A Ditherer's Diary (again)

Naomim

I declared March's tilly tidying at £32.19 so that's been shuffled over to a credit card overpayment.

MrM and I have also bought ourselves a new bed and mattress. We've had ours for 20 years. It was a tempur mattress so we've gone for the same again. They are expensive but someone once said to me, never scrimp on beds or shoes as if you're not in one, you're in the other.

Although we have spent a fair bit of our bonuses, everything is paid for and we still have a healthy emergency fund.

We both had today off work and took doggo to West Wittering beach. We all had a lovely time as the sun shone, we switched off and relaxed. Just what we needed.

I hope everyone is looking forward to Easter and hopefully getting a break.

Naomim

Hi All,

Well it seems our bonuses have been the hardest working ever.

MrM and I went to the Ideal Home Show last weekend and have bought a small arbor seating area for the garden. It will go in front of the broken fence to stop doggo trying to get to next door's dog and will be a place I can sit and look at my water feature and read my book.

Finally we are looking at a new front door as ours is shocking. It swells in wet weather and sometimes it's even hard to open from the inside!

We still have our emergency fund in tact.

In other news. Our main bank is now doing pots! This is good news as I'd run out of pots in Monzo 😂 I've converted three of my Monzo pots to instant access savings as they give 2.75% interest which is better than we had with Natwest. The new pots will be for glasses & garden so hopefully won't need the bonus for these purchases in future.

Everything else is bobbing along. Credit cards still coming down nicely. I have a 0% interest running out soon but all my current cards are not offering very long deals so I'll probably have to start look for another.

I hope everyone is doing well and staying frugal.

Naomim