my non-mortgage mortgage free journey

quintwins

ammonite wrote: »

Hope he gets better soon. Don't worry about moneysaving at this time! Let us know how he gets on

Well done for your total savings that is EXCELLENT! :T

He's doing very well today, lots of resting and laziness going on but he's alot better.

My saving total is acually going very well considering we're still due £380 in pay to go towards it, and i'll be adding £333 on monday, i think i'll smash my target and that includes quite a few overspends all over the place this month.

quintwins

Hi all £338.31 added to the savings, total this month is now £1141.78/£1250 so i'll meet my target on monday

Went shopping yesterday, bought some reduced school items in sainburys and myself some gloves, i got a £3 off £20 sainburys voucher so i took it across to tesco and did some stocking up i also used a bzz agent voucher i got...

block pilgrim cheese
2 value isntant mash
3 frying steaks
pork shoulder
6 rice puddings, these were carnation ones down to 19p there was choc, caramel and cinamon
6 x 6p custards
4 value tinned oranges
5 value rice puddins
2 value tinned pineapple
4 value tinned potatoes
value hot choc
tin of dog food
value plums (huge punnet for 50p says ideaal for cooking on because there abit firm but we've been eating them)
4 mango, 4 rasperrby and 4 cherry free from yogurts (these were free)
4 tinned carrots (these aren't value it's 18p for the same weight of value carrots in baby carrots, value is 20p)
2 packets of part bakes baugettes

as you can see it was alot of stocking up, i was added it up to as close to £20 in my head and i got it at £20.01 paid £14.01. so plenty of puddings and tinned fruit, the meat will do 5 meals, i'm going to put the steak into the slowcooker now with mone frozen reduced mushrooms, celery and carrots and a onion from the fridge, i will freeze half for 2 pie fillings , pork shoulder will eb pork roast one day and pulled pork the next. Not bad considering (not including savinsg made with the £3 voucher) it cost £5.97 so less than £1.20 per meat per meal.

It's slightly warmer today but ds chest is still bad so i will still be using the heat.

thriftylass

quintwins wrote: »

Hi all £338.31 added to the savings, total this month is now £1141.78/£1250 so i'll meet my target on monday

wow, that's great :j, wish we had that much leftover each month. maybe someday once the wee man is out of nursery

quintwins

thriftylass wrote: »

wow, that's great :j, wish we had that much leftover each month. maybe someday once the wee man is out of nursery

I'm a sahm thats the only reason we have money tbh i put alot of effort into saving money, our older kids are twins so childcare would have been a nightmare and it wouldn't have paid me to work, not much will chnage moneywise when my youngest starts school in fact he'll cost me more in fuel and uniform, when he's in full days i will start looking for a job.

re-arranging my kitchen so i'm going to do a list of all the food i have in there.

quintwins

ok i have one more supboard to do that has sweet stuff and crackers in it but so far i have

11 bags pasta
lasagne sheets
3 tikka curry
1 jalfrezi
1 korma
2 balti
1 rogan josh
2 value curry
1 value sweet and sour
6 peppercorn sauce
8 cheese sauce
14 parsley sauce
3 strawberry whips
4 sausage casaroles
7 custard powder
3 chocolate rice
3 caramel rice
4 instant noodles
2 instant mash
2 brocolli pasta
2 mug shotd
4 cupa soup
pudding rice
half bag sr flour
2 birds custard powders
yeast
icing sugar
options white chocolate
baking powder
baking soda
sprinkles
herbs/spices
handful of derma sugar
1/3 bag of lentils
block co!!!! milk
curry powder
21 tins of beans
13 tins of rice pudding
7 tins of custard
3 tins of chopped tom
3 tins of chicken soup
2 tins of tuna
1 tin value spam
1 tin sardines
4 bloks of jelly
4 tin tom soup
11 tins of oranges
5 tins potatoes
4 tinned pineapple
2 tinned peachs
5 tins carrots
1 mushy peas
one large dolmio white sauce
3 700g boxes rice crispies
half box of coco pops
2 box cornflakes
hot chocolate
3 x 500g gravy
olive oil
sugar
condiments
tesco custard powder
peanut butter
9 bars cooking chocolate
14 fruit pudding sachets (like jelly but warm from af)
2 uht milk
2 bags of porridge
half box of ready brek


Anyone get the impression i over buy? lol i'm knackered.

Mortgage_Reduction_Novice

You best get cooking missus... with that list you'll only need fresh items till the end of the decade!!!

quintwins

Mortgage_Reduction_Novice wrote: »

You best get cooking missus... with that list you'll only need fresh items till the end of the decade!!!

if i did a freezer inventory i could prob get away without buy more than spuds, milk and bread for a year :rotfl: i am acually gonne do one in a week or 2 when i have enough space so i know if i take all the stuff out of my chest freezer it will acually go back in again :rotfl:

quintwins

Quidco emailed me to say they had paid me £5.61 as soon as that clears i'll send it straight to my savings.

ammonite

Glad to see your son is feeling better Quidco paid me too... It was about £20 for weeks and then a day before payment was due some other cashback cleared and it was £80 :D:D - unusually high due to various insurances etc. Its usually about £1

quintwins

ammonite wrote: »

Glad to see your son is feeling better Quidco paid me too... It was about £20 for weeks and then a day before payment was due some other cashback cleared and it was £80 :D:D - unusually high due to various insurances etc. Its usually about £1

He's back to driving me up the walls

Our car insurance is free so we don't get any cashback from it, but it's still cheaper lol.

Well it's def getting colder, all 3 kids had a nice hot chocolate before bed :T i on the other hand have sent hubby to the shop for crisps and sweets ...well i am well on target with my savinsg after all, a girl shoudl be rewarded for these achievements :rotfl: