“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

WannabeFree

25/01/19
Debt
Council Tax £0
Rent arrears £1275
Credit card £0

Total £1275

Weekly Out - Budget now
£125 to rent
£25.60 to this years council tax
£15 Gas *needed to add £5 here
£15 Electric
£11.40 Water
£5.60 TV License
£2.50 for phone credit *added £1.25 here

£3 Snack

This leaves £44 odd pence for everything else.

This is now the budget going forward.

WannabeFree

Onto today..

Bank Balance 28.87

Paid rent (£125)
Paid council tax (£25.60)
Paid last virgin (£48.14)

£50 cash out
Paid TV license (£5.60)
Topped up Gas £15
Topped up Electric £15
Paid water £11.40

£3 in pound coins for snack.

Also been food shopping £17.83 spent to make the meal plan work. Will need more bread and milk. Also been to the pharmacy £10.50 - things needed for me and youngest.

£2.80 on coffee which I didn't need to spend.

Virgin was more than I had set aside. It's more than I expected but apparently it covered more days or something. Anyway that's the last payment to them it's cancelled now.

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WannabeFree wrote: »

I went for a coffee myself So I did buy a coffee

Really glad you still went for a coffee, you deserve to treat yourself

jwil

Congrats on clearing the Council Tax :T :T

teafor2

Glad to hear you bought yourself a coffee, it's easy to get out of the habit of treating ourselves but we all deserve a little something every now and then

Ouch to the Virgin bill. Big difference between £7.50 and £48.14 :eek: Has that wiped you out again for the week? On the positive side, as ever :rotfl: at least your budget is looking better for the coming weeks.

Hope the smalls have all had a good week at school. Can't believe it's weekend again! xx

beanielou

Eeek to Virgin.

Hope ypu feel better soon.

x

HairyHandofDartmoor

Great news on the council tax Wannabe :j :j :j :jand I'm glad you treated yourself to a coffee while you were out :T.

I'm glad Virgin is gone but I hope the final payment doesn't leave you short as it seems higher than you were paying.

WannabeFree

Tea town was weird being there on my own for nothing. It's dire there now. I don't think it's somewhere that can be described as a nice place to visit anymore. Might have to visit one of the other towns for coffee next time.

Thank you for all the replies, it's such a good feeling to know everything is going to be okay.

Onto other news both DS and youngest brought trip letters home. DS's is £99! He says he understands if he can't go but if he can he'd like too. Its £25 to reserve his place and then the rest can be paid over the next 2 months. DD's is £10.15 (why are they always such random amounts?) No doubt DD1 will have a trip soon :cool: Might as well make it all of them!

Anyway they had a good week in school and are all very happy it's weekend. They are fed, bathed and playing in their rooms.

I've lifted some meat out the freezer (I really don't know what it is ) and will make it into casserole and pie for over the weekend using up the last of last weeks veg/potatoes and some soup.

Happy Friday

x

please-let-me-be-lucky

£99 for a trip!! Hope it’s at least residential for that. Do you qualify for free school meals? Even though DS2 has a packed lunch (because he doesn’t like the food at school ), he still qualifies for the pupil premium which covers trips, so he goes free. I know you’ve not had good results with your school, but could you try asking again about this one? Xx

System

I would of thought as well that if your school is an academy DS would qualify for pupil premium so trips would be free .

£99 is a lot to find extra in 2 months.