This is it *ping* lightbulb!!!

kindofagilr

Im thinking of upping my grocery budget to £55 a week, we don't buy fresh fruit, and im missing it, so for feb I will up the budget and make sure I spend the whole £5 on fruit xx

clearmydebts

Hope you are feeling better. My 2 kids are munchers
when it comes to fruit. Its so expensive isn't it?

kindofagilr

Thank you, I still feel icky

Yes it def is, my daughter devoured a banana at her grandmas house and it made me feel bad that we don't have fruit in, she eats loads of veg, and raisins, so I will def be buying some, £5 on fruit alone shoukd get quite a bit shouldn't if? Xx

clearmydebts

kindofagilr wrote: »

Thank you, I still feel icky

Yes it def is, my daughter devoured a banana at her grandmas house and it made me feel bad that we don't have fruit in, she eats loads of veg, and raisins, so I will def be buying some, £5 on fruit alone shoukd get quite a bit shouldn't if? Xx

Yeah £5 should get you a fair bit of fruit. I need to start eating some more fruit and vegetables myself. I have gotten very bad lately.

kindofagilr

clearmydebts wrote: »

Yeah £5 should get you a fair bit of fruit. I need to start eating some more fruit and vegetables myself. I have gotten very bad lately.

Yes me too, I'm terrible for it, and now I have my budget and shopping finally sorted out I feel I can easily add £5 a week to it for fruit.

Been to swimming with DS this morning, ive made some flapjacks for the kids to snack on for the week, got pizza dough in breadmaker atm xx

kindofagilr

Just back from the birthday party, it was great, I thought OH was gonna wander around the shopping centre with DD (he doesn't normally do birthday parties) but he wanted to come, I was nervous about this as DD wasn't invited to the party and I know she would obv want to be on the softplay (I would have text the mam amd asked if I could pay for DD if I had realised OH was gonna come lol) anyway turned out ok, there was lots of younger siblings there and it was a place where u hire the place out so its not a fee per child thing, so all the other siblings were allowed to play.

Both kids had a whale of a time lots of fun was had, straight to bed for them when we got home, haven't heard a peep from them so far, fingers crossed for a lie in lol

We were so good, both me and OH fancied a take out but we would have had to use some of next weeks grocery money, so we decided not to get one and to treat ourselves to one when we get paid at the end of the month xx

kindofagilr

Morning all, day off work for me, LO is napping, well I say napping, she is meant to be napping but she is currently not asleep

I decided to do a to do list today

[STRIKE]Empty all bins in house (four of them)
Do dishes
Clear kitchen table
Find somewhere for OH's crap that's cluttering kitchen
Prepare chips (for tea)
Tidy Sitting Room
One load of washing
Put clothes away off radiators
See if I can remember my blog log in (and url lol)
Meal plan for next week
Online shop for next week[/STRIKE]
Clean the bathroom
Look up tyre prices
[STRIKE]Write address on kids thank you cards (Elliot's already signed them)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Go through 'sky never miss' website for my programmes
Update bills spreadsheet
Overpay debt once shopping delivered (so I know how much to overpay)
Pay the kids christmas cheques in to the banks
Go to post office buy stamps then post thank you cards
Take clothes to corner shop to return to next
Update address book[/STRIKE]

Best get on lol

I am DYING for my statements to come in, I have them all except for 4, the last one is due in on the 8th of Feb.

clearmydebts

kindofagilr wrote: »

Just back from the birthday party, it was great, I thought OH was gonna wander around the shopping centre with DD (he doesn't normally do birthday parties) but he wanted to come, I was nervous about this as DD wasn't invited to the party and I know she would obv want to be on the softplay (I would have text the mam amd asked if I could pay for DD if I had realised OH was gonna come lol) anyway turned out ok, there was lots of younger siblings there and it was a place where u hire the place out so its not a fee per child thing, so all the other siblings were allowed to play.

Both kids had a whale of a time lots of fun was had, straight to bed for them when we got home, haven't heard a peep from them so far, fingers crossed for a lie in lol

We were so good, both me and OH fancied a take out but we would have had to use some of next weeks grocery money, so we decided not to get one and to treat ourselves to one when we get paid at the end of the month xx

Well done on resisting the temptation of a take away! We are divils for not organising food and then ordering a take away. Haven't ordered one in a few weeks now so feeling good about that.

kindofagilr

clearmydebts wrote: »

Well done on resisting the temptation of a take away! We are divils for not organising food and then ordering a take away. Haven't ordered one in a few weeks now so feeling good about that.

Thank you

It does get easier, we used to have two or three a week :eek: but since our LBM we haven't had one in ages, I really don't remember what it was we had either it was that long ago lol, I keep telling myself that im gonna treat us to a dominoes end of this month but I'm betting I can't actually bring myself to spend the money on one lol

Asda shopping has just come, which means I have over paid my store card another £6.57 :T I am very chuffed about that xx

kindofagilr

kindofagilr wrote: »

I decided to do a to do list today

[STRIKE]Empty all bins in house (four of them)
Do dishes
Clear kitchen table
Find somewhere for OH's crap that's cluttering kitchen
Prepare chips (for tea)
Tidy Sitting Room
One load of washing
Put clothes away off radiators
See if I can remember my blog log in (and url lol)
Meal plan for next week
Online shop for next week[/STRIKE]
Clean the bathroom
Look up tyre prices
[STRIKE]Write address on kids thank you cards (Elliot's already signed them)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Go through 'sky never miss' website for my programmes
Update bills spreadsheet
Overpay debt once shopping delivered (so I know how much to overpay)
Pay the kids christmas cheques in to the banks
Go to post office buy stamps then post thank you cards
Take clothes to corner shop to return to next
Update address book[/STRIKE]

Best get on lol.

Didn't do too bad