Getting FIREd up 😀

South_coast

Humph 🙁 - I thought I was doing well getting £2.40-worth yesterday!

edinburgher

I got £15.57 in the end, but the rest of my day was a nightmare, so I needed a silver lining 

savingholmes

That's pretty good going

South_coast

I had a pretty horrific Monday as well, hoping for better things today!

savingholmes

I think this heat is getting to all of us. The best bit of my day yesterday was using flexi to finish early!

South_coast

South_coast said:

Thought I'd put a little bet on who the next PM will be (don't think it's giving too much away to say I picked someone who has recently resigned 🤣!), but it's doing some anti-fraud check on me that's taking hours

So the extra security checks were because I signed up to a new bookmaker as they were offering new customers a £20 free bet when they placed a £5 bet. "Excellent" I thought, "I'll have two horses in the race". Except they have now both ruled themselves out of the contest before it's even really begun 🤦‍♀️! So that's a fiver I'll never see again 🤣!

South_coast

Today was a better day!

The same cannot be said for my finances, however 🤦‍♀️ My week's grocery shopping at the weekend came in at almost what I had budgeted for the rest of the month (and that was after deducting £5-worth of Nectar points. Not really down to price increases - I'd just run out of a lot of things all at once). I've also booked a hotel for the night of our Christmas party as the price had dropped (thought I'd keep a weekly eye on it), but I had to pay by debit card as my credit card will have expired by then, so had to pinch it out of savings. AND I've ordered some new running gear, as Adidas had a massive sale on (which annoyingly seems to be getting delivered one item at a time - I honestly wouldn't mind waiting a couple of extra days for them to collate the items, there's no rush 🤦‍♀️!), so that could cost me a bit too. Current position before I try anything on is
-£43.47, which includes £5 I received from Vypr earlier. I've requested £10 from Panelbase, but not sure I'll manage to recover the rest 🤔

However, I'm not going to beat myself up about it this time (no Qmee - unless I get very, very close 🤣!). Locking in lower prices for things I definitely need has got to be worth a bit of short-term pain 👍

South_coast

4 pints of milk on 09/07: £1.35
4 pints of milk on 14/07: £1.45

😱

Merlin's_Beard

South_coast said:

4 pints of milk on 09/07: £1.35
4 pints of milk on 14/07: £1.45

😱

I think a lot of basics like that seem to be going up about 10p a month at the minute, utter madness. The bread I bought for 95p a few months ago crept up to £1.05 and it's now £1.15 

ruby_eskimo

South_coast said:

4 pints of milk on 09/07: £1.35
4 pints of milk on 14/07: £1.45

😱

Basics pasta went from £0.45 to £0.65 in a week.  This week was the first shop where I noticed that everything in the trolley had gone up in price.  Luckily we had extra cash leftover in the food budget but still, it got me really concerned because if this continues, there will come a day when we won't have that extra cash!