NSK; The August Fairwell

speakingofart

Morning everyone! Didn't manage a SFD yesterday as went shopping instead of going today, as I had no veg. However, now have veg and milk for the rest of the week as well as enough meals in the freezer for about 3 weeks, so today will be a SFD and hopefully see most of a final draft of my analysis as well. Very much liked the new doctor, although I did wonder why they repeated the Girl in the Fireplace to quite that extent....

SFD 12/12
Exercise 13/16
Food £85.06/ £150 (till 15th September)
Petrol £0/60

Caeraugirl

Morning all, quick check in as popping in to work soon to catch up on all the stuff I should have been doing when I was out with boys and friends, doing all the school holiday stuff I wasn't able to do while my mum was here....

Budget for both food and planned spends completely blown now, but not gonna beat myself up about it, September is a clean slate. Have bagged another two spend free days since last proper update though, and hoping for another today.

No exercise except for lots of walking with kids on Friday, I'm going to count that as already way off target of 18 sessions for the month!! Will work out new totals later, enjoy your Sundays.

dolly84

Yesterday was a really busy day, DH bought the scratch repair kit as planned then we ended up buying DD some clothes for Autumn/Winter in Sainsburys whilst they had 25% off, this was not planned. DH also bought a shirt in Next which we hadn't planned to do. August has been a terrible month for spending for us.

DH painted the summerhouse, we already had the lovely sage green stain from doing the inside but the outside was the usual stain colour because we got a free tin of that colour with it, anyway it had faded and needed a new coat for winter so now it is a lovely green and looks really pretty.

Oh I nearly forgot we had to buy our dog a new collar, lead and halti, the old set was nearly 5 years old and despite washing it it stunk to high heaven. We got him a collar half price but they didn't have matching leads so we got one the same colours with a different design. The halti was the most expensive at £12 but he can't be walked without one, most labradors have to wear one, they just love to pull.

Then later it got even worse, we bought a TV. Let me justify this, our main TV is over 12 years old and is the very old style, massive thing, it still works and I hate to get rid of something that works but the time has come for it to go in the loft just in case we need it. We got a half price one from Tesco then used a £15 off a £75 spend, then we doubled up all out clubcard vouchers giving us another £37 off so we paid £77 for a 32" TV. It is quite small as I hate those massive things and we are not interested in a bang up to date all singing all dancing one, we pick it up Tuesday and I'm sure it will be fine for us.

I am hoping with all my heart we manage to get through today without spending any more money.

Today I am doing Septembers budgets, Tuesday is payday so I can't pay anything out until then but I can get the numbers ready and see where we are at.

Have a lovely Sunday guys, hope the sun is shining for you all.

[Deleted User]

Don't panic Dolly...hold your nerve, I'm sure today will be better!!
I am back in the swing of the paying guests, juggling them and a friend who is staying for a couple of days at the same time. Wasn't sure how it would work out but was an emergency for my friend (and is lovely to see her!). It is all going fine, people get on ok, and only awkward bit is being quiet at night after the paying guests have gone to bed - we ended up gassing in the garden with blankets last night! It is so worth it though - I just sent payment for £130 to our loan, as soon as the payout was confirmed, but again, before it had actually appeared in my account. So no chance of it disappearing into the swirls of debt! I am allowing both DD and I a treat from next weeks big paying guests payout, as it is involving a lot of work for me. DD gets to take some friends to our waterpark (budgeting £60 for three of them :eek: and that is taking our lunch and just allowing for one ice cream!) and I get to take my friend who is here today out for lunch (£20). Thats our spends allocated for the rest of the holiday...everything else is just normal budgets now.

Fmess

Afternoon all

Spend day here as found an Asd4 click and collect £5 discount voucher on MSE the other day so I ordered half the month's pet food and got £5 off

Did the car boot this morning but hardly made any money. What I did make is going to be paid off the loan anyway, even if it's not as much as I'd hoped for. On the plus side, I did get rid of a load of carp that has been sat around at home and it saves me taking photos, listing on eb4y, packaging and then posting it all

Agreed that I'll attend tonights social engagement but will drive and not drink and not go clubbing so it should be a free evening

Hope you're all ok

mothernerd

Well a mixed day for me, have spent money and it is a banned item. Had done about an hour earlier watering plants (not emptied the drip bucket fully) and other bits. Came up to rest and started a post on another thread, DS3 went to answer the door and it was mr and mrs builder. So have spent over an hour going round discussing the remaining work and which things they are going to do.

Leg just one screaming lump - staggered into DS3's room and he said "You look like a woman who needs takeaway and I agreed". he then got in first and said I was paying for it (he gave me another 2 weeks rent yesterday out of his second chunk of commission cash - he was working on the drawings most of last week and also released a new game). So back on the bed waiting for painkillers to take effect.

I have a list of about 7 items to cook which I will combine with selling the remaining dvds etc. - can sit at the dining room table to chop. peel and list and monitor everything I am cooking/ baking. But obviously over my standing up limit for today.

I did nearly 6 hours sewing on Thursday to complete the birdcage cover - just as well because the bird(s) weren't due to come till later in the year but a friend had bought it on Thursday. Hoping to do a cook/list day and two days where I do six hours sewing the first day and then see how long I can do the next day - testing various activities, how long they take and then noting any difficulties (not problems) and symptoms which follow.

Food has arrived - back later.

liltdiddylilt

Hey everyone. Gone a bit quiet in here. Think we are struggling with our personal lives vs. challenge balance this month collectively.

I nearly scuppered it all today and spent £55.34 on Arg0s. Jellytots Xmas present, from me and mum. I think the panic and paranoia is setting in. When I was little and mum had cancer, I lived very much day to day with the fear that my mum might not be around shortly. Have spent 15 years free of that thought (almost - the last bout of cancer was so swiftly dealt with a few years ago it was a bit surreal) and now the fear is back and all of my energy is focused on Jellytot and memories for her. So I swore blind that I was buying her her first proper dolls pram and the doll to go with it. Have now decided to let mum buy the doll. I also set Jellytot up an email account, and emailed family members to say please email her as regularly as you can when something good happens or you have a pic to share or something. For her 16th or 18th birthday... I didn't buy it, but it is sat waiting in the basket for a spend day. I will get it then. Plus side I get a £5 voucher for spending £50 and £20 of that was mums spend And it is christmas money already saved, and way within budget!

SO by the skin of my teeth a SFD today. Little walk with Jelly but no 'exercise' per se. Apple crumbles made with free cooking apples, and some biscuits costing a couple of pence each from cupboard staples! :T

Night peeps

mothernerd

Sending you hugs Lilt.

Today am grateful for my health (making the rules up as I go along), my skills (will start making money from them sometime) and good cheap builders (who know how to do things but try to keep the costs down).

Reserving the right to spill the beans on DS2 at a later date (DS3 and I will get through this somehow - it's just the final hurdle and then everything will be plain sailing). Progress anyway.

Keep plodding turtles.

speakingofart

Spend free day yesterday, probably another one today as I refuse to go out in this awful weather! Have been bad at updating my totals, so have done that below. Today hopefully is the final push to submit a full draft, so at least the rain means i'm not wishing I was outside.

SFD 13/12
Exercise 16/16
Food £85.06/ £150 (till 15th September)
Petrol £0/60

dolly84

Yay - we managed to not spend any money yesterday.