Aspirations of Frugality and Fun on the Road to Mortgage Freedom

peaceandfreedom

Awesome record-keeping there, DDFW. Your performance in March was excellent - here's hoping that April is just as good.

I do like this whole monthly-list approach that you and tattycath take. I keep meaning to sit down and do a list of my own but I am too tired tonight to do it.

Good luck on finding ebay items to list.

Goldiegirl

I love your list making style DDFW.

I have list making tendencies myself, but it tends to be ad hoc, and on scrappy bits of paper:rotfl:

However, I do keep a list money spent, and analyse the results at the end of each month, and do set a NSD target each month.

But I like the idea of making a plan for the month ..... Might have a bash at that

Cheery_Daff

Just catching up after my hols - you've achieved SO much in March! :j :j :j Well done!

Currently channelling your decluttering abilities and trying to get rid of some of my own rubbish. In just ONE drawer in the kitchen I just found THREE ancient, non-working cameras, a plug for a laptop I no longer possess, and 15 instruction manuals in unreadable (by me) foreign languages :rotfl: :rotfl:

Sadly I'm not going to channel your fabulous selling skills - I do NOT have the patience for that kind of malarkey right now. Still, while it's not added any money to the account, it has cleared a space in the drawer :j :j Just need to figure out what to put in it now... :rotfl:

Alchemilla

An MA sounds very exciting.

brizzledfw

Love your posts DDFW...you are always SO productive

Do you think you will manage to not buy clothes etc?? As soon as my DF finish line appeared I seemed to go mad on the Ne£T catalogue..:eek: never done that before, well not for about 10 years.. need to rein that in. On other hand it's far cheaper than Ho£bs

peaceandfreedom

brizzledfw wrote: »

Love your posts DDFW...you are always SO productive

Do you think you will manage to not buy clothes etc?? As soon as my DF finish line appeared I seemed to go mad on the Ne£T catalogue..:eek: never done that before, well not for about 10 years.. need to rein that in. On other hand it's far cheaper than Ho£bs

Well, I'm a fan of both Ne£t and Ho£bs but the latter are rather too expensive for me at the moment. I think I will have to look for ebay bargains if I want some pretty dresses for the summer from them. I have never in my life bought anything from the Ne£t catalogue though - always in the store.

tattycath

Just a heads up. I've had a message on eBay from eBay saying that from May (can't remember date) private sellers will be given 20 free listings a month-either auction or buy it now! :dance:

DedicatedDFW

Hello All,

I am sorry i have not been posting - i have been all out of sorts

But i am always more productive when i post on here so here i am and i will be jotting out the things i need to achieve this month

1, tackle big credit card bill - car insurance is on there as well as usual spends so it needs a paying somehow

2, assignment - just get on with it!

3, continue to declutter - i seem to have done more of this - when i thought it was all done too :eek: its carboot stuff to be honest but its also stuff going out of the house. Things do seem to be heading in the minimalist direction :eek: and I would have got rid of a lot more stuff but my Mr has said he wants us to keep the other things which is fair enough i guess

4, food focus - there is alot of food in the house at the moment for various reasons - full cupboards and full freezer. I need to really just stop buying any good food offers and scale things down a bit - especially in the freezer! - it is hard as i have had months of seeing no good reduced items so i find it hard to leave bargains such as yesterdays 4 lamb chops reduced from almost £7 to 45p :T

5, uni app - work on this after assignment

That will do I am out all day tomorrow so i know i just have to knuckle down with it all now / from sunday - although not much will be getting done today i dont think as i had a really bad nights sleep and have been somewhat shattered all day

Hope everyone is good and i really appreciate the posts

Alchemilla

Hope you feel stronger soon.xx

Goldiegirl

tattycath wrote: »

Just a heads up. I've had a message on eBay from eBay saying that from May (can't remember date) private sellers will be given 20 free listings a month-either auction or buy it now! :dance:

Unfortunately there's a down-side to that - they are taking away the 100 free 99p listings per month