my non-mortgage mortgage free journey

quintwins

tessie_bear wrote: »

hello u sound busy....£50 for a cake ??? seems quite a lot couldnt you have a go yourself ? is it a big do your having ?

all the best tess

Hi tess, i could make my own cake or even buy a much cheaper one but this is the first time my kids have asked for a party and i want to do them proud, this will be a one off and i'll never spend as much on a face again but these cakes are perfect in everyway, the detail is just amazing so i'm happy with the expense, it would be different if i was in debt but as i'm not a one off extravagant expense for the kids is accectable imo .

I'm always busy lol, got a real itchy throat today, coffee then cleaning to be done, followed by a trip to the bank to lodge a cheque.I wanna grab a few cake mixes while there on offer, get some corysadol because my gums are sore and abit red today and i have none left and take my rent money out so it's sat here and i'm not doing an extra trip for it in a few days.


Meal plan for today has changed since i cooked the gammon yesterday and we eat it all (its our weak point i really shud have only cooked half) so i'm doing brocolli cheese, chips and bacon for dinner, to use up the cooking bacon that turned out to be huge thick slices and the past it's best brocolli, i'll prob have some brocolli left to pop in the freezer.

£233 added to the savings.

nov budget
total spends £517.66
total budget £1400
total savings this month £826/£600 :j

tessie_bear

i see what you mean...hope u all have a great party:j

quintwins

tessie_bear wrote: »

i see what you mean...hope u all have a great party:j

Thank you i'm sure we will

Err so instead of going to town i went and got new tyres instead i'm so glad i don't pay for these :rotfl: Then i rushed to the bank before the kids needed collected i even paid the 40p for parking or else i wouldn't have had time to go, collected the kids then just arrived home and made cheese and ham toasties

This might be a good thing as i'm waiting on some love2shop vouchers to arrive and if i want til they come before getting the other bits i'll be able to grab a few bits from iceland

quintwins

Afternoon everyone, quite a few spends today.

£5 in iceland on chicken nuggets and chips.

£7 in poundland but £3 was bil and ds had £1 of his own so only £3.

£1 in poundstretcher on 4 tins of tango.

£6 in boots on some mouthwash but i ahd a boots gift card so that doesn't count.

£7.47 in tesco on 2 bunches of bananas, a bag of apples, a bag of pears, a punnet of grapes, 3 bottles of value coke, a bottle or c&s pineappleade, 2 bottles of squash, 6 sponge mixes and a bag of value crisps.

Total spends today £16.47

Added £80.50 to the savinsg aswell which is my pay.

nov budget
total spends £534.13
total budget £1400
total savings this month £906.50/£600

Got a £10 sainburys voucher from vo on the way and i'm up to £1 already

quintwins

Morning all i spent £41.02 this morning all on myself i got 2 coats, 2 pairs of boots a pair of shoes and a new top, all brand new aswell

Paid £4 to the kids school i was suppose to pay on monday aswell.

Surveys done

Tesco are refunding me £5 from some boots i didn't collect and my £11 ebay refund came threw aswell (altho i just spent it on more clothes)

I'm feeling abit ill my ashma is bad because of the weather and i have sore ears and throat so my meal plans went out the window altho we've avoided takeaway so it's all good

ammonite

Ooh sounds like a bargain for all those clothes!

Hope you feel better soon

quintwins

ammonite wrote: »

Ooh sounds like a bargain for all those clothes!

Hope you feel better soon

It was it's a great site

I had a scare this morning, our puppies aren't living here we didn't have the room so there at the inlaws, now i don't usually go see them til the kids are out of school but this morning when i dropped hubby off i wnet to clean the pen and one was missing :O now there only 3 weeks but she had got stuck down the side of the box cue a few stressful 5mins with hubby lifting the box and me trying to grab her, followed my tears of releif, she is completely fine and was warm and we've blocked it up now (it was a tiny grab to start with) so it doesn't happen again, she could well have been there all night and if i hadn't went it it could have been all day aswell :eek: because hubby works til 6 he doesn't usually go near them.


Moneywise i spent abot £12 yesterday hit tesco at a good time, got pancakes for 29p 4 packets of 8 cossiants for 60p each, mini chocolate muffins for 60p and 4 big chocolate chip muffins for 40p, bagels for 40p, breaded chicken for 85p down from £2.05 and 2 packets of 60 cocktail sausages for for 85p down from £3.29 each,4 yogurt drinks for 35p down from £1.35 i also got more cake mix, 3 bags of flour and 12 tins of tinned spag bol (i wanted 2 as a quick tea for the kids but they never have any so figured i'd get some while i could) will update spends when i find the receit.


Tonights dinner is leftover gammon with mash and cabbage for the kids, and breaded chicken and mash for me and hubby.

quintwins

Me again wheres everyone hiding?

Spent £25.80 on 6 bags of coal today (it's went up by a whole 30p per bag which is about 8%) 3 bags are for me, 2 are for my sister (call it an early xmas present) and one is for my mum so i'll hopefully the money for hers back.

I also spent £1.80 on a huge cabbage and 7 apples, then another £1.50 on bananas (not to self don't buy bananas from the market) and £3 on a few tins of juice.

Then i got free carvey lunch will prob have a small dinner tonight might make the kids some pasta.

Off to the cinema tomorrow, the plan is to get lost of wood cut in the morning if it dry aswell.

quintwins

Popping on quick it's hectic here, my roof leaks and we've had loads of interest in the puppies and i have appointments to go to ect.

Anyhoo, £233 added to the savings this morning as it was so close to £4k that i added £34.25 to make it £4k

tessie_bear

hope the roof is ok and cheap to fix...savings sounds great...keep up the good work