From debt to freedom...

Cherryfudge

That's been an 'eventful' few days - so glad things are looking better now.:grouphug: Good to have your DD where you can keep an eye on her till she's back to normal, too.

louby40

Wow what a worry for you. At least she’s home and you can look after her.

Honeysucklelou2

I went into work today to try and catch up from last week. On the way home I stopped at Mr T's to do a main weekly shop which came to £76. Hopefully with top ups of milk and meat, I can stay below £100. Menu this week is looking like:-

Sun - chicken cobbler
Mon - macaroni cheese
Tues - chicken kievs
Wed - children eat with the ex
Thur - lasagne
Fri - something on toast!

Tonight was fish portions and chips. I used the oven, while it was on, to cook a banana and apricot loaf which used up 3 sad looking bananas.

Honeysucklelou2

One good MSE thing that happened while I was away was the mobile phone people contacting me re DD1's phone. It's in my name and I pay for it each month, but the payment had gone from £16 a month to sometimes as much as £45. Apparently it's due to her sending pic messages and internet use. She does tend to send photos of where she has been so a recent trip to an art show resulted in lots of photos but apparently what's app is a useful alternative according to the mobile man. He has changed the package to give her more data and a message alert to show when she is near that, so hopefully payments should stabilise at £23. Hurray!

Honeysucklelou2

Today is NSD #8 (for January). We've had a very quiet day today as the weather has been very wet and the toddler has now gone down with a terrible cold.

Dinner today was chicken cobbler. I made a meringue mincemeat tart but in a rectangular shape, which used up some of the left over Christmas mincemeat. A lemon drizzle cake was baked at the same time the oven was on, so tins are topped up...for now!

I did have chance to check on the MSE credit club to read my credit report. It's encouraging to see the double glazing total is now £3,123. It's going down but frustratingly slowly. I'm thinking that the£150 saved in February from not having to pay council tax in this month would be well spent knocking it off the balance. I would then get below the £3k threshold which would be good.

Cherryfudge

Honeysucklelou2 wrote: »

apparently what's app is a useful alternative

I'd recommend What'sApp: we use it a lot for family messages as well as one to one.

Honeysucklelou2

Made a payment of £110 today, which brings the debt total down a little. I had to pay £30 to the school yesterday as a voluntary contribution to the swimming costs. I had hoped to have more NSDs this week but have had one of those weeks of cooking ingredients needed one day and throat / cough sweets and calpol needed the next. I'll be glad to see the back of the current cough and cold bugs.

Honeysucklelou2

Still battling horrible coughs and colds here. Two DDs were really unwell today:(:(. Today was a NSD so #9 for January. It's the closest I've got to my target of 10 so am quite pleased though I know there's much room for improvement.

Veg risotto for dinner, followed by raspberry custard tart. I got a batch of chocolate muffins made while the oven was on, so there are muffins to go in lunch boxes. I was away over the weekend returning DD1 to uni following her week at home to recover from the health blip. She is looking well again, thankfully. I feel I need to catch up a bit on the baking front now that I'm home again.

WannabeFree

I love whatsapp and use it far more than sending a normal text/video calling.

Hope you're all feeling better soon x

Cherryfudge

I'm glad your eldest DD is well enough to be back at Uni.

For all the rest - get well soon!