Pixie's pulling her socks up...the next diary!

pixiechick99

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Hey up lassie - sock pulling up - I do love the title!

Goodluck in your new house - I wish you all the happiness you can manage!

All sounding great on here - know what you mean about diaries I'm just waiting to start a new one when I can get motivated as the oomph has gone out of mine!

I find the tax credits each week thing a help but a juggle - money monthly and money weekly has my head in a spin often. Nice to see you manage by taking it and putting it into another account......hmm good idea.

Happy new diary!

Heyy pippi:)
I was catching up on you (very popular!) diary over the weekend...you're moving:D I hope it all goes well for you, such a stress I found it though...just hope we can stay in this house fr a while, I can't face moving all over again never mind paying for it:o
Do you know, I still have a huge list of gardening notes you posted for me once saved on my laptop?! I am happy with this house as we have no grass or flower beds...all patio at the back and front with some shrubs/pots. I missed out on doing tubs/hanging baskets and seeds of toms etc this year...but definitely next year:)
Where are you moving to?

Pippilongstocking

Hey there - oh dear to one of my lists!

We're moving only 7 miles away to a smaller house (terrace) with 3bed/2bath and a garage and a woodburner. Downside is NO garden - a place to park the cars and gravel - and a wee path at the front where I can put some pots - major rethink for me.

Life just got too hard here - sappy I know - but we've no telly (satellite dish blew off the wall, I kid you not) and hardly any internet and no buses for DD (now 16!) DS leaves home in September for uni (almost 18 now) and so a smaller place with better transport/less rent is supposed to streamline our life!

I'm a bit down about losing the chooks - but happy to be downsizing - hoping house will cost less and transport means less taxi-ing

Its all a bit scary and exciting. To be honest. In the garden, I'll have to be using tubs and nowt much else - but its not a long term move just 18 months-2 years - we head 'sooth' when DD leaves school and so its kinda an 'inbetweeny' house until we move back down and in with OH.

pixiechick99

I can't imagine no Internet or buses for the 16yr old! My eldest is 15 now, the Internet is just essential for her, she'd be lost without it! Downsizing sounds like a sensible idea-easier to keep the house together and less costly I imagine. It's still hard moving though, but definitely exciting too:)

pixiechick99

I've had a few nice parcel deliveries today:o

First one - from the Book Pe0ple...2 3-packs of books by 2 of my favourite authors, £4.99 each pack and found a 10%off and free delivery code...bargain, 6 books for £9.
Next parcel - a load of undies from l1ttlewoods...but I don't like any so that's a cheap one;)
Parcel 3-a steam mop ordered from asd@ the other day (saw it on the grabbit board). It was £20 and has just cleaned my kitchen/dining room floor beautifully. In this house I have the kitchen diner, back sun room, utility area, downstairs loo and both girls rooms all with tiled or laminate floor so this will be a fab quick way of cleaning all that. Pleased with that:D
Last parcel - from N£xt...3 tops, though I only like 2, £6 each. This is all I've bought from the next sale this summer and I'm very impressed...used to spend a couple of hundred in the sale:eek:

I'm not doing too well with grocery spending though:o Todays planned small shop came to £60:eek: but, in that was £8 on toiletries - shampoo, conditioner, sun cream (hopeful for next week!), face wipes and hairspray. So £52 on food. Some stuff will last though - I got 2 packs of mince, breaded chicken and fish for the freezer, coffee.

Meant to get the car serviced before we go away but the guy I usually use can't do it this week...grrrr. Might not bother.

One item ending on eBay tonight...it's on about £9 right now which is more than I expected. I have another item that someone took ages to pay for ready to send too so will do both of them tomorrow.

debtfreewannabe321

Hi pixie chick (and everyone else *waves*)

I just thought i'd say hi as was having a nose around the diaries and wanted to wish you good luck in your new home (and good luck pippi on the move)

I liked the idea of 2 accounts -1 for bills and 1 for all else *Hmmm* will have a think on that and see if it's possible for me to do (not sure if they would give me another account my credit score is shot to pieces oops!)

dfw

pixiechick99

debtfreewannabe321 wrote: »

Hi pixie chick (and everyone else *waves*)

I just thought i'd say hi as was having a nose around the diaries and wanted to wish you good luck in your new home (and good luck pippi on the move)

I liked the idea of 2 accounts -1 for bills and 1 for all else *Hmmm* will have a think on that and see if it's possible for me to do (not sure if they would give me another account my credit score is shot to pieces oops!)

dfw

Hello dfw, nice to 'see' you:D
Re the bank accounts - mine are all with the same bank, I just open them online really easily. I have the bills account, spending account, grocery account and a grocery float when I stash £65 a week then move it across to the grocery acc. I was stashing 4 weeks of £65 from tax credits then moving the full £260 to grocery acc but am now just saving 2 weeks and having £130 every other week. I also have an account that I call 'extras' - right now it has about £110 in it from eBay sales.
I like all my money this way - the spending account is what we have available for general bits and bobs, clothes, going out etc. I do have to use this for petrol too...which unfortunately has gone up a bit since we move as I can't walk to work now. Still, I seem to spend about £35 every other week so it's not too bad I guess.

Anyway, thanks for popping in:)

debtfreewannabe321

pixiechick99 wrote: »

Hello dfw, nice to 'see' you:D
Re the bank accounts - mine are all with the same bank, I just open them online really easily. I have the bills account, spending account, grocery account and a grocery float when I stash £65 a week then move it across to the grocery acc. I was stashing 4 weeks of £65 from tax credits then moving the full £260 to grocery acc but am now just saving 2 weeks and having £130 every other week. I also have an account that I call 'extras' - right now it has about £110 in it from eBay sales.
I like all my money this way - the spending account is what we have available for general bits and bobs, clothes, going out etc. I do have to use this for petrol too...which unfortunately has gone up a bit since we move as I can't walk to work now. Still, I seem to spend about £35 every other week so it's not too bad I guess.

Anyway, thanks for popping in:)

Thanks for the welcome

Would you believe i have 12 accounts (closed one down :rotfl:) all with the same bank but never thought to use a savings one for the bills :think: :doh: may have to have a little think on this and how easy/hard it would be to change them all over. I'd like the main one with the debit card for just 'spends' that way i can't use bill money

vasseur

Found you, naughty pixie - must stay motivated!! I know what you mean out becoming demotivated and not posting, then not posting leads to losing focus...vicious circle.

Talking of Woolacombe - we used to go there a lot in the 80s....I am willing to bet we must have been there at the same time at some point. If only there was some way of finding out for sure!

Well done on all the ebay sales. I sold my iPhone for £130 about 3 weeks ago and since then it's just been the odd item of clothing and CDs. I think I've got bids on 3 CDs tonight but it's not as exciting as seeing all the bids come in on an iphone

Look forward to you posting a bit more regularly...;)

pixiechick99

Heyyyy lovely poles has joined me too:T
Good result with the iPhone...why did you sell it though? I loooove mine...I'm just a gadget girl, me;)

Plans for tomorrow - might nip to T's to get some of the wine asper the grabbit board - 3 for £12, and if you buy 6 then you get 25% off and the 25% comes off the price before they were in the 3 for £12.....if that all made sense?! So 6 bottles for about £16? Sounds good to me;)
Got to wait in for dd1s new phone to be delivered...her dad contributing to a contract one now so won't cost me any more as I already pay £11 a month for her. Hes going to give me £15 a month and the new contract is £27. We can sell her old one too...just a useless blackb£RRY though so won't get much:o One happy daughter though. Expensive things teenage girls:p

vasseur

pixiechick99 wrote: »

Good result with the iPhone...why did you sell it though? I loooove mine...I'm just a gadget girl, me;)

It was a 3GS I sold. I'd upgraded to the 4S (which I love even more ). I couldn't believe what people would pay for the older one.