NST October ORGANISE OCTOBER

apple_muncher

Laura - exciting times ahead, just 3 weeks left! You sound super organised. Hope the days go by quickly and smoothly.

Today I am grateful for another mild day allowing laundry drying outside, for finding the foods on our list in the shops, for easy buses, for walking out and about with dd, for seeing some old friends, for said friends feeding us a yummy roast dinner, for getting some work stuff downloaded, for playing HPotter Cluedo, for just 1 more week until half term.

greent

Organise/ Cook from Scratch/ Use things up -As we are on hols next weekend we are now concentrating on using up fridge contents

Pay debts/ savings -

Budgets
* Food - 203.48173.13/ 325 (stretch 290) - £30 spent in Sains today on food to make use of a big money off (£12) voucher and a voucher for a bonus 500 points
* Fuel 60/60
* Clothes 32.47/75 - spent £38.50 on a shirt from Ted BAker outlet for OH and then bargainacious £20.97 on TWO pairs of adult walking boots (mega, mega reduced!!) and 3 pairs of socks at M0unta1n Wareh0u5e - OH had £50 from my mum for his bday to buy clothes with, so have only put the excess spent above that on the budget line, as the rest was paid for with her cash
* Gifts 66.14/150 - took a cake to bestie's new house and also picked up milk and bleach for her. Bought some Xmas bits but only spent £1.49 cash - used £17.50 nectar points (still have nearly £80 left)
* Toiletries 7.75/10 -
* Social 134.46/200 (stretch 150)

NSD - 7/12 - no more as yet

Improvise -

Exercise
* Week 1 - 3/4
* Week 2 - 3/4
* Week 3 - 0/4

Jan Goals - "By the end of the year I want to have halved the (non mtge) debt we have and have lost 20lbs - and also get fitter along the way"
Debt at start of year more than halved.
Weight/ fitness = 2/20lb

Extra income - 50 y0ug0v points + £3.70 net after costs from flebay sale

Christmas - Bought DS3 a top and 2 stocking bits and DS2 a stocking bit

Get Ready Checklist
1 - Health - vitamins taken today so 12/31
4 - Maintenance - seeing kitchen designer again here on Monday.
Plumbing/ bathroom - emailed someone but they are fully booked until Feb
Electrician - still to do
Plasterer - messaged him - need to send pics

Gratitudes:
* lovely warm weather
* line dried washing
* someone stopping (a young woman) to check on OH when he was attacked whilst out on a walk :eek: - they gave their details to police to give a statement later on
* DS2 getting all of his homework done with no aggro
* cake with friends
x

apple_muncher

Yikes, greent, is your OH all right?

ilovetea

Good evening.
Another NSD. 12/31
Checking in again 14/31.
Food from fridge,still eating chicken I cooked on Friday.
Extra money so far this month is £29.20 from e-bay. Up to date with surveys,so hopefully some pay outs soon.
Another 35 lots listed on e-bay today. I will declutter :rotfl:

greent. Hope your hubby is O.K.

ilovetea xx

Baileys_Babe

Long time no update, we went on holiday on the 4th and our internet access wasn't great and since we have been home I haven't had time/energy to deal with things online since.

I've had plenty of NSD's on 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th,12th, 13th, 14th, 15th :money:

Holiday spends were lower than expected as my parents insisted on paying for most things (they did try and pay for everything but finally we were allowed to pay) These spends also included the meals we ate whilst driving to and from our holiday usually, we would take food from home but I planned plenty of breaks on our journey as I didn't want to drive 6+ hours without them. We stopped at service stations to use the toilets, for meal breaks we left the motorway and visited local towns.

Budget:
Groceries: £30.56/£310
Diesel: £23.23/£180
Entertainment £0/£150
Personal spends £3/£45
Holiday spends £204.60/£500
NSD 10/15
Making do/using up: Since we have been home we rearranged which day we were having each meal so we could delay shopping from yesterday until tomorrow. Then as we are both feeling exhausted we had another change to tonight's plan and decided to use up HM bolognese sauce from the freezer to make lasagna. I'm counting this as a multiple win as didn't order a take away (OH did suggest it), we used something up from the freezer (often it's full to bursting), we ate a delicious dinner without too much effort and lastly, we have a meal idea to put on the next meal plan :j

Now we are back I will make a big effort to report in every day.

Fmess

SFD number 7

Worked most of the day but managed to visit my family for dinner tonight Free food

f0xh0les

Now on NSD 3/15

Gave blood. That was kind.

DS1s birthday

I decided for STOPTOBER I would delete farcebook app from my phone. Not missing it at all.

Great chat with another mum at a kids birthday party.

It is now half term......... let the silliness commence!

Kerry_Woman

greent - Hope your OH is alright.

bizzie

A quiet day and another NSD in the bag.
Check in 15/31 & NSD 9/15 so on target.
Dinner from the freezer.

greent hope your OH is ok.

mothernerd

I can't do this, but I'm doing it anyway.