my non-mortgage mortgage free journey

tessie_bear

hi...thats still a great sum of money...good luck with saving it..hope you are feeling a bit better
happy new year

quintwins

Spends week 31/12/12 -- 6/01/13

31st
b&q £5.48 screw drivers
asda £6.30


3rd
£10 tesco mobile
£19.02 insurance

4th
£7.50 tesco mobile
£7.79 asda

5th
£27 bowling

7th
£4 school snack money
£1.32 asda on fruit

8th
£1.50 squash
£3.84 of asda- milk bread eggs
£16 clarks

quintwins

Thanks tessie i'm just abit annoyed i'm acually alot worse off working however we decided having a reference when the youngest started school and making me more employable is more important.

Went and collected my script, lodged some money in the bank, went and collected some free clothes for the twins got a carrier bag full then went to b&q then asda, hit asda at a brilliant time and got loads of whoospies

milk £90
2 x bread £1
oranges reduced to 60p from £
kiwi reduced to 50p from £1
plums reduced to 50p from £1
big cheesecake 10p reduced from £2
3 x deli ham 10p reduced from £1.59
kilner jar of pate 10p down from £2? looks more expensive but thats wat the sticker says, honestly i got it for the jar
3 x sandwichs 10p down from £1.80
2 x chicken satay 10p down fro £1
sp garlic bread 10p down from 32p
4 x jumbo cheese garlic bread 10p dow from £1.50
mini pizza 10p down from 45p
3x cheese and onion sausage roll type things 10p down from £1.50
4x chicken breasts with cheese ham and mushroom 10p down from £3.38
sausage rolls 10p down from £1.50
mini chicken and ham pie 10p down from £2.38
fancy fishcakes 10p down from £2.18
2 family sized steak pies 10p down from £3.38

Shop should have cost £58.36 and acually cost £6.30 we had sandwichs and one of the chicken satays for lunch between us all and the kids had an orange each, the rest is in the freezer except the cheesecake, a packet of satay and a packet of cheese and onion rolls, i only went in for milk, bread and fruit but i could resist, and by some magic i bought just enough for my freezer space any more and i wouldn't have got it closed.

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Hi Quintwins, you found some fantastic bargains :T:T

Tilly

skint_spice

Hi QT, I know you are worse off now but the government are cutting TC back anyway so probably best that you have the income before you need it! Well done on those bargains

quintwins

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS wrote: »

Hi Quintwins, you found some fantastic bargains :T:T

Tilly

I know dead chuffed i'm not gonna go near a shop now til the kids are back to school and even then only for milk, bread and fruit (i have tons of reduced fresh veg in my freezer)

skint_spice wrote: »

Hi QT, I know you are worse off now but the government are cutting TC back anyway so probably best that you have the income before you need it! Well done on those bargains

I have an under 5 so nothing would have changed for us, i have no intention of stopping even if i am slightly worse off as i havnte worked for 6 years and in most places that makes you unemployable so it will be worth it and the moneys good for so little work, i just don't understand there logic.

Gammons in the oven but i'm about ready for my bed i'm feeling really drained, oh yeah and the chemist gave me 100 co-codomol!!!! i was like what thats loads and she said thats what it said on your script, so you can't buy more than 2 packets of paracetomol but you can have 100 double stregth co-codomol lol the worlds mental :rotfl:

quintwins

Well the inlaws invited us for lunch today, so a sliced and froze the rest of the gammon in the cracks i the freezer i was feeling much better last night and even managed a few homemade chip butties after eating next to nothing, then i woke up this morning really sore again , took some tablets earlier and then fell asleep which resulted in a spliting headache we were still at the inlaws so they made us tea, i'm home with some pancakes, potatoe bread and cocktail sausages which will do the kids tomorrow. i've decided not to keep track of food spends this week as it's far from a normal week.

I didn't quite make my savings to to £7k for the new year but i'm only £140 short and hubbys owed pay from last week so it will even out.

Todays a nsd

quintwins

Still not feeling 100% but hubby's at work so ill have to get on with it today few dd out this morning but other than that a NSD.

Food wise I'm clearing the fridge out so

Pancakes and potatoe bread
Ham sandwiches with some 10p ham
Sausage rolls (10p) mash and beans

Today's food even with some fruit and yogurts thrown in will cost me less than £2

quintwins

And again still not feeling 100% my throat and ears are ok now unless i yawn or cough in which case i'm in agony, but my heads killing me it's so bad it's making me feel sickly, i might try bundle the kids into my bed for a dvd in abit and see if that helps.

NSD again today payday tomorrow fingers crossed , taking the kids bowling on sat and i have no idea how much it costs, i'm assuming we can get it in under our £25 altho i would like to do something else this month aswell, maybe swimming as it's been ages, i havent been bowling since i was on honeymoon 6 years ago, but one of the twins asked to go, the youngest also wants to go feed the ducks so i'll be nipping to asda after work to try get some 10p bread.

Meals today are

b-porridge, i'm not up to eating yet, i forgot how much the kids like it clean bowls all round
l-tinned spag bol- clearing out the tin cupboards
d-fishpie (bought reduced) chips and sweetcorn

LauraWxx

Hope you feel better soon hun!!xx