Benbenandme's Next Installment ...

LouiseJ

Wow you have got off to a great start with the MB. I have totally lost touch with all the offers. Last ones I did were the free WH inplay ones.

Need to find my motivation again:o

benbenandme

Has been one of those amazing weekends, just got lucky with a couple of decent offers for the start of the season, found some decent odds and was lucky that things went my way and I bust out of both of them nice and early It feels like its been a long time since I chucked a decent sum at the pot, it seems to have been lots of dribs and drabs for quite a while so it feels great to have made a big dent, in fact, with the isa payment going out in a few days time I should hopefully be free of December 2019 soon too

benbenandme

Ironings done and all put away, ds is showered and in clean pj's Now just waiting to see if my aunt calls for a lift home from her party before ds is in bed.

This evening will be spent having a nice bath and an early night, and for once won't be spent looking to fill in surveys / make some pennies, I think, having made £380 in the last 24 hours I can give myself a night off

hypno06

Sounds like a plan!

enjoy your night off

benbenandme

Morning all Ds is spending today with his dad (near here, not at his house), and I'm meeting crouchy for a coffee to talk ...

Not much else planned, I didn't sleep well, the rain was loud, then the thunder, then ds snoring kept me awake :cool: so I may have a lazy half an hour curled up on the sofa later

LouiseJ

I too have a day to myself, think I am going to give my finances a good spring clean. Might even have a mosey on over to Flylady too....

lellybun

Benben, I expect you have remembered but just in case, I think your mobile phone reclaim is due about now.

This makes me sound like a stalker,:rotfl: but I'm not, it's just we got phones about the same time and I have got to send off my claim for £60 on the 15th of this month - will help you reach your target

benbenandme

Thankyou LB, I sent mine off about a month ago and received the cheque, next ones due to be sent in October I think (its in my diary), but thank you anyhow for the reminder

I've had a nice day today, met up with Crouchy for a good chat, went for a pub lunch together, sorted out a few bits and we're back to being good mates again He also took several photos of me, 'before' ones so I can compare them with me in several weeks/months time when the diets been a success

Ds got home about an hour ago, all's fine there, he's been out playing with the kid from next door ever since and came in about ten minutes ago. This evening I am going to clean the bathroom and then see how the mood takes me, I may do some more or I may chill.

benbenandme

Spends today = £2 on car park ticket and £4.50 on coffees (crouchy paid for lunch )

benbenandme

I've also made a decision re. my holiday to do list ... seeing as we're hurtling towards the half way mark in the holidays and I haven't even published one on here yet, I have decided instead to do a summarised version of what I want to achieve this holiday;

• Make £500 for the mortgage pot
• Lose half a stone
• Gut all cupboards/drawers in the flat
• Deep clean the flat
• Clean the carpets
• Gut the garage
• Sort birthday presents needed for the rest of the year
• Cycle 100 miles

Well I'm well on track with the first one The second one starts right here, now that the trial is out the way. I will be going back to ww on wednesday, but according to my bathroom scales I am 11 st 7lbs :eek: so I am wanting to get that back to 11 stone by the time we go back to school. The flat / garage related ones are ongoing, I can do bits and pieces towards them each day, the birthday presents one isn't as major as it sounds; I have 4 main birthdays left between now and New Year, so I want to get the presents sorted before iI go back to school so I haven't got to be worrying about them as well as xmas (sorry for mentioning that word already ). The cycling one will help with the weightloss, its something ds loves doing, its free and seemed like a good target to aim for. So far we have only been out once and done about 6 miles, so a long way to go with that one yet