Debt Destruction December!!!

Kerfuffle

NinjaSavingKat wrote: »

SFD yes. No money has exchanged hands!

Great! :T I'll have to amend my tally as I was counting days that I paid with gift cards as a Spend Day.

I went into work on Tuesday and covered somebody else's shift, and then yesterday I had the day at home with Hubby. It was a productive day as we got the tree up and decorated, made 2 batches of mince pies, of which 23 went into the freezer, the rest are for eating now or went through Quality Control. Then last night we put a futon up for sale on faceb00k and it sold within 10 mins. T'was a good day :T

Hubby's Christmas party to go to tonight, I'm really looking forward to all the lovely food, but hoping to make it out of there at a decent time.

Here are the amended scores on the scores:-

SFD 11 /15 :j
Food 121.92/187.50 65.02%
Petrol 18.75 /75.00 25.00%
Hair /56.25
"Spend Money" /18.75
Post Office 5.69/18.75 30.34%
Food Bank 5.07/ 5.00 101.4%

Budget 151.43 / 361.25 = 41.92%

Personal Challenge
Declutter 11 / 10 (5 x Christmas stockings/2 x cushion covers/1 x pr trousers/single duvet/jacket/shopping bag).

Happy Wednesday

Kerfuffle

Thriftylass - Your kitchen looks amazing, you've done a really good job, and what a lovely big kitchen you have.

thriftylass

Kerfuffle wrote: »

Thriftylass - Your kitchen looks amazing, you've done a really good job, and what a lovely big kitchen you have.

Thank you. That kitchen sold me the house. I don't mind small bedrooms (and they are small, but you only sleep there) but I wanted a kitchen where I can at least swing a cat (not ours though ) and where I can walk inbetween appliances rather than just turn around . I still need to do more to it (paint walls, scrub etc) but that way at least it will do another few years before we do it up properly or resign it (it's the original from when the house was built in 1980 and the last one left in street I was told :rotfl:).

LoveaDove

Good afternoon fellow Hobbitses!

Thrifty - Great job with the kitchen! The Red Tiles are a really nice contrast against the colour of the cupboards :T

Abundant - Being in a relationship and debt busting is really hard work! My OH took quite a while to accept that I wasn't willing or able to go on holiday this year. His friend's have been away 3 times this year (abroad!) and each time asked us to come, to which I had to say 'No, I can't afford it' no matter how good a deal they tried to sell us! Also trying to convince him that having a meal at a restaurant, every week was not cost effective (which is hard when you first start dating someone as they tend to be the places you initially go), but as times gone on it's easier to cook at home at each others houses as the perceived need to impress starts to kerb. He's been very supportive of my SFD's etc... however he's definitely not had his own LBM and spends money like there's no tomorrow and compares his lifestyle to his friend's who also haven't had their LBM's but are also in better paid work.

Anyways,

Just wanted to write a quick post (which has turned into a load of waffle as usual) about cutting my own hair. I bought some clips (similar to crea clips) and some nice hairdresser scissors about a week ago, and was determined to learn to cut my own hair.

I watched a few y0utube clips on how to use/ cut with crea clips, and found one that I thought I could follow and thought the end result was what I was after. So this morning, was the morning, I cut my own hair. I just straightened my hair and followed the step-by steps and was shocked at how easy it was! You can cut fringes, sweeping fringes, layers and feather with these plastic bits of genius! I only went for layers and feathering, have just grown out my fringe, but the option is there should I want it.

Really pleased with the end result, only took a small amount off for my first trial, but still happy with that! For half the cost of a haircut at my old hairdressers (I haven't been for a year!), I now have the tools to cut my own hair! :T Win!

NinjaSavingKat

LoveaDove wrote: »

So this morning, was the morning, I cut my own hair.

:T:T:T:T

YEAH!!!! So proud... Whoop!!!

thriftylass

LoveaDove wrote: »

Just wanted to write a quick post (which has turned into a load of waffle as usual) about cutting my own hair. I bought some clips (similar to crea clips) and some nice hairdresser scissors about a week ago, and was determined to learn to cut my own hair.

I watched a few y0utube clips on how to use/ cut with crea clips, and found one that I thought I could follow and thought the end result was what I was after. So this morning, was the morning, I cut my own hair. I just straightened my hair and followed the step-by steps and was shocked at how easy it was! You can cut fringes, sweeping fringes, layers and feather with these plastic bits of genius! I only went for layers and feathering, have just grown out my fringe, but the option is there should I want it.

Just looked them up and think I'll spend my first Amaz0n vouchers on clips like those. They look a bit more reliable and versatile than my ponytail on crown technique.

Just found another 1.79 in my TCB account so will get them soon and might have a decent haircut for christmas, YAY

plymouthscubagirl

Siouxsie - Uber jealous of your Mac book purchase!! One day when all this is done, that will be my first purchase!

Abundant- I feel your pain. My partner is hard work with trying to get him on board with the whole Debt busting thing so can't imagine what its like when your half trying to impress someone too (those days long gone for me )

Thrifty- Kitchen looks fab. My sister has just done that in her house and it made a huge difference.

Tiptoes - I'm hearing you. I'm getting fatter and unfitter by the second!

Wow hope I remembered everyones names to conversations right. Will be nothing short of a miracle if I have

thriftylass

Not sure when I'll be able to check in again as I'll go home tomorrow till the 19th. See you then

clippy_girl

hello all, been mia for a few days

sfd mon and tue. would have been today but was sooo low on petrol couldnt wait until spendy day tomorrow so had to ruin a sfd

will be spendy day tomorrow as getting bus into city to collect and immediately return all the online mystery shopping parcels and do a mystery shop. this really will be my last one until xmas! will be buying a few things i need from wilkos so i can avoid city until after xmas.

abundant- when you have your talk, perhaps say that you would like to cook for each other rather than eat out. you can then cook him a nice meal and if he wants to go out he will have to pay not cheeky as its his choice!

thifty lass- your cupboards look fab and have a nice trip :www:

love a dove- very impressed you cut your own hair. i have a high maintenance fringe and am a slave to toni and guy :eek:

ps is it only me that makes notes if i have lots of posts to read so i can make comments on everything? :rotfl:

pps thanks for input re organic. think i will go for eggs (image they will taste nicer due to feed), apples and also carrots as i eat them raw with skin on. have also decided to try and eat foods as 'real' as possible and going to cut out all fat free/reduced stuff! have cut out sugar and as always feel much better! no non natural sugar consumed since last fri :T will be having pudding at xmas meal on fri though

splodgethefirst

had a great time at bingo last night - did spend on dinner but was budgeted for. also chucked another £57.25 at the monster today. getting there, slowly slowly. NSD today.