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

Karmacat

Cheery, thats great, I love that you transfer to the long term savings straight away, good for you! And 8 miles! <faints> I'm impressed!

Cheery_Daff

Thanks all :hello:

KC, I have to transfer straight away or it'd just get lost in the general pot! :rotfl: Feels good to have done it though

Inadvertently saved us £1100 today by being too reluctant to travel half way across the peak district on my own with cash in an envelope to buy a car I'd never seen from a man I don't know Can't decide if I was being sensible or pathetic Mr Cheery arranged to see it tomorrow, but we just had a call to say someone else has bought it Fair enough, but if I'd have gone this morning we could have had it by now!

Ah well...

Other than that, been at the community garden (nowt to spend on there!) and in my own garden harvesting rosemary and digging and chopping stuff ready for the tip when we have a new car :j

Popping out to a meeting tonight so will be making a small donation there, so I don't think I could legitimately count it as a NSD but it's darn close!

Cheery_Daff

Right - been back in to energy website and changed to a flexible direct debit of £120 a month :j

It was £147, but we're £253 in credit and I've just changed plans and fixed the prices, so estimated yearly cost is less.

They were recommending £135, but I've switched it to £120 because I reckon we can use less... (she says, hopefully...).

With it being flexible, if we use more than we've paid for in any one month, they can take a bigger direct debit (but only up to £202). Given that we have a large credit balance, and given that we're coming up to spring (she says, again, hopefully...) we should be alright for a few months :j

Just thought - given I worked the budget out on the basis of paying £147, I should transfer that extra £27 a month to the long term savings each month, shouldn't I?? That means it's in the current account initially if we use more than we think and they have to take it, but if not, it can go straight over.

Right - off to transfer Feb's £27 :j :j Oh I am SO glad I came back here, got myself into a whole new mindset :j :j

Cheery_Daff

Yawn - was about to get all efficient and actually go through cashback site to order new phone/internet package - but Mr Cheery set up my new laptop last week and has installed an ad blocker thing - normally I appreciate that but it won't let me do cashback, and I can't figure out where it is to disable it! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Ah well, maybe later...

Cheery_Daff

Just quickly popping in to declare...

Sunday:
£2 donation at meeting
£1.35 teabags for meeting (very important )

Today:
£2.90 grapes and 8 clementines from market
£15.50 charity shop clothes (denim skirt, orange corderoy skirt, black jumper and red cardi so not a bad haul! :j
£9.35 at slimming world :eek: (yes, i'm back there again but lost 2lbs tonight and am now only 3.5lbs from target :j ) anyway, that was a magazine, raffle ticket (i didn't win) and 6 boxes of scrummy cereal bars (favourite ever christmas pudding ones on BOGOF so had to stock up before they run out!!) :rotfl: :rotfl:

suppose i should probably go to sleep...

DedicatedDFW

Wow Cheery you were up late - hope you're not too tired today

Well done on being so close to weight target :T

I always think, for me anyway, it is a good exercise writing down spends it makes me more conscious of what i am spending as sometimes things which are cheap / on offer seem a relly good deal and then the next thing is that i have spent £20 without realising it if that makes sense ?

gotta dash - my car repair person is on their way to rescue me

Hope everyone has a good day

Cheery_Daff

Absolutely DDFW - and knowing i'm going to come in and write down every little stupid thing i've bought makes me think twice :rotfl:

Karmacat

Loving the sound of a flexible DD - I've never even heard of that!

And the shopping too - like DDFW, you've got a great haul for your money :DAnd how could you possibly resist christmas pudding flavour bars :rotfl: which reminds me, I have an *actual* Christmas pudding, gluten free and very yummy, that fell down the back of a small freestanding cupboard - I need to rescue it strictly thinking of the pudding's welfare, of course

EssexHebridean

You were categorically not being ANY sort of wimp about the car thing. In fact, I think the word you were looking for was "sensible" - or possible "responsible". Personal safety comes first!

Nice work on the energy thing - that's quite a saving over the year. If you're in that level of credit at this time of year then there was definitely something wrong before I think!

Cheery_Daff

I actually didn't think of it like that EH! But you're right of course, we've obviously not used as much as they're charging us for.

KC, I'd not heard of flexible direct debit either!