Dreams and wishes....

Kittikins

No petrol day

Have annoyed my saintly father by paying to have the headlamps scrubbed when apparently he told me it was easy to do it myself with some fluid he has in the garage.....grrrr. The headlamps were absolutely awful but are now like new, which I KNOW I wouldn't have been able to do myself! He always has to be right.......

savingwannabe

It's ok you know for next time. Just over two months left Kittykins. You are nearly there. :T

I did some marking. Am currently roasting a chicken and waiting for it.......:D:beer::j

Kittikins

DD and I popped over to my new school to FINALLY drop off the paperwork, then to my current school to pick up some marking (bleugh), before going for a swim

Found 2p on the floor, yay, and have put 70p into the sealed pot today. KW has found some more books that might be worth a few pennies in his cupboard of dooooooom. Here's hoping!

Actually, I'm hoping more that my car gets through the MoT tomorrow morning without needing any work.

I'm going to take a book to read whilst it's being sorted - read a whole book this morning whilst sitting in the Waitrose caf! (I read at kind of super-human speed when I'm interested in what I'm reading, so a novel takes about 90 minutes )

Kittikins

Phew! My car passed it's MoT this morning, with no advisories Only cost £29.99, which is lovely, as I know it can be around £50!

Turns out my car aerial just needed to be unscrewed - picking up a new stick bit tomorrow, £22, much better than £50-£60 that I originally thought. Might be a birthday present from my parents, but they have a habit of saying they'll reimburse me and never getting round to it...

Filled the car up as it was running on fumes, nearly £50 Also sort out car tax, which has gone up £10 on last year. Glad I put money aside each month for these things.

Paid off my credit card as per statement - but will have about £350 on it already for next month! (Am putting everything on card, to try and earn more Tesco points, every little helps and all that ).

Just discovered that my car insurance isn't due until mid-May, so that's a relief, gives me time to find a hopefully much cheaper policy than just auto-renewing, like I've shamefully done for the past couple of years....

savingwannabe

Well done on the MOT.

Yikes to credit card bill. It'll be good for points though.

Well done on not renewing insurance. Shop around. You save loads.

Have a good day tomorrow. :beer:

Kittikins

I had a look at my credit card statement online and quite a bit of the money I've spent recently has been on bits for the house, so I don't feel too bad now.

On my way back from dropping KW at work before coming home, I stopped off in Sainsbury's and discovered they had A5 nice notebooks for a bargainous 12p each. So, I bought 30....to give to children with a cotton bag and (as yet unbought) a pen or pencil. I'll pop a nice sticker on, saying how lovely it might be to fill this book with their hopes, wishes and dreams, stories and the like

At 12p each, I just couldn't leave them in the shop. However, I resisted the temptation to put a couple of extras in my trolley, as I do have more notebooks than brain cells!!

Kittikins

Am going to take a flame-thrower to my room I think, I just can't get motivated to sort it, but am really fed up with how messy it is

11 weeks and 1 day!!

savingwannabe

Do one small job at a time. Give yourself 5 mins of work and half hour break ie watch some telly after a task. This is the system I use.

Be ruthless.

Good luck it is hard work but so worth it.

Kittikins

I like the sound of 5 minutes work Wonder if I can apply it to teaching Bet the children would enjoy it too!

I managed to get another small bag of clothes together for the charity shop and a couple of books that have been on my to read pile for ages, so I reckon I'm never actually going to read them.

Taking DD out today to go and lie on beds in John Lewis, to see what we fancy sleeping on for the foreseeable future! We're going to have a magical mystery tour, just head the car in the vague direction of the shop, but stop off if we see interesting places along the way.

Did my finances and have £103 left for the month - well, will do once sodding ex pays his maintenance, whenever his lordship deigns to do so. *breathe *

Over to KW's tonight, yay, and then got an expensive day tomorrow - lunch with a friend I've not seen in ages, 'shopping' and then need to get a present to take to a murder mystery dinner

Kittikins

KW and I had a lovely morning - we went to a bed shop and tried mattresses, mooched around some other shops and ended up paying £15.30 on a clock for the kitchen that we both fell in love with

I love that we have such similar tastes, and that the clock was reduced from £32!

Lunch was rather scrummy but quite pricy, good job DD and I had bought bread and cheese yesterday for a picnic. Need to start getting ready for my night out - eeek! All this gadding about is so unusual to me these days!