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itcouldbeworse

itcouldbeworse wrote: »

September goals -
NO USING CC.
Get N£XT down to £250.
List minimum 10 items on £bay.


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New September goals -
NO USING CC. ALSO SEE IF TESC0 CC HAVE ANY OFFERS AND TRY AND TRANSFER HALI CC.
N£XT DOWN TO £250 BY 27TH (NEW STATEMENT DATE).
LIST 20 ITEMS USING ALL FREE LISTING QUOTA (10 ACHIEVED).

Orange_Ena

Well done on getting your next bill down. :T

Enjoy your fakeaway Chinese, sounds yummy

itcouldbeworse

Orange_Ena wrote: »

Well done on getting your next bill down. :T

Enjoy your fakeaway Chinese, sounds yummy

Hi OE, N£XT bill is coming down nicely, can't wait to see the back of it.


Really looking forward to fakeaway this evening. nom nom.

itcouldbeworse

Having a quiet afternoon, DH has gone off to a friends house to remove a large tree they have in their garden and is scarily close to their house, anyway as friends have gas central heating we are getting said tree, wood won't be dry enough to burn until next winter, but its still free wood, which I like very much.


Rang Tesc0 CC and they have no offers for BT at the moment for me, really annoying as I have just over 4k free on that card and it would be great to get hal1fax transferred onto 0% or a low balance, oh well I will just have to keep plodding on.


Made some banana, pecan and honey muffins with the manky bananas, they smell lush just too hot to test yet.


Listed another item on £bay

mum2one

love the sound of the muffins - do pass along xx

itcouldbeworse

Afternoon diary.


Where has the weekend gone, seems to have flown by.


Today has been a great day, DH made me breakfast in bed which was lovely, managed to get lots of washing done and downstairs clean and tidy, still need to hoover stairs and clean bathroom, but I'm leaving bathroom until kids have had showers tonight, don't know what they do but always looks as though we have had a tsunami in there when they have baths and showers, also need to iron school uniforms and pack up a couple of £bay, speaking of £bay sold the item I turned down the BIN on a few days ago for £30 and they have been and collected, really pleased as it was a bulky item, I havn't paid it off N£XT but have put it in my emergency tin as I know this month is tight with buying new bed for DS.


Will need to go and buy milk tomorrow, only bought a four pinter yesterday and its nearly all gone, DS is eating like mad and snacking on cereal, he is definitely having a growth spurt, fingers crossed its not too much as he has just got new school uniform.


Spends today £25 on fuel.


Take care.x.

itcouldbeworse

Evening diary.


Lovely day at work, really enjoying being back.


Not much going on today, had a low spend at Mr T, bought milk, ristorante pizzas and salmon stks, cost me £6 but used a £4 voucher against the salmon, so 4 stks have only cost me £2, so for tonight tea the kids had pizza and salad and DH and I had salmon and salad, also got 2 free pizza vouchers from the boxes.


Had a small sale on ebay, so £2 gone to N£XT. Have also listed another item on£bay. Received a £5amazon voucher from GFK for doing a 7 day tv study. Few more surveys done this evening and now on £38.90 on 0nep0ll. DD for Mr T CC went out today, new statement will be out in a few days so I will update sig then.

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Hi, breakfast in bed sounds like a lovely treat

Good luck with all your plans.

Tilly x x

Orange_Ena

Ooh yes, breakfast in bed sounds lovely. You're doing well with eb@y. I must try and do more soon

itcouldbeworse

Good morning diary.


Apologies for the lack of posts this week, really not sure where the week has gone or what has happened but I have taken my eye off the ball, which is not good.


With the kids back at school I've had several muuuum I neeeed for school, which has resulted in several handouts and a bill Id forgotten about has resulted in me going over budget, all of which have come from the grocery budget leaving me short there. I've sat this morning an looked at various pots and what I have is the following -


Bills - £146 in pot, need £140.
Fuel - £50 - should be enough.
Groceries - £23 in pot + £7.50 nectar points, this is not enough to see me to payday. Also have about £2 in change pot in 1 and 2ps, will use at self checkout for odd bits needed.


I'm determined not to put anything on CC, It's not an option, I'm not doing it, so N£XT overpayments have stopped, very disappointed by this but that's just how it is.
£bay offered me 100 free listings so I spent yesterday hunting for things and was totally ruthless and have managed to list 35 items, anything made will be used for groceries.
Waiting on £3 from mysurv£y this again will be used for groceries.


New T£sco CC statement has come in so sig has been updated, coming down slowly, everything is goingthe right way so that's all positive.


So as I have hit my target on ebay for the month, I need to be a frugal as possible so I hit the not using CC target, meals need to come from stores and I need to be imaginative with what we have in. Last night we had left over bolognaise sauce poured over potato wedges with mozzarella (2 packs reduced to 30p) put it under the grill so cheese went bubbly and stringy and was totally yummy served with salad and garlic bread, DD made choc brownie for pud, which we have loads left for pud tonight.
Tonights tea will be whoopsied BBQ chicken drumsticks with chips and HM coleslaw+ cucumber sticks, managed to get 2 big packs of chicken so will cook it all off and what we don't use I will pull off the bone and mix with mayo and use for sandwich fillings for us all tomorrow lunch. Need to make choc traybake for lunch boxes and have some manky bananas lurking so will make some banana and honey muffins.


DH is at work this weekend, so today is going to be a quiet one at home. Both children have lots of home work they need to get on with and I want to catch up with housework and ironing.


Off to make breakfast.