Mortgage freedom..Shala_moo's attempt at a diary..

shala_moo

Hi Megela, weirdly enough I've just made OH try it and it is a bit hard, but just spreadable! I might rename it to damson cheese :rotfl:it was nice with a bit of cheese and ryvita that we tried as an experiment.

Well I did jump the gun on the redundancy situation - it was nothing to do with that and more to do with another restructure (oh and another new boss - however, this one I really like!)

No money news to report just putting an order in at the shop so actually spending money instead of saving!!

shala_moo

Afternoon all..


Not much money saving to be found this week.

• £25 premium bond moved to savings (i'd forgot:o)
• OH has sold 6 music-y things on EBay making £129 - goes towards the £400 he spent last weekend on a new music-y thing :eek:
• 1 hour of overtime done (by choice rather than pressure :j) still done 20 already this month and next week is busy week!
• small win on thunderball last night, reinvested tonight :rotfl:
• £1.64 TT

I'm currently making some damson chutney.. I was going to make some chilli jam but I realised that I didn't have any garlic until tonight's shopping :doh:so that will have to wait till tomorrow.

Also reboiled my lime and lemon marmalade to get it to set better and re-potted into nicer jars.

have a great afternoon xx

shala_moo

Well we've been shopping this morning to try and get some ideas for Xmas presents (mainly for the sister as everyone else is getting the hampers) but i'm still drawing a blank!

I really don't want to buy "stuff" that may not be used, but just don't know what to get

I managed to bag a bargain in Deb*nhams for us. They had 25% off homeware so got a tefal wok(reduced from £40 then with discount too) and some teatowels for £20, but I paid with vouchers so cost to me was £0 :j

We also have a new addition to the family meet Fred


I just couldn't resist!! He adds the Christmas vibe to the kitchen..

shala_moo

Just a quick update - If anyone likes Th0rntons then Sainsbugs have a goodish offer at the moment, 1/2 price on certain boxes.

A 200g premium box was £3(usually £6) and the bigger premium box £5.50 (£11).

I needed some to put in my hampers, so I picked up 4 boxes plus a few chocolate lollipops for the kids. I spent only 62p though as I had a gift card and nectar points :j:j brilliant shop!!

Got my jar labels printed off earlier too, so time to make the jars look pretty and start making my hampers! :T

xx

shala_moo

Hi All.. I've been working ridiculous hours again and worked yesterday too so haven't had much of a chance to do anything MSE/MFW-wise.. sort of catching up with things as much as possible today.

So MFW-ing

• raised a claim with TCB for my home insurance cashback
• 23 hours overtime worked this week :eek: (7 of those were Saturday x 1.5)
• moved NW interest to savings
• moved ha1ifax reward to savings
• OH paid off another £150 from family loan

Things to do this week :

• need to raise expenses claim for work, had tea and breakfast bought for us this week which I paid for as no one had any cash £30 ish
• sort out car insurance - hoping for less than £300
• make onion chutney for hampers
• go to the dentist :eek:

Have a good day xx

Peonie

I wish I had a job where I could get overtime. Unfortunately not.

BlueMoo

Wow! 23 hours overtime in a week. Hardcore!

Loving your kitchen - the cabinets are very similar to my cabinets. Classy and Classic as I like to say

shala_moo

Peonie wrote: »

I wish I had a job where I could get overtime. Unfortunately not.

In principle I don't actually agree with overtime as I think it gets really abused (especially in our company), but in reality I'm glad I get paid for it.

I think it should indicate the fact that there is a problem in the department but it just get ignored and we all struggle on :mad:

BlueMoo wrote: »

Wow! 23 hours overtime in a week. Hardcore!

Loving your kitchen - the cabinets are very similar to my cabinets. Classy and Classic as I like to say

Thanks BlueMoo, I always wanted a kitchen like this and luckily managed to get it as part of our house deal that we did :j although it was fitted badly:mad: and some of the doors.drawers are falling apart!

shala_moo

Bit of a spendy day today...

Root canal done, 2 hours, £471 :eek::eek: booked in next week for another filling on the other side! I sound like I have right manky teeth don't i, I promise I haven't!

Also managed to bite my tongue whilst it was numb oouchh :rotfl:what an eejit!!

Hope everyone is well xx

BlueMoo

Yes, I have a job too that can offer Overtime. I flipflop over the issue in that we should have enough time during our work week to carry out all tasks relating to our job in that time not be doing overtime as we have too much work to actually finish it all. On the other hand, we had no overtime last month and I am really dreading being on basic pay especially coming up to the C word!

What a shame about the cabinets - could you not maybe get a handyman round for a day to sort out the doors properly?