WTBSEs 'Living within my means,saving for a better future' diary :)

WantToBeSE

Good morning! Pinch, punch, first of the month to you all

This morning a chopped and bagged the pumpkin from last night, and it will go into the freezer



Today, the NOvember challenge starts, and i cant wait. It's REALLY going to be hard, but i am sure NinjaKat will keep us all on track

Have a great day everyone!

AlTeREgO

Best of luck with the NOvember challenge! :T
I'm following the thread ~ Cheerleading :j

I haven't updated my own dairy for a while, so i'll go and do that now i think

WantToBeSE

Thanks Alter
Looking forward to catching up with your diary too, hope you have been well!

WantToBeSE

Forgot to mention- i am redoing the colour scheme in my lounge. I havent really had a proper colour scheme since we moved in last year, so i am trying to develop a 'natural' colour scheme, with greens, creams and browns.

Knowing this, my friend has donated these canvases to me:





They look lovely on the lounge wall, and my friend didnt want any money for them

I have also been lent a carpet cleaner, so i need to pop to the 99p shop to get some vax carpet shampoo, and i will crack on with that tomorrow i think. I hate having cream carpets, and am saving to get wood effect vinyl put down.

WantToBeSE

NOvember challenge-Day1-NSD1

Had a lovely filling dinner this evening- sweet and sour chicken, with noodles and prawn crackers.
I would have taken photos but we all ate it before i had chance! ;p

Tomorrows dinner will be kedgeree, which i batch cooked a few weeks ago, and have already taken out to defrost:



Will be listing some more things on ebay tomorrow, as i want to earn enough to buy some green touch lamops from Argos NOvember means i cant spend ANYTHING unless i absoloutley have to, so it'll have to wait until December.

Hiddenidenity

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Forgot to mention- i am redoing the colour scheme in my lounge. I havent really had a proper colour scheme since we moved in last year, so i am trying to develop a 'natural' colour scheme, with greens, creams and browns.

Knowing this, my friend has donated these canvases to me:





They look lovely on the lounge wall, and my friend didnt want any money for them

I have also been lent a carpet cleaner, so i need to pop to the 99p shop to get some vax carpet shampoo, and i will crack on with that tomorrow i think. I hate having cream carpets, and am saving to get wood effect vinyl put down.

I love those Would go lovely in my living room

I feel the pain with cream carpet the kids destroyed mine! We are hoping to get laminate before Xmas its on offer at Wickes for £3.75 a Sqm so makes it cheaper than most carpets at the shops round here x

WantToBeSE

Morning HI

Still havent managed to get around to buying the shampoo for the carpet, but will wait until the kids are back to school next week i think.

WantToBeSE

Today is a nice and cheap day in regards to food:
weekly shop came to £33.98, plus £4.50ish to top u pwith milk, and a few other bits

Lunch today is a YS Pizza that i got reduced from £2 down to 95p a few weeks ago

Dinner will be kedgeree from the freezer, which i batch cooked a few weeks ago (see above), and i am defrosting 1kg of YS flora marg that i bough ages ago, for baking biscuits with. Reduced from £3.38 down to 84p

Paid £76.50 for my car insurance deposit today, so thats not quite so good, but a necessary evil i'm afraid, and the quote was cheap enough.

I have listed quite a few bits on ebay too, mainly DVDs and kids books (again).

Hiddenidenity

Hope all is well

Have a nice weekend

WantToBeSE

Morning

Thanks HI, i hope you have a lovely weekend too, do you have anything planned?

We wont be doing anything really, just getting ready for school next week, doing last minute homework having baths, doing washing and all that jazz.

Have got a nice long list of job applications to sort through and apply for today, so i will be doing that too. Fingers crossed!

Todays menu:
Breakfast-Cereal and/or crumpets
Lunch- Ham salad sandwiches
Dinner- Chicken fajitas

Will also be doing some baking today:
JJs cheese herb bread
Millies cookies
Fairy cakes
Pizza wheels
Almond cakes

The kids are looking forward to helping me with the baking. I am teaching my oldest son (12) how to cook, so he is helping me with every meal and baking activity, which is hard for a control freak like me! However, i left home not knowing how to boil an egg, and it was a steep learning curve, and i dont want my son to be the same!