Starbucks, Trainers and Cottages - Ohhh My!

supersaver1000

Poor you. Hope you feel better soon.

Maryland_Cookie

Hope you feel better soon x x

EchoDelta

Get well soon xx

alioops78

Hope you're feeling better soon, nothing worse than being sick when you've got a million and one things to do.

Paypal thingy is about 1% but I blame pregnancy brain :rotfl:

The only way I'm geting through everything is by having a fantastic husband that has realised that me having a nap is now perfectly reasonable and to just carry on bless him lol.

VeronicaMars

:smileyheaThank you guys!!!

I'm better now - I was so ill. Throwing up, bed bound - the works!

Its all very sexy. NOT.

1% - Woohoooo :jthat is much better than 10% alioops!

As expected another busy week. Shipping people came and went through our house. Constant issues with the letting agency - they are just idiots, basically. To quote Mr Mars - If you pay peanuts; you get monkeys. I personally think Mr Mars was being quite disrespectful here, as monkeys could do a better job than theses guys. :rotfl:

They literally cannot get a date or anything correct. It is error after error. I am letting nothing slide, though. EVERYTHING is being put in writing. :mad:

Managed to get my wedding thank you cards sorted, just need to get some envelopes and then get them sent! Phew. NExt up; the album.

Decided I am going to pay one of the credit cards off in August. The BOS one at around £2k. It just did not sit correctly with me that we are going away with two credit cards. Plus the 0% runs out on it soon and with everything going on I would forget (have I mentioned I am unorganised?) and get charges and lose out on all the interest I have spent the last year trying to get.

That will offically mean Mr Mars and I only have one credit card left @ 2k. :money:

xoxo

VeronicaMars

Actually just decided to pay the credit card just now whilst I remembered....

It is DONE!!! :money:

As soon as it clears the account I will be calling up and cancelling the card :beer:

I now have one credit card left at £1,850 - I upped the direct debit from £150 - £250 so that when the 0% runs out in January (or Feburary can't remember) I will have very little balance left and not this shocking amount that I need to pay!

I work out that if it runs out in January. I would only have 350 left to pay!!! Or £100 if it is February! :j

Feel better already! x

SixChickensandaGoat

VeronicaMars wrote: »

4p Road kill found on the way home from work.

Mr Mars was mortified! The road kill had seen better days! He said surely I would not use it, but I explained to him that it was COLD HARD CASH and that if he didn't want half of my penny jar takings that was fine by me... he changed his tune

xoxo

I do this all the time, better in your penny jar than anyone else's!!

:money:

Maryland_Cookie

Veronica mars where are you?!?! No posts no blogs, have you emigrated already.......xxx

VeronicaMars

Maryland_Cookie wrote: »

Veronica mars where are you?!?! No posts no blogs, have you emigrated already.......xxx

HOHO Maryland cookie! :rotfl:You made me chuckle - I know –WHERE have I been? Got some grief off my friends at the weekend. One told me I would regret neglecting them and that it would hit me on the plane. Another told me how 3 of them went to lunch and discussed if I had fallen out with them and they did not know it. They came to unanimous agreement that I went AWOL and I had not fallen out with them. Phew.

Mr Mars is working the commonwealth games, so he has also been AWOL. Just as well we are moving, as I fear we are both about to run out of friends

Well, I am now trying to make a conscious effort to update this regularly. If not so I feel communicated and part of something again, then to at least keep the finances under control (I heard that was the original point of this forum? ) I feel we are haemorrhaging money. It is not good.

But today is PAAAYYYYDAYYYYY! :T Time to party and pay off some of the credit card balances!

Summary of credit card spends:

• Joint: 214.87 (food and petrol)
• Me: 315.52
• Mr Mars: 237.94

Mr Mars bought a Garmin for his bike and I bought a bike! I was talking about buying a bike (see earlier in diary) and then I went over on my ankle and tore my ligaments PLUS Mr Mars found an amazing bargain on the bike in Halfords so decided to go for it. I can’t run (my marathon is out) but I’m allowed to try cycling in a weeks’ time. I POSTED about it on the blog –pictures and all!

www.lifeatthelodgehouse.blogspot.co.uk


CAVEAT:A all items come out of our monthly pocket money!

On another note one of my friends told us that she has saved £95k. Let me repeat that for those who thought they were hallucinating…£95k.

For the last 4 years they basically have lived off her husband’s salary and saved all of hers (she earns a lot more). If you, like me, are trying to work that out, it is roughly £2,000 a month. In savings. She saved £2,000 a month. For 4 years she has saved TWO THOUSAND POUNDS a month as well as managing to get married, go on holiday about 10 times, shop and just LIVE.

I literally still cannot get my head round what it would be like to have £90k in savings. I feel rich having about £9k in savings…RICH I TELL YOU!

xoxo

supersaver1000

Yayy. She's back. :T