We are about to pull the purse strings soooo tight!

Alice_in_Poorland

Tuesday was a NSD so upto 7 now.

Yesterday I had to get some bread, cereal and fruit on the way home. DS2 had football training (£3 out of the pot). Mind you this morning we had bacon and scrambled eggs as I had some bacon that needed using up.......can't be doing that every morning though too much washing up.:o

Today I paid childminder, OH paid his lottery and I'll pay mine tomorrow. Put money in the leisure pot.

DS1 and OH go to the Smoke tomorrow so that DS1 can get his visa (fingers crossed). Managed to get 2 returns for £58. Need £6 to park the car at the station. DS1 paying for his own ticket.....still not sure how 'we' are going to pay the money back to family member who's helping fund his trip.....mmmmm:(

Have sorted out DS3s childcare for the summer holidays, its going to cost £100 at holiday club and £125 at the childminders. Not as much as I'd thought.

Can't wait for 5.30 tomorrow when I finish for 2weeks........I am not going to waste these weeks, although planning on chilling out (and trip to L3g0land with free tickets:D) I'm going to get some sorting out done.

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scotdebs

Alice just had a speed read through your diary and you are an absolute inspiration :T

I have similar amount to debt as you ( & just started another diary oops) and sometimes it seems too big a problem to tackle but you are showing how every day it's the little things that make the difference

Hope you don't mind if I subscribe and cheer you along on your journey

Alice_in_Poorland

scotdebs wrote: »

Alice just had a speed read through your diary and you are an absolute inspiration :T

I have similar amount to debt as you ( & just started another diary oops) and sometimes it seems too big a problem to tackle but you are showing how every day it's the little things that make the difference

Hope you don't mind if I subscribe and cheer you along on your journey

Aww thanks scotdebs, it is a HUGE debt but we keep chipping away at it.:)

I don't mind you joining not at all, the more the merrier.........although my ramblings are a bit boring. :rotfl:

Will look out for your diary. xx

Alice_in_Poorland

I'm not in any position to give advice but I do have one little note..............cheap cling film is false economy.........I bought some from the £1 shop as we'd run out and I wasn't going to A1di where I usually get it from, and oh my goodness it is driving me mad and worse of all it's a massive roll. Never again!!:rotfl:

Can't wait til 5.30pm today.....2 weeks off.....I should be able to catch up on diaries whilst I'm off too!! xx

Alice_in_Poorland

Another warm night. I was going to do some washing but I have run out of washing liquid. Haven't got round to making my own but sburys basic with some soda crystals seems to be doing the trick. Although I think the C0stc0 one is a good deal.

Kids had footie and then we had a chippie tea, just 2 bags of chips between 4 of us (DS1 at work) with bread and butter. Not very MSE or a good idea on my healthy eating plan but.......:o.

So today ended up a LSD. xx

Alice_in_Poorland

Well today was quite a spend day. £55 in sburys (although we did get toilet roll (sburys own basic 6 for £1.99 would def. recommend), rinse aid for dishwasher and washing liq), put £60 petrol in (ready for our day trip tomorrow) and got DS3 some new trainers (£13 from sprts wrld). I've also taken out £30 cash as an emergency fund for tomorrow. DS3 has sorted out £3 of his own money to spend, DS2 and DS1 aren't bothered about spending any money whilst they are there.

Have sorted the free tickets x 2 and the vouchers (off the cereal boxes), that makes the 3 tickets we have to buy £62. Also found a 20% off voucher so will let DS3 have that....something tells me he's going to need all the help he can get to find something to buy for £3!!!!

Will take plenty of food and drinks with us, I really do not want to be paying their prices.

Also got dog food today from the farm......£7.95 from the farm..........its £10.95 from the pet shop!!!!!

Everybody chipped in with the house work this afternoon, so that's all done. Now we have washing liquid I've done 3 loads already and have pegged out. (Won't have time to peg out in the morning, we need to be on road by 7 at the latest :eek:).
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Alice_in_Poorland

We had a fab day yesterday.:) But we ran out of food/drinks.:(
I took 2litres of water each, loads of fruit, cobs/wraps, sausage rolls and other snacks and it all go eaten. We ended up stopping and getting food on the way home, used some of the emergency fund.

DS3 didn't spend any money as such, he wanted to throw some money in the wishing well, which he did (20p) and then later he found 20p on the floor.:)

The petrol light came on just as we got home so will have to get some more today.

We've had a letter from sky to tell us the price is going up by £1.50 per month.......our special deal finishes in August, if they don't offer another 'deal' we will look at cancelling it.....or at least the TV package. We've kept sky as it was our only 'treat' but perhaps its time to let it go.:(

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Alice_in_Poorland

I feel like I've wasted 2days of my holiday already. Don't know whats wrong with me......a severe case of CBA.:(

I did put petrol in yesterday, but only £10. I'm really not sure why I do that. I should of put more in and after all the running round today and yesterday the light has come again tonight.

Didn't spend any other money yesterday so that was a bonus.

Today I've just pottered about, went to see my friend for a catch up. Started to sort the paperwork upstairs for filing and thats about as far as it has got. I'm so frustrated that my 'get up and go' has got up and gone.

Meal plan has gone to pot so far this week as well, folk either aren't hungry at meal times or I don't fancy cooking what is on the menu.

Tomorrow kids are going to the cinema (orange wednesday). Will get snacks on the way......will not be paying their prices for food.

Now that the rain has cleared I've got the washing machine going, already got a massive pile of ironing (and I haven't got that many clothes!!) so had better do some tomorrow.

Hope I'm more productive tomorrow.:(

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amber03

Know what you mean about eating, we're just eating rubbish at the moment.

Everybody has days where their" get up and go" has just"" got up and gone.

What will you be watching at the cinema tomorrow.x

scotdebs

Feeling your pain on the ironing:eek:

Not much in the way of productive activity here either on the slow grind waiting for pay day......