Moving forward and upwards

savingholmes

Made me think of a song....
I've got blue sky.... on a cloudy day

savingwannabe

Im glad you are resting. You need to as you do so much. Today i am taking the day off too. Weather is glorious so I am line drying. 

Irenadler

I think I feel a nap coming on, must be walking in all this fresh air and sunshine, keep on keeping on Babs!

doingitanyway

I hope you have an open windows day. Mine are already open. It is lovely
Napping with the windows open is one of my favourite things to do...

Skint_yet_Again

Hope you have had nice weather again today and you are feeling better. Do you think your change in diet / calories may have made a difference? 

MovingForwards

Thank you SH, SW, Ren, DIA and Skinty

Had the windows open when I finished today.

I've not changed what I eat meal wise, just cut the treats down / out. Even my smoothies are the same as I normally would have. I also got ill before going on my diet. Hopefully I'm getting over it now.

Been doing back to back meetings this week 😐 and I'm covering everything for at least another month.

1 day until long weekend and I've got my eye test Friday. 

£3 in the bank, £2 is bank fee, 2 days until payday.
- No one panic as I do run a zero budget and squirrel the money into savings during the week running up to new money coming in 😃

savingholmes

Glad you have a system in place. I am only managing with my attempt to do zero based budgeting by borrowing from EF.  I don't think I've quite learned the trick of not buying it / spending it / paying it off CC if it doesn't fit in agreed budget envelope... Progress not perfection...

MovingForwards

If you're borrowing from your EF each month, then you need to cut back on saving / spending / DF. It takes time to work out a system that works, but I think yours will fall into place a lot easier when everything is cleared SH.

savingholmes

I'll get there... I think once we are debt free - I hope to have a big enough cushion that it doesn't matter too much if the budget slips...  a bit like a plane that course corrects towards the end of the journey rather than being absolutely on point the whole way.

MovingForwards

It's not long now SH, hope you're planning a celebration.

Long weekend has started, thankfully. 

I ordered some more ear studs and cannisters to make my sparkling water. I saved about £7 buying 2x24 instead of a box of 50.
- The money will come out early part of next week as it's 3bay / P-Pa1.

Eye test in the morning. I've been picking out frames and sunglasses this evening, got quite a few to choose from when I see them in real life.
Normally I buy the cheap frames and have a second cheap pair tinted, it's only £10 more to have sunglasses a normal pair free.
- This is the scary side of saving for so long. It's hard to get out of the habit of buying something functional and does what I want it to do.

I'm doing the shopping afterwards and have my list ready.

Diet is going well. I'm keeping to under 1060 cals a day, eating well and having good snacks, a bit of chocolate or a biscuit. It's a case of take one, or break a bit off the bar and walk away, not returning for the rest of it.

£1 in the bank, payday tomorrow and then it all starts over again!