Moving House, Renovations & OPs

Elephantchunks

This weeks spends:
£167.28/£200 - Groceries - £24.58 mostly on rabbit food bread and milk.
£42.84/£100 - Petrol
£80/£110 - Cigs - bought in bulk.
£79.45/£90 - My fun - £39 Besties gift, soapbox derby, shoes, earrings, booze + takeaway.
£71.89/£90 - DH fun - £48 Car show, soapbox derby, car sticker, booze + takeaway.
£87/£195- Driving lessons
£10 Extra saved - ebsy £9 dress & £1 for 3x old shirts.

Last weekend cost us most of our fun money but boy was it fun! Must reign it in now. £39 wasn't bad for me though considering I could have spent that on shoes instead of £9.99. I saw the same ones in a high street store for £15 but I know their supplier so I went there instead.
£30 left for top up shops for two weeks which is doable I believe.

Finishing off last weeks to do list today, been to tip with a full minivan. Boxing up the lounge will commence shortly.

Happy weekend y'all!

Elephantchunks

Waiting, money saving, waiting, money making, waiting....

1 item out of 6 sold on ebsy last night. I will re-list these at B.I.N. instead of auction. Got £29 after fees for the sold item and the buyer is collecting tomorrow so I've not got to waste my lunch time getting to the post office, bonus.

Yesterday I listed another item and boxed up half the living room. DH took the sofas apart (ikea) so here's hoping everything works out and we don't have to unbox it all. To be honest, I think if our purchase did fall through we would probably rent somewhere because we don't want to go through the whole selling process again. This would cost £4000 to get out of our mortgage early though so[STRIKE] it would need some careful consideration. [/STRIKE] we'd be mad to do this.
DH phoned surveyors today and they have promised that we will receive the survey tomorrow. Eek! The suspense has been unbearable, let's hope the survey is not!

Elephantchunks

No survey today, they have now promised that we will get it by 10am tomorrow. Huff!

Positives -
1. Ebsy buyer has collected his item, bought the correct change and even remembered the penny.
2. Managed to use a drill bit to fish out £15 from my terramundi money pot. We also fished out a dollar and some rather hilarious predictions made by our friends from our wedding.
3. 1422 SB points.
4. MIL has lent me 5x reading books. I'll aim to read 2x this month.
5. Didn't want to cook today. We both wanted takeaway but we ate coronation chicken sandwiches instead.

CathT

I'm trying to read more aswell, I'd never get through 2 books in a month - enjoy! Well done for resisting take-away.

Elephantchunks

The results are in!
Survey received yesterday aaaand....
The septic tank is in fact not dumping liquid waste onto the railway embankment and uses a drainage field in the correct and proper way! Hooray! It's all on paper. As far as we and the solicitor are aware that is the truth so we don't quite know why our seller told the house surveyor any different. We will be allowed the title deeds and therefore allowed the mortgage. The quote for some pipework came to nearly £2000 not the £9000 expected. RELIEVED!
We found this out yesterday and I was so excited I had to go to bed with a headache at 9pm, I think I've had less than 10 headaches in my entire lifetime, must have been the stress coming out I guess????
Aaaaaaaand relax, and keep on dreaming. WooP de WoOp Yeah :j:j:j:j
Our solicitor has today contacted the other solicitors to prepare an exchange / completion timeline Gerrin!!

Elephantchunks

That was the plan Cath but maybe one now that we have so much boxing and work to do . I don't have many commitments, no kids, no tv so reading and crafting is what I do with most of my time.

Viking_mfw

Excellent news congratulations on your appropriately working septic tank! A phrase you don't often hear

EatingTheElephant

Excellent news EC :T
Fingers crossed the rest of the process goes a bit more smoothly!

CathT

That's great news! What a relief for you. I always mean to switch the tv of in favour of a book but it doesn't happen often enough.

Hope you get your completion date, how exciting!

Jessy103

Woohoo! Fingers crossed the rest goes smoothly and you're in before you know it! x