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Tuesday 17th January - what small things are you doing today?
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Me too
37 also! I had no idea it was a 30 road and it's right by me... it's NSL all the way up, except for a tiny portion before the end. Lesson learned!
My insurance is already through the roof as I've been in two accidents... my insurance has risen so much even though they were both 'no fault' claims as I was hit from behind both times - grrr! I dread to think if I had points on top!
Where are you? I am in the South East too, but my closest centre is Ealing... I'd travel out a bit to save a tenner - provided the train fare wasn't any worse!!
South East Kent - so think its at Maidstone? I know tres annoying aint it??!
Starnac I know but seeing as I get up at 6 most days it is a lie in for me! :rotfl:DF as at 30/12/16
Wombling 2026: £25.70
Grocery spend challenge Feb £285.11/£250
GC annual £389.25/£2700
Eating out budget: £ 48.87/£300
Extra cash earned 2026: £1850 -
Hi all,
Hope you dont mind me joining in. I have lurked on these threads for many months, but today is the day I decided to join in. So today I have done the following:
breakfast from stores
lunch from stores (home made soup)
dinner will also be something from the fridge
opened up new cashback credit card (which will be paid off in full each month)
moved bank account to first direct to get the £125 fee
posted box to music magpie
checked my bank account to make sure all has been deducted and what's in there balances with my spreadsheet
Thats it for todayToo much month, not enough Cash!
Make £11000 in 2011 challenge - current total £1358.770 -
Had lunch from stores and dinner too for family
Tried (failed) to put mortgage on interest only basis
checked bank and balanced spreadsheet
Done budget for Feb and March all accurate
Discovered I had put a budget for £100 per month on presents into budget so created a bit of cash from freeing up this pot
trying to focus on work but the debt I discovered Sunday is looming large on my mindStart info Dec11 :eek:
H@lifax [STRIKE]£13813.45[/STRIKE] paid Sep14 paid 23 months early :T
Mortgage [STRIKE]£206400[/STRIKE] :eek: £199750 Mortgage £112500
B@rclays £[STRIKE]25000[/STRIKE] paid 4 years 5 months early. S@ntander £[STRIKE]9300[/STRIKE] paid 2 years 2 months early
2013 8lb lost 2014 need to lose 14lb. Lost 4 so far!;)0 -
determined_new_ms wrote: »Starnac I know but seeing as I get up at 6 most days it is a lie in for me! :rotfl:
In that case. :T Well done on the lie in :rotfl:Goals for FebruaryDeclutter 2/50Money Made £0/£200Overpayments £0/£2000 -
I'vew booked up in Luton instead... slightly cheaper at £91 and I can park there, so cheaper than the train!
I seem to be spending money hand over fist this week though... window cleaner's just been
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Hi
late today ive spent the day doing my study hope its good lol
today is a nsd ive not got any pennys lol
roll on thursday
todo
all meals from stores
wash on ironing
ds to football
ironing
early night?
must get back into work pattern
better go have a great day xxdebt total £71k AGE 47 TRY TO BE DEBT FREE BY 500 -
Afternnon everyone

What I've done today:- car share to work
- lunches and brekkie from stores
- found 42p
- dineer in oven (lasagne DD2's friends round for dinner hope they like it' should be enough leftovers for lunch tomorrow)
- general tidt
- checked banking/emails
- Prepare lunches for tomorrow
- visit mum- will walk and save petrol
- small ironing
- clean bathroom
- sort out budget for rest of month
- stash cards I got from funk! p!geon this morn- think that's me sorted for the year
- e-mail debenhams about a parcel I returned to chase up refund.
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Well today I have:
Worked 9 - 1
Did all the competitions
Did all the surveys
Chicken for tea left over from yesterdays roast dinner
Checked my electric and gas usage after submitting meter reads online yesterday and they don't owe me anything, but at least my payments arnt going up.
Found my ISA book which has £86 in it I forgot about so will put that into sealed pot tomorrow.
Few enquiries about my caravan but no bookings.0 -
Hi all, good to see the thread so busy.
Cool find charity worker..£86 is not to be sniffed at!
Been working hard today so no posting...but it worked out like this:
- packed lunches for DD2 and OH
- my meeting in London was postponed so no travel for me so a NSD for me plus no temptation!, (got babysitter to pay though) and lunch from fridge
- heating on, as sitting down so get frozen but stove on now with lovely free wood
- free bread ( and croissants!! Woo hoo:T) from our ace friendly baker
- washing on low and all on racks to dry..over banisters you name it! There is always so much washing..how can 4 people generate so much?!!
-made a PAD to the V CC
-checked banking..nice to see us in the black, hasn't been like that for a while
Off to help DD2 with homework now....
Brizzle xMFiT-T4 Member No. 96 - 2022 is my MF goal
Winter 17/18 Savings Rate Goal: 25% [October 30%] :T
Declutter 60 items before 31.03.18 9/60 ** LSDs Target 10 for March 03/10 **AFDs 10/15 ** Sales/TCB Target 2018 £25/£500 NSDs Target 10 for March 02/10 Trying to be a Frugalista:rotfl::T0 -
brizzledfw wrote: »- washing on low and all on racks to dry..over banisters you name it! There is always so much washing..how can 4 people generate so much?!!
Brizzle x
I wonder the same thing especially as half our household is under the age of 5! :cool:Goals for FebruaryDeclutter 2/50Money Made £0/£200Overpayments £0/£2000
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