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Sun_Addict

Morning happy Sunday.

The dog was messing about at 1am, she thought she heard something outside which always unnerves me. I had to get up and let her outside so she could patrol the garden. It was no doubt just a cat or a fox.

It should be NSD 4 today. No plans to go anywhere other than the park across the road with the dog.

Plans for today:

Meal plan for next week
Take dog for a park run x 2
Give the dining room a good clean, including moving furniture
Tidy out dining room cupboard of doom yet again!

Weed the drive and back garden if not raining 
Ironing
Spanish lessons
Yoga session 

Tonight’s dinner is roast salmon with firecracker rice and roast veg. Mr SA is having slow cooked pork, roast potatoes and veg. 

Having the freezer drawer dedicated to the week’s meals started as a great idea until DD noticed the free space as the week went on and filled it with her food!

RelievedSheff

I love your kitchen island. It looks great.

milann

Love the island and the book stand. Enjoy.
pleased you and a lovely time with your friends - just what you need 👍

Sun_Addict

Morning all, happy Monday.

I'm having an upside down working day today as I'm WFH for the first 1.5 hours then walking to work and doing 6 hours. I've got a meeting this afternoon so it works better for me this way. The downside is I might struggle to get a desk! It was lovely not to rush this morning.

The new 4 week budget period starts today and I'm pleased to report a total underspend of £98.44 in the last budget period. £90 has gone to the general spends pot and £8.44 has gone to the Christmas pot. The Christmas pot is almost at target £596.07 which will be hit this week and opened for Christmas spending. All oddments from then onwards will go towards Christmas 2023. I'm so glad I started doing this as I don't notice the oddments over the year and prior to doing this was one of those people who used to still be paying for Christmas in January!

Today's exercise is walking to/from work and I plan to fit in a yoga session this evening. Tonight's dinner is a portion of Quorn chilli from freezer stocks and sweet potato wedges. I made a batch of spiced carrot and lentil soup yesterday and this will do me for work lunches for 4 days.

I still need to phone Principality about unlocking my account but that's a job for tomorrow, I won't have time today. I also need to send some money to my other regular saver account this week, I'll have a shuffle around of pots to see if I can hit the £500 maximum. I'm thankful I'm able to save this much at the moment but know I won't be able to keep this up once the gas/electric higher payments hit.

Seasidegal58

Your budgets are going well. Another here who started a monthly budget for Christmas a few years ago. It's certainly made a difference and great to know everything is paid for. I have a little Christmas present app that has everyone recorded on it for whom I'm buying Christmas presents, along with how much I've budgeted for them. You can enter what you've bought and for how much. It's handy too as you can see what you've bought last year before updating for this year. 

Sun_Addict

Morning, happy Tuesday.

WFH today and it's a pretty full-on day. I also have the dreaded dentist followed by the hygienist this morning 🙁 I absolutely loathe going to the hygienist, I find it so uncomfortable and they always make you feel you don't clean your teeth properly. I'll be glad when it's lunchtime and the appointments are done.

Mr M shop has been delivered and packed away. No missing items and one sub that I returned. This week's offer was £3 off veg. I should've also hit the over £100 spend and get my second stamp towards the £38 off as I spent £90 after family discount.

I've had my monthly statement from Octopus and I'm now £543.83 in credit which is £50 more than last month. I've also opted in for their first savings session and I'll get £2.25 for every unit of electricity I cut down on between 5 and 6 tonight. I don't usually cook at that time so I've asked Mr SA not to watch the big TV at that time but not really sure how else I can cut down as it's not a big electricity usage time for me anyway.

I still need to ring Principality, goodness knows when I'll get time to be held in a queue but I'll try.

Exercise today will be taking the dog on the park a couple of times as Mr SA is still without a scooter. I'll just about get time to fit in the lunchtime live bums & tums session and then it's resistance bands tonight.

Tonight's dinner is a Deliciously Ella recipe, a new one, weeknight traybake. This will use up some leftover veg. Mr SA is having slow cooker chicken stew.

I also need to find time to fit in some housework.

Is it Friday yet 😆

carolbee

Hi @Sun_Addict, could you please remind me of the name of the lovely bags  you mentioned previously please?

Sun_Addict

carolbee said:

Hi @Sun_Addict, could you please remind me of the name of the lovely bags  you mentioned previously please?

I think it might be Mia Tui.

carolbee

That’s it! Thanks so much 😀

sashybo

Hope you get on ok at the dentist SA, I’ve never been to the hygienist, I don’t think my dental surgery has one. 🤔

@Seasidegal58 I love my Christmas gift list app, it’s so helpful. My family think I’m crazy. 😂