Doris's 712 Day Journey

Doris17

Thank you @daintydaisy, had a fab time.

Breakfast for three of us this morning cost £18.10 which I thought was good valve for two large, one small breakfast and three coffees. We had a walk around the lake after breakfast the café bar is next to a lake, which is full of swans and ducks. Plenty of children feeding the ducks. Only ice-cream for me as I had the small breakfast, choc-mint chip, heavenly.

Unfortunately the charity shop was closed today so we went to the shop at the local recycling centre and I found some great bargains for my eBay shop, spent a grand total of £6.00. Some lovely bits of Wedgwood bone china.

Great to see my DS and spend sometime catching with him.

Doris17

Another beautiful morning! Been up since 7am, bedding has been washed and the bed remade, still need to hoover and dust the bedroom. Parcels have been wrapped ready to post tomorrow, will do a few listings later this evening
Going to a table top sale this morning and this afternoon I a going to potter around the garden.

Relaxing Saunday.

Doris17

Woke up this morning to the sound of rain, didn't last long though unfortunately. Table top sale was not great yesterday, bought a several nice jar candles, which are now safely stored in my candle cupboard.

I have a joint of ham in the slow cooker for dinner tomorrow and I am going to also make some pea and ham soup, will need to buy some celery when I go to town later.

Have four parcels to post today and a visit to te building society to discuses a new account for the small amount of savings we have with them.

Have a good day! 

Doris17

Back to work this morning after my long weekend. I am working from home today so today will be a NSD. Made a payment of £6.80 to the CC, should have done this yesterday before I transferred this weeks grocery money into my account.
Currently raining here, waiting for the rain to stop as I have some washing that needs to go on the line, yesterday was the same and brightened up late afternoon,fingers crossed.

Building society visit was interesting yesterday, money is staying put as the interest rate on the account is slowly going up and if we transferred to a different account we would have lest interest that we are currently getting. 

Sorted my wardrobe yesterday and I have a few  bit to list this evening. Lunch will be leftovers from yesterdays dinner and we have ham salad for dinner this evening, there will be plenty left so that's lunches sorted for the rest of the week.

Doris17

Work is finished for the day thankfully, its been a very stressful & upsetting day. Its days like today that keep me motivated to debt free so I can finish work and start the next chapter of or lives.

Doris17

Working day has ended, worked from home again today, so a NSD. Did pop out late morning to post a letter and drop off a parcel to the local parcel shop.

Used put the last of a frozen bag of cauli & broccoli and turned it in to caul & broccoli cheese for lunch in work tomorrow. Also made a plum upside down cake, we had some plums that were tasteless, so I stewed them down slightly added some honey and topped with sponge, fingers crossed it tastes ok. 

Pizza from the freeze and salad for dinner this evening. I actually have a clear freezer shelf, so will use that shelf when I write next weeks meal plan so everything is to hand and I haven't got to search through all the drawers. Small steps.

Doris17

Another payment to CC this morning £13.95, card balance £1260.00, so looking forward to this last card being repaid. Should be able to make another small payment middle of next week have a few auctions ending in the next few days.

Plan today is to get some Christmas bits I have listed on my business account and sort through the toys I have and photograph ready to list over the next week. The sun is trying to come out here think I will put some washing on the line, fingers crossed the rain holds off until its dries.

Doris17

It has been a productive week, concentrated on sorting my home work space, work from home part of the week and where I run my eBay business from. I have a bag to donate to a local charity, 2 bags have gone to the close bank, I have shredded a large pile of paperwork and transferred all listed stock into the loft. I can now think more clearly when I sit down to work and I am feeling much better about the space.

Another 4 day weekend for me and so looking forward to the time off, have a small list of jobs I want to complete, one of them is painting the small front garden wall, we have paint left over from when the back of the house was painted earlier in the year, will look some much fresher when it done. Tomorrow we are planning to go to a food festival in the next valley to ours, been reading about the food festival and it sounds amazing.

Going to get the grocery shop out the way today, meal plan and shopping list are already written. Going to also spend sometime working out next months budget as its payday on Wednesday. 

Doris17

Debt total - £1091.90.

My goals for September (little bit late) are:

* Pay £350.00 off debt 0.00/350.00
* 100 miles on my exercise bike the end of September 21/100miles.
* List 120 items in my eBay shop 0/120.

We are away on the 16th for a week so I better get a move on.