Budget Wars - A New Hope (with apologies to George Lucas)

Bobarella

bizzie wrote: »

Coming out of hiding as have been reading your diary for sometime and wanted to say I'm also trying to deal with life under the same headings as you but couldn't find a word that rhymed with health / wealth for organisation.
The saying "if you want something doing give it to a busy person" I think describes you to a tee.

Thanks so much for posting Bizzie I think we are all doing the same things aren't we really. That's what's so great about this site for linking like minded people. Have you got a diary by the way?

Bobarella

Hi All

Just a quick post before I disappear for the afternoon.

Wealth

* Checked the business account this morning and it had gone up £100 from a booking paying.
Last installment of business insurance goes out tomorrow £79.81 then two months break. I am planning to ear mark that money to start my annual savings for BBB 2018 which I must save £108 a month for.

* Moved £100 to our account for bills next week (water £29, Netflix £7.50 and shopping/travel)

* Checked off our personal account, I tick off all my receipts as they clear.

* Responded to an enquiry.

Health

* walked to the supermarket and carried shopping back. Will do long school run walk shortly too.

* Fancy a nice hearty meal tonight as it's very cold. Doing pork chops and roast veg. With plenty of gravy!

Organisation

* Stripped both the double beds. Remade both.

* 4 loads of washing to get through from the bedding. One done and hung. One in the machine. Two to go.

* Hoovered whole house. This is a wonderful game to play with a 16 month old who decides when to turn the big button off and on. Or sit on the hoover in ride along toy mode.

* Emptied office bin.

* Did the shopping. Used coupons for frozen raspberries, bagged leaves and loo roll, a triple points and a 200 point voucher.

* Packed up the business account statements the new bank want, and will go into the post office on our way to school if I leave soon!

* Dusted the picture rail in the lounge and got rid of lots of big cobwebs that have appeared.

* Last of sunday's roast chicken for lunch in my sandwich and a pot of stock on the stove with the carcass.

* I worked out that I am only £120 away from clearing my signature debt, once I take off next months extras (FD incentive, council tax) so I should still be on for end of March.

* Sons outfit for the school play arrived today. Need to get him to try it on tonight and make sure it fits or we are cutting it fine to return before next Thursday.

Back later

Bob

sashybo

You've been busy as usual Bob. Well done on all the housework, you've put me to shame. :T

:rotfl: at DD helping with your hoovering, I'm sure it was great fun.

Drawingaline

You are always on the go! My house is a pit and I am off to work in 45 mins and am sitting with a coffee doing nothing :rotfl:

And how nice to check the bank account and see more than you thought

foxyloxy11

Drawingaline sitting with a coffee doing nothing sounds like my kind of heaven....not very often we all get to do that is it!!

boxofpaws

I love that you have bought a painting. Someone once told me you should never buy art to make money, only because you love it. But it's still an investment.

Bobarella

sashybo wrote: »

You've been busy as usual Bob. Well done on all the housework, you've put me to shame. :T

:rotfl: at DD helping with your hoovering, I'm sure it was great fun.

She is so funny now it is great fun. You have it all to look forward to Sashybo:T

foxyloxy11 wrote: »

Drawingaline sitting with a coffee doing nothing sounds like my kind of heaven....not very often we all get to do that is it!!

I do agree. Chilling with a coffee :T

Bobarella

Drawingaline wrote: »

You are always on the go! My house is a pit and I am off to work in 45 mins and am sitting with a coffee doing nothing :rotfl:

And how nice to check the bank account and see more than you thought

Thing is with two kids coming behind me ripping it up as I go, you'd never come round mine and think wow! :rotfl: and yes it was a nice moment

boxofpaws wrote: »

I love that you have bought a painting. Someone once told me you should never buy art to make money, only because you love it. But it's still an investment.

Absolutely agree. DH paints and draws so we have quite a lot of his own stuff up. But now we own two paintings bought for the love. I'd never buy art for selling on. Don't know enough about it all for one.

NoOneAround

Morning Bob,
Hurray for buying a painting :j
I do wish I had spare cash to buy originals - that's been on hold for a very long time
One Day.....

Have a lovely weekend
NOA
x

Bobarella

Hello All

We have sloppy wet snow here today. Really not necessary!

Wealth

* Have taken a booking today. I'm not mad keen about it. But it's a tricky one. The timings mean I could earn double if I booked two events that day. But as they are a new customer I don't want to put them off. I have said I will take it this time as a starting point but next time I'd need to charge more, and gave my reasoning.

* Finally gave in and bought a new rain cover for the pushchair. They are damned expensive for what they are and this one was £20.99 in TRU. But the old one was ripped to shreds and with snow and rain recently becoming the norm I think it's a necessary grudge purchase. But adding to our one off spends this month.

* Borrowing OHs travel card to do the afternoon school run. Saving me £1.50.

* This one is quite a biggie. If you remember me waffling a while back about selling equipment because it's no longer needed? Anyway. The person who is helping me sell mine sent me an eBay link the other day for one already on. It has a starting bid of £5,000 and a Buy it Now price of £7,000 now personally me and my friend both said wow they must be dreaming! Especially as it's located in the a r s e end of nowhere. But it makes me think that my hoped for price of £2,500 might be more achievable than I'd previously thought. Now just to get it sold!

Health

* OH didn't have a very good night. Poor thing. But the rest of us are good

* Doing roast veg with salmon in dill & sour cream tonight. Yum!

Organisation

* We have a job to do that is too heavy to do on public transport (moving a table) so OH has booked a zipcar at £6.65 an hour for a one hour round trip.

* OH spoke to the neighbours about taking on a piece of children's garden equipment we no longer want and they want it, which is great as otherwise we'd have had to pay for the council to collect it.

* Need to remember to ring TRU and get my points added on for the purchase today as didn't have my loyalty card with me.

* OH has just booked half term week off, for us week of 20th. So looking forward to that!

* Setting a DFD of Friday 31st March or bust.

Bob