It's all fun and games until ...........

scotdebs

Back after the op and will have to do some crafty grocery shopping to undo the costa habit OH has picked up in the last 5 days - ah bless him he had a lot on his plate. - quick grab what you can shop round Mr A today will do some meal planning and online shop on tues when I'm less off my head on the painkillers:eek:
Brizzle - you got to have a goal ... :rotfl: have approx £150 in bank rewards account, just over £50 in topcashback and current eBay sales stand at £53 I'm thinking dec 2017 so plenty of time to add to that ......

crazy_cat_lady

Hope you're feeling ok and on the road to recovery xxx

brizzledfw

CCL, will pop up that recipe when I get a chance, hope alls well with you debs

scotdebs

Quiet times just now - just resting and getting well - target is to get 4 more things on eBay tomorrow as last 3 have all sold- made nice wee over payment to one of the dastardly cards last week but will wait until end of the month when I get paid to make some more payments and update the list of shame - waiting on nan bread to prove for another home made takeaway dinner -:beer: - have to confess to a takeaway pizza on Thursday night but I really wasn't well enough to cook and poor OH had been run off his feet all day so don't feel too bad about it..... Brizzle you fallen off the TA wagon yet ??

scotdebs

So home insurance renewal notice came through today - 18% increase when I haven't had a single claim!!!!! - I think not you robbing cheating bandits!!! So filled in a couple of quote comparisons then a quick check on top cashback and I have saved myself £215 per year and got £30 cashback pending - happy days ....just need to give myself a kick up the butt on the items for ebay and I will have been a very good MSE'r today:money:

brizzledfw

Well done! All cash now in your pocket and not theirs!

Have been pretty good. This month OH and kids had F&C one eve when I was away and last Thurs DD2 has a chippy tea. The rest of us ate at home. However OH and I are going out to dinner :j tomorrow eve and also went out last week. But will be using a 1/3 off voucher so feel a little more MSE about it. And needed as cheaper than a divorce!:)

So how's that Debs? 6/10??

scotdebs

Not bad at all brizzle not bad at all - not been so great for us - perhaps picking the month I go into hospital to track this was not the best idea:rotfl: Ate out on Mother's Day and the night before I went into hospital, had takeaway the night I came home from hospital an another night since, OH came home and took me out of lunch to cheer me up a bit on Tuesday (stuck in house and can't drive yet) and we all ate out on Sunday evening (that had been planned for a long time as it was before going to a pre booked event ) but the meal planning and grocery shopping have continues and grocery spend has been pretty under control -

OH car went in for service today - looks like it's going to be in the region of £500:eek: so am going to fund it a bit from emergency savings and a bit from the overpayments pot - am trying not to get too frustrated about it a couple of years ago it would have just gone on the plastic fantastic and got forgotten about so it's progress on that mindset at least..... Away to re jig my overpayment schedule and update list of shame to follow

brizzledfw

Sounds like a big improvement debs on the inpromptu TAs and quite frankly if you've been recovering that's a great month of restraint.

Boo to cars...hate shelling out for those unexpected bills.

Have a great weekend..doing anything nice?

chevalier

Well done on taking the debt bull by the horns. I think you can be excused the odd take away this month if you are recovering from surgery.

You will get on track after Easter I am sure. I think there is a site called fakeaway or something, where it shows you how to get a fairly authentic take away experience but at home.

Good luck
chev

scotdebs

Thanks Chev will def take a look at that site- so have made the overpayments and updated my signature. 14.3% paid off since the start of the year - would have been a nice round 15% if it hadn't been for the blooming car service:mad: but it's heading in the right direction which is the main thing am determinednot to fall off the wagon this time and that this will be my last debt free diary.......and then I can make a start on a shiney new mortgage free diary - nothing like getting ahead of yourself :rotfl: got to have a dream