Moooooving back to DFW - one Fresian's continued adventures in debt-busting

mooomin · 20 April 2012 at 7:11AM

Money

PAD/Spends - £136
Entertainment - £50.61
Car fund - £94.89
Groceries - £123.94
2nd purse - £50
Moggy money - £70
Loan balance - Unknown as online banking still broken
Savings - £340

I cheated a bit yesterday. I got paid today but borrowed the food budget from my overdraft as I've got a busy weekend coming up and knew I wouldn't have time for food shopping! First of all I did a wee shop at Fresian Foodstores (my second purse stockpile) spending £39.90 on storecupboard essentials, then I went to Sain$bury's, A1di, A$da and Morri$ons *phew* so that's why the groceries budget is looking a little light. I managed to pick up some pizza in the reductions section, so we're having a "takeaway Friday" for less than £2 - and one of them is a Fat Club pizza for me

rising_from_the_ashes · 20 April 2012 at 5:45PM

I'm back with serious MSE withdrawal having had NO internet (except mobile) since Monday!

Have some catching up to do but re mobiles - def shop around.

I've just got a new 2 year contract: 120 mins, 500 texts & 750mb data for £8.50/month!:j+ £40 cashback

I don't get anywhere near my 750mb limit and I know a few people who have 500 mb who also don't exceed this - all of us do switch to wi-fi whenever possible and it saves a lot of usage. HTH

rising_from_the_ashes · 20 April 2012 at 6:29PM

PS

treated myself to a new printer this week (after all the talk of printers) - did manage to get some money off

.

Really gave in after trying (unsuccessfully) to print some pics of the dog (someone suggested printing a few and putting in a "special album" for him only).:)

Have taken money out of the coin jars (who needs a shed anyway

) ... now just need to figure out how to either get this into my bank account (no branches near) or pay to the cc bill (without having to pay a charge).

mooomin · 23 April 2012 at 7:17AM

Morning folks

Hope you've all had a lovely weekend. I am a smidge hungover this morning after a lovely afternoon at a cocktail making class with Souk. We certainly drank more than we made, but had a very nice time

I had a lovely time at the craft show on Saturday and met a couple of ladies from one of the craft groups on FB which was great. It's nice to meet crafters in real life as well as online - none of my friends really "do" crafts, so it's great to have a natter with likeminded people. I got a couple of decent bargains and have made two cards this weekend, both of which are in my usual murky corner of t'internet

I managed to come back from the show with change *faint* of £38.90 which I was very impressed with given that my budget was £75 :A I have now spent all of that as my current favourite stamp-maker has issued a new Wizard of Oz themed collection and as that's my favourite film of all time I had to have them. It cost £38.25 to have them all imported from Canada, which means I'll have to wait for weeks but save £10 compared to buying them in the UK :money:

I'm now back on a strict budget until I can sell some more crafting items!

Three day week for me this week, so trying to think happy thoughts

mooomin · 24 April 2012 at 7:20AM

It's hump day for me

Thank all the gods as well, as work has been mainly pants for the last couple of weeks and I could really use some time off.

I'm hoping that I'm going to be able to pay my loan off today. My repayment figure yesterday was £380 but a couple of PADs and my normal loan payment should have gone in last night, so if it's under £300 today then it's getting repaid

mooomin · 24 April 2012 at 8:14AM

Total amount outstanding on my loan is £268.82 so it's getting paid off today. I'm going to use my interest-free overdraft and just PAD to that for a couple of months. At least that way it's costing me less