one off and nothing that's going to need repairing - or a new WM.

Need to pop out to local shop for more fruit etc - my plan to use "no but you can have fruit" to wean DD off crisps is working, but she's getting through the fruit fast! But I am going to be good and walk (with DD on roller skates) - good exercise for us both and no petrol spend.

summerday

Fingers crossed that the washing machine behaves itself!

Does your kids school have a 2nd hand uniform rail? Ours does and its full of school jumpers, mostly ones with no names or initials at all and we only charge 50p per garment. Kids lose them so easily don't they?!

teapot2

Our washing machine did exactly the same thing a few months ago and leaked once. I was imagining having to buy a new one and looking into models but it didn't do it again since so not sure what that bout of incontinence was about!

gallygirl

teapot2 wrote: »

Our washing machine did exactly the same thing a few months ago and leaked once. I was imagining having to buy a new one and looking into models but it didn't do it again since so not sure what that bout of incontinence was about!

My condensing tumble dryer does that every few months. Latest bout was this morning. I told it to get over itself and grow up as it was getting no attention from me. I think it's worked :rotfl:

Lois_E

Thanks for the encouragement, both of you. I'm going to do another wash this evening, so we'll see how that goes.

Don't know what's up with me at the moment. I'm not doing anything more than usual, but I feel much more tired. Oh well, at least some of the things I'm not getting done are putting off spending money!

Lois_E

Well, it didn't leak last night either.

More good news - I was on the point of giving in and buying DD a replacement for her lost piano book, when I thought of somewhere else to look (a place where things tend to get dumped when I tidy stuff out of the car and bring it into the house ) and it was there! So that's £6.50 I haven't got to spend.