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

Cheery_Daff

Morning chums - Payday is here :j :j :j

DO love a bit of budget wrangling

So, as of March 1st we have...

£92.03 in car repairs (kind of feel I should round it down :rotfl: )
£290.48 house maintenance
£20 Christmas :rotfl:
£272.52 holiday fund :j
£216.64 no quibble weekends :j
£5853.59 Patchwork fund :j :j (soon to be repurposed as moving-house-fund (possibly))

Annual bills all have the appropriate amounts in for the time of year :j

All looking good :j

Off on a mini adventure today with a pal and her small baby :j Should probably get in the shower!

Karmacat

Thats extremely adventurous of you, Cheery, well done (about the plaster, I mean) and its true, if you eff it up, you can sort of pull it off again (or maybe effing it up will mean it falls off all on its own :rotfl::eek:) and get a professional in.

Sounds like you have a lovely day planned, enjoy

rtandon27

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

...Payday is here :j :j :j...

Thank-you for the reminder! I've checked the bank and indeed the dosh has hit the account! :j:j:j

2nd month of both of us having paycheques since mid-last year so a whole wack of it can go on the debts! I managed to throw £650 to the credit cards partially by scrimping & eating from the stores but also by completing those dang work claims! I've another batch to do this month for both of us - so aiming for another £500ish off the collective debt this month!

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

DO love a bit of budget wrangling

So, as of March 1st we have...

£92.03 in car repairs (kind of feel I should round it down :rotfl: )
£290.48 house maintenance
£20 Christmas :rotfl:
£272.52 holiday fund :j
£216.64 no quibble weekends :j
£5853.59 Patchwork fund :j :j (soon to be repurposed as moving-house-fund (possibly))

I feel a few tilly tidies coming on - think of how good you'll feel when all those numbers end in ".00"

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

...Off on a mini adventure today with a pal and her small baby :j Should probably get in the shower!

Enjoy time with the wee one! I'm of the theory that they are just lovely to cuddle & spoil with gifties but even better that you can give them back when you've had enough!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Karmacat

rtandon27 wrote: »

2nd month of both of us having paycheques since mid-last year so a whole wack of it can go on the debts! I managed to throw £650 to the credit cards partially by scrimping & eating from the stores but also by completing those dang work claims! I've another batch to do this month for both of us - so aiming for another £500ish off the collective debt this month!

Thats huge, good for you :j

Enjoy time with the wee one! I'm of the theory that they are just lovely to cuddle & spoil with gifties but even better that you can give them back when you've had enough!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

A woman after my own heart :rotfl: even though I've lived for months at a time with families with babies/ toddlers/ small children,
I find giving them back is really important :A

starnac

Karmacat wrote: »

A woman after my own heart :rotfl: even though I've lived for months at a time with families with babies/ toddlers/ small children,
I find giving them back is really important :A

As you know I have two of my own. Today I was holding a beautiful 7weeks old baby. The whole time I was holding her I was thinking how lovely she was.....but also how lovely to hand back too. DH will be pleased :rotfl:

:eek::eek: at bathroom wall!!! Well done you for having a go. DH plastered our dining room back last year. He did a good job but it did take him ages. Obviously practice makes you speedier

Enjoy your day with your friend x

rtandon27

Sneaking back on to report that I've 'made' £104 today from a healthcare claim I'd forgotten to do!:j:j:jWill be able to 'make' another £200ish once OH gets home and properly registered on my work health care plan - they will pay for his much needed new glasses which were a small fortune! - but not until he does his health check! - More money for the debts next month - I may just hit that £500 target!!!:j:j:j

[must make a mental note to self that tedious paperwork keeps us solvent - SIGH - I hate paperwork - just have to learn to hate the scary debt more]

Cheery_Daff

Oooh RT, some great debt paying off from you there - hooray!! :j :j Yes, tedious paperwork does indeed keep one solvent :rotfl: It's worth it!

Had a lovely day and little one was extremely well behaved 12 weeks old today and her first train trip - she slept all the way through it :j Was happy all the way through pub lunch, fed most of the way through the care home event (and played and laughed with the old ladies, who adored her), and then cried all the way home :rotfl: :rotfl:

Rang up and booked viewing for cheery house on Sunday morning :eek: :eek: They managed to talk me into a valuation of ours - which I managed to put off til next Friday afternoon :eek: :eek: :eek: Doesn't give me long to do the plastering, and the whole place is is :eek: :eek: Don't even know where to start Cobwebs, clutter, grime, broken pane in the door, sounds like something off one of those tv prorammes! :eek:

Utterly terrified. Feel like people who own the house we're going to view will tell us we can't buy it because we're not grown up enough and clearly just playing around And the estate agent valuing ours will tell us what disgusting pigs we are and how we've ruined the house and will never be able to move because nobody will ever want to live here after us

(er, am I a teeny bit stressed and getting things out of proportion?! Possibly :rotfl: )

Karmacat

Just possibly, yes! I know *exactly* how you feel tho - well, not exactly, but that sense of "I'm not really grown up enough for this" - yep. Remember that whatever cleaning you do doesn't have to be thorough, it just has to be around the bits the EA will see, he's not going to be shifting furniture.

The day with the baby sounds adorable! My little great-nephew was like that last year, he was 3 months old, and it took him about 2 hours to wake up so we could see his eyes

Cheery_Daff

Thanks kc :kisses3:

Stripped some more paper (and rather a lot more plaster :eek: ) off bathroom. Stopped to find screwdriver to remove cupboards but then Mr Cheery came home and I abandoned it to drink amaretto and check we hadn't missed an exciting new house (we haven't )

Starting to get a bit more familiar with the process and it's *starting* to seem a little less scary after long chats with my sister, who helpfully was training to be a conveyancor before she left to have her kids. She thinks it's hilarious i'm getting so worried - i'm the older more sensible one!! :rotfl:

Made a list of stuff to buy and do tomorrow, Mr Cheery on board and pretty free this week to do stuff before valuation :j so all good

Wickes is going to do well out of me tomorrow!! :rotfl: Mind you we have a marvellous tiny local paint shop here so i'll be buying all paint from there, and also an excellent tiny hardware shop so all sundry stuff comes from there (they have an adorable shop dog too, a little cairn terrier like Pippi's two ) So basically Wickes for plastering stuff and not much else :rotfl:

I'll miss living round here if we go Mind you, house we're
viewing is about 2 miles away so hardly the other side of the country :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Well, I've managed to get most of what I needed between the local cheery paint shop and the local hardware shop :j :j Told them both we'd found a house we wanted to buy and were looking to move so it must be real :rotfl:

Then popped to Wickes and somehow managed to spend another £75 on top of the £47 I already spent between paint and hardware shops :eek: :eek:

Still, I now have
- all plastering supplies (including tools)
- paint for celings, bathroom, attic, varnish for windowframes, plus brushes, white spirit etc
- new loo seat (ours is cracked)
- many, many industrial strength cleaning supplies :rotfl: :rotfl:

In need of a cup of tea and a lie down now :rotfl: