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Tuesday 27th October - What MSE things will you do today?
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Good Morning Everyone
Clootiesmum - Thanks for starting us off
Hi to all of the regulars and a BIG welcome to all the newbies, this is a really FAB thread with so many lovely, caring, considerate and supportive people.
Bit of a lie-in as had a really rubbish night - awake every hour, (think it was overthinking - yesterday was a funeral for a 7 year old boy) Today I will:
Packed lunch for DH
Ironing
Bake
Make soup
Bump all sale listings/freecycle/facebook
Check Banks
Continue purge on Emails
Surveys
Enter a few comps
All meals from cupboards/fridge/freezer
Read book
Check https://www.freepostcodelottery.com - Remember there are now 5 chances to win
Check Lucky Phone
Have a good day!
C xGoodreads 2025 Challenge :16/75
Goodreads 2024 Challenge: 65/80
Goodreads 2023 Challenge: 77/520 -
Morning folks!
Thanks to Clootiesmum for starting us off.
Got home very late with a banging headache last night and woke up with it this morning. Hoping that coffee and pills will fix it! On the plus side, I've done 4 out of the 7.5 hours I need to get Thursday off.
Today's list:- B/L/D from stores
- Check online banking and reconcile spreadsheet - done
- Send mum my bank details - done
- Charge phone in work - done
- Crossfit at lunch time - done
- Washing on line - done
- No booze (am doing sooo well - have been well under my weekly units for 3 weeks running now and haven't had more than 2 drinks in any one sitting
)
- Work very hard. Am hoping to impress people with my general organisation and assessment of situations at the mo, combined with a positive and proactive approach.
- Emailed veg box people about some meat that they sent that I think might have been off - done
have a good one all
clf xLBM 11/06/2010: DFD 30/04/2013Total repaid: £10,490.310 -
Morning all,
Thanks for starting us off Clootiesmum
Not a NSD today as I bought some express porridge and a bread roll to have with my soup on the way to work. Completely avoidable but I was so knackered last night I pretty much went straight to bed then didn't get up early enough this morning to have breakfast/ cut and butter some bread to go with my soup :mad:Other than that dinner will be from stores! I must get into the habit of preparing my lunches the night before.
Banking and spending diary to update. Thank goodness it's pay day tomorrow! I've started my extra hours at work so will be working 8-6 every day until May...
FPL/ surveys to do at lunchtime
Ring up the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury (:eek:) to find out what forms of ID me and OH need to send to them for our special marriage licence. Both our passports have run out and I'm not going to renew mine until after the wedding when I've changed my name. Because we're getting married in a university chapel we need to special licence which actually gets signed by him! Ooo eer!
Have a lovely day everyone02 0% £719.20 £579.34
Creation 1 0% £1,829.88 £1,352.70
Creation 2 0% £604.80 £554.40
Car Finance 10.9% £17,163.84 £2,860.64
Credit Card 24.9% £815.94 £367.94
Total £21,133.66 £5,715.02
Mortgage £128,560 £115,060
Long-Term Savings Pot £0
Debt-Free Wannabe Diary0 -
Good morning everyone
Thank you Clootiesmum for starting us off
Bob - hope you're feeling better today
CCL - hope you're enjoying the half term
So today I'm working until early afternoon then I've got to get my bottom in gear and do some bits at home!
- FPL
- Lucky Phone
- Blog Post
- Survey(s)
- B/L/D from stores
- Set up SO for NPower
- Set up SO for rent (WILL get these done - fed up seeing them on here)
- Complain to PO
- Complain to Sky
- Change Clubcard address
- Email/Phone Netflix and see if I can get £5.99 back from not being able to watch last month.
- Read gym contract and see if there is anyway out (I now live over 30 mins away)
- Cook mince in fridge for tea and freeze leftovers for another time.
- Sort out bedrooms
- Sort something out for tomorrow's lunch and dinner (11hr day at work)
- Start book folding for Christmas presents I'll need to take to family in a few weeks.
- Make a start on holiday packing
- Phone O2 and see what their charges are like abroad
- Payday tomorrow - work out what to put into bills acc. and what to put into savings
I think that is about it for today!!
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princess_pea wrote: »Morning all,
Thanks for starting us off Clootiesmum
Not a NSD today as I bought some express porridge and a bread roll to have with my soup on the way to work. Completely avoidable but I was so knackered last night I pretty much went straight to bed then didn't get up early enough this morning to have breakfast/ cut and butter some bread to go with my soup :mad:Other than that dinner will be from stores! I must get into the habit of preparing my lunches the night before.
Banking and spending diary to update. Thank goodness it's pay day tomorrow! I've started my extra hours at work so will be working 8-6 every day until May...
FPL/ surveys to do at lunchtime
Ring up the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury (:eek:) to find out what forms of ID me and OH need to send to them for our special marriage licence. Both our passports have run out and I'm not going to renew mine until after the wedding when I've changed my name. Because we're getting married in a university chapel we need to special licence which actually gets signed by him! Ooo eer!
Have a lovely day everyone
Did you go to uni in Canterbury Princess_pea? I live here!DF as at 30/12/16
Wombling 2025: £87.12
NSD March: YTD: 35
Grocery spend challenge March £253.38/£285 £20/£70 Eating out
GC annual £449.80/£4500
Eating out budget: £55/£420
Extra cash earned 2025: £1950 -
Total state of shock here - just checked my current account and have a deposit of £952.61 from a complaint about packaged account mis-selling that I put into Lloyds less than a month ago (thanks to the MSE template I got off this site).
I will use some it towards my credit card bill and then the rest can go to my emergency fund.
I am in shock!:j DEBT-FREE AS OF 3/11/15 :T
Money Saving Challenge 2016 #74: €200 / €3000
:eek: Debts at highest: £11k :eek:
[STRIKE]TSB credit card £4,500 [/STRIKE] / [STRIKE]Payday loans £2000[/STRIKE] / / [STRIKE]Overdraft £3000[/STRIKE] / [STRIKE][/STRIKE] / [STRIKE]Barclaycard £1800[/STRIKE]0 -
Morning all!
Hope the doctor managed to help Bob.
Today I have/will:-
* Check banks
* Move washing machine into garden as new one being delivered
* Take lunch to work
* Charge phone in work
* Check FPL
* Earn more on OnePoll
* Cancel circuits for tonight
* Order xmas present
* Dinner from stores
* Sort out clean clothes
That's everything I can think of at the moment.Debt as at 5 June 2023 - £15,600.89
Current debt - £5,555.00
Total paid off - £10,045.89 (64% paid off)0 -
FinallyGettingFree wrote: »Total state of shock here - just checked my current account and have a deposit of £952.61 from a complaint about packaged account mis-selling that I put into Lloyds less than a month ago (thanks to the MSE template I got off this site).
I will use some it towards my credit card bill and then the rest can go to my emergency fund.
I am in shock!
Brilliant result, congratulations :T0 -
FinallyGettingFree wrote: »Total state of shock here - just checked my current account and have a deposit of £952.61 from a complaint about packaged account mis-selling that I put into Lloyds less than a month ago (thanks to the MSE template I got off this site).
I will use some it towards my credit card bill and then the rest can go to my emergency fund.
I am in shock!
:j:T
Excellent result!LBM 11/06/2010: DFD 30/04/2013Total repaid: £10,490.310 -
Thanks guys!:j DEBT-FREE AS OF 3/11/15 :T
Money Saving Challenge 2016 #74: €200 / €3000
:eek: Debts at highest: £11k :eek:
[STRIKE]TSB credit card £4,500 [/STRIKE] / [STRIKE]Payday loans £2000[/STRIKE] / / [STRIKE]Overdraft £3000[/STRIKE] / [STRIKE][/STRIKE] / [STRIKE]Barclaycard £1800[/STRIKE]0
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