We are about to pull the purse strings soooo tight!

Spendless

I was only thinking about this thread this weekend and wondering if there'd been any news from Alice.

Welcome back, look forward to hearing your update. :beer:

mummytogirls

OMG Alice, you're back . So glad to see creeping back in, looking forward to hear what youve been up to xx

Verbatim

Hi Alice!! Wonderful to see you back. How are you? Looking forward to hearing how you’ been getting on. Have really missed your updates. Hope all is well in Poorland.
Vx

Mrs_Money_Penny

Hi Alice have missed you and your diary.

brizzledfw

So so fab you’re back....:j...but no creeping allowed :rotfl: It’s gotta be this instead :beer:

Hope you’re all well, much love Brizzle xx

dawnybabes

Yah, missed you x

trishx

Welcome back :j

Alice_in_Poorland

Thank you for all the lovely messages. I really really do appreciate them.xx

A quick update..........we've had a family member living with us for the last 4 months. It's been really tough but I think we are getting there slowly. They are of the teenager variety so I think you'll get my drift.

We are currently paying £400-£500 per month towards DS1s living costs. He's got just over 15 months to go, studying hard and having the time of his life. He didn't come home at Christmas in the end. I found that very tough.

DS2 and DS3 have been fantastic with everything that has gone on at home. DS2 is studying and has little part time job.

On the money front, paying off the debts has been put in the back burner at little bit. I will do an update but a couple of them are below the £500 mark so we need to push to pay them off. Bcard have passed my debt on to an agency (PRA I think), the balance is £4700ish. They kept calling my mobile, home and my works number, it really stressed me out until I finally said to them correspondence by post only....as per the other plans we have with them. Now they have written to me to arrange a payment plan....hmmm.

I will post an update on all the individual debts. I'm not even sure how much the total figure is at the moment. How terrible is that.

I did manage to save a little bit for Christmas presents, and DS3 got his game console so I was really chuffed with that. He's currently only allowed on it one night a week for an hour and then at weekends. Some of his friends are on all hours, it's really terrible. We're still very busy with sport - football and rugby. I've still been taking packed lunches and drinks.:)

Hope everybody has good day.....anybody pegged out.:rotfl:

xx

Alice_in_Poorland

Also we are still collecting 5p, 20p coins and OH has started the 365 day savings challenge.

He's still not involved or interested in anything else to do with money, but its a start!!

xx

mummytogirls

Lovely to hear from you Alice. Cant believe you've had a teenager staying with you. All I can think is attitude and eating alllll the food!!

Glad DS is enjoying himself.

Ive started the 365 saving challenge too... I hope I can stick to it :rotfl: xx