The Crumpet family's journey to Mortgage Freedom:-)

Crumpets

Good evening, I've just got into bed after an evening of ebaying, good grief it's tiresome. Hopefully it will be worth it though in a weeks time when the bids come rolling in:rotfl: my dad has given me an enormous amount of stuff to list from my grandads house that he's sorting out. We'll split any profits made 50:50. We'll probably still be going through it this time next year though!

I think I need to start doing lists again..here's my list for tomorrow

- go shopping to Aldi and spend less than £50:mad:
- take little ones to library
- pay cash and cheques into bank
- post eBay parcel (made 0.99p)
- make banana muffins with very ripe bananas

I'll report back and tick them off once done:)

The whole family have had a NSD today:T went to mil 's for lunch and that was it, dd1 went to tae kwon-do but is still in her free trial:T hoping to be much better with the 'sundries' budget this week, I seem to be spending it all by mid week and then there's nothing left for the weekend. Must try harder.

Sleep is calling me now

Night night

Crumpets x

Crumpets

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I think I need to start doing lists again..here's my list for tomorrow

- Go shopping in aldi and spend less than £50 - done, spent £49.72 :T
- take little ones to library
- pay cash and cheques into bank
- post eBay parcel(made 0.99p) - done
- make banana muffins with very ripe bananas. Done; 2 batches in the oven now:T

I'll report back and tick them off once done:)

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Wel, I'm quite pleased with how I've done on my list. Only a couple of things not done but they're not vital. We know have food in the cupboards so the meals need not be quite so inventive now. I felt like I got quite a lot or my money in Ald! This week, I got a whole chicken, salmon fillets, as well as some treats.

Baked potatoes for dinner tonight as a) it's swimming lesson night and b) it's too Bloomin hot to do much else! Picked a big tub of raspberries from the garden so that will be pudding, with meringue and ice cream...yum yum

Went for coffee and lunch today with a friend at the dreaded st@rbucks so that was quite an expense. We only meet up every few months though so we had a fab catch up. Also got the kids new bento style lunch boxes for the new term.:)

I have a bid on one of my items on eBay, it's one of the things my dad gave me to sell so £5 each at the moment. There is absolutely loads to get through though, need to wait for the next flw now. Only a few watchers spread over the other 8 things listed though:(

Some of my veggies are going brilliantly in the garden, tomatoes, sprouts and squash are doing particlularly well. My dog has absolutely decimated my onion patch though:mad: she keeps racing up and down the garden and jumping on it, only a few things left In there now:( need to make a plan to keep her off it next year. Any suggestions?

The flies are driving me crazy!! :mad: we've ordered a plug in zapper from @mazon, was £30.00 but I'll go mad soon if we don't do something. I think mr C and I need to sit down and go through all our finances tonight as I feel we've been spending a lot recently. Hopefully not as bad as I think though.

Crumpets x

Crumpets

Grr can't figure out quoting or striking through :-(

hattifattener

Glad some of your veggies are coming on, no suggestions on the doggy problem though!

For quoting you need another square bracket on the end of the bit that says quote=crumpets etc. for strike through highlight the bit you want to cross out then press the s button at the top. Hope that helps.

Crumpets

hattifattener wrote: »

Glad some of your veggies are coming on, no suggestions on the doggy problem though!

For quoting you need another square bracket on the end of the bit that says quote=crumpets etc. for strike through highlight the bit you want to cross out then press the s button at the top. Hope that helps.

Thanks! :T:D

Crumpets

Good evening:j

This heat is really starting to get to me now, I'm really trying hard not to moan because it was a long cold winter. The kids are just not settling in bed and I miss my evenings!

I think I have sold another item on fb:T only £4.25 but it's another thing out of my house and more money in my tin. I'm amazed at how easy it is to fill a house, it's mainly toys though it has to be said. As soon as something is grown out of now it goes on the list to sell or passed onto a friend instead of being put up in the loft just in case!

A LSD day for the family today, only £2 spent on playgroup. That stops for the summer now and the challenge of finding frugal entertainment for 3 children starts:eek:

When I met my friend yesterday she was showing me her lovely holiday photos and telling me how they were off again in a few weeks to France. That got me thinking about holidays and I would really like to go on holiday so I had a little look last night and omg they are expensive! But then I thought, well right now the kids don't need to go abroad for a fun holiday, even though it was freezing cold in Wales we still had a good time and what we're doing right now will help us to achieve the lovely holidays when the kids are old enough to appreciate them:)

Recently on the tv there has been a few low budget cooking programmes and I was thinking about how much per portion our dinner was. We had salmon, new potatoes, asparagus and peas.
Salmon -£3.19 (4 frozen fillets)
New potatoes - 35p (half a bag)
Asparagus - 89p
Peas-10p
Butter- 20p

Total 4.73 = 95p per portion

All the above came from aldi and it was a delicious meal...pretty good value I'd say:)

It's getting to that time of the month again where I start to look for mad money making schemes so I can make another big op..nothings coming to me yet...just keep on trying to sell my [STRIKE]junk[/STRIKE] treasure

Sounds like the little ones have settles down, time to watch the apprentice final:T

Crumpets x

hattifattener

I agree with you on the heat. I've been fine and enjoying it, until yesterday when I realised the heat was here to stay, my house was full of blinking flies, all my fruit was spoiling in the heat, I had to lug the buggy up the shops and I was just in a foul mood all afternoon. :mad: :rotfl:

I'm trying to be more positive today. Let me know if you get any good frugal kids fun ideas. Me and LO are off to the library in town today because our local one is shut for refurb and DS thinks the bus is part of the fun in itself. Got our last toddler group tomorrow. I'm getting cold sweats just thinking of the next 6 weeks!

fluffysox

Just read through your diary, you're doing really well! Will subscribe Good luck!

Crumpets

Hello Hattifattener and fluffysox:D

Sorry you were suffering with the heat and the flies too hatti (can I call you that?) I don't know how you pregnant ladies are coping with the heat, i've only had winter babies so have always had to bundle up when heavily pg.

Speaking of flies, as I mentioned further up thread we ordered a fly zapper from am@zon, I missed the delivery twice so arranged to collect it from the local post office this morning. I went to collect it and they handed me an enormous box (about 1.5m long!) with very fragile written on the side. I was thinking omg what have we ordered here, got it home, opened it up and inside the box is a bloomin keyboard:mad: nothing is ever easy in the Crumpets household:mad:

Yesterday I had another disaster :mad: I went to homeb@se clutching my 15% off voucher and got a 5 litre tin of fence paint and a few other bits. Ds was screaming all the way home so I was desperate to get in the house, opened the boot of the car and out falls the tin of paint, lands on my foot and spills all over the road:mad: £35 down the drain:mad: dh phones the council to tell them and along comes a road sweeper to clean it up, only that makes matters worse and spreads it all over the road:eek: my road is now a lovely shade of country cream:rotfl: I can laugh about it now but yesterday I was crying at the thought of having to go and buy another tin.

Got a few eBay items ending this weekend so hopefully a bit more to add to the op pot. I'm also working for my friend tomorrow so that will bump up my op this month:T

Hattifattener I intend to be going to the library at least once a week during the summer. My dd1 has just signed up to their summer reading challenge which is good for older ones. Will let you know if I think of any more free things to do.

Happy weekend everyone

Crumpets x

Crumpets

Oh dear what a lot of angry faces