The Ultimate Incentive part 10. The only thing holding you back is you.

ruby_eskimo

Another one here who doesn't stock food. We only have a tiny freezer so I have to plan when we get YS stuff to chuck in there.

Technically we don't need to get any food at Christmas because we're spending Christmas day with our respective parents. But since we've been living together we've been having our own Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve. No idea what we're going to be doing next year after we get married! Hopefully we'll be on our own but it would be weird not having dinner with my parents.

wendz86

CMD - she will start next Sept too. Will only be 4 years 5 months but she has been at nursery 4 days a week since 10 months so I think she will be fine.

Kavics - hope mini kavics feels better soon!

Birdie - sounds like a good idea to try another fair.

We don't really get a lot in for Christmas as we are never at home. This year we are heading down to southampton on the 23rd-24th to see all OH's family and then going up to London to stay at my sisters with my parents till boxing day. Will get some things to take with us though as not fair to make them buy it all!

Dinah93

Will go back and reply to the other messages in a minute but

1k in a day result:
£127.76 - Ziffit trade ins
£477.96 - Ebay items listed
£547.76 - Amazon items listed

Total: £1153.48

Only £287.75 guaranteed in our pocket so far, through ebay buy it nows already sold, and the book trade in on ziffit, but I'm pretty pleased with how much clutter I've shifted in a day.

roomontheend

Wow, I mean WOW

Birdie85

Wow! Hope everything sells and you get all that in your bank! :T

tinkerbel

Wowsers, where do you get the stuff to list that's unreal! And you must have had a lot of patience with the books, well done!

I will be having Christmas at my parents house and a nice amount of time off too I think so that should be grand and only have to buy train tickets and presents! (Hoping birdie will be able to hook me up with this but need to get my skates on!) also I want a trip to lidl (quite far though) for lebkuchen and pannetonne!

Dinah93

Yesterday only £39.99 on ebay, but I have started another music mgpie/zifft/zapper trade in that I'll complete at lunchtime today, so that will count on todays total. Between NIM and I we have an incredible library in the attic, but now we've both switched to kindle we're slowly selling them, a lot of mine especially are 2 a penny and are going to charity, but his are rarer sci-fi/fantasy and often used are still worth £5. Cookbooks and craft books hold their value too. 25p-£2 on average for each dvd too, a lot less than originally paid but we don't need them now and it all adds up. While I really want to clear the debt, I want to clear our clutter a whole lot more! Luckily one feeds the other.

On the diet front I'm planning to run our annual January weight loss/exercise type challenge to kick start the new year. Might start it in its own thread so we can whitter about money and family here and diet and exercise there? I'm also planning to restart our good old monthly challenges on here in the new year, as always we can vote in the last few weeks of the month on if the next month is a declutter, make money or life balance type challenge.

NIM has gone into work today and there's a sickness and vomiting bug meaning the unit is on lockdown, so he's relegated to the upstairs until 48 hours after last contact as he has his own bedroom and bathroom up there, and his study so he can get on with his NVQ3 as well. Does mean I'm basically a single parent for the next few days, which with two very sickly children (both horrendously sick within 10 minutes of one another last night, ick ick ick! At least just milk but Grace's room was a state) and still the end of a cold myself, and Ben refusing all feeds as he hates his new milk is a headache I didn't want.

Trying hard not to food hoard here. It's mum and dad's turn to do Christmas Day and while that usually means the other one of us does boxing day I think NIM is working this year so we'll just go over there again and eat leftovers. I'm actually really trying to run down our cupboards and freezer atm, same as the rest of the house, some things you need as you constantly need small amounts (herbs, cornflour, bread etc) but keeping tins for years on end (tomatoes, tinned fruit, custard) just is daft and I'm using up.

Felt wussy keeping Ben home from baby social yesterday as we both felt rough, but turns out it was a great call as one of the babies has been diagnosed with chickenpox today. I know as a rule its better to have it early but as chickenpox can hit the lungs too with preemies they advise strongly trying to keep them free until they're 2 at least.

Grace is at nursery this morning, Ben and I usually do yoga but it's cancelled until the new year, so I'm just plodding on with my trade ins then going for a playdate this afternoon.

Flower08

Wow that is seriously impressive Dinah! Hope it all sells and the money is in your bank soon.
What I woudnt give for £1000 at the minute! Would keep a lot of people off our backs until at least after Christmas.
Havent even thought about Christmas, Noah is so excited but I really am not. Think this is the worst we have ever been money wise and OH has to work Christmas day so will be just me and the kids and I am really not feeling it, what a scrooge I am!!

Dinah93

Nice to hear from your Flower, have you got the housing situation sorted out now?

Flower08

Hi Dinah, yes we are finally sorted and in somewhere, so I guess that is a Christmas present in itself! After 6 months from hell, its time to get on top of things now and try and get back on track and try and find a light at the end of the tunnel. Its that tiny little speck in the distance :rotfl: