Mum2one - next chapter - baby steps make big strides

mum2one

Its the 1st of the month, time to put the plans into action...

Awaiting collection of table and chairs -
List 50 things ebay/facebook sellers - 7 e/6 fb
Tidy dining room -
Gut bedroom -
Gut landing -
Gut front room -
Count and bank 2 jars of 2ps -
2 hospital appointments DD -+
mot car
kitchen tidy
shed rearrange
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Online shopping, - tie in with vouchers
crochet pink/white blanket
finish latch hook lit
deliver 1st set of xmas prezzies
set budget plans
Eye tests - dd and me
Diabetic blood test/review
book feet person
letter for hospital - Dad
weigh in for dog end of month

That list will keep me going for a bit...

touch wood everything was ok at oncologist with dad, he goes back again November and has an mri scan as well, hoping we can say yes he is in remission x

mum2one

started my September to do list..

Have 6 items on ebay, another 2 to go on 2ngt, have 8 listing on fb sellers, 3 have sold, (awaiting collection), got 10 more to drip feed over weekend, did an album but found people didnt look past the 1st photo. so need to redo them.

1st online shop done - used £15 voucher been sent me - so added a few treats in x

mum2one

Have sold £52 worth of items via f/b, really pleased, had pr of football boots for 12 months in the box, too small for dd, never got round to doing anything....

Few more ebay bits and f/b stuff at weekend

A no spend day (few ebay bits - but there out of my ebay budget). x

mum2one

A in and out day of money...
In-
£48 f/b sales (takes it to £100..)

Out..
Did treat DD to chippie dinner, mad rush in town, but cheaper than if we had gone pub meal, annual visit to opticians DD was free, mine £134, but very pleased with that, got 2 main pairs and pr of sunglasses, Its my one real vice designer glasses, dont have the figure for designer clothes,,,

Tomorrow - no spend day - taking some flowers up to the crematorium, would be my sisters bday end of month.. xx

mum2one

Touch wood all went ok with back to school, a couple more bits been sold voa f/b so pleased with that

Money wise - I've got a few bits off fleabay - so now being good and not getting anything out.

Got DD's bday end of the month, all main bits are got, just need to send £15 on a few little things, she's having her main present as joint gift between me and my parents.

Trying to sort her party - cinema outing and meal with friends, x

mum2one

I have just had a mad idea tonight, its a weird one how it came about, as most people know, my parents lost their 1st daughter with cancer, she was only 18 mths old, and this month she would have been 48. Its weird as I was born 2 years and 2 days from when my sister passed away, Miss Hoodie was born 35 yrs and 2 days from my sisters birthday.

So I am setting myself a challenge to do 50 things for charity, by September 2017 (her 50th).
Thinking...
Cancer - she passed away with cancer
Dogs - She loved my grandparents dog, and the dog my parents had, I got to spend 8 years with him.
Baby/Child - She was diagnosed as a baby with cancer

Its not going to be great feats like climbing everest/ raising 10k, more on a personal level, whether taking bag of items to charity shop, knitting blanket for dog, giving towels, bedding to dogs home.

In planning mode at mo, doing palm reading at swishing event, for kids mobility charity, crochet 10 blankets for charity - for babies that are born sleeping..., next charity shop trip, drop off a bag at hospice shop.

mum2one

Another month has bit the dust... Got there ok, thou its been a roller coaster of a month, DD had her bday party, thou it was touch and go at one stage as the cinema had debited me twice for cinema tickets (10 of them!), but have to say thank you, as they gave me the tickets for free, saved a fortune, then it was a meal at a chinese.

It was so nice to see kids from different schools (although there in 2nd yr of secondary), she has got some really good friends there.

DD's birthday was quiet, shes had a viral infection for week and half, knocked her for 6.

Money wise, it was expensive month, new glasses, the car mot, service and some work done on it, so all money went to quickly

Hoping October will be less mad spending, need to start getting my Christmas hat on.

Some good news I won £100 of amazon vouchers, - they havent been spent yet, do I save them and put towards something bigger, or do I buy a mixer that I really want.... decisions decisions.... thou what ever happens give DD £20 to treat herself.

The one settee broke the springs went it in, lucky have managed to source an idential one from TEsco, half the price of what we originally spent, but an expense we could do without.

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October Plans

Finish latch hook kit
Letters wrote for school fayre
2 letters to write - recorded delievery
Check smoke alarms - replace batteries
Ebay / facebook - min of 20 items
Check Xmas cake ingredients
DD - kitted out winter clothes
Submit meter readings - elec
Budgets Oct/Dec
Sort garage
Sort dining room - get new table set up
Gut front room
10 items angel babies
flu jabs
asthma review
blood test

I'm sure there be more to do xx

AlexLK

Glad to hear things are going well for you and good luck with your 50 things.

mum2one

Today I felt like I had a mini breakthrough, I drew money out of the bank for what I needed from town, odds and sods, it made me really think do I need it, I even put a box of chocs back on the shelf....

Bless her heart my DD treated me to a takeaway pizza tonight, she wouldn't take any money back, so I popped half back across to her bank account. She is really one in a million...

xx

mum2one

I treated myself today, - its taken over a week to decide, had a win of Amazon vouchers - so treated myself to this

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00HWST4VE?keywords=food%20mixer&qid=1444341504&ref_=sr_1_4&sr=8-4

cant wait to make my Christmas cake xx