Adventures and Overpayments

chicker

Our online account has finally updated to show yesterdays direct debit payment and we’re in the £230ks. When the interest goes on mid-January it will probably tip back into £231k so I might try to make a small op to bring it back down again.

chicker

Yay! Another £25 win on the PBS 😃

chicker

DH pointed out we’ve actually won two lots of £25 today so £50 in total! We also had £25 last month so £75 altogether which is equivalent to 0.378% interest so far!

savingholmes

Well done on the win.

Thanks for caring. I have stayed negative so far and DD seems to be on the recovery phase. So anxiety reducing 

chicker

Thanks @savingholmes ! I will try to have a catch up on your diary later this evening 🙂


It's been a spendy couple of days in the Chicker household:

Our Ama5on subscribe and save came to £43.59 of boring household items including bin bags and toothbrush heads. I had checked and switched all items to the cheapest option and basically put everything we were going to need in the next few months into the one order to benefit from the maximum 15% discount.

Yesterday I went to the dentist for the first time in 2 years and I was sooo nervous  Luckily all is good and we had a good chat about options for my dead front tooth. I plan to try another one that is closer to get another quote mainly because this one involved a 45 minute drive and £3.20 car parking! Private dentist so £75 and I really need to put us on the waiting list for an nhs dentist since ours closed before Christmas.

Also need to pay DH's tax bill!!

In better news:

I contacted S@ntander about missing cashback on our 123 account and was told we'll get it next month due to the bank holidays at the beginning of the month. 

Our food and petrol credit card direct debit came out at £12 less than I expected - no idea why but I will pop this in savings if it's still there at the end of the month. 

£10.15 claimed from prolific and now safely in my extra income pot. 


Low sugar is not going as planned as I sit here next to an open box on toblerone 


Righteo, need to go and wake up DD so we can play outside in the howling wind 


Chicker 🙂

savingholmes

Glad dentist went well. Toblerone sounds tasty - I just ate choc orange bar. Well done on the surveys and savings.

debtfreeoneday

Must have been the day for it. I munched through a whole bag of chocolate yesterday. 

Alchemilla

Hello Chicker! Just caught up with your doings.
I hope DD is recovered now?

chicker

Hmmm I replied earlier but it’s gone?! 

savingholmes said:

Glad dentist went well. Toblerone sounds tasty - I just ate choc orange bar. Well done on the surveys and savings.

I still have a chocolate orange but have opened the Ferrero Rocher for now. I’ll be doing low sugar in February at this rate! 

debtfreeoneday said:

Must have been the day for it. I munched through a whole bag of chocolate yesterday. 

Glad it’s not just me! I don’t eat a lot of chocolate normally because I don’t buy it. If it’s in the house I can’t ignore it! 😳

Alchemilla said:

Hello Chicker! Just caught up with your doings.
I hope DD is recovered now?

Thanks for saying hello! DD is much better thank you for asking. Still spotty but they seem to be healing well 🙂

savingholmes

Glad DD is doing better. Jealous of the ferrero rocher!