children, cross-stitch and chocolate. Chickywiggles debt-free diary

chickywiggle

Week 10- a summary

YAYAAYAY reallly stuck to targets and made lots of sales/ got vouchers which made the week even better.


Targets:

Food shopping = £7.43/ £20
Baby shopping = £40.84/ £20 (didn't need to get powder milk but a masssive overspend due to needing to move tinywiggle out of his cot into this bed 3 months earlier then planned....... and forgetting to take the vouchers when I bought things).
Other essential shopping (cleaning products etc) = 50p/ £0


Random = £4.59/ £10
Days out = £10 (taking toddlerwiggle to playcentre for his birthday)


meals out/ takeaways = £14/ £20
Clothes = £16.20/ £0
Presents (birthday/ Christmas) = £0

Total available to spend = £80
Total Spent = £83.56
Overspend = £3.56


Vouchers earnt/ recieved:
- £10 Leisure voucher (consumer pulse)
- £15 capital bonds (food diary)

Money earnt:
- £20 (PS2)
- £20 (PS2 games)
- £15 (dancemat)
- £35 (tinywiggles old clothes)

:j:jTotal brought into the house this week: £115. :j:j

chickywiggle

Week 11

Aiming for £100 a week still.

Targets:

Food shopping = £20
Baby shopping = £25 (2 x stage 3 milk boxes £12, baby wipes, possibly nappies)
Other essential shopping (cleaning products etc) = £0


Random = £10
Days out = £10

meals out/ takeaways = £20
Clothes = £0
Presents (birthday/ Christmas) = £0

Total available to spend = £85


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Meal Plan

Saturday - Spag bol
Sunday - roast pork
monday - leftovers (pork and pasta bung-it-in)
tuesday - burgers
wednesday - pizza
thurs - cheesy, ham, egg, potato bake
fri - takeaway.

chickywiggle

Saturday 22nd October

:jNSD:j


Targets:

Food shopping = £0
Baby shopping = £0
Other essential shopping (cleaning products etc) = £0


Random = £0
Days out = £0

meals out/ takeaways = £0
Clothes = £0
Presents (birthday/ Christmas) = £0

chickywiggle

Sunday 23rd October

A productive day of sorting ebay sales from yesterday
£6 earnt thro a doorstep collection of 1 item.
£4 earnt from online sales (already paid)

Listed more on local sale sites.

Cupboard and fridge/ freezer inventory done to meal plan from (will add a link when I've done it).

Trip to A for some bits for tea/ baby nappies.

Targets:

Food shopping = £8.56
Baby shopping = £10
Other essential shopping (cleaning products etc) = £1.28


Random = £0
Days out = £0

meals out/ takeaways = £0
Clothes = £0
Presents (birthday/ Christmas) = £0

chickywiggle

Monday 24th October

Today HAS to be bargain central day!! Took the ebay stuff to the postoffice which is based within a co-op. Toddlerwiggle decided he needed more to eat (hollow legs - he'd already eaten an entire greggs sausage roll) so I said i'd buy him something.... walked past the clearance stand and couldn't believe my eyes that tinywiggles baby milk powder (£6.99 a tub that lasts 1 week) was :money:HALF PRICE:money: becuase they don't stock it. I couldn't grab all 5 off the shelf fast enough. :mad:I found this AFTER I'd paid full price for one in boots but hey ho. So I may have blown the baby budget this week but have saved myself £18 over the next 2 months!

Also went to poundland on the hunt for a DVD drive cleaner (nearly died last night when the boys tv/dvd combi stopped working and thought I was going to have to find/ use vouchers for £100 new one.) didn't get one there but did get a few other housey/ baby bits

i did actually manage to get one tho in another shop for £2 - and it worked YAYAYAY so money is safly tucked away for future.


Targets:

Food shopping = £2
Baby shopping = £29.84
Other essential shopping (cleaning products etc) = £6


Random = £0
Days out = £0

meals out/ takeaways = £0
Clothes = £0
Presents (birthday/ Christmas) = £0

chickywiggle

Tuesday 25thOctober

my auntie and cousins came to visit and meet the boys (and bring with them pressies of clothes, toys, books and games for toddlerwiggle) so had to nip out for bread rolls/ salad (and decided to stock up on baby food while there).


Targets:

Food shopping = £4.48
Baby shopping = £5.59
Other essential shopping (cleaning products etc) = £0


Random = £1.50
Days out = £0

meals out/ takeaways = £0
Clothes = £0
Presents (birthday/ Christmas) = £0

chickywiggle

Wednesday 26th October

:jNSD:j

Targets:

Food shopping = £0
Baby shopping = £0
Other essential shopping (cleaning products etc) = £0


Random = £0
Days out = £0

meals out/ takeaways = £0
Clothes = £0
Presents (birthday/ Christmas) = £0

chickywiggle

Thursday 27th October

Would like to say NSD but hubby went shopping on his own with the kids (UHH OHHHH)..... sent him with £10 for bread, eggs and milk......... didn't get any change but toddlerwiggle came back with pressies.....hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Therefore can't record it here. GRRR

On the plus side £5 payment recieved from ebay sales :j

Targets:

Food shopping = £0
Baby shopping = £0
Other essential shopping (cleaning products etc) = £0


Random = £0
Days out = £0

meals out/ takeaways = £0
Clothes = £0
Presents (birthday/ Christmas) = £0

chickywiggle

Friday 28thOctober

went to Tesco on way home and only got poatoes - YAYAY.

Targets:

Food shopping = £0.98p
Baby shopping = £0
Other essential shopping (cleaning products etc) = £0


Random = £0
Days out = £0

meals out/ takeaways = £0
Clothes = £0
Presents (birthday/ Christmas) = £0

Flat_Eric

It was telling how long it has been since I have done any money management when I tried to open my money spreadsheets and couldn't remember the passwords !

Need to get back on to it with you know what around the corner - have only just paid off last years!!!

I've started a thread on the Food shop and groceries board here
can you share your expertise please as I often see your meal plans posted and I would be interested to know what system you have in place.