Keep calm and carry on....

South_coast

And while I'm at it with the monthly round-up, I've hit the free money target for the month today so I'm giving myself tomorrow off! 

The scores on the doors are:
£0.43 bank account interest
£0.82 TopCashBack
£2.00 Lidl coupon plus (largely thanks to BF requesting items and bumping up my spend 😀)
£2.00 Storewards
£5.00 i-Say
£5.00 Vypr
£5.00 Huyu
£5.00 Shoppix
£5.00 Amazon reward for streaming music
£5.00 online discussion group about cruising
£10.00 cashed-in Nectar points
£11.40 Panelbase
£16.49 Qmee
£23.25 Prolific 

The target was £91.83, and just squeezed in there with £96.39

Next month's target = £91.32

Cheery_Daff

Looks like you have done excellently to me!! Plenty of good things in there, and you've exceeded your extra income target, hooray! Great work!

killerpeaty

You buying clothes isn't necessarily  bad thing. You don't buy £90 of clothes every week or month, whereas I used to have a colleague who "invests" in high end shoes, so gets 2 £600 shoes a month!

Poppycat1

Well done on all that extra income.  I think I will copy you and set myself an extra income target.  How do you decide on your target?

South_coast

Ooh, thanks you lovely lot, you're very sweet 😀 £600 on a pair of shoes though, KP 😮! Not sure I've spent that much on footwear cumulatively yet!

The target was completely randomly plucked out of the air Poppycat. I thought it would be nice to get £100/month, so  £1200 total for the year. I had a really good January and February, so they've brought the total target down nicely and the monthly average needed to achieve it 😀

killerpeaty

£600 on a pair of shoes is mental But different people, different priorities!

Your patience is incredible.

debtfreeoneday

South_coast said:

Ooh, thanks you lovely lot, you're very sweet 😀 £600 on a pair of shoes though, KP 😮! Not sure I've spent that much on footwear cumulatively yet!

The target was completely randomly plucked out of the air Poppycat. I thought it would be nice to get £100/month, so  £1200 total for the year. I had a really good January and February, so they've brought the total target down nicely and the monthly average needed to achieve it 😀

And every month I come on here and try to get her to raise it. Come on SC £100 target for April. 😂

ruby_eskimo

I'd say a C- for March rather than a D - you're being too harsh on yourself 😂  Well done on hitting the goals though and treating yourself to some new stuff.  I've bought a few things on Vinted and depop over the weekend because I've realised that I also needed to up my clothing game if I'm going to be working from home on pretty much a permanent basis - I want to feel comfortable but also good at the same time.  Think the most I've ever spent on a pair of shoes was £150 on my walking boots so that shows you my priorities when it comes to fasion 😂

Chiglepig

ruby_eskimo said:

I'd say a C- for March rather than a D - you're being too harsh on yourself 😂  Well done on hitting the goals though and treating yourself to some new stuff.  I've bought a few things on Vinted and depop over the weekend because I've realised that I also needed to up my clothing game if I'm going to be working from home on pretty much a permanent basis - I want to feel comfortable but also good at the same time.  Think the most I've ever spent on a pair of shoes was £150 on my walking boots so that shows you my priorities when it comes to fasion 😂

RE, you're right about re-imagining what 'work clothes' look like - I've been staying in my dog walking jeans (mud and all) most days - sometimes I change the top, sometime I don't (know one can smell me ). I need new walking boots, I tried to economise last time and only paid £89 - they didn't last a full year, so it's back to Meindl this year. Last time I bought them they were £130, but that was 12 years ago and they lasted 9 years, the same boots are now £230 .

But £600 a month on shoes that are probably painful to wear?????

Cheery_Daff

That's an awful lot on shoes!! My walking boots were from a charity shop, which probably shoes you how much serious hiking I do 😂A lot of our daily strolls i do in rigger boots 😂