May the (NST) force be with you

Fmess

Thanks for the challenge misstara

See you all on the June thread

Eager_Elephant

I know you have all moved to June but thought I better post an update still:

Garden – will be spending loads of time in the garden getting it ready for all the vegetables we want to grow. Need to get DH to plant the seeds in the next few days. DH did not plant the seeds so while he was out one day I planted them myself and they are all coming up lovely, some have even been moved outside

2017 Goals:
Brought the house we live in under Right To Buy – on hold until DH’s job is made permanent. Checked contract and DH is only on 3mth probation so he will speak to his boss and check if he passed (assume he did otherwise he should have left surely!)

Cleared at least £3000 of debt. - £872.64 of my own debt cleared so far. – paying a small amount off each month.

Socialise more – not yet but now the weather is warming up we can have BBQ’s – Went to my friends tea party but haven’t socialised as a family yet.

Make a decent income from our smallholding. – still prepping for this. Will definitely have pigs this year but they are for us and not really to sell. – still prepping the field for this, Turkey pen should be finished in the next week.

Stretch target – unfortunately all my spare money will be spent this month as I have a weekend away with the girls. I am going to set up a s/o for £100 to one of my debts so it comes out without me having to think about it. If I do that from 1/6 then I will ‘only’ need to find £600 by Dec to have cleared £3k. – Well I set up a monthly saver instead so £100 will divert there instead. At least after a year I get my interest so could then pay that off the debt. In the mean time I need to rejig my budget which is tight and try to increase my debt payments even if its only another £5 per month.

NSD’s – will aim for 16 – Managed 15 in the end.

Savings – s/o’s come out on the 1st. – All came out as usual


Thanks to misstara for May thread and well done to all Turtles.