** Wish I was a money fairy **

mooomin

Housework*Fairy wrote: »

£5.00 - set up a lotto account (got £3 from Quidco for this too)
£10.00 - DS2 went to a birthday party so put £10 in the kid's card

Lottery account is essential at the moment?! (although, if you win, remember your friends in the north )

£10 for a birthday present is mental :eek: Glad I don't have kids

Housework*Fairy

Hullo there

Tesco online shop has just been delivered. No substitutions, but epic fail in what I expected to be a pack of four steak and kidney puds turned out to be one solitary pud....

Today's spends
£10.95 - 12 Krispy Kreme doughnuts
£4.00 - 2 x birthday cards (DHs 40th tomorrow)
£5.00 - bottle of wine for DH's 40th

PAD's
£1.00 - took some minutes in a meeting and lunch was provided so I saved myself having to buy a lunch ticket
£1.00 - thought meeting would run late, meaning DS1 would have to get bus home, but I managed to pick him up
£35.84/£135

Also submitted my invoice today - she rang me chasing it - and she has a 'mini report' for me to type up tomorrow, but I don't know how long that will take me.

fallen121

Have subscribed to this thread because it struck a chord with me.

I think I read in one of your posts that you were spending on sanitary products and I know these can add up to quite a bit over the course of a year even if you use the cheap brands. Have you considered switching to using a mooncup? There is a thread on MSE that will tell you more about it but basically if you buy one of these menstrual cups from Boots for about £20 (getting Advantage Card points of course!) you will save yourself about £4-£5 a month in sanitary products. All I buy now is the occasional box of panty liners. If you don't have £20 now you could maybe save up and get one on your Advantage Card points later in the year.

When I first read about these and heard they were better for the environment I thought they were some loony "Green" thing only worn by ban the bomb Greenham Common types but in actual fact I wouldn't never even consider using anything else now and so convenient if you are camping or whatever. Good for the environment, easy to use and save you ££s.

Other suggestions were seeing what you could sell on eBay and maybe do a car boot - our PTA does these regularly at the school but maybe better waiting until the Spring when the weather is better. Or find an indoor one. We go to one held at a car auction place where you can just drive your car in rather than having to haul the stuff in from a car park outside.

I am sure I will think of more ideas. You mention surveyts, do you have a YouGov account because I forgot I had mine and there was about 4500 points in it. Only had to do a few more surveys at 50-75 points per survey and I was up to 5000 and was able to redeem for £50 this morning - should be in my bank account within a month!

Housework*Fairy

Just a quick post for PADS so I can transfer them over t'night - haven't touched my internet banking for a few days and we know how dangerous that can be!!!

£3.00 - DS1's athletics was cancelled yesterday
£1.38 - postage savings
£0.11 - went to shop for a colleague and she told me to keep the change
£20.00 - got my cheque for the private typing work that I did
£24.49

£60.33 / £135 - ooh nearly 50% of the way there!!!

Groceries
£1.29 - cereal on Wednesday
£127.69 / £172.31

mooomin

You're doing really well saving up for his trip :T

Housework*Fairy

Note to self: Another £5 for PAD pot as got another lovely £5 off voucher from Tesco :-D

Footy was also cancelled again, and hopefully both games will be called off too on Sunday (if training is cancelled but the games go ahead on Sunday, we still have to pay for training money). It's doubtful the games will go ahead but I wont count my chickens before they are hatched.

Housework*Fairy

Week 3 shopping done. I'm quite outraged because the last two weeks had been £40+ and today's little lot came to £50+ (£55.52 which includes £3.50 delivery charge, excluding the £5.00 money off voucher). I remember less than a month ago, a week's shop would have come in around £80. Mind you, had to order washing up liquid, toilet rolls and cooking oil so that bumped the price up a little bit.

Week 3 menu
Fish, chips and mushy peas
Meatballs & pasta / spaghetti
Fish in parsley sauce, mash, veggies, Yorkshire puddings
Sweet & Sour chicken with spring rolls
Frying Steak & chips with pepper sauce
Roast chicken dinner, Yorkshire puddings
Chicken pie, mash, veggies, Yorkshire puddings

Plucked up the courage to look at the bank balance and if I aim to finish the month with the same overdrawn balance as which it started, I still have £700 to last three weeks.:rotfl: however we are on a rare night out tomorrow which wont be cheap

Fallen121 - thank you for your post, it's always good to know that people are reading. I have the contraceptive injection so don't have periods as such, I just use liners for - ahem - 'freshness' Thanks for the idea about the car boot. I did one once and swore never again! I don't really have much of value to sell on e-bay and if I did sell anything I would end up with less profit than e-bay and the royal mail got. I'm mainly trying to control incomes and outgoings at the moment.

mooomin

Jings you eat a lot of tattie-based products.

I miss tatties. Sodding Fat Club means they're not really worth the points value....*sob*

Housework*Fairy

flying_fresian wrote: »

Jings you eat a lot of tattie-based products.

I miss tatties. Sodding Fat Club means they're not really worth the points value....*sob*

I know, they're cheap and filling, I have two growing boys, one who is a bottomless pit! plus DH makes the best mash potato ever.

mooomin

Housework*Fairy wrote: »

I know, they're cheap and filling, I have two growing boys, one who is a bottomless pit! plus DH makes the best mash potato ever.

In the days before Fat Club, I used to go to the weekly farmers market and buy garlic cheddar from a lovely lady. I would then make mash with butter, milk and garlic cheese through it. 'Twas the mutts nuts