Pay off mortgage and start having even more fun 😁

themadvix

Not MSE at all, but definitely once in a lifetime experiences! (Funnily enough have just been saying on a diary on DFW (that more than qualifies to be over here - they’ve paid off their mortgage) that we’re very good at having fun over here these days and not at all hair shirt about mortgage OPs!)

newgirly

  Very true Vix, we need to have some fun sometimes 😬

newgirly

Off to the shops with best friend today, will try to get a couple more Xmas presents. For anyone with a sparks app (M&S) todays first advent gift is a free Percy pig tree decoration 🙂 

newgirly

Ok to update, juts been on hduk and everyone gets a different gift today 😆

Debsnewbudget

I got a tea lantern 
thanks for the heads up

Mrs_Money_Penny

I have just checked and have a free bottle of M&S sugar plum snow globe gin! Can’t believe it will pop down later to hopefully get it. Will let you know x

CathT

Mrs_Money_Penny said:

I have just checked and have a free bottle of M&S sugar plum snow globe gin! Can’t believe it will pop down later to hopefully get it. Will let you know x

That's an amazing prize!

Thanks for the heads up NG, I wouldn't have known otherwise. I've got a hand cream for today. Will see how I get on the next few days and try and pop in to collect them.

Mrs_Money_Penny

Just been and collected the gin. Very happy. Hadn’t been having a good week. Been waiting since Monday for someone to fix our heating. Thanks for the heads up Newgirly xx

newgirly

Fantastic! Glad you got a free hand cream Cath 😬 Best friend got the gin snowglobe bottle too, pretty good for nothing, I hope you heating gets fixed and your week improves MMP 🙂

Spending update : 

• £1.70 milk 
• £8.50 Asda, gift bags, choc orange as part of girls day out secret Santa, Xmas socks for ds1 stocking 
• £7.30 toothpaste x2, elf biscuits, almonds for squirrels, shower gel
• £10.98 Superdrug, hair dye, hairspray, Nivea thick face cream- doing wonders for my face this winter! 
• £3.60 M&S bread and cheese 

£32.08 total so £1800 / 1331.73 which means £468.27 left this year. It’s been a run of no spend days until today but we could do with buying a fair bit of food, we have been eating much cheaper stuff lately if there is such a things as cheap food! For example Tonight dh will have (if he ever finishes work) Tesco value toad in the hole, homemade small roast potatoes, frozen peas. Ds2 had home made veg soup (toothache!)  and dil had Tesco value macaroni cheese with veg. I had a salad with Brie and cranberry and avocado to use up salad leaves before they went off. Using all all the odds and ends now, the cats are officially eating way better food than us 😆

badmemory

Talking about chocolate orange, do they seem to have gone smaller to you?