ATB'S Frugal Foray to Freedom

michelle09

Sounds like a great fix - is there a maximum OP amount on that?

Hehe, OH is the same. As soon as the news comes on he gets tetchy because he complains about the snow stories.

Well done on the OPs.

atypicalblonde

Five days without posting, bad diarist!

Well another day, another snow day here! We thought we had seem the end of it, but our little corner of Yorkshire has had another huge dump overnight. It is, however, thawing already and promises to be a balmy 6 degrees by later on!

My last signature update was exactly one month ago. I am delighted to report that our mortgage today stands at £105,800 :j:j with another £450 sat in the bank waiting to be OPd, so meeting our end of March target of £105k is just a formality now once the end of month standard payment is taken :) The customer paid up, we took a dividend and OPd it straight away :T

No divis for a good while now, so will be relying on the usual OPing methods - TTs, ebaying, grocery challenges etc.

The next mini target (said with a huge dollop of irony, as it represents a very big milestone), is to be in five figures by the end of June (bold and underlined for my benefit so I can remind myself of it easily :rotfl:)

atypicalblonde

Well we have gone from snow to glorious sunshine and not a patch of the white stuff in sight - I really hope that's the last of it now!

I was going to pull together a few ebay bits but have decided I really cannot be bothered. I would get around £15 from the stuff - I am going to do some very creative meal planning instead, and shave £15 off the week's grocery budget and OP the money that way instead.

atypicalblonde

£5.80 TT made this morning :T

shangaijimmy

Ooh thats a good TT. And i was excited about my 97p!

gallygirl

atypicalblonde wrote: »

£5.80 TT made this morning :T

That's not a TT, that's an overpayment :rotfl:.

atypicalblonde

£90 OP made to kick off the weekend.

Hoping for a low spend weekend although we do need to get some fuel. I’ve instructed DH that I really don’t want a gift for Mother’s Day - breakfasts in bed and a lie in will do for me!

EatingTheElephant

Amazing OPs ATB, you really are going for it this year.

Congratulations on the job :T

CathT

I know I should 3bay more but I get more satisfaction from decluttering than the small amount of money I might make.
Great idea to shave off another budget and still make an overpayment though.

atypicalblonde

Mothers Day was so lovely. I was very insistent that I didn't want any silly overpriced flowers or meals out, just a lie in, brekkie in bed and a lovely card - all of which I got

It is pouring with rain here today, so lots of indoor jobs to be getting on with. In money news, I have just made an OP of £250 :T - any more OPs this month will just be TTs sadly, but we have paid off over £4k in the past month so I am mightily happy with that.

A couple of rubbishy life things rumbling along in the background which I am really trying not to stress about. The phrase "this too shall pass" is on a bit of a loop in my head!