We are about to pull the purse strings soooo tight!

Alice_in_Poorland

Oh dfw sorry to hear about the chickenpox. Hope everybody is recovered in time for half-term.

I did put the heat on later this afternoon, now the house is nice and cosy.

We had a LSD today - had to buy a new toilet seat £9.50. It was a necessity!! so not a NSD today but still got my £1.

xx

HappyNow

Hi Alice, just popped by to check on your goings-on. You're doing so well. I just re-read the first couple of pages of your diary to refresh my memory (I read a LOT of diaries!) and you sound so positive and optimistic now compared to your earlier entries - brilliant in just four months! Keep it up! x

PinotGrigio41

Well done on still hanging onto that £1 Alice !!

How on earth did you refrain from putting the heating on until the afternoon, I have been bundled up as it is but still with the heating on ! I am dreading the next bill

Well done on the NSD's and the LSD's, but yes I agree the toilet seat was a necessity ! Mr Pinot stood on the lid of DD1's toilet to change a light bulb and managed to crack it in half in April last year . it took us until December to replace it, so we wrapped the whole toilet seat and put it under the Xmas Tree for her with a big bow on !!

Alice_in_Poorland

My £1 has gone so has the £10 I got from the cashpoint.

£3.55 on birthday cards x 7
£4.99 birthday gift
£0.60 on wrapping paper x 2 sheets
£0.85 for a ham salad roll for lunch (I know I should of got something from home but.........)
Total spent - £9.99
So I am back to a £1 (and a penny) but it's not quite my original pound if you see what I mean.

Pinot - how funny to have a toilet seat under a Christmas Tree, I bet your DD did appreciate it.:)

HappyNow - Thank you. I haven't got to the stage where I can go back and read my earlier posts, I do know I did have some very dark days at the start of my diary

I have got meals planned for tonight and tomorrow, not sure about the rest of the week. Freezer looking pretty empty but need to defrost it before I do another shop so we could be having some strange concoctions for tea for the rest of the week. xx

brizzledfw

Good luck with the meal planner! Here's to some strange concoctions!!

Brizzle

Itsadogslife_2

Hi Alice,

Looking forward to hearing about your concoctions, hopefully it will give me some inspirational ideas Sometimes the weirdest things thrown together are yummy

Alice_in_Poorland

My DSs have started to finish of the bits in freezer whilst they are at home today............fish finger pizza anyone????

Have given my £1 to OH for his newspaper today so I just have 1p left.

On the money front my car needs a new tyre and both cars need taxing at the end of this month.

Whilst cooking tea last night I made a cottage pie and apple crumble so thats our 'Valentine' tea tonight.
xx

debtfreewannabe321

hey alice

we've also got an expensive month coming up with car tax due and we also need brakes changing & a new tyre. there just never seems to be enough money to go around these days!

Have a great valentines dinner

danetastic

Just seems to be that time of the month with road tax etc. mine is also due but am gona pay 6 months so next time it's not straight after the dreaded c word LOL don't suppose will be any better then tho . Hope all goes well for you

BEAT_THE_DEBT

Hi Alice i was lucky and changed the car and new one is taxed until oct then £20 tax per year. My old car was due to be taxed in march phew!! x