Life begins at.... some time before 70?!

getting-sorted-sarah

Hello everyone!

Tilly (or someone else passing by) can I ask you what are S&S, PC and CP? I thought I knew most of the abreviations but those are new to me! It will defintely be the small stuff for me I think, although I will have some disposable income when I stop paying my car loan next month :T

No news from solicitor about completing, she is seemingly ignoring my emails and voicemails :mad: and this is driving me crazy. I probably shouldn't have started the diary till I had moved but I am always a keen-er! :rotfl:

Still, at least I get to make lists of things to buy! Meal out tonight with a friend, with free champagne due to a voucher sent for my birthday (worth signing up for emails from the chain restaurants if you ever use them, I have also been sent a free main course, free prossecco and 20% off £50 spend - won't use all of them but nice to have!). Will try to keep food spend down.

Taking my (quite heavy) small change jar to the bank after work, so some upper body exercise as well as money saving!

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Hi,

S&S - shop and scan - scan food shopping each week, upload receipt and every 10k points = £10 (500 points for receipt, 1100 for scan)

CP - consumer pulse - complete purchases on line for clothes, beauty products, films etc - 10k points = £10. 250 points per item purchased plus 250 points per week.

PC- PineCone - pay £3 per survey and pay straight away to PayPal

Hope you followed cool down exercises after upper body exercise, carrying money to bank

Tilly x x

getting-sorted-sarah

Thanks Tilly, that is useful - I already do Pinecone and some other surveys, but will investigate the other things!

Oh, I followed the exercise with free champagne whilst sitting in the sunshine - the best cool down ever! :rotfl:

So, good things =
TT of 51p yesterday and 29p today
Appointment with solicitor on Monday to look at paperwork and set exchange/completion date :T
Coins in bank = £15 and some pence, lost receipt so need to check this

Bad-ish things =
Meal out and carpark last night £26
Bring and share lunch at work £3.80 on bread, butter

Bit cooler today, hooray, yesterday was crazy!

Spaghetti for dinner tonight, off to make that and then investigate CP and S&S!

S x

Goldiegirl

Hello, just been reading your new diary.

I think you're starting out as you mean to go on.

I've found that it's a trial and error thing - some things didn't work for me, like setting myself a NSD target for the month. I found it was too restricting for me. So I dropped that idea.

But other things, like home bread making, have been fantastic. I invested in a bread maker, and it's paid for itself already. I never even think about shop bought or takeaway pizzas. My home made ones are better than anything I could buy ready made.

Good luck on your quest.

MoneyMission

Hi Getting-Sorted-Sarah

I second the entry into the Oxford Concise for Tilly Tidy. I speak it so frequently at home that it sometimes nearly pops out in general conversation! Non-msers would wonder what I was on about!

Good luck.

MM

gallygirl

MoneyMission wrote: »

Hi Getting-Sorted-Sarah

I second the entry into the Oxford Concise for Tilly Tidy. I speak it so frequently at home that it sometimes nearly pops out in general conversation! Non-msers would wonder what I was on about!

Good luck.

MM

My DD made reference to Tilly in front of someone last week - she thought that was her real name :rotfl:.

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

gallygirl wrote: »

My DD made reference to Tilly in front of someone last week - she thought that was her real name :rotfl:.

:rotfl::rotfl: I think it's my real name half the time :rotfl::rotfl:

getting-sorted-sarah

Wow, thank you all for popping in! This is turning into a proper diary!

Goldiegirl thanks for the advice - I agree, if I set myself things that I can't keep up then I abandon them and feel like I have failed, NSDs are worth celebrating but I don't think I could stick to a fixed amount! I've just put pizzas on my Tesco order because usually I try to be good, and then break and order from Domeenos, so next time i have a weak momen there will be pizza in the freezer (hidden at the back...). I love making bread and hm pizza too, on the list for after we have moved!

So, today! Good things:
Free lunch at a meeting at work, a rare perk indeed and very yummy! I stopped short of filling a tuperware, but only just.
TT (Registered Trade Mark of Tilly Enterprises) of 89p
Got paid! :T
Signed up for free Gourmet card as perk for being a Tezzco bank customer
Got Tezzco deal vouchers in the post for OH's birthday treat
Making Carrot Cake for OH's birthday tomorrow, and there will be spare for DS's lunchbox.

(Biographical detail: OH is a long distance OH, no prospect of us moving closer at the moment, so petrol is a major cost! Including my trip to drop DS off at his dad's, it is 200 miles each way, and I go up every other weekend. Except this weekend we are staying in a B&B for a birthday treat. Room through Quidc0 and using a Hotelz.com free night.)

Badder things:
Drinking wine this evening (ok, and yesterday).

Raining like it is November now, what is with this country?

S x

gallygirl

getting-sorted-sarah wrote: »

(Biographical detail: OH is a long distance OH

Highly recommended - 16 years and still going strong here :rotfl:

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Raining here too

Tilly x