Keeping on the straight and narrow. Again.

snozberry

Goals for the week
[STRIKE]1. Go to bed no later than 10pm every night (no late nighters!)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]2. Take a packed lunch to work every day. Even on the days I can't be bovvered. And to remind myself that they actually do taste nice and are a damn sight fresher than a sandwich made in a factory by some unknown being.[/STRIKE]
3. Plenty of NSDs. I'm not sure how much petrol I have in the tank but I am hoping that it is enough for the week. The windows are being cleaned this week so I will need £6 for that.
4. Continue with the declutter. I am not giving myself a focus area this week
5. Don't dwell on things too much. I can't change the past. No one can!

Tea was lovely tonight. I love my slow cooker. They really are a super investment. Plenty of left overs for tomorrow as well

snozberry

Last week was a bit rubbish tbh. I am under an unbelievable amount of stress at work and having to drive past where it happened twice a day is not helping my emotional being at all. I did get paid though which was nice. I now have £2500 in my savings account but I owe £160 on my CC and my BL is a few quid over £1k.

This week I need to chase up my SL again as they started to take repayments out of my wages even though I have already paid the damn thing off. I have telephoned them and I have to send them a copy of my payslips which I will do this week. The refund will go straight into my savings account.

I had to do the big shop this weekend so we have plenty of food in. I don't need any petrol for my car which is good really as the money in my spends account has to last.

Goals for the week:
1. No late nights
2. Not to let things to get to me at work.
3. To take a packed lunch in everyday
4. To get all of the ironing done. All of it.

snozberry

Well, I haven't updated for a month and my spending hasn't been that great as a result. I haven't touched my OD but I had to top up my spends account a few times from the bit I had left over in my bills account (I put in there a bit more than needed every month). My CC bill has crept up by £100 as well. Not good.
On the other hand, my BL is now below £1k.

I am in the second week of a fortnight off work and, boy, the break has been needed. I was getting really down and stressed at work and things were getting on top of me. The atmosphere is rubbish at the min and I know that I am going to go back to feeling stressy when I go back. Grr

Whilst I have been off, I have been catching up with much needed jobs so the kitchen has been scrubbed clean and reorganised. There are also a few binbags to take to the charity shop. I have sold a book on fb and have been busy listing things on ebay. I need to be debt free and have oodles of pennies in the bank.

I have removed my NSD tally from my signature because it isn't as easy for me now. I used to love having 6 or 7 or more NSDs on the trot but that was when it was just me. Now, I have a little one unexpected spends always crop up ... stuff like, being out of milk or bread ... stuff that I can manage without with if I was on my own. I am keeping track of my selling off my tat tally.

Having said that, I was paid five days ago and haven't spent much. I treated my car to a full tank of petrol and my boy and I had a sly McD0nalds carpet picnic as the weather has been sooooooo rubbish.

Florence_J

Nice to see you back on here, hope your time off improves, McDonald's carpet picnic sounds fun!

snozberry

It was lovely thanks We hadn't had one in agesss and the toy in the Happy Me@l was ace. I wasn't sure about my son's need to swap meals though lol

I am totally behind the times, but I have finally figured out how to cook rice without messing it up. Finally. No more shall I use my awful rice cooker (which has gone to a Chazza Shop) and no more shall I buy precooked rice to nuke in the microwave (always been bought on offer mind)! With my newly found money saving skill, I have made normal rice, veggie fried rice, egg fried rice and savoury rice and each dish was soooo verrrrrry nice. I have bought a bag from the ethnic aisle and all the the pennies that I have saved whilst we munch our way through it will have a rather nice time sitting in my bank account.

I have a few jobs to do today:
1. [STRIKE]Post the book I sold yesterday.[/STRIKE]
2. List at least two more things on eb@ay. I hate listing things on there. I used to sell my sons old clothes on faceb00k but I don't feel comfortable having strangers come to the house to pick things up or drop things off anymore. I still use fb to list my old teaching resources though.
3. [STRIKE]laundry[/STRIKE], polish and [STRIKE]sort the rubbish out[/STRIKE]
4. [STRIKE]work work[/STRIKE] but the list is never ending
5. [STRIKE]clean the windows.[/STRIKE] Have no idea why I am doing this as life with a toddler means that they will be full of handprints and kiss prints in next to no time! only did the ones downstairs

£30 of cashback cleared today which has been added to my savings account and to my signature. Happy days.

Florence_J

Sounds like you've been busy, hope you have a good rest of weekend.

Huskyrunner

i know what you mean re funny peeps coming too the house

we used too breed mini lop rabbits but we stopped due too some well random people coming too the house

i remember being on nights one day and getting three weird random calls off a shouty chinese guy never again

snozberry

Back to work tomorrow - boo!!!!

My goals for the week:
- Spend as little as possible
- Plenty of early nights
- Make sure that I drink plenty of water during the day
- Think about tea before I need to cook it.
- Eb@y, eb@y, eb@y!
- Learn to say 'eff this for a game of soldiers' in my head when things get a tad too much at work and not feel guilty

snozberry

I have just sold ten of my son's old t-shirts on eb@y for £10.80. This is brill as I have two huge laundry bags of old clothes and I need to sort his drawers and wardrobe out as he has just gone through a growth spurt. I just need to post (when I have received the payment) and list some more.

snozberry

Just added £4.53 cashback from Sh0pitize to my signature. I love that app - dead easy to use

I have two bundles on eb@y and they both have bids on them. I will list a few more things in the week.

I am really annoyed with Student Loans as they are *still* garnishing my wages when I don't owe them a bean. They were meant to have put a stop on the repayments but it obviously hasn't work. I will give them a ring on Tuesday when I am working from home. Putting a positive spin on it, them having the money means that I can't spend it but I want it back and safely tucked away in my bank account. They owe me a little under £500. Grr!!!! The rotters.

Payday in 15 days and counting.