Setmefree's Diary: MFi5 journey

MoneyQueen

Hi SMF2,

Just catching up with your diary..

Well done on getting below 100K

Happy New Year

MQ

poppyoscar_3

Hi SMF2
Well done on your sub 100k - every digit down is great news!
Hope 2010 is as productive.
PO xx

setmefree2

My gas and electricity accounts were updated at end of December and have only just looked at them. Good news mostly :T

GAS
Down on all previous December Quarters - 2006, 2007 & 2008 by between 22% and 26%. :T

ELECTRICITY
Down on 2006 & 2007 by just 1%:T but up on 2008 by 18%:o

Overall quite pleased.:money:


I have updated page1
(Energy use thread on Green Board)

setmefree2

A year ago I set myself a personal challenge to see how much I could save on coupons and loyalty points. Here's the final results.

I started this challenge 1st January 2009.

Savings made from coupons and points in shops:-

£312 Boots
£ 53 Local Hairdresser
£108 Sainsburys
£ 27 Body Shop
£ 21 Tesco
£ 10 M & S
£ 8 Next
£ 21 Homebase
£560 TOTAL shopping

Other vouchers used

£36 Airmiles used to save on Eurostar
£27 Free tickets local football club
£130 Free tickets for Legoland
£1295 Hilton Points used in Paris
£1488 TOTAL


GRAND TOTAL £2,048

evab_2

That's fantastic smf, well done on all those savings xx

setmefree2

Just had a look at our spending spreadsheet. It runs April to April. Year upon year most things seem reasonable but the one thing that has increased a lot is our food bill. This probably is due to the fact that our 2 boys now eat like male adults :eek: but I must have a think and see if I can reduce this. We hardly throw any food out so I'm not sure it's possible.

Anyhoo, I'm going to try and keep to my resolution this year- not to buy any more books until I've read the massive pile I already have. Also to buy the minimum amount of clothes.

My use-it-up-personal challenge is still going. My bathroom shelves are now heaving with Christmas booty; beautiful shower gels, bubble bath, body lotion, perfume, candles, etc - now I just have to spend the year "using it up". Now that's the sort of challenge I enjoy

Best Wishes

Smf2

uzubairu

setmefree2 wrote: »

A year ago I set myself a personal challenge to see how much I could save on coupons and loyalty points. Here's the final results.

I started this challenge 1st January 2009.

Savings made from coupons and points in shops:-

£312 Boots
£ 53 Local Hairdresser
£108 Sainsburys
£ 27 Body Shop
£ 21 Tesco
£ 10 M & S
£ 8 Next
£ 21 Homebase
£560 TOTAL shopping

Other vouchers used

£36 Airmiles used to save on Eurostar
£27 Free tickets local football club
£130 Free tickets for Legoland
£1295 Hilton Points used in Paris
£1488 TOTAL


GRAND TOTAL £2,048

Well done. :beer:

It really does make a difference and for me provides days out and holidays with little or no cash outlay.

canne_2

I've just figured out how to subscribe to threads so I'm just posting here so I can get updates to your diary.



Cheers

canne

TallGirl

That is some savings setmefree2 well done for keeping track of all of that. Amazing how it all adds up.

Optimisticpair

setmefree2 wrote: »

Anyhoo, I'm going to try and keep to my resolution this year- not to buy any more books until I've read the massive pile I already have. Also to buy the minimum amount of clothes.

My use-it-up-personal challenge is still going. My bathroom shelves are now heaving with Christmas booty; beautiful shower gels, bubble bath, body lotion, perfume, candles, etc - now I just have to spend the year "using it up". Now that's the sort of challenge I enjoy

Best Wishes

Smf2

Well done on the Coupons Total! That's impressive.:beer:

Mr OP's used his Boots ones on more of his fave moisturiser which is one of his must haves. We are ploughing through lots of nice pressies and free or cheap offer toiletries that we have "carried over" from last year. We are going from January to January now.

Clothes we just need essentials so I've set a low budget for that. Books ditto, we have loads of them too.