Chica's gonna get a house! (hopefully)...

ChicaBonita

Work is still horrible - yesterday was atrocious. Spent £8.20 for some much needed drinks in the pub (with my bf, not alone!)

Today will be NSD 3. Can't wait for the weekend

ChicaBonita

Some spends to declare -
Yesterday £3.25 for work lunch and £5.50 for a bottle of red wine

Today have been into London to see my friends - lovely day at a food market and park. Weather has been gorgeous. Spent travel fare (not sure how much yet), £6.50 for lunch, and £2.30 on an ice cream and a bottle of water.
Going to a house party tonight, spent £14.50 on vodka to take with me and will spend roughly £14 for an über there (bf will pay for the way back).

Been naughty this week not updated my budget spreadsheet so will have to do all that tomorrow. Bit worried about money as I have some days off coming up and we'll be going to Southend, and my birthday gathering to organise, but hopefully I can make it stretch far enough if I'm good enough the rest of the time

ChicaBonita

Well the house party was wilder than I thought it was going to be - felt it yesterday.

I did spend just over £14 on the uber there (bf paid for the way back). I didn't end up paying for the vodka as my bf said it was his treat, and we also had pizza hut last night which he paid for. Not sure what he's up to haha! It's been a bad week for eating/exercise so need to get back on it this week. I got hardly no sleep due to the humidity (my room is in the attic so is stifling in summer) so today is going to be tough.

I made a small eb@y sale on Saturday of about £2 profit, and also finally had enough coins in my receipt hog app to claim £5 to paypal. Should get that within the next week.

WIll have to go to the postoffice at lunch today, and will also need to buy some lunch as I didn't get chance to go to the shop yesterday - will be about £3.25 if I get a meal deal.

Last week was such a rubbish week at work - I'm starting to wonder when enough is enough. I've been there almost 2 years now, I like it because I can drive there in 10 minutes and the work isn't too taxing, but the structure of the company is getting me down and the morale is so low for various reasons. Wonder if I should broaden my horizons and see what's around.....I'll be 26 in August, and I'm not sure I like where I am in my life. I'm on track with the saving to buy etc, but I don't really have a career at the moment, and I am getting SO SICK of customer service. I've been customer facing in some way since I started working at the age of 22, and I feel like I've had enough now. Need to have a proper think, as I'm being complacent and taking the easy road and I need to challenge myself a bit more!

ChicaBonita

Spent £3.25 on lunch for work, posted my parcel and spent £13.20 in Tesco on lunch for the rest of the week, some dry shampoo, some freeze pops for the office and other bits.

Today should be a NSD. (ETA - was NSD 4)

Loving the sun, but it means that my room is like a sauna (my room's in the loft) so I'm barely sleeping. Also getting more and more fed up at work as the days go on - seriously need to consider my options!

ETA been focusing on SB again, just managed to get another £5 amazon voucher. Trying to get back into the swing of surveys, daily clicks etc, really need to focus on eb@y again but I'm getting to the point where anything worth selling I want to keep for myself lol! Must keep trying..

ChicaBonita

So happy it's a bit cooler today! Not been sleeping properly at all as my room keeps heat like a conservatory. Hoping for a cooler one tonight....

Wednesday - £5.99 on KFC. Naughty, but I really fancied it, and it fed both me and my bf as I didn't want all of it.
Thursday - NSD 5
Today could be a NSD, but my car desperately needs a wash and my mum is ill so I might have to go via tesco and get some bits in for tonight.

My receipt hog money became available, so I moved all that and the eb@y money from paypal and added it to my deposit fund. First addition in a while, but I will definitely meet my target of 50% by end of July once I've been paid.

ChicaBonita

Also to add, it's my birthday in a couple of weeks, and next Monday and Tuesday I have some annual leave to spend the time with the bf. We're going to go to southend and london on the two days, weather permitting. It will be quite expensive, but it's not often we get days out like that and it's my birthdayyyyyy I should be getting some money/vouchers as well, so that always helps.

ChicaBonita

Oooo haven't updated for a few days

Friday - NSD 6
Saturday - spent around £20 in Tesco
Sunday - Spent £4 in tesco
Monday - went to Southend with my bf for part 1 of my birthday celebrations. Spent around £40
Today - Went to Madam Tassauds and GBK for part 2. Spent money on train fare (find out when they show up on my bank statement) £32 on entry (paid for night before online so a bit cheaper) and £10 for GBK.

Had such a lovely couple of days, really enjoyed having the days off work and doing something fun.

Spoke with vodafone on their online chat to cancel my contract - I'd seen a sim only deal with giff gaff that I wanted to go with, £20 a month for unlimited everything. Well, the online chat adviser gave me a discounted rate for a new deal to stay with vodafone - 500 mins, unlimited texts and 10gb data for £14.45 a month. So over £20 cheaper than my current monthly deal, and £5 cheaper than giffgaff. Plus I don't have to change providers so I'm really happy with that. The money saved will make a big difference month to month

ChicaBonita

Update time!

Wednesday - back to work time. spent £116 on missguided. Was on the hunt for the perfect denim skirt, and got some other bits to try. Arrived next day, tried on and I need to get bigger sizes in the skirts I tried, and the other stuff will be going back, so I will get more or less half that amount back as a refund.
Thursday - NSD 8


Today is payday :j

Put £400 away into my house fund, so I am now officially over 50%, which was my goal for the end of July!!!!! :T Need to think of my next goal...

August is my birthday month, so I am anticipating some presents and some gift cards/money. Will need to decide what I want to buy myself and then perhaps put some straight into savings to avoid temptation.

After moving all my money around, I have just over £400 to play with this month. I have my birthday night out tomorrow, a friend's bday bbq the week after, and another night out the week after that....will be busy and potentially expensive. Will have to try my best to stay in budget.

Sods law, today I feel like I'm coming down with a cold. Felt rubbish yesterday but thought it was a headache. Have woken up today with a sore throat, and flu-y feeling everywhere. Always right before a big event! On the lemsip!

ChicaBonita

Wow what a night!

Yesterday was my birthday party - amazing night, paying for it now though. Spent £8 in morrisons during the day, then £10 on a cab into town. I bought a round of shots as everyone was buying me drinks so wanted to be nice - £25. Then an uber home which was £12.

Today saw my dad - first time in over a year. Paid travel fare for the bus + train, and he gave me £50 which I suppose I can count as my birthday present. Thank you very much.

Gonna spend the evening at the bf's house, and nurse my hangover some more. Then gotta get ready for another week at work.

Been organising my budget for next month - all looks healthy. Will try to keep spending to a minimum, not buying anything unnecessary unless it's with a gift card/birthday money. I have a feeling I will get a giftcard from work, usually I can use them on amazon so I can get loads of books my fave

lessavyfav

congrats on gettting over 50%!! i've been quiet on my diary..partly been very busy, mostly been naughty with my money august is a new month at least!