Mortgage-Free Fresian? Here's hoping!

youareallhelpingme

Keep wrapped up, hope you feel better soon x

DedicatedDFW

Hi FF,

Hope you feel better soon - i too am wrapped up, got the heating on and trying to feel as well as i can before work tomorrow. x

slowlyfading

Hope you feel better soon (((HUGS))) xx

mooomin

Thank all - am throwing Sudafed tablets down my throat every four hours and hopefully that will deal with the worst of it...!

Today I have spent £37 exactly in Sainsbury's - £34.51 on petrol and £2.49 on milk and bread (Bah! In my weakened state though I couldn't be ars*d going to the supermarket as well as getting petrol!)

As I paid with my gift card I have a 5% discount on that so it's £32.78 for the fuel and £2.37 for the other stuff. There is £36.78 left on that card, and I can't see that lasting me for the whole month for fuel. I might have to keep a track of my fuel spending more closely this month and revise the budget upwards next month

slowlyfading

How much fuel do you use in an average month? What does it cost you? I find I spend, on average, just over £100 on petrol a month, and there's no way of getting that any lower, I don't think

Footiemad_2

Hi F_F

Sorry your not feeling to great, hope the pesky cold disappears as quickly as it arrived. Not what you want on a bank holiday booooo

On a good note, your well under way with the crafty room, good for you. I may be putting in a request for a birthday card soon but it wont be required until November, its for my beautiful niece who will be 1. I will let you know when if thats alright.

Get well soon chick x

Hopeful1

Love the jars on the bookshelf!

All snotty here too, hope everyone is better soon

mooomin

Morning all

There are 24 days until payday, and here's how the accounts are looking:

PAD/Spends - £108
Entertainment - £40.72
Groceries - £106.48 (This is shocking...I only got paid a week ago and have a £200 budget!)
Loan repayment fund - £1,271.14
Handbag/treats fund - £44.18
Mortgage overpayment fund - £56.34

Surveys

Onepoll - £11.40
Ipsos - 725 points (1380 needed to redeem, still waiting for Amazon voucher)
Mysurvey - 120 points (550 needed for £5 Amazon) Waiting for final survey in series of three which will net me 1500 points to reward me for not smashing the laptop in boredom
Valued opinions - £3.50 with £1.50 pending
Toluna - 63,000ish (website not working this morning)
Swagbucks - 354

So....the surveys are looking ok. I'm waiting for £15 of vouchers (Swagbucks and Ipsos) Does anyone know how long Ipsos usually take??

The rest of the accounts could look better to be honest. The groceries one especially is a bit of a surprise. I didn't think I had spent that much in a week The cupboards are now fully stocked and the freezer is doing pretty well too. We are going to need bread soon though and have no salad left - if anyone has a top tip to stop the sodding stuff going brown the second you open the bag I'd be very grateful!

The cold is pretty much gone today thanks to wrapping up like a mummy and downing Sudafed every four hours. I'm quite glad about that as I'm working in the further away office today not the one that's ten minutes from home, so have to have my wits about me for rush hour!

I've withdrawn some of the spare money in my Paypal account this morning (£14.14) leaving me a £10 balance for any urgent bargains, but otherwise I'm going to behave myself. I can't let myself get used to spending on crafts whenever I fancy it just because I have a craft room A chunk of my overtime money in September/October will go towards visiting the SECC craft bonanza thing, so I can buy any "urgent" supplies then. Honest DFW - I will put your parcel together sometime this week, I'm just not sure when I will have time and want to send you nice things!

Happy Tuesdays to all - hurrah for four day weeks! :j

Eager_Elephant

Just catching up and saw this:

flying_fresian wrote: »

Funny you should say that Moo, as I'm wearing a dress to work today for the first time since Snowmageddon (when my wellies wouldn't fit over my fat legs and my trousers)

I'm not after sympathy but since I was about 13 I have not been able to buy a normal pair of wellies from a normal shop that will fit over my legs and trousers :eek:
Whatever size I am, I even was once 8 stone it just does not happen and losing weight (although I only have about a stone to lose) makes no difference what so ever :eek:

Yup I have the dreaded affliction of runners calf :rotfl: . My DH and DS take the mickey (in a nice way) but my calf muscles are bigger than DH's and are wider than DS' waist.

So how can I shrink my calfs? Does anyone know? I have momentarily thought of surgery but that does seem a bit drastic :rotfl:

My advice to any teenage girls is not to do athletics as it will ruin your legs although saying that apart from the welly issue and the boot issue (can't buy normal knee high boots either) most men quite like a lady with solid calfs :rotfl:

EE

youareallhelpingme

F_F - send Ipsos a chase email, make sure they realise it is an evoucher, I had to as they say 24 hours turnaround on evouchers.

I have the opposite problem with long boots, I am 2 - 2 1/2 shoe size and have stupidly thin calf muscles so boots look like wellies and they are too big on my feet. But at the weekend I found a lovely pair that fitted (with a thick pair of socks!) and I had just sold some broken jewellery, so they were free :money:. (Well actually they were £99 :eek: but free sounds better )