Diary of my new life !!!

benbenandme

I'm back, I survived the journey on the motorway :j :j
I have had a nice day at my parents but this week my money is going to pot I spent £16 on petrol (filled up) which was kind of expected in the budget. I also spent £17 (in tesco again!!) on the new memorystick and some sweets. Then we went out for coffee this afternoon and that cost £7.20 :eek: Oh and £1.52 to post an ebay parcel :rolleyes:

On the plus side I have sold another item on ebay, this time for £20, so that takes my total this week up to £43 which will all go towards my Next bill :beer:

benbenandme

Oh and scottish power are increasing my payments to £48 a month :mad: :mad:

Ellidee

Glad the motorway driving was OK and you had a good day. Did you say recently that your parents are hoping to move nearer to you ?

benbenandme

Yeah, their house is up for sale at the moment so hopefully I won't have to drive long distances very often

benbenandme

Morning everyone, I feel shattered this morning, ds woke up at 6:30 :rolleyes:
We are off swimming in an hour or so and then we're oging round to a friends this afternoon so he will be able to play with her two boys there and wear himself out
Later I really need to sort out exactly what money is where as tis starting to worry me as I feel less organised than normal. I love the school holidays but the money just disappears when I'm not at work
£12 came through today from a bingo site so thats been moved over to the mortgage pot and we're almost ready to cross another month off the mortgage :j :j

Karmacat

Hi benben

I know what you mean about knowing where the money is. I've started doing a monthly audit - not even on the computer, but written down in a journal, & just being able to see it at the flick of a page gives me more confidence.

Sea78

Hi Benben,

Hope you're having a lovely day swimming and generally wearing him out

Sea xxx

benbenandme

Evening all We've had a good day out and about again ... we went swimming this morning, although ds refused to do anything the teacher told him to do :mad: then we went to the farm shop :rolleyes: and spent £7 on veg, meat and eggs We came home and had lunch and ds played for a bit then we went down the beach and met a couple of friends. It was chilly down there but we were all wrapped up and ds played with their kids for a couple of hours in the sand He's had fresh air and exercise every day which makes me feel less guilty about him not having a garden

I checked back a couple of pages in this diary earlier as I thought the money that arrived in my account from the bingo today included £10 I'd had to deposit to withdraw it, only it wasn't I actually won £22, so I have moved the extra £10 over to the mortgage pot too, which has just nudged it down ianother month :j :j :j So now my mortgage should be gone in April 2031 :beer: I have also figured out I have made almost £50 this week from ebay Tomorrow we are going to have an "indoors" day other than swimming, and catch up on house stuff ... the place is a tip and I have loads of paperwork to sort out again :rolleyes: I could leave it for the weeknd when ds is at his fathers, but I would rather have another ebay blitz and enjoy the weekend before I go back to work rather than having a mad cleaning and tidying spree

yeovilmac

Hi BBaM,

Sounds like you'll be going back to school for a rest...:eek:

I'm getting my backside into gear and sorting out these survey sites to start surveying. How do I refer you? Can I refer you?

benbenandme

Hi YM, I will have a look when we get back from swimming for referrals, thank you