Not totally giving up the good life LBM!

SammyJo1206

Good Morning NSM!

Excellent win with Next!

Samesies, I cant really get a move on as I have to wait to payday. I've joined the Sealed Pot Challenge! The folks over there are great, maybe one to look into.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4734648
Just tried to add a link to the thread, not sure if its worked!! x

NearlySortedMum

SammyJo1206 wrote: »

Good Morning NSM!

Excellent win with Next!

Samesies, I cant really get a move on as I have to wait to payday. I've joined the Sealed Pot Challenge! The folks over there are great, maybe one to look into.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4734648
Just tried to add a link to the thread, not sure if its worked!! x

Ooooh ill have a nosey, as long as its not a money box kind of concept as much like the queen i rarely carry cash about! Helps with my budgets.:rotfl:

NearlySortedMum

So productive morning, i have made a shopping list of ingrediants so i can batch cook lots and lots of meals.

So far on the list is

Chill
Spag bol
Fish pie
Stew
Savoury mince
Fajita mix

I think out of a £40 shop i can create at least 26 meals and a few smaller portions for the LO. Which would cover us for nearly and would mean we always have something in the freezer to pull out.
I know we probably want other meals in there to mix it up but i think its a good base and means if the last week of the month we are a bit short we can cut down the shopping budget and clear out the freezer

NearlySortedMum

Fairly cheap weekend so far, visited two museums that had free open days so bonus!

Hoping for a even cheaper weekend next week spending zilch as its nearly pay day :T

Just listed 8 things of ebay, I had a big trawl through our wardrobes, couldn't actually find that much just mainly baby things that my LO is just growing out of but hoping to get a few penny's to go towards some new winter clothes for LO.

Struggling to think of more ways to make money, I ebay everything as I go along so have hardly anything left. Been trawling the boards but nothing seems to be jumping out at me

NearlySortedMum

Morning to anyone that may be reading,

Up to 10 items on ebay now, had a few bids already which im impressed with they dont end till next sunday!

Aiming for a no spend day today will see how that pans out.

Just volenteered for a extra night shift at work which will be a full weeks worth of over time this month every little helps!!

Nothing else much to report on the debt front just waiting for pay day to come now hurry up!!! :mad:

NearlySortedMum

NSD out the window today had to buy a card grrr!!

Another complaint in to Next after I bought sone thing else and the wrong item was delivered!!

Not bought on credit either in case anyone was wondering if I was being naughty!! LOL

NearlySortedMum

NSD yesterday, aiming for another day so [STRIKE]2 down [/STRIKE] 6 to go before the end of the month.

Ebay stuff doing really well few bids and tons of watchers so all good!

Not much more to update, keeping to budget and eagerly waiting for pay day to pay another £380 off the debt. And depending on how much i get for all the extra shifts ive done im hoping to throw another £100 at it fingers crossed. :cool:

NearlySortedMum

Morning :wave:

:coffee: in hand looking over the budgets!

Didn't make a NSD yesterday, ended up in Mr T's but got lots of yellow sticker bargains so was worth it really. Means it cuts the shopping budget down.

Hubby is doing the big shop today ive budgeted him £35 anything over and he will be in trouble!

£20 going in the car but we have done well this week with fuel hardly used any so hoping to keep it topped up so later on in the month i can get away with not filling it up one week.

Looking forward to payslip day next week i will be able to plan accordingly for the month.

Think i mentioned in earlier posts about having a holiday booked begining of Sep, its already paid for we paid gradually over a few months so not breaking the bank. The hotel is b&b so im hoping we can fill up in a morning then just grab a snack for the beach when hungry.
So i need to sort out the budget for spends, even though its a holiday i still want to be tight ont he budget i know we can still enjoy ourselves without spending too much! :T

NearlySortedMum

Food shop done under budget £32 :T
Petrol got and used a 5p off vouhcer we were given so that came under budget too.

NDS for me too (normal food shop budgeted for so dont class as a spend) [STRIKE]3 down[/STRIKE] 5 to go

1 of my items that had a buy it now on ebay has sold for £4 and i have 40 watchers on a bundle of baby clothes! So fingers crossed they end well at the end of the week.

NearlySortedMum

Morning all,

Well lovely weekend had, quite a MS one too. Did lots of free things in the sunshine.
Walks, bike rides, picnics was a lovely was to spend the bank holiday!

Pay day this week looking forward to that rolling on.
Everything looking good so far coming in on budget for the month end and ready to blast off some more of the debt.