Edinburgher gets cracking!

edinburgher

A relaxed Sunday afternoon is on the cards

Went out to Lidl to get butter (Mrs E is making chocolate banana bread with some of the 17p chocolate from yesterday) and managed to pick up one of the fanciest of whoopsies - 28 day aged finest rump steak at £2.23 a portion. Very pleased, that's 4 steak dinners for less than a tenner! :money:

Also used the recycling pledge thing on the Mr T website (a Coc@ Col@ offer) to get a bonus 25 points. Still feeling peeved that I couldn't split payment on TCB yesterday, must try and get the total up before November where possible.

Have cleaned out the fish tank and really should polish some shoes

£56.12 paid into Zopa :j

nattypants

I have just made chocolate banana bread also!!!!

Spooky or what Ed.....

edinburgher

£21.79 into Zopa, taking me over £400.

I don't think my £1400 target is very likely, £1200 by the end of March is a figure I might actually achieve.

This is one target I don't want to beat myself up about too much, it is only my pocket money after all :rotfl:

*and then another £3.61, because I had a blond moment and forgot that I'd already rounded up

**which will lead to *another* payment tomorrow when the mistaken rounding hits my account!

edinburgher

Just got back from a couple of nights spent in beautiful Burns country attending a wedding.

Our transport and hotel accommodation ended up being a little more expensive than we'd allowed for (c. £230 vs. £200), but it was an absolutely lovely wedding for our closest friends

On the plus side, I managed to spend far less of my personal money than I'd expected (I brought back c. £60), so that's all good :beer: I have spent £28 of that on a piece of equipment for my aquarium (something I need to help keep everything running smoothly, so no guilt) and I have also paid in another £7 to Zopa to take me up to the next tenner.

A busy end to a fun week, but we now have the whole evening to look forward to :T

edinburgher

We get our first car on Monday! :j

As promised, the lovely MIL-E has given us her old car and we will be tootling about in a fairly recent Suzuki Swift very soon. Not satisfied with being an angel and giving us a free car, she is also letting us have her sat nav (old but working fine). So feeling very, very, very grateful.

Searching for the cheapest car insurance was absolutely exhausting, took nearly 3 hours as we've never done it before :eek: Our final quote of £604.20 (with £23.50 cashback to come) was less than 40% of my worst case scenario, although we do have to add Mrs E to the policy once she passes. Still, relatively pleased with that.

I also organised breakdown cover thanks to the recommendation in the MSE guide, £39 for a year to cover both of us.

I am budgeting for *everything* and so touch wood, it has been less terrifying than I had expected. I can't see us spending more than about £230/mth to run the car and it could've been a lot worse. That includes £4k to replace the car with similar in 5 years, I don't think that's unrealistic (granted, we won't be driving sports cars any time soon )

Off to the cinema tomorrow, that's a bit cheaper....

HelenDaveKids

Congrats on new car!

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Morning Mr E, what a generous MIL - you did well on the insurance hunting, it's painful at times I know.

Tilly x

gallygirl

Great result on insurance :j and hope MIL got lots of :kisses3: and :grouphug:, or at least :beer:.

PS - what colour is it .

edinburgher

PS - what colour is it .

It's a nice metallic green, like bottle green but not quite.

edinburgher

So we got the car yesterday and my first drive was terrifying! Nobody giving instructions, general lack of confidence and the exhaust is making an off noise :eek:

Will need *a lot* more practice. Had my last Pass Plus lesson tonight, was in Glasgow city centre and it wasn't a fun experience.

£8.59 into Zopa today, various car-related items have tracked with TCB (although nothing from our insurer, @dmiral yet).