Diary of my new life !!!

benbenandme

Today I spent £2.20 on lunch (bit of a pattern developing here :rolleyes: ). I also wrote a cheque for £12 for 2 copies of ds school play on dvd ... thought I'd better get ex a copy too :rolleyes:

Ds got a cheque for £15 for christmas from an aunt through the post today which will go straight into his account The Ice Age double pack dvds also arrived today, as well as the starry poster I ordered for my nephews birthday and a free smaple of those tampax with skirts ???

Another fairly easy day at work today, counting down the days now ... only 6 more working days to go :j :j :j

benbenandme

Just had £4.50 credited to my quidco account for registering with loopylove :beer:

benbenandme

Evening all !!! Its the weekend again, yay !!!! :beer:

Ds has gone to his dads for the weekend, so I thought I'd come home, get out all my xmas presents, see what I still need to get and nip off to the shops tonight so I don't have to face it on saturday.
Well, having gone through the mountain of presents under my bed, I am pleased to say I think I can get away without hitting the main shopping centre !!! I'm well chuffed as my sister called to say the traffic is horrendous already :rolleyes: I do still have bits to get, but I reckon I can get most of it in tesco ... I need sweeties for the sweetie boxes and stuff like that rather than main presents
So, I can have a quieter evening after all I might catch up with stuff on here and then go to Tesco later on this evening. Then tomorrow I can have a wrapping up and delivering kinda day
So far today I have spent £2.50 on food.

benbenandme

I have just checked my paypal account and I have £7 in there which has built up from lightspeed surveys so I have transferred it into my account and this will start off 2008's mortgage fund :beer: Then again, I may need it to sort out my accounts before the start of the new year as I hate any account being overdrawn at the start if a new year. Last night I also found a OnePoll account I'd forgotten I'd got. Its got £4 in it at the moment, which isn't huge because it doesn't pay out till £40 :rolleyes: but hey its a start!!

pania

Hey benben, how are you doing? just had a little catch up of the last page and wanted to say, I sit here on MSE with lots of work to do, but can't get the motivation to press alt and tab back across to my work data. I then read your diary and this gal is put to shame!!! you manage to get the motivation to do so much, thanks for being a kick up the swifty when i need it.

Glad you enjoyed DS's pay and i hope ex gives you the £6 back for his copy!! ;-)

Have a great evening and hit tesco if you can, evening/late night/ 1 0'clock in the morning is the ONLY time to go to tesco if you don't want a trolley in your ribs i find!

Take care
P
xx

benbenandme

Awww thanks P, but in reality I'm sitting here on my sofa telling myself I really must get some AQA'ing done but I can't get motivated enough to do it I do want to earn the money but I'm more keen on setting up new spreadsheets and stuff ready for the new year

pania

hmmmm spreadsheets.... a foreign entity to me!!! going to look to see if quicken is downloadable or has to be bought.
AQA, hmmmm again, haven't even had motivation to send off for an application!!
The new year is such a lovely prospect isn't it, everything fresh and new. can't wait to get going with the finances into next year!! Targets a go go!!
Now come on, get AQAing!!!! :-)

sophiesmum_2

Hi Benben
Hope you have a productive weekend whilst Ds is with his dad, I am finding it really frustrating being stuck at home (after my op) when what i would love to be doing is mooching around the xmas stuff in the shops. I'm sorted for this year but plotting now for 2008:rotfl: ,still got stuff in my pressie stash so need to see if I can allocate anything to birthdays etc. I am driving OH nuts on about hampers for next year, and how to accumulate piggy points etc to pay for them. Just don't understand why he doesn't think it is fun :rotfl: :rotfl: .
How's the AQA'ing going?
See you have changed your sig,good luck with the overpayments for 2008,you have achieved so much this year, I think you will have been an inspiration to lots of people especially single working mums:T :T :T .
take care
sm

PS I am having a terramundi for xmas:D but can't decide what to save in it yet, already got £2 savings and silver piggy:rolleyes: Its so lovely I can't stand the thought of breaking it when it's full:eek: . Any suggestions, perhaps I should go for £5 notes, although I don't seem to get many these days

benbenandme

Thankyou Sophiesmum :beer: I too have loads of bits left over in my pressie box, I really must figure out who is going to be given them, or whether some of the bits should be put on ebay :rolleyes: I have been trying to figure out how much I need for presents in total next year. So far, not including ds, I reckon on about £600 for all birthdays and christmas (+ mothers/fathers day) :eek: I know this sounds a lot but it really isn't once its all broken down. This is about the same as this year too. There is always one month a year where you get 2 payments from tax credits / child benefit (january) and I will put the 2nd payment of each into the present fund, which should be about £320. I won't have 2 months off the council tax payments this year though because of when I moved house, so I will still need to find approx £300 for presents :eek: :eek: ... I do however still have vouchers left over from this year so they will be chucked into the pot too. At the moment I have approx £160 in this years present fund and £70 John Lewis vouchers, £40 theatre vouchers and £50 bonusbonds (vouchers that can be spent in loads of different shops). I do still need to spend about £80 for this christmas though (most to be done online tonight ), but hopefully I will still have a fair chunk leftover to chuck into next years pot
As for my terramundi, I am chucking in all £2 coins and then each month I am budgeting a certain amount for "living on" and any leftover from this gets chucked in the terramundi too.

Ellidee

:doh: benben wish you could wave your magic wand at me ! My trouble is I'm not computer literate ( I know excuses excuses !) I ordered a book called 'How to do just about anything on a computer' off Amazon and managed to order the wrong one ! Vista instead of XP :rotfl: