Diary of my new life !!!

Sea78

Hey - glad you had a fab time Sounds great.

I very nearly bought that ice age deal but then my card wouldn't work and so I didn't buy it.

Sea xxx

hypno06

Glad you had a good weekend - and coming away with £30 to put in the jar - bonus :T

Good news on the payrise too - every little helps!

benbenandme

Okay, budgets and everything are all in order now for the new month, I know where I'm up to with everything financial again, I'm just waiting for my terramundi to turn up so I can start filling it up :rolleyes:

Right, list of jobs for this week:

• Write and post christmas cards (never get round to posting them so really must get it over and done with this week )
• Finish off movie hampers & buy cellophane
• Keep up-to-date with all washing and ironing during the week so it doesnt all build up for next weekend
• Buy nephews birthday present
• bank £2 coins from 2007 pot (new ones will go into the terramundi)
• take all odd coins from other piggy bank to coinstar machine and bank ... actually no, begrudge giving them a huge chunk of it, maybe it will just get chucked into the terramundi too, at least that way I won't have much idea how much is in there ... think its around about £10-£15 in total
• clean out the car
• buy xmas tree ready to put up next weekend
• err, thats about it at the moment, but I'm sure there loads more to add

hypno06

Yay! I've done a weekly task list on my diary too. I figured that as part of my desparate attempt to get completely organised, I would do a list of jobs on a Sunday that I need to do for the week ahead.

We shall see how successful it is in due course..........:D

benbenandme

I actually saw yours hypno and decided to copy I'm rubbish in december ... I tend to make plans at the end of november for christmas and then next thing I know its January and december seems to have gone in a blink :rolleyes: so I thought I needed to try and keep up with the things I need to do ... now I just need to do them I have just put a load of washing on so that a start

skint_spice

Glad you enjoyed the weekend away. you've just made me panic over xmas cards - must look out address book for the ones that need posting! thanks, this would have been much worse had it been later in the month!

benbenandme

I've just done a tesco order as the cupboards really are bare, and its come to £88!!!! I had a voucher cose which took it down to £76, and with the multibuys and stuff it should go down to about £60 if everything is delivered. This does inlude a load of batteries ready for xmas and a new dvd player as ours won't play anything any more and ds keeps wanting to borrow the laptop to watch the Snowman :rolleyes: It is still a big chunk of my food budget for this month. I am going to take the dvd money (£25) out of mum and dads money, and then that should mean I have spent approx £35 of my food buget (£150) which doesn't seem so bad after all I'll update further tomorrow night when its been delivered to see how much wasn't in stock :rolleyes: At least it saves me the hassle of trekking round the supermarket after work tomorrow night too

tigzem

Hi BenBen,

Glad you enjoyed Take That, I did think of you.

Hope DS is better now after being poorly.

xx

benbenandme

Spend today = £2.70 on food

Tesco order arrived tonight and the total was £63 (including £25 for dvd player) ... all was there and they even chucked in a packet of cherry throat lozenges which was soooo spot on, I've been coughing and sneezing all day :rotfl:

Ds has been naughty again at school today, am going to ring the health visitor tomorrow for a chat

Was going to start the christmas cards tonight but it han't happened, hopefully I'll get a quiet lesson tomorrow where I can start a list of who I need to send them to

Realised today I won't get paid this month from aqa as my earnings were less than £20 last month so have to wait till next month :rolleyes:

benbenandme

Postie brought me my £20 John Lewis vouchers from pigsback today :beer: Yesterday I got a card through the door saying someone had tried to deliver a parcel. It said they would try again today and if not, they would return to sender :mad: I put a note on the door this morning saying if I'm out, please leave parcel by the door (I live in a flat and it wouldnt be seen by anyone) ... anyway, I got home all excited hoping for my terramundis .... and there nothing here, no card to say they've been or anything

I still feel yucky today, am gonna have a very early night tonight I spent £2.40 today on lunch. Ds brought his school photos home today and I am really pleased with them and it is now sitting on top of the telly