The October Awakening!

Fmess

traveller wrote: »

Slightly off topic, but does anyone else have to deal with people at work, that think it's ok to always ask you to 'lend' them money for lunch or vending machines :mad: What annoys me, is they seem to label you as tight fisted if you say no, (through experience, you rarely get it back) rather than see it as you don't lend out what you cannot afford to never see again. And it always seems to be the ones with packed (and expensive) social calenders too! I'm quite happy to be labelled just wondered if others here, get that too.

Unfortunately we have a thief at work Realised a few months ago that several of us had "misplaced" money and had all been assuming we'd forgotten we'd spent it or lent it to the kids or OH. As soon as one person realised they had definitely lost money, we all realised we had had similar instances On the plus side I don't take my purse into work now, so can't lend money

First SFD done

clippy_girl

Fmess wrote: »

Unfortunately we have a thief at work Realised a few months ago that several of us had "misplaced" money and had all been assuming we'd forgotten we'd spent it or lent it to the kids or OH. As soon as one person realised they had definitely lost money, we all realised we had had similar instances On the plus side I don't take my purse into work now, so can't lend money

First SFD done

that is awful :mad: we also have a thief in our office who has taken some clothing and some coffee making things

so my updates are-

SFD 2/20
Toiletries- £0/10
Food (I will do this 19/10- 18/11)- £0/80
Food bank- £0/3
Lunches- 2/23
Extra earnt- £20/100
Social events- £0/75
Sugar free days- 2/31
Gym visits- 0/20

sold an item on ebay for £21. i listed free postage so that was £15 after postage and fees. also sold the item at work for £5 did actually spend £2.60 posting the item but im not counting it as a spend as it was paid for out of the £5 i got (all ebay money was paid into bank acc ready to go to mortgage account).

paid £7.61 off cc and £12 to mortgage fund

LoveaDove

:j 2nd SFD

Tomorrow is looking like it will follow suit as I am working from home

I'm hoping to have a cheap, if not free weekend as I will be cashing in my tesco days out vouchers at the zoo for me and OH on Sunday. We'll be taking our own packed lunches. I'm super excited as I haven't been for a few years now, it normally costs £20 a pot so to go for free will be extra sweet!

Must sort myself something out to do on Saturday to try not to spend any money... may be I can make use of this time and source items to sell on eb@y, Faceb00k or Gumtr33...hmmm I may even start sourcing tonight...

:idea: I can go geocaching on Saturday as well....lovely, my weekend is sorted! :cool: I wonder if I'll have to climb any more trees...

shyspender

Evening,

Day off from work today and I've just been pottering around my flat and catching up on some bits.

SFD today, which was planned but then I didn't go out, so would have been hard to spend money.

AFD too, that makes three, I started the challenge on Monday to start the week off.

Managed to find something to make for lunch tomorrow and Friday so doing well there too.

Shopping on Friday and just found out I've got 20% discount between Thursday and Sunday. Going to write a list though so that I stick to the bits I need to get to use the bits I have in the cupboard and don't just buy more of the same. I always try to go with a list, even have one on the trolley handle, and then I either forget the only thing I really wanted, or end up going off list.

Although I have the CC to pay off, I'm also going to be trying to save as much as I can once I get into the budget frame of mind. I am looking to move and also maybe go to the States next year.

I have a grand total of £5.40 in my pocket and that has to last until I get to the supermarket on Friday after work. But then I'm planning on Thursday being a SFD and Friday won't spend anything until it's shopping time.

Kaybeebop

Really busy but good day today, housework, FT class at gym, OH & I pulled up his folks 2 bedroom carpets after moving all furniture then rush to get DD from nursery all before midday. Work for me this afternoon so had to spend for train fares but nothing else, got my tickets for rest of the week to help get those SFDs.

Tomorrow should be a SFD & quiet as at work. Off to make tomorrow's lunches & get mince out freezer for DM & DD tomorrow sort school bag & snuggle up with my book as OH plays football tonight.

SFD 1/20
Lunches 0/7 (only work 2 full days a week & 1 week off this month)
Food £68.84/£280
Petrol & travel £9.80/£75
Misc £22.50/£200
Toiletries 0/£10
Food bank 0/£3

LuckyGinger

My updates for today are-

SFD 1/20
Toiletries- £4.88/10 (we all needed deodorant)
Food (w/k 1- £43.40/£100 - should only now need bread/ milk possibly some cat food)
Food bank- £1/£3 (put some tins in animal shelter, from a multipack/ that my cats didn't like)
Lunches- 2/23

:AVery proud of myself so far, even got OH involved,
he desperately needs a new pair of work shoes so off to Brantano's we go ( was near Aldi when we did food shop) No shoes suitable for him, but 2 pairs of lovley shoes for me that would be perfect for work and a bargain too at £13 and £17, but I thought of this challenge and thought NO!!! I'd be letting myself down, the shoes I have will last me a bit longer!!! Wow how liberating, I even said to my OH as we were walking out without them that's £30 off our debt to your mum! Go me!!!!:rotfl:
All in all a good start!!!!!

Can anyone tell me how to do a signature thingy?
And is it customary to "thank" when you've read a post?

nanell

Checking in with my second SFD. Have updated my signature with budgets. Spending a bit more than I wanted to but have quite a few social events this month that I really can't get out of. On the plus side, November will be a quite month.

Right, sorting 5 ebay items a night between now and weekend before the mass upload on saturday!!

stoplurking

Quick check in. SFD today so that's 2/20. Everyone is doing great. Keep it up. SL x

nanell

Just had to write again as realised I can cash out £8.56 from Topcashback!!! well on my way to that extra 100.....

Kaybeebop

LuckyGinger wrote: »

Can anyone tell me how to do a signature thingy?
And is it customary to "thank" when you've read a post?

Hey LuckyGinger I just discovered this it's under 'User CP' at the top. Not sure about the thanking bit either.