misstara's debt diary 2018

misstara

Super quick post before bed but trying to get back in the habit of daily posting. Car was at the garage today so £322.88 spent :eek: thankfully all budgeted for. The tiny bit left over in that fund will go towards my annual parking permit which is due to be renewed in a few weeks time, hopefully it will be the same price as last year (£50). Also spent £4.20 on bus fares and £4.67 on a few items at the supermarket.

monz

Ouch for car!!!xxx

misstara

Thanks for your post monz, yep it's not ideal but hopefully that will be it for a while.

Long day today as did usual shift at work, home for a couple of hours and then back to work to go to an evening event with one of the guys. Was fun though and a NSD too

misstara

Paid for the run entry today which was £23 and also spent £29.08 at the supermarket. I phoned the existing car insurer to let them know I will not be renewing the policy and then went online and paid for next year's car insurance which was £324.66. It has gone on the credit card, I've updated my signature and it's reduced the % paid off the car debt from 49% to 3% which is rather annoying but it has motivated me to make sure I save more money in the car fund so the same thing doesn't happen next year.

misstara

Spent £9.20 on some gf df bits that I couldn't get yesterday plus £2.50 on plasters. Bank account reward went in so paid it to the credit card. I also got paid from 2nd job - £41.78, £30 to electricity bill, £10 to car fund and £1.78 to credit card.

misstara

Had to buy petrol today (£36.83) but a NSD other than that. Really not much else to report, watched a film with OH when I got home from work, did a meal plan for next week and then watched the rugby on catchup.

Boodedoo

The new flat debt is reducing really well not long till its 80% gone :-)

I imagine you must get fed up with it all but you really are doing well! Your hard work and budgeting is getting you there.

misstara

Thanks Boodedoo . Definitely struggling a bit at the moment feeling like it is never ending but I will get there! £3.47 paid to the debt today

A NSD today . Went for a run round the park after work which was really good and then had a relaxing evening watching a film.

misstara

Small spend today of £4 on toothpaste and £3.77 on some food. Forgot to get milk, sugar and washing tabs so will need to get them tomorrow.

misstara

Spent £9.97 on the bits I forgot to get yesterday, £6.99 of that was on a big box of washing tabs. I had bought one's from Lid! to save some money but they were making OH itch so have gone back to the usual.

Went to the gym after work which I really enjoyed, will try to go again tomorrow. Want to try and get into the habit of going regularly especially as I won't run as much over winter.

Me and OH have decided to go down to Edinburgh again for a weekend so booked a room today. It was only £85 which my shift with 2nd job this weekend will cover.