I want to be Debt and Mortgage Free by 35!

lorriedriver1988

April's savings targets- first posted 1/04/15


April's Help to Buy Monthly Savings:£0/ £280.05.
B- Savings (baby): Increase from £3.99 to £25.00
Loan Overpayment: £0 to £50
Pay for Flooring for extension: £106.38/ £140.00
Money for Garden Furniture: £0/£55


Updated figures 09/04/2015


April's Help to Buy Monthly Savings: £28.62/£280.05
B-Savings (baby) £6.78/£25.00
Loan Overpayment: £0 to £50
Savings for flooring: £175.72/£350.00
Savings for Garden Furniture: £0/£55


Need to try harder.

lorriedriver1988

Evening everyone,


A few MSE things for today:

• Completed all surveys that were available
• Ordered new curtains from Next going through £co and using gift card to pay
• Rearranged furniture in house, so that we can have a study without compromising no of bedrooms
• Listed another item on bay of e.
• Making list of house furnishings I want to buy- so I can use vouchers/ take advantage of offers.
• Went food shopping today- £5.89 in FF and £14.38 in A*di, hope Mr T order comes in on budget.

Not much today, but all going in the right direction.

lorriedriver1988

Evening everyone,


Small list of MSE things today, but definitely in right direction:

• Completed all surveys that were available
• Redeemed £5 paypal from Swa**ucks- will be transferred to H2B loan when it arrives
• Sold an item of furniture for £25- will be split between floor savings and garden furniture
• Sold piece of clothing on the bay of e for £11.01 minus fees etc - will be transferred to H2B savings
• Received another bid on item on bay of e
• DH bought kiddies sun cream using B**ts points
• Used a**zon gc to buy Winnie the Pooh stickers for DS1 new bedroom
• Listed dining table on gumtree
• DH picked up the curtains I ordered, but not suitable as just too 'girlie' for a boy. Will be returning and will order a different pair
• Redeemed more points from app trailers- will be going to B-savings when received
• All meals from stores
• Washing on at 30 degrees and placed on airers.

Non MSE

• Mr T order was collected this morning by DH after finishing work.

- FF= £5.89
- Aldi= £14.39
- Mr T= £24.13


Total= £44.40 (£9 over budget)


Next week's budget £25 tops.


Night all.

lorriedriver1988

Evening DFW's


MSE things for yesterday

• Put 2 washes on at 30 degrees and placed on airer
• Completed all surveys that were available
• Sold another item on the bay of e
• Received another bid on an item
• Posted item that sold, transferred £11.02 transferred to H2B savings
• Received £5 pp from swagbuck- transferred to H2B savings
• Received 32p from app trailers- transferred to B-savings
• Paid in money from selling furniture, £15 to flooring fund and £10 to garden furniture fund.
• Bought weekly bus ticket, will be using to get around everywhere
• DH spent £15 on diesel, went to Mr S as cheapest and got 120 nectar points
• Received £10 voucher in post from survey site, stashed away
• Spent £1.44 on cough mixture for DS2. DH was meant to take DS2 dr's appointment, but was late, as parked in Mr A car park to save money.
• Used free minutes to ring mum.
• Received money off coupons for baby stuff from Mr T, will definitely use two/three.

Still to do.....

• Wrap parcel
• Check bay mapper on mse for baby items
• Move more money from pp to bank account
• Try tol survey and nectar
• Look on Mr T
• Check mobile usage online

lorriedriver1988

Evening DFW's,


MSE things for today:

• Received £3 from pc survey, transferred to H2B savings
• Received 33p from app trailers- transferred to B-savings
• Completed all surveys available
• Received £10 ar**s voucher from s&s
• All meals from stores
• Washing on at 30 degrees and on airer
• Redeemed £50 from yg
• Had to buy some heat pads for DH, used voucher on b00ts app to get £1 off. Spent £4.99
• Claimed free mam baby bottle through b00ts app (worth £7.99)
• Went to Deb**nhams to buy MIL birthday present, managed to get the present in the Blue X sale with 70% off and buy DS's shorts- all for £27.00 and used gift card from survey to pay for it, with £3 left on gift card
• Redeemed 500 points from app trailers.

Non MSE

• DH spent £2 on parking
• We spent £2.17 in B&M on BBQ sauce, drink for DH and snack for DH. Will be coming out grocery budget
• Spent 90p in A**I on crumpets and bread

lorriedriver1988

April's Help to Buy Monthly Savings: £28.62/£280.05
B-Savings (baby) £6.78/£25.00
Loan Overpayment: £0 to £50
Savings for flooring: £175.72/£350.00
Savings for Garden Furniture: £0/£55


Update: 14/04/2015


April's Help to Buy Monthly Savings: £47.64/£280.05
B-Savings (baby) £8.10/£25.00
Loan Overpayment: £0 to £50
Savings for flooring: £190.72/£350.00
Savings for Garden Furniture: £10/£55

lorriedriver1988

Evening DFW's,


MSE things for today:

• Spent £7.55 on F&F on baby clothing items, went through £co, bought sale items, received 10% staff discount and used £2.50 money off coupon- paid for by b-savings
• All meals from stores
• Washed bedding and clothes at 30 degrees and placed on airer
• Posted parcel and requested £2.02 from pp, transferred to H2B savings
• Sold bedside drawers on bay of e,
• Completed all surveys available
• Received 33p from app trailers- transferred to B-savings
• Have some watchers on items on bay of e.
• Used weekly bus ticket to get around.

Night all.

lorriedriver1988

MSE things for today:

• Completed all surveys available
• Used weekly bus ticket to get around.
• Received 33p app trailers- will transfer to B-savings
• Received £40 from 1poll- transferred to H2B savings
• Sold an item on bay of e
• Listed another item
• Cleaned bedside drawers ready for collection
• Checked bay of e for baby items.

Non-MSE things

• Spent 49p in Wilko's on water and a snack, spent £1.04 in Mr T on bread and sausages. Then sent DH to get pizzas, milk and cake from Mr T as I was very tired.

Night all.

lorriedriver1988

MSE things for today:

• All meals from stores
• Completed all surveys available
• Posted item that I sold
• Bedside cabinets were collected that I sold for £15
• Someone came to look at dining table, definitely interested, hopefully it will sell
• Sold another piece of furniture on bay of e.
• Redeemed £30 worth of vouchers from GTM
• Redeemed £10 voucher from I-say.
• Redeemed £15 agc from VO
• Moved money from the Spanish bank to help pay for the flooring.
• Bought flooring and arranged date for it to be fitted.
• Used bus ticket to get home.
• Bought £15 of fuel from Mr S and got bonus points.

Will update totals etc later on.

lorriedriver1988

Evening everyone,


MSE Things for yesterday:

• All meals from stores
• Mum bought yummy treats down with her when visiting
• NSD
• All surveys completed that were available
• Clothes washed at 30 degrees and placed on airers
• Went out for walk with my mums and DS's- free exercise
• Listed more items on bay of e
• Step-dad has offered to paint extension free of charge :-)

MSE things for today:

• All meals from stores
• Bought weekly bus ticket to get home
• All surveys completed
• Posted item that I sold, money requested from pp, transferred to H2B savings
• Received £4 from points panel- moved to H2B savings
• Requested £10 b00ts voucher from VO
• Received another bid on item on bay of e.
• Washed towels at 30 degrees and placed on airer
• Redeemed points from App trailers

Off to bed now as in a lot of pain :-(