I have a dream...to be a MFW

ajmoney

I have transferred the equivalent of £1 a day into my OP savings account ready to move over at the end of the month and I have a nice size of £co payment coming tomorrow to move over too.

We bought all our Christmas cards for next year today, not necessarily an amazing saving but at least I am organised and it will keep me away from the shops a bit more next Christmas. I am going to try and buy a gift a month to make life easier.

ajmoney

Money/shopping today:
£9.77 transferred to OP account.
I have made £1.45 on mobile check ins today.
Have shopped in Primarni for the first time in years, 2 pairs of leggings and a skirt for £13.

Told Mr AJM I am getting a bit twitchy about money today as I feel life is racing past and I can't keep up with it, I feel much better now he knows. We don't really have money going anywhere it wasn't before, we are just putting money to one side each month rather than having to find large amounts when we want to book a holiday etc. It helps that he mentioned liking the idea of buying presents through the year for Christmas...I am so proud of him he also said about us being a bit wasteful and how our parents would have done things differently. I have sown the seed for us having a go at being thrifty and re-use what we can for a month in a little while and then seeing what we can continue after that.

January has been a good month for reduction in daily interest, before it was £15 a day and now we are at £14.80 ish (hard to work out as I have had 3 figures so far this month. I am living for the day it drops below £14 which looks like it should be during July sometime, I am now hoping to make it a bit earlier.

Not done anything with our vouchers yet but we are planning on shopping in tesco tomorrow to get £20 off, we have some clubcard vouchers to use up too.

Off to look into mystery shopping now thanks to Natty's email.

In other news, I am looking at getting a sewing machine so I can make my own clothes that are different and save a bit of money. Mr AJM has said he is happy to buy a sewing machine with me on one condition...the first thing I make is a waistcoat. I made one of these for my GCSEs so that should be fine. My main plan is to working up to making a new wintercoat as I am desperate for one.

That is enough ranbling, I will be back later to continue :rotfl:

ajmoney

Jobs for this weekend

Put tree and decorations away
Pile all Christmas stuff under spare bed to be sorted later!!!
Shopping
Cook lamb tagine
Bake malt loaf
Bake one other thing
Change bedding
Ironing
Make rolls up for lunches
Look at spreadsheets many times!!!!
Discuss mystery shopping with Mr AJM

ajmoney

It seemed to take ages to do the shopping this morning we should have gone earlier but we were busy booking bargains for a stay in London in April :j

Jobs for this weekend

Put tree and decorations away Next on the list
Pile all Christmas stuff under spare bed to be sorted later!!!
Shopping Done
Cook lamb tagine In the oven now
Bake malt loaf Need to buy malt extract so doing this tomorrow
Bake one other thing Date and walnut loaf in the oven now
Change bedding
Ironing
Make rolls up for lunches Done
Look at spreadsheets many times!!!!
Discuss mystery shopping with Mr AJM

That is a good start to the list. Off to look at new recipes while I wait for Mr AJM to help me with the tree.

ajmoney

I am so proud, Mr AJM has put his phone on charge to make sure he has enough battery for mobile check-ins later and he is starting to check £co before buying anything. He also got introduced to their giveaways yesterday and had to stay and finish them all :rotfl:

Jobs for this weekend

Put tree and decorations away Did this last night
Pile all Christmas stuff under spare bed to be sorted later!!! Will do this later
Bake malt loaf Doing this later when I have bought malt extract
Change bedding This is the next job
Ironing Done
Look at spreadsheets many times!!!! Well this one is a given
Discuss mystery shopping with Mr AJM

Almost done my weekend jobs

ajmoney

Bedding stripped and just updated fridge inventory. Still got to update freezer and cupboards though and that will take forever I really should do it as we eat and bring food in to the house but Mr AJM doesn't know about any of my spreadsheets and I am not sure if I ready to admit that to him yet!

ajmoney

Firstly, thanks to anyone who keep reading my drivel!!!

Jobs for this weekend

Pile all Christmas stuff under spare bed to be sorted later!!! Don't feel too well so will do it tomorrow instead
Bake malt loaf As above
Discuss mystery shopping with Mr AJM Done, just need to apply now

I have a question for those of you who keep a food inventory, how much do you put on it? I worry I am being too ana! as I have everything on it which is why it takes so long and I just want to check if I am normal really :rotfl:

Watching A Place in the Sun and entertaining what is certainly only a dream at the mo, having an apartment somewhere abroad that we can escape to

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Hi AJ, I do an updated freezer list every month and a larder stock check every couple of months. I don't tend to record what's in my fridge, apart from when I know I need to use loads of things up. I had a 'use up the fridge stuff' project a few weeks before Xmas as we had loads of things in jars.

Whilst you are getting into the habit of menu planning, I wouldn't worry about whether you are being @nal or not, just do what works for you.


Best wishes Tilly

ajmoney

We cunningly have an extra meal for the month now as we only fancied sandwiches for dinner so have moved today's meal to another day. I feel really achy and rubbish so am going to just sit and start reading a new diary as I keep starting too many part way through.

Mortgagefreeby50

Just popping in to say hi! I hope you feel a bit better tomorrow.

I was toying with the idea of entering all of my stockpile into a spreadsheet after reading the 'second purse' challenge thread today. It would be a big task, but I bet I could do it if I didn't spend so much time on here!