Cheery's buttling diary: tea in one hand, plant pot in the other, running shoes on

Cheery_Daff

rtandon27 wrote: »

Tipsy & with a full belly?;)

I was thinking more 'making our own party food, not spending unnecessary money and doing plenty of exercise' but yes, pretty much what you said :rotfl: :rotfl:

Good tips Maddiemay, thank you! We usually get RAC through Autonet which works out about £65 for everything including home cover. We do have a habit of buying unreliable cars (although touch wood this one has been fine!) so it suits Might be able to sneak it down a bit though...

Right, stayed in bed til lunchtime and have been writing a review of the year for my blog so I'm going to drag myself out for a bit of fresh air before it goes dark!

Karmacat

Sounds good Cheery! Enjoy the tipsiness

Cheery_Daff

Fresh air had, and popped into Fulton's and stocked up on some bits to leave in the office for lunches in the new year :j Some kind of soup-in-a-sachet thing (liquid, that you put more liquid on?) that were £1 for 6 and some cereal bars at 8 for £1. Not exactly health food but they'll stop me popping to the canteen, and as I'm planning to cycle there rather than walk/bus this year it'll save on things to carry :j

Just enjoying some nice home made bread with reduced (to 39p!) hazlenut and peanut butter and I appear to have lost a filling :eek: Can't figure out where it came from though :eek: so now I'm in the bizarre position of *hoping* I HAVE lost a filling, because the alternative is just too nasty to contemplate :eek: _pale_

Cheery_Daff

Anyway, enough of that :eek:

The budget to start the year off looks something like this...

£4900 in patchwork fund :j
£1000 emergency fund
£54 car repairs
£243 home maintenance
£200 car insurance (due Feb, another pay day before then)
£61.89 RAC (also due May)
£25 car tax (£130, due end May)
£160 holidays
£156 no quibble weekends
£37.37 VSP

Not too bad at all :j :j

Did I say Mr Cheery bought me a new bag for the front of my folding bike for Christmas? I have one of these in racing green which I ADORE and have had for about 13 years but which has no pannier rack so I have to use a rucksack - which I did until work gave me a laptop and everything got a bit heavy so I stopped using it.

Mr Cheery has bought me one of these to go on the front Which detaches really quickly and has a shoulder strap for slinging on over my shoulder on the train

So I'll be able to cycle to and from train stations on work days with no sore back :j and will thus save around £43 a month in bus fares :j :j :j Very excited

Mind you, this snow had best melt before I go back to work else it won't be going anywhere! :eek:

Might not pop in again so have a marvellous new year all! :j :j

Greying_Pilgrim

Cheery - have a wonderful time at the party tonight - and of course a fab-a-roonie 2015. But please, take care walking back won't you?

Greying x

Cheery_Daff

Of course GP But don't worry, I will have both my spikey shoe things for the ice, and Mr Cheery to fend off marauding bandits (Friend has offered us their spare room anyway so we might just stay there til tomorrow!)

starnac

Wow Cheery. 2015 is certainly going to be your year.

rtandon27

Happy New Year 2015 to you Cheery & also Mr Daff from OH & myself!:A

Looking forward to keeping you company on the path & cheering you on to your savings goal.:D

Cheery_Daff

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Happy New Year you gorgeous lot! Tis always a pleasure to be around here with such knowledgeable and fabulous pals :j

Can't believe I haven't been in yet this year! New years eve was ace - went to visit some friends, took food we'd made and wine we'd been given and walked there and back so didn't spend a penny :money: Didn't get home til 5.30am mind you so new years daywas rather lazy :rotfl:

Yesterday hopped to visit my family, which was lovely, and received lots of tasty edible and drinkable gifts :j :j

Also got regifted a giant box of Baileys chocs that someone had given my mum but she doesn't like. We don't particularly like either (although i confess i'd happily eat them anyway...) so we're going to pass them on to Mr Cheery's sister :rotfl:

Today I've bought a roll of silver insulation stuff and FINALLY plugged the gap under the eaves in the attic where the wind blows through and freezes my fingers when i'm working at home :eek: Only cost £12 and i've not even used a quarter of it - now wondering why it took me 9 years to get round to it... :eek:

Ah well, no point looking back and berating myself - instead i'll congratulate myself on having done it now and look around for other things i can stick insulation too It's that stuff that goes behind radiators too and i've noticed we have it in some places but NOT in the living room, or in the skirting board gaps in the bathroom, so that might be the next project :j

Actually, next project for RIGHT NOW is my new desk :j Old one was free outside someone's house but isn't *quite* high enough, isn't deep enough so screen can't really be far enough away without sitting sideways, and the top isn't even.

Spotted a sliding interior door on Freegle earlier and picked it up from round the corner so i'm going to spend the next hour shuffling and balancing until I get something that will do temporarily until I can make it some proper legs

All fired up after reading thr ENTIRE Mr Money Mustache archives over the Christmas holidays :eek: Thanks to KC for introducing me - and very interesting and inspirational read - I shan't be following his investing-and-buying-rental-houses lead but i am all fired up on the DIY-and-cycling fronts :j

Right, this desk won't build itself! :j

Cheery_Daff

okayyyyyyyy....

Existing desk butchered and moved, door fitted on top (er, it's ENORMOUS!) and I've swapped a desk chair from downstairs (the attic one didn't go high enough for me to reach the top of the desk...)

Having slight palpitations at the state of the attic - between taking everything from off and around the desk, and pulling everything out of the eaves to put the insulation in (and leaving it out so I can board it up properly), there's barely a clear space on the floor :eek:

Desk looks ludicrously enormous right now, but sitting at it, it feels spacious and cheerful and FLAT :j :j :j Might need to consider moving it elsewhere but for now I just need to put things back as they were...

... which is always the tedious bit...

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