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

Cheery_Daff

Well, as predicted, not a NSD

Printing cost £14 :eek: Which means that next time I shall be buying posher paper and doing it at home!! :rotfl:

Also spent £2.50 on a posh kind of briefcase bag thing for work

(oh, and £2.99 on a most fabulous patio brush and 79p on some rubber gloves but they come from the house budget so don't count)

Shouldn't be anything else today though :j

Cheery_Daff

Nope, nothing else last night :j :j Avoided having a takeaway and cooked instead

Today has been a bit more spendy... popped to the food festival in a delgue and the top snapped off my brolly :eek: Quick emergency trip to Age UK and £4.25 spent on another one - the only one they had left was a kind of see through thing with black and yellow dots on that comes down over your face :rotfl:

Also bought
£3 notebook and sheet protector things
£2 pens
£2 toiletry things
£1.70 bus home

Should be it now, I'm back home (and it's stopped raining now I'm inside :rotfl: )

Night of indoor pottering I think

DedicatedDFW

Hey Cheery,

You're doing so well keeping track of spends :T
Hairdo - i was going for a bit shaved off down 1 side front to back, so not whole head or half a head even, the bit over my ear anyways. In this shave bit i had a design to be shaved into it - like a deeper shave bit i suppose, the design was a quite pretty and colourful pattern with nice big flowers on too Unfortunately the cost of keep having the pattern emphasized and colour done was too much for me

I don't know what to have done now with my hair, i am a bit bored of the same cut / colour and would love it all multi-coloured as i enjoyed having purple in it before but again costs

Hope you're having a lovely weekend xx

Cheery_Daff

Well just think of the things you'll be able to do when you're debt free! :j :j :j Sounds fab with all those colours and flowers, don't think I've ever seen anything like it! :j

Well, I can officially declare another NSD - number 10? or 11?? I've lost track :rotfl: Will go back through posts tomorrow

Wasn't hard - spent the morning on the community allotment, afternoon buttling around the house and working on funding bid for said allotment, then went to meeting this evening (with donation from envelope). Bought bananas on way home but they were from food budget so don't count

Nearly there! :j

Cheery_Daff

Not a NSD day today...

Went for a run this morning :j First for ages (other than the race for life and the triathlon of course :rotfl: but they're races ) Popped into the garden centre while I was out (all red and sweaty) to check they had courgettes etc).

Popped back later, spent £6 on 2 courgette plants, 3 outdoor cucumber plants, and a tray of basil :j :j

Also popped out for bits of food - £3 on porridge, fruit etc which can come from food budget, plus £2 for soup and bread etc as a treat for Mr Cheery, who's been very busy buttling on today and needed a treat

Got a couple of free raspberry plants from a pal :j :j Then forgot to plant them before I took all me muddy clothes off... Will have to go out later before I put my pjs on :rotfl: :rotfl:

Planning a NSD tomorrow :j

Off to udate signature before I lose track of myself!

Cheery_Daff

Oops, also remembered £5 on slimming world and £3 on stamps! :eek:

So - signature updated and we're up to 11 NSDs :j :j :j :j A world record for me

and £196 spent :eek: :eek: :eek: SO close...

Only got to get through a few days

Tues - working at home, meeting donation in eve (already in pot, probably £2)
Wed - fieldwork - NSD?
Thurs - fieldwork - NSD?
Fri - office, just work travel (doesn't count) - NSD??
Sat - I think I might start June's budget on Saturday as I'll need to fill the car up to go to a conferency thing :rotfl:

So I might well make it after all... just... with all my pots and caveats

Cheery_Daff

So, where are we now?

Tuesday was a NSD Put £2 in pot at meeting as planned so need to update sig.

Yesterday was NSD too Out on fieldwork so I did spend on taxis etc but I'll claim that back so doesn't count. Also, er, had a takeaway in the evening :rotfl: But that was £11 between us from the treats budget so also doesn't count

Danger zone today though with an impromptu day off! :eek: If I was on fieldwork I'd have no trouble not spending anything, but I'm not, and I have to pop into town to deliver a letter...

Not sure of the best way to avoid spending £1.70 on the bus will take me to dead on £200 (!) so that's just about allowable if I don't spend anything else

Also need to do a 6 mile run, so I guess I could run into town and back, but then my letter would get all crumpled and it's a funding application for our voluntary group so sweaty and crumpled probably doesn't look very good... :rotfl:

Also - I was going to go to bank tomorrow (payday ) to get envelope money out. Can't go now as I'm in York all day (in the office, so no chance to go to bank). Also can't go Saturday, or any day til next Friday.

So, two options:

(1) just get money from cash machine in £10 notes, and accept that I'll have to spend some of it to get change for bus fares
(2) transfer the money into current account from savings, get it out of the bank today (I'm passing anyway) then transfer straight back tomorrow when I'm paid.

(2) seems counter-intuitive as I'll have the money a whole day before I'm due it, and it almost feels like cheating. But doing (1) might make me feel like I'm failing with my envelope system, and I risk a whole week of unfocused spending trying to get the right small change for things...

Hmm, think I might do (2), although that involves adding 'sort how much money I need for envelopes' to my giant list of things to do this morning!!

starnac

(2) sounds like the best plan IMO even though it feels like cheating. A small cheat might be better than unplanned spending just to get change. It'll take an age to get the right money and by then you'll have blown a weeks worth of tea and cake

Good luck on your list today

Cheery_Daff

Wouldn't want to have blown a week's worth of tea and cake!! :eek: :rotfl:

Trying to sort out voluntary group funding bid. Someone else took over and submitted the form, but it's got the wrong name on, they haven't signed the bank account bit (which now doesn't match the name on the form anyway) and now appear to have gone on holiday...

Deep breaths required today I think!!

Tea first and banks At least something is under my control!! :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Ok....

Bank accounts looking relatively stable...

My personal one has 11p in :rotfl: but at least I know nothing else is going out of there now!

Joint current has £80 in - which is £40 more than my spreadsheet says it should have... Oops! :rotfl: At least it's not £40 less I suppose Only need it for £20 work travel and £18 payment to union, so all good

And other good news! :j :j Refund from BT has landed so have transferred all £63.76 to savings account off to update sig