Sort it out Scuff!

Scuff

Money:
Check banks
[STRIKE]Think of any unavoidable expenses that may come up before payday - set aside[/STRIKE] Dad for the car, also leaving £17 in account as a buffer for now. Put £70 diesel in the car today, as week off messed with my diesel allowance total and I'm majorly lost. This should take me well into next payday though so will pay what ever is left in the diesel account at the end of next month off CC1
[STRIKE]Pay dad back £85 (car bits) - transfer £35 from maintenance budget.
Have a think about whether I need to up the monthly car maintenance amount. [/STRIKE]Thinking no for now about the maintenance amount, fingers crossed not much more will go wrong with the damn car!
Get money back off joint from wine purchase + shampoo - £25.22
[STRIKE]Bank change - both for myself and joint (will see if OH wants his change bags doing at same time, as only Santander (my current account, owner of OD2) has cashiers open on a Saturday) and transfer to respective banks[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Send £1 to OD1[/STRIKE] Sent £1.19 to round numbers down
[STRIKE]Send remainder to CC1[/STRIKE] £200 sent for now, will send more when I get money back for wine / shampoo, ebay sales finish, and change bags go into bank tomorrow

House:
Deep clean bathroom and [STRIKE]kitchen[/STRIKE]
Finish ironing Didn't get done Fri night after all!
[STRIKE]Do at least 1 load of washing[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Finish dismantling bookcase in office so we can pick up extra desk from OH's parents on Sunday when we go for tea[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Hoover[/STRIKE]
Put extra desk in office & start on sorting!

Other:
Make 2 cushions (both presents) - find backing fabric for both hopefully out of stash Will start one off tonight (cross stitch skull) and then I can take to work and do on a lunchtime at my desk. Will also make template for the other (pug, still outstanding) so I can take it to work and enlarge it
[STRIKE]Package up eBay stuff that sells[/STRIKE] 4 hours or so til finishing, except the hamster cage that finished at 12, but got to wait to see if they want courier or collect
Get extra few bits I missed last week listed (4 things so far, 3 mine, 1 joint) Photos taken, will list when we get back from Sunday lunch at OH parents'
Make soap Moulds (silicone loaf tins) haven't arrived yet so this is postpones til they do!

Will do a proper update later, got both some whinging and some exciting news (to me haha) but got to jump in the shower and head off for Sunday lunch YUM.

Scuff

Right, time for a proper update...
Had quite a productive weekend! Didn't quite get everything ticked off but the flat is looking a lot more habitable, eBay stuff is all packaged up and money things have been sorted. All I need to do now is sort out totals in my signature and transfer eBay profits once they're all posted and fed back to me! As in I've received feedback, not had to eat the stuff I've sold... :cool:
It wasn't always set to be a productive one though, I came home from work all gee-d up and raring to go, sorted out my banks and stuff, left myself with £17 in the bank and £17.60 in my purse with the plan that some of this would be left at the end of the month and it could go towards CC1, but was there in the meantime if I needed it. OH came in said we'd been invited (begrudgingly) to the pub, so after deciding we would go for one (I had already started on the wine) we had our tea and got ready to go. Just before we left (literally 1/2 hour after I'd made the payment to CC1) OH decided to remind me I owed him £20... so I had to give him the £15 in notes I had in my purse. I'd clean forgot about the money. We get to the pub anyway, around an hour after being invited and they'd gone home. Which not only seriously annoyed me, left me feeling very down and generally bab about myself. So I woke up on Sat feeling skint and friendless, OH kept complaining about lack of funds and friends, not helping, and I was just a big fat sourpuss. UNTIL I OPENED THE POST AND IT WAS A LETTER SAYING WE HAVE FINALLY GOT AN ALLOTMENT!!!!!! Anyone that knows me will tell you I'm a nanna in a 27 year old body. I had a vegetable patch before I left home but sadly here me have no outside space, and no sun coming into the flat. OHMYDAYSIAMSOEXCITED.

Needless to say this gee-d me up again, I whizzed through my jobs with a spring in my step. Who needs friends and money when you have all that soil and seeds to play with (not me)

Excited.:D:D:D:D:D

Fudgefund

I'm sorry to hear OH has been complaining about the lack of funds, I know how you feel. I feel guilty a lot about the fact I can't afford to go out as much as my boyfriend would like to, but I just tell myself that me getting debt free is as much for his future as mine. Buying a house or having children is really difficult when your partner is in debt, he just needs to bear with you.

The allotment is amazing news! :jWhere I live getting an allotment is like trying to catch a unicorn. If you get going on growing vegetables you'll be feeding yourself for next to nothing in no time.

I'm really impressed with all your home made Christmas gifts, I wish I was more creative. I've started making a list of possible presents for my boyfriend, he usually gets a load of rubbish I bought on Christmas Eve. He'd keel over if I produced a home made soap. :rotfl: