Lulabelle's MFW Diary

nattypants

Happy New Year lula, and my heartfelt sympathies to Mr. Lula - hope he's feeling much better.

I am just trying to catch up with everyone's news between snoozes, and it's good and bad news about the top shop top - there's a khaki jacket there (not in the sale!), that I have my eye on;)

lulabelle1

Polkadot_Dress wrote: »

Happy New Year Lula

Sorry to hear of the Man Flu. I am suffering myself in our household and using it as an excuse to return to my bed with the Ipad and browse on here :rotfl:

Good luck with your budgeting and planning. I know that tackling family meals etc can have a huge impact. There is a meal ideas website you can use that produces a shopping list as well that I had some success with in the summer. Sorry I can't recall the name of top of my flu ridden head...will have a think.....I did use it for a couple of weeks and it gave me some meals that I include regularly now. A cheap Chilli con Carne recipe and a Tarteflette - a dish with potatoes layered with ham cheese and cream.

Thanks for popping by - I hope you are feeling much better soon, in the meantime, milk it for all you can - this is what my DH is doing!

I love chilli and whenever I make it, I add various tins of different beans to bulk it out - from one tub of mince, I usually end up with 4 meals which isn't bad going. I shall be grabbing a portion from the freezer for a late dinner....

I had planned on a lovely roast beef dinner but with DH being poorly and my sister cancelling her visit because her DH is poorly, I decided to pop the beef in the freezer. They are coming on Friday instead, so we'll eat in then.

lulabelle1

Vala-Mal-Doran wrote: »

Hello Lula,

I came onto this thread from the sneaky link on Eds - Im so glad I did its had me giggling for half an hour at the price of said handbag!

I must say - it makes me feel better about my warehouse dress purchases on Ebay! ...which havent turned up *wanders off to send rant email to ebay seller*

I think my diary is going to become (actually, I think it already is) a place to come to when you are having post purchase blues.... people seem to leave my diary feeling much better about the fact that they have only bought a coat, dress or similar rather than a ridiculously overpriced handbag. :rotfl:

lulabelle1

nattypants wrote: »

Happy New Year lula, and my heartfelt sympathies to Mr. Lula - hope he's feeling much better.

I am just trying to catch up with everyone's news between snoozes, and it's good and bad news about the top shop top - there's a khaki jacket there (not in the sale!), that I have my eye on;)

STAY AWAY FROM THE KHAKI JACKET NATTY, I REPEAT, STAY AWAY FROM THE KHAKI JACKET.........:money:

lulabelle1

A fairly lazy day before normal service starts to resume tomorrow. I took the boys to the park for an hour or so for a run around and bit of climbing etc to blow the cobwebs away.

DH seems to be showing some small signs of recover which is great.....

I might lock myself away in my office for an hour later this evening if there's nothing on TV and do some serious budgeting and "money thinking"......

nattypants

lulabelle1 wrote: »

STAY AWAY FROM THE KHAKI JACKET NATTY, I REPEAT, STAY AWAY FROM THE KHAKI JACKET.........:money:

Fortunately due to being severely ill (cough, cough, cough, cough) :money: has been forced upon me:D

lulabelle1

Just after some feedback, but how much do you budget each month for the following:

Food
Fuel
Eating Out/Takeaway
Clothes - self and family together
Activities & Entertainment
Treats
Haircuts
Dentist

Anything else that i might have missed..........?

Edit - I should add that I already have budget accounts for the following:
Christmas - 85
Birthdays - 45
All things car related & house insurance - 200

Thanks, L xx

lulabelle1

nattypants wrote: »

Fortunately due to being severely ill (cough, cough, cough, cough) :money: has been forced upon me:D

It's true that every cloud has a silver lining...... Hope you feel better soon Natty x

nattypants

I started a reply, but tbh my outgoings are going to be so different to yours (my kids are 1X employed and 1X Uni for a start and it's soooo much more expensive having wee ones)

HDK is possibly the best person to answer this (although she does have about a million kids...I think this happened before she had a TV:D)

Not for you to actually post on your diary, but there's a link on the main forum (I think) for an SOA that will provide all the 'spends' you'll need to consider...give me a shout if you can't find it X

lulabelle1

Thanks Natty - I started 2012 by having loads of savings accounts for the various bits and pieces, but I'd always find that something would come along that hadn't been budgeted for and then I wouldnt know which savings pot to get the money from - it ended up being a bit pointless - so then I just started transferring one amount in to a different current account to cover everything for the month. It works OK but I think we end up wasting more this way.........

I've seen a few SOA's on other diaries, so I'll go and look....

Do you save bits in to different accounts or just lump it together as a monthly "spend" allowance???