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

Cheery_Daff

Goodness, I've neglected coming in here for days! :eek: Goodness knows where this week has gone, it's just run away with me!

Still, I'm here now, and girding my loins to check banks/YNAB after a few days of neglect

Had a lovely morning sitting eating tasty things at the local WI cafe, and then amblind round the charity shops with Mr Cheery Really nice, like what we used to do when we didn't spend every free moment doing the decorating :rotfl:

Bought a couple of things too - a nice bright red jumper for £3.99 and a designer (apparently) card with red and gold stripes for £2.99 Going all red and autumnal it seems

Had lunch, made a plan for the afternoon, apologised profusely as I realised I was actually meant to be somewhere else while I was swanning around enjoying myself this morning and now am sat down with tea and can't avoid YNAB any longer..... Back in a bit

Cheery_Daff

Oops :rotfl: Got slightly distracted when my feet were cold, and I remembered that I'd (a) FINALLY finished knitting my second sock yesterday and (b) acquired a darning needle in a charity shop so I could sew up the toe

Sock sew up, feet warm and cosy, kettle on for *another* cuppa, and NOW I will dive into the banks, I promise! :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Ok, banks done and goodness me I've been a slacker this week :eek: £24 had to be put in the 'budget fiddling' category because I didn't have receipts and I just could NOT remember what I'd done with it :eek: Shocking state of affairs - that's £47 gone to budget fiddling this month! :eek: :eek:

It's not that I mind spending it - it's that I can't remember what i spent it on that's the annoying thing!! :eek:

I also appear to have £178 that I've spent on food this month too :eek: And I'm not even in charge of doing the food shopping - that's Mr Cheery's job! :eek: So this is all just buying milk on the way home, snacks for at work, treats etc. Doesn't even include lunch out (that's the treats budget). Good grief.

Clearly need to get right back into the habit of putting everything in YNAB as I go along as I seem to have got rather frittery, especially in relation to food... :eek:

Might need another cup of tea now to get over that :eek:

rtandon27

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

...Had a lovely morning sitting eating tasty things at the local WI cafe, and then amblind round the charity shops with Mr Cheery Really nice, like what we used to do when we didn't spend every free moment doing the decorating :rotfl: ...

Oh dearest Cheery - OH & I do sympathize with how you feel! We too had a lovely outing today doing what we used to do, after two years of spending every spare moment getting my in-laws house prepared for selling. (It is a 3 hour drive away from us!) We finally put it on the market, had 68 viewings in one day & 66 offers - Offer accepted was 50K more than we expected & not the highest as developers were a no go for us! - Hopefully you will have the same type of success when your sell yours!!!!!

Cheery_Daff

Gosh RT!! :eek: obviously all your effort was worth it! 68 viewers, and 66 offers?! That's ludicrous!! How come you got so many?!

Just made a giant meal - two different types of curry and home made chapatis, Greying would have been proud I used recipes and everything Sadly neither of them were that nice and now there's a giant pile of washing up :rotfl:

rtandon27

Cheery - I'm guessing because it's a lovely old 3 bedroom victorian row house a 10 minute walk away from a station that goes express straight into the big smoke!

I'm so jealous that you made indian flatbread from scratch - I've tried them several times & was never able to make them palatable! We resort to a ready made brand called N!shaan - they are 6 for 1pound and warm up nicely on the caste iron skillet! There is only one curry I can make from scratch but OH is not a fan of heavily spiced foods, so only make it once or twice a year now! P@taks in a jar is my usual go to!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Don't be too jealous, i have no idea whether they were authentic :rotfl:just mixed flour, water, salt and a bit of oil and rolled them out and fried in just a smear of oil very tasty but we did eat rather too many! :rotfl:

milasavesmoney

Almost flour tortillas.

Cheery_Daff

Indeed Mila - in fact I'm not really sure what the difference is supposed to be... :rotfl:

Evening all :hello:

All cheerful here in fact I'm impressed at how cheerful Ive been these last couple of weeks since I officially gave up having conversations about decoratig with friends and acquaintences :rotfl: :rotfl: i was getting myself in a right old tizz setting deadlines and not meeting them, and squabbling with Mr Cheery but now I"ve let go of the whole thing, no deadlines, it'll happen when it happens - and things have instantly got a LOT less grumpy and more cheerful

(Of course we might never move house at thia rate :rotfl: bit things *are* progressing and in the meantime were saving the equivalent of a mortgage payment each month :j )

Anyway, nowt much to report. Taken lunch to work the last couple of days. Gym now down to £5.16 per visit and rapidly approaching paying for itself renewal in January and I've learned that if I go for some kind of staff health check I'll get a discount so mustremember to book at appropriate time :money:

Raspberry canes in front garden are yielding just enough for breakfasts :j also overhanging pavement considerably so I MUST tie them up at the weekend.

Ooh, and much excitement in the Cheery household the other day at Poundland - we'd bought some packets of stick on floor tiles aiming to do the kitchen floor with them (sparing no expense, as usual :rotfl: ) but our local shop ran out of that design before we'd bought enough :eek: been checking regularly but they've never got any more in. Popped into the one in the town centre on the off chance the other day and joy of joys! They had 35 boxes! :j :j We bought all of them :rotfl:

(Our kitchen isn't huge - there are only 4 in a box!) :rotfl:

With that and the first lot we should have enough now :j :j :j

Today Mr Cheery has been measuring up for the odd bits of skirting board we need on the landing, and miraculously has managed to acquire all we need from friends/freegle/skips. That man is a good scavenger :rotfl:

Anyway, under my new rules weeknights after work do NOT involve any DIY so I'm off to curl up on the sofa with my book :j Hope you're all good

rtandon27

Cheery I'm loving your new rule -
Me time is so very important!