Fresh Air for dinner if I carry on like this.....

freshair_2

sneaks back in quietly hoping no one has noticed I went awol.

Where to start.....

had a great night out on Friday, a wee bit too much to drink felt a bit ropey on Saturday, but was fully recovered by Sunday when my brother and my neice popped in with a bottle of wine...2 bottles later and a bit of rough head for work on Monday not to self no big drinking on a school night

Have had a bit of a make do and mend as inspired by MG and the matrix ladies.

Grey cardie repaired rather than chucked, and am wearing it now, but there is a bigger make do and mend in progress. I needed a desk having moved home again, in my shed a slightly wobbly desk with lots of paint standing on it, very 1980's but it will do. So it got dragged out and have made less wobbly with a carefully placed extra brace and a few extra nails. Not the prettist but it's against the wall so you can't see it.

I was going to paint it but now inspired we are going to decoupage with old unreadable books amd then varnish, so that will be a sunday job with DS, reckoning that he will love glueing and sticking. Very old books donated from the remains of great grandmas collection these are unsellable i.e. pages missing torn etc, so I don't mind but would feel bad if they were readable (?word?)

More on the MSE side we have £90 tracking on quidco, and wait for it won £25 from the premium bonds (not selling these as they were all presents over the last 30 years).:T:T so make an extra £5 per day is looking achievable.

Went to ma n pa's yesterday, DS managed to blag a few batteries for his games, they came out of their telephone but still work enough for operation, money saved.

And the best of it all FREE fruit and veg, pots, carrotts, few other bits, a HM fish pie that was lovely, it maybe that we don't need to venture to the big shop this week have UHT milk. Need some bread but I am considering baking a loaf I saw on the TV this week, (think it was a Doris Grant loaf)

Ma and Pa are great.

Feel better now, all up to date.

Spending is going well, or not spending to put it better:rotfl:

Happy MSEing peoples be back soon.

freshair_2

And it gets better, took £20 out of the shopping envelope incase of need of bits, to keep in my purse, have just opened the hidey bit and there was still the £40 i put in there on payday, how quickly you forget that it is there when you are not looking to spend, so that will be going back in the drawer tonight.

Back to work, just got a bit over excited

The_Dragon

freshair wrote: »

And it gets better, took £20 out of the shopping envelope incase of need of bits, to keep in my purse, have just opened the hidey bit and there was still the £40 i put in there on payday, how quickly you forget that it is there when you are not looking to spend, so that will be going back in the drawer tonight.

Back to work, just got a bit over excited

Oooh finding forgotten money is always good!

jellybean39

Hi freshair

Sorry just caught up on your diary, glad things are looking up and your lovely horse had got a new home. Just wondered do you have to pay for sons orthadontist? My daughter got hers free in dorset dont know if that the same all over the country. We are in a privated dentist but under 18s should be covered even so.
She gets hers free again now as she 19 and at college but ot much hassle to get her taken off denplan as they put her on the lowest amount anyway.
I found a two pound coin today so it gone in my saving pot.

freshair_2

Hi Jellybean, my dentist is private and at the moment I wouldn't have to pay for DS to have treatment, but I am forward planning, and if I don't need to we will have a nice stash saved for something more exciting, but if we do then all is well and good.

Back to now .....
Few horse related items have been given to the sanctuary near by as they are always in need of bits, some is advertised and some still needs to be sold, have sold a couple of things so that is cash going the right way for a change.

Ma n Pa came over yesterday and we desimated the front garden, following a tenancy where apparently no gardening was done, not sure they did any cleaning either from the state of the house on my return :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:. So the front garden looks like a war zone but is an improvement I can see out of the windows now.

Today has been a quite day, well apart from the rowing with DS re homework.....apparently it doesn't need to done till Thurs so doesn't need doing till then it is needless to say being done now!

Popping to see bros and a few friends for a civilised sunday afternoon.

Have been quite recently as feel a bit lost, but sure that will all start to sort its self out soon. Well it would if i didn't still miss exOH terribly was doing ok till he text to ask if I had settled in etc

freshair_2

Arrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh just lost a whole post of updates.

In short - won £75 on premium bonds :j apparently unclaimed from previous but don't remember seeing any

- have a few bits on flea bay, a few is better than nothing

- checked credit file, nothing i didn't know about, not too hideous, but do need to contact my mortgage company and find out why it is showing twice, sure it shouldn't do....in effect looks like i have a £292k debt on mortgages :rotfl:but positively the balance on a single is 3k less than my estimate. I will be contacting them tomorrow.

I am feeling good atm, and will bust this big debt monster, just wish I could do it quicker, work should calm down a bit in the new year industry does just tend to tick over for a few months that is unless the government change anything else to do with energy efficiency, the Feed In Tariff is my latest headache

Right off to catch up on diaries, I could be some time and probably would be better off ebaying but its just not as much fun as the matrix, or dragons, or lula, or mr bloater, you get the idea too much catching up to do.

Oh and I should get the old books this weekend to start the decoupage of my rather hideous paint stained battered desk, not sure what it will look like but I think that it can't be any worse :rotfl:

freshair_2

Just popping in, absolutely shattered very busy weekend, will update properly tomorrow.

Bath n bed,

freshair_2

ok so all appears to be going well....i still have £90 from my £200 left for the month and half way through but with not much to buy for the rest of the month so that is good.

Quick update on what I have done since last Thursday.

Thursday - Nieces bday - bar of aero on offer and a rather fantastic if I do say so myself beaded necklace that I made about 2 years ago and never wore, so into a nice pretty bag and a lovely gift, and one happy neice she has just started on the jewellery thing. Total cost £1 already had the bag recycled from something I had been given

Friday - Free lunch at work never can complain about that, and an evening in with a friend, 1 bottle of wine from the stash to take with NSD!

Saturday - helped at a jumble sale, didn't really mean to popped in to see Ma, and got roped in oh well. For my efforts I had a quick rumage before we started the selling and I now own - a black wool Jaegger skirt - £1.50, a pink monsoon jumper £1, and a BRAND NEW pair of tan knee high boots, ok so they were only new look but £1 can't go wrong.
Went bowling in the evening, £9 spend I drove, so no cost there company car, and for driving i was supplied with lemonade all night.

Sunday - watched DS in the parade with the Beavers, went home while he went back to dads for a bit longer, and I blitzed the whole house!!!! laundry, hoovering, dusting, and I even cleaned the windows. :eek::T and another NSD!

freshair_2

Post was getting too long and didn't want to loose it....

Monday - shopped for Ma and Pa xmas online after work, wanted to use my free m&s vouchers but couldn't online so used my food money, sounds a bit wrong at the moment but situation rectified on Tuesday. So 2 pairs of slippers bought for parents, free delivery and 5% cashback tracking. Oh and I bought my dress for xmas do from another online shop, with 20% off and free delivery lovely satin dress for xmas do's time 2, barginous.

Tuesday now this is where Mondays spends come into there own. dine in for £10 - £50 worth of vouchers from refering a friend to sky earlier this year, before moving to exOH. For our £50 we got

5 bottles of Rose
2 Medium Chickens to freeze
2 Gammon Joints to freeze
2 Massive Breaded Fish (which will make 2 meals for me and DS)
2 Swede and carrot mash - which is going to turn into soup
2 side dishes of new pots which will be cooked, some used some frozen
1 side dish of chips, not great MSE but they look good :rotfl:
3 cheesecakes freezable and will appear at a later date
2 apple pies freezable

total came to £83.94 for £50 of free vouchers I am impressed with myself.

Also finally managed to bring my very very old abbey (santandar) book in, with passport have closed the account for the return of £17.92 which has been sitting there since 2007 doing not much, now it is in my purse and will make its way to a debt instead.

I feel like I have had a MASSIVE leap forward from not doing too much, for a while.

On the Christmas front only 4 more pressies to buy, all is looking good, cards and wrap left from last year.

Have a good day everybody

freshair_2

grrr amazon.....

just logged on to bank to find I have paid a mysterious £133.20 to amazon..but for what i scream at myself.....so call amazon, or to be more precise they called me back from the website.

its for the kindle you ordered. what the free one to replace the one with the cracked screen? yes we haven't received your broken one back yet. (fortunately i have the y*d*l receipt on my desk just about to be filed), nice man rings y*d*l and I now have my money back well not quite but it will be there soon

phew, thought i was going to have a disaster but it has been happily averted