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

Cheery_Daff

Just doing a bit of banking and updating sig to £55 spent and 3 NSDs :j :j (the £7 for food is included in that £55 so if I get it back I'll take it off again :rotfl: )

starnac

EssexHebridean wrote: »

And there's not a pot you can allocate it from?! :rotfl:;):D:p

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: that did make me laugh.

Can we ask what kind of event it is Cheery? Work? Pleasure?

Cheery_Daff

made me laugh too

Tis an evening lecture at the university, not going in work time and not really related to the work i'm doing right now, but i'd love to do something related to it at some point for work

so kind of work/pleasure crossover really

on track for NSD today :j :j managed to avoid tea at train station, although only because i had a bag full of chocolate mini rolls... whih i've now eaten :rotfl:

starnac

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

on track for NSD today :j :j managed to avoid tea at train station, although only because i had a bag full of chocolate mini rolls... whih i've now eaten :rotfl:

Swings and roundabouts I'd say

Ooh lecture sounds interesting. Hope you enjoy yourself x

Cheery_Daff

Shall do Even after spending 10 years at university (and now working in one) I don't seem to be able to leave the places alone in the evening either :rotfl: :rotfl:

This will be very interesting - about online identities and interacting with people online etc - right up my street :rotfl: :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

right, let's see where we're at...

Changed the RAC payment to come from the joint account this morning :j Not coming out for a few days yet, and all money saved for in the special other account :j :j Feels Sooooooo good to save for stuff like that.

Popped out this morning to get prescription. Ate some breakfast but bizarrely didn't fancy tea so had herbal - big mistake, after 5 minutes I was complaining and sulking and generally Not Quite Right. I don't do being hungry, or not having enough caffeine! :rotfl:

Perked up a little after tea and half a scone in a cafe £2.70 from treats budget

Out of countable spends I spent...

£1.20 John Seymour's 'The new guide to self sufficiency' (or whatever it's called) - been after a copy for ages and thrilled to find one this cheap in a charity shop!
£1.25 Bob Flowerdew's book about lazy gardening (or something)
£2 fruit pastilles and treaty things for race day on Sunday

Er, think that's it - everything else Mr Cheery paid from food budget :j

Home now and full of lunch although still feel like I got up before I was *quite* ready - ever get that feeling?? Everything takes so much longer - it's almost worth going back to bed for an hour and starting again! :rotfl:

DedicatedDFW

Hi Cheery, Well Done on the nsd's and mindful spending :T I nearly typed mindless then whoops :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I'm going back to basics as it were with keeping a spending diary partly to help with mindful spending and partly to see where i am frittering my money

Hope you get a good time at the race tomorrow - and that your weather isn't as miserable as it is here

Cheery_Daff

weather was indeed miserable DDFW but i had a great time nevertheless! :j :j

not sure how much i spent... not much though! Diesel wihin normal monthly diesel anyway, campsite £17 and food all from weekends away/ joint treats fund. Will go through car for evidence of spends tomorrow :rotfl:

oh, race number belt thing for £5, i remember that!!

EssexHebridean

Well done (again!) - so pleased it went well! :T

Cheery_Daff

:hello:

Had to force myself to pop in today You know when you miss a day out of your spending diary, and then you don't want to keep it up because it doesn't feel complete and so you miss out the rest of the month and end up overspending a fortune?

Well, that :rotfl: :rotfl:

Decided to nip it in the bud. No, I don't know exactly what I spent from my own spends at the weekend, but I *do* know it wasn't much. The only evidence I have is a £5 race number belt and a £3 puzzle book :rotfl:

We really didn't spend much in general - food from treats budget was about it.

So I'm going to declare £10 for the weekend and leave it at that. Better slightly innaccurate than ruining the rest of the month :eek:

Other money-related things that need to happen today...

- ring plumber (again) to let him know his emailed quote hasn't arrived (again)
- check BT account - house phone changes over to another provider today and I want to make sure we'll be getting a final bill - ominously our online bill has £3 odd each quarter for a 'rented phone' (!) - if we ever had one I certainly haven't seen it in the last 8 years, and if we've been absent-mindedly paying £12 a year for at least the last 8 years (and probably nearer 20 years) then surely they've recouped the cost of the phone (if it ever existed) by now... :mad:

Er, think that's it!

Slimming world tonight, so £5 for group and maybe 50p for raffle ticket. Will need to pop and get a bit of fruit etc too (from food budget though)

Off to update signature before I get distracted :rotfl: