Working towards being debt free and a new house.

dipdap

Good morning diary!
Got a bug going around the Dip household at the minute so getting on here has been low on my list of priorities
Now I've got 5 minutes to myself I'm just updating my spending diary, will bring the figures over shortly

dipdap

Sunday

£3.00 on basketball
£2.80 on groceries
£3.94 on ciggys

Total spend = £9.74

Monday

£4.50 on dance
£9.83 on groceries
£45 on gift cards (sometimes use these to pay one of my bills, take advantage of money off fuel benefit )

Total spend for the day = £58.33

Tuesday

£3.94 on ciggys
£2.70 on groceries

Total spend = £6.64

Wednesday

£24.49 on groceries


Think I'm all caught up now

dipdap

Woohoo, it's payday tomorrow :j
I think in going to attempt a balance transfer from DH card to mine, there's no way we'll be able to clear the balance by the end of next month (got nearly £500 to pay in travel expenses :mad: )
Fingers crossed it goes through, although it won't be the end of the world if it doesn't

dipdap

Just ordered my new sewing machine pedal (again! Hopefully this one works properly!)
Should be here Monday, got a few deliveries booked in that day so looks like a stuck at home day for me
Withdrawn £50 from my cashback account :j should have another £50 become payable soon so that's a hundred quid for my Christmas pressie shopping :j
I'm hoping to be able to do all Christmas pressies that are left for under a hundred quid using the cashback should be achievable as I've got plenty of gift cards to use too )

LittleMissGiggles123

dipdap wrote: »

Food shopping consisted of bread, milk, sliced meat, cereal and burger buns for tomorrow. The kids always seem to go through cereal super fast when I have it in the house, you can guarantee one runs out before the end of the week :mad:

Hi dipdap,


Just discovered your diary so was having a quick read & thought I'd comment on what you said about cereal.


When I was younger my mum used to do a monthly shop for groceries (apart from top up stuff like bread & milk).


Anyway, what she would do is me & my 2 sisters would get to choose any box of cereal we wanted each. So one box each of anything. But that was our cereal for the whole month. If we ran out we would then have to make do with the stores own brand cornflakes. You can guarantee we would more often than not make that cereal last!! She'd also do the same with packets of biscuits, one packet each for the month. All other treats & snacks were either plain old digestives (although I LOVE these anyway) or my mums home baked goodies.


Just thought it could be a way of keeping track of these items.


Good luck!

dipdap

Hi littlemissgiggles
Thanx for the tips
I think I shall start using that idea with some the kids cereal, only problem with one of them is she eats value Rice Krispies already which don't break the bank.
I'm thinking it could be nice to let them pick any cereal they like, would be a break from the norm
I need to get them sat down with shopping lists, need to be stricter on this shopping malarkey

dipdap

Morning diary
I ordered a new pedal for my sewing machine yesterday and it's turned up already :T hopefully this one works

£3.94 on ciggys
£26.18 on sewing machine pedal
£24.81 on groceries
£40.00 on fuel
£13.00 on dance

Total spend for yesterday = £107.93 :eek:

dipdap

Just ordered my new shoes :j treated myself to some nice ones.
Paid with some of my cashback and the best thing is there's a Black Friday deal and they're now 30% off :j
DH work have managed to pay him and miss all his overtime off :mad:
Other than that I'm having a very good day today :j

dipdap

Morning diary
How is there 40 people on my list of giftees for Christmas (including family) :eek:
Looking through I already have pressies for over half, so it's not all bad.
Most of the people on my list get a gift from the present cupboard or a cheap bottle of wine

dipdap

Hello diary
I think I need to update my spending for the week
Just noticed I haven't written anything down since Thursday :eek:
Will sit down and go over my figures in the morning