We are about to pull the purse strings soooo tight!

Alice_in_Poorland

Well I'm sitting here with a colour on my hair which I picked up for £3.50 (its a L'0real one) from the cheapy shop, remembering how I used to think nothing of spending £60 a go for a colour,cut and blow dry at the hairdressers:eek:........ wow how things have changed

We have had a hectic couple of days so I haven't been on here much. It was payday yesterday, yippee and I had a little spend in sburys as they had 25% off, and I needed some new casual trousers as the ones I have are beyond repair now. Also picked up DS3 another jumper for school (without school logo but luckily the school are OK about that) as one if his has already gone walkabouts.

I called in to A1di and the butchers this morning so that will put Septembers food budget at £400ish, thats terrible really as we should be closer to the £300-£325 mark. Roll on October when we can start again.

Petrol spends for September have come in at £140, not as much as I thought now we are down to one car.

3 loads of washing pegged out

Hope everybody has a great weekend. xx

mummytogirls

Hi Alice,

Im glad to hear all is well in your house!! Things too have been hectic here this week, hopefully it will all calm down a bit now!

We managed to get 1 load dry yesterday xx

Alice_in_Poorland

Hi mummy, thank you and hope you have a more relaxed week.:)

Only managed 8NSDs this month :eek:. I don't mean to wish Sunday night away but can't wait for tomorrow (1st October) and I'm am feeling quite positive at the moment.

In October I am aiming to start building the emergency fund back up and have at least 13NSDs. Must really get a grip in Christmas too.......only Oct and Nov wages packets :eek:

Sold 1 item on ebay so far tonight (£5.50 excluding postage), the other 2 items don't finish until 9.00pm. Haven't mananged to get any other items on today, will try and put some things on tomorrow night.

Hope everybody has a good week.xx

Alice_in_Poorland

Today was NSD number 1. LOL

Sold another item on fleabay, was hoping to get some more stuff on tonight but it will have to wait.

I'm shattered tonight and have got a bit of a headache and if I stay up I will just eat, so I'm going to package the sold ebay item and then get off to bed........the party animal that I am...... not! .xx

Alice_in_Poorland

Its a bit chilly here tonight but we have resisted putting the heat on. Had an easy tea, fish, chips and veg out of the freezer.

I have updated spending diary/budget tonight. Still looking very lean. :eek:

NSD no 2 today. xx

PinotGrigio41

Alice_in_Poorland wrote: »

Its a bit chilly here tonight but we have resisted putting the heat on. Had an easy tea, fish, chips and veg out of the freezer.

I have updated spending diary/budget tonight. Still looking very lean. :eek:

NSD no 2 today. xx

All credit to you Alice, I have no idea how you are still managing without the heating on ! Are you really an Eskimo ?!

Hope your headache has gone and you feel better after your early night yesterday.

Well done on the ebay sales. I have had a few recently but I am fed up with wrapping them all now !

Alice_in_Poorland

Pinot, the note about the Eskimo did make me smile. To be honest the headache has gone but I'm shattered this week. Looking forward to the weekend.

I've had a letter from the car loan people, it confirms that we only have 6 payments left on the loan.:j Just £1281.83 to pay :eek:

We also a bank statement from one of our 'old'accounts, the one with the £700 overdraft we are only paying £7.81 off each month.:eek:

DS2 has worn a hole in his 'playing out/sport' trainers so they will have to be replaced at the weekend. Max spend £25.

Today was a spend day - childminder, works lottery and cash for dinner money and after school club but have managed 3 NSD so far this month.

Running low on fruit, milk, sandwich stuff so will have to call into supermarket tomorrow night. I'm going to really try hard and keep the food budget under control this month.

xx

P.S. The heating is still off. LOL

mummytogirls

Hi Alice,

Yay to only having 6 months left on the car, it doesnt feel like 2 mins ago since you had 15!
Well done on still having the heating off thats fab :T.

Have a lovely weekend xx

Alice_in_Poorland

Thanks mummy, I know doesn't time fly. Once its paid then that money will go to CCCS towards the dept so that should bring out DFD closer

We decided to do a 'big' shop last night split btwn A1di and sburys. Apart from usual milk, fruit, veg and breat etc we [STRIKE]should[/STRIKE] will be OK for at least 2 weeks.

Have updated spending diary and we have £401 left in the account, we have DDs of £346 to come out between now and next Wed, then OH gets paid again (£250) and we have a DD of £214 to pay, that should leave £91 to pay childerminder, petrol and any food bits we need until the following Thursday when OH gets paid.......not as many DDs towards the end of the month so hopefully can put some money in the 'pots'.

I've got some £2 coins to bank, I think I've saved £281 so far this year. I will carry on saving them, the amount grows really quickly.:)

Off to do housework, looking forward to our cinema night tonight and as we will be all in the same room i wonder if we will still be able to leave the heating off......:rotfl:
xx

Alice_in_Poorland

Alice_in_Poorland wrote: »

I've got some £2 coins to bank, I think I've saved £281 so far this year. I will carry on saving them, the amount grows really quickly.:)

Ooops typo, actually its was £282 in £2 coins but have just sorted my purse out and made it £284.:D

Have sorted DS2s bus money for next week,DS1s football training money, given DS2 money to got to local footie match and put £2 in pot that leaves me 3p!!! xx