The October Awakening!

mrso2b

Updated totals:

SFDs: 5/20
Food budget:£108.01/£180
Donation:£1/£3
Take lunch to work: 5/20
Beauty spends £0/£10
Make £100:£0/£100 but have an item selling on eBay currently at £36

LoveaDove

Oh Sunday evening, you come around far too quickly!

SFD on Saturday- more geocaching- bringing me to a total of 10 SFDs

I have begun buying some bits and pieces in ready for making Christmas gifts- so a lil spend today, but lots of shopping around on ebay to get the best prices! Feels good to finally begin making a start on the Christmas gifts!

Fmess

Evening all

SFD today I've had a real grump on today as felt like my debt free journey was going to take forever. OH redeemed himself and came to the rescue by giving me £1 to buy a chocolate bar! He even said it wonder break my SFD as it was a present! He must listen more than I thought!

Also sold an item on eB4y for £73, which is way more than expected so after fees I reckon I'll make £60?

Night all

Frugal_foxy_2

Well and truly fallen off the wagon. Working crazy hours, been grabbing fast food on the go. Every day is a spend day. Aaaaaaggggghhhh.
Back on it tomorrow, without fail. Hope I'm not expelled!

cottage_retreatist

beckyboo1980 wrote: »

Sorry, what is a F & F letter?

hey beckyboo!

Full & Final!
Its an offer mutually accepted to pay the debt for a set amount.

Hope that helps?
xx

fyggy

Evening all.

I started writing this at 4pm! Haha. Just in work now. 3rd of 4 nights.

I have an exciting announcement - I've reached 10 SFDs:T Half way! And I should also bag another one tomorrow. Tuesday is doable as well. Weds is a planned spending day. Quite proud that out of 13 days I've only spend on 3, two of those being from food shopping Keep at it guys!

I too have been ebYing. Relisted an item and within an hour had an offer on it. I'll probably accept it, but will just give it a few days. So that'll be £100, less fees. Moving on nicely to cash generating- £95/£100 with £25 to come in from pureprofile and then ebay sales.

I hope all well out there in OA land. :money:

thriftylass

There are a few it seems who will be making christmas presents. Can i be nosey and ask what ? I'll be making sock monkeys for the kids, made my cards but am stuck for the adults. Last few years i made lemoncello, tapenade, pesto etc for a hamper, but want to do sth different this year.

stewby

thriftylass wrote: »

There are a few it seems who will be making christmas presents. Can i be nosey and ask what ? I'll be making sock monkeys for the kids, made my cards but am stuck for the adults. Last few years i made lemoncello, tapenade, pesto etc for a hamper, but want to do sth different this year.

Depending what your friends like, I quite fancy the idea of "cookies in a jar" or "brownies in a jar", particularly if you have jars lying around (empty jam jars, etc).
This is the gingerbread one as an example.

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/14188/gingerbread-biscuit-gift-in-a-jar.aspx

I think they are quite cute and if you have a lot of friends, will work out quite cheap. Also, they can't see where you got the ingredients from so it won't matter if you use tescimos own rather than branded.

Just a suggestion of course.

stoplurking

Still not up to date with posts or grocery spends but today was another SFD so 9/20, nearly half way to SFD target. Sticking to meal plan and I think the grocery budget will be ok, spends were about £18-£20 for milk and fruit/veg. Had to put heating on today though as was indoors all day and it was cold. Have a good week everyone.

andrar

Phew, that took me an hour and a half to catch up on all the posts!

I'm starting afresh tomorrow with thus challenge and my weight loss, too many shenanigans were had this weekend. Although I did win £25 on the lottery which I never play, had cash in the online account thing and thought best get it spent so not tempting me and woohoo!

Have a good week everybody