keeping account

earwig

right sundays spending

milk 110p
bread 115p
rolls 50p
bacon 145p
fags 485p
total 905 :eek:

monday

paper 20p
milk 110p
bread 115p
rolls 50p
total 295

left 1700

ok getting nervous now as i still have 4 days to go and 17 pounds left:eek: i have been looking at bread makers will get one soon i think as i spend to much money on bread

on a brighter note oh has decide to sell his car its a y reg mondeo and drinks petroll like water we are going to save up a bit of money as well and hope to update the car to something more cheeper to run and tax and repair we should get about 2300 for the mondeo and if we save up 500 hundred we can get a 02 plate car we have borrowed a old heap from oh brother to drive around in now so we can do the following things

save around 25.00 a week in petroll this can go towards the new car
not add anymore miles to the mondeo
the mondeo can sit at oh brothes garage while he sells it
oh will work saterdays to add more money to the new car

by borrowing the old heap we wont be tempted to spend the money we are saving as we both wont to get back to some form of comfort as the old heap is very basic

right off out now to get the buss so i can tax the old heap wish me luck i have both kids with me as it half term and the busses are crap for buggies:rotfl:

lynzpower

lynz havent seen you on here for a while im still here but you know me it takes me ages to do anything and i have come along why since my 140 :eek: per week shopping bills and my 70 per week takeaway bills:eek: i only have one takeaway now a week so im getting there i sat here the other day i thought to myself if i had done this dfw properly from the start i would be debt free now :mad:

Yeah im lying low a bit - not quite budgeting as well as I used to

One tip- have a search for consumer pulse on here. If you can get on you enter the shopping ( phone bills/ toiletries/ clothes/ videos/ rentals etc) and they send you vouchers. Its good too, you get debehams/top shop john lewis HOF etc. Way more than pigsback gives you as well.

Keep trucking on hun. I think once youve got the knack of it ( and this will help!) I reckon youll be cleared before the 3 years is up

Floss

Earwig, I got my breadmaker off Ebay...cost £17, brand new (unwanted gift) and is fabulous.

In_Search_Of_Me

http://www.consumerpulse.co.uk/

linky for you (just looked it up myself!) I got my bread maker (morphy richards) from argos when it was at special! Best thing I ever got!! Well done on the car - hard decisions but worth it! Hang in there!

earwig

hi thanks for the link thingy its really good have been looking at bread makers still trawling around to get the best deal the car oh dosnt mind so much it me lol the old heap is just that an old heap but it will do the job and ill be glad to get in it if it means i dont have to walk or use the busses talking of busses yeaterday was a mare we waited 45 minutes for a bus what come every 12 minutes there was no space for the buggy so i had fold it up couldnt reber how to do it but after a load of flapping around i got it folded down then i had ds sitting on my lap for the whole journey who decided it would be fun to keep ringing the bell get of my lap runing about and causeing as much mehem as he could the bus drive was getting mad keept giving me daggers everytime ds rung the bell in the end i said to the bus driver look in two stoops we will be of your bus and he will never bother you again i have to take him home with me :eek: dont get me wrong ds is lovely but he is uncontroll able even the health visters dont know what to do with him :rotfl:
well on with the spending
tuesday
bus fare from yesterday 520:eek: thats a return for 4 miles for one adult and one child dont have to pay for ds yet :T

bread 115p
paper 20p
rolls 50p
tobbaca 245p
total 950:eek: :eek: :eek:
left with 7.50 but dh gave me 10 pounds lastnight to cover bus fareas i went and taxed the car for him so back up to 17.50:T :T :T :T
you never know i might just make it this week
right off out now to see my counsellor as my gp want me take anti dep but i dont think i need them so we are going down this route first dont really think i need counselling etheir but gp says i do as i have had a stressfull time so ill give it a go

gerturdeanna

Just a thought for any future bus rides, does your bus company not do daysaver passes? A daysaver here cost 3.50 or 4.50 for any bus!

lynzpower

WOT NO UPDATE :CONFUSED:

How are you doing Earwig?

earwig

hi lynz
im fine well mse went down so i couldnt post and tbh i lost track abit but there have been some good things happing have got a breadmaker oh makes the bread it great the smell first thing in the morring is unbelivable have saved well over 30 pounds by making our own bread and rolls also i have stoped buying the ham have tuna now much cheeper and better for my diet

also have had a big tidy up of the house making room for the kids new stuff at christmas sold most of the old stuff made 140 not including postage so that sitting in the bank waiting for me to decide who i should overpay oh has had a pay rise of 35 per week we are saving that but .....

the old heap had to go it just wasnt saving that much in petroll and the tax was only 12 pound cheeper than the mondeo so all in all we decide to go back to the mondeo

i will try and update more often how are you how is your oh did you sort your health problems out are you still working hope all is well

tigerfeet2006

Earwig have you got your breadmaker yet? As it's only 6 weeks till Christmas aaaaarrrrggggghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why don't you ask for one for a present. I luuuuuuuuurve my breadmaker.

Also have you signed up to Freecycle? Check out how many groups are local to you, I have membership to 4 local groups.

www.freecycle.org

tigerfeet2006

you'd replied to Lynz in the time it took me to read your great thread.

Aren't breadmakers great