2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

bails

Ooh Hopeless (got to stop calling you that, sorry!), I meant to say, what about selling some of your cakes if you don't already, as they're obviously popular? When I was trying to raise 54K for an expedition with my (school)kids, my mum (who is an absolute star!) used to make a batch of cakes every week which we then sold at breaktimes; it was our best fundraiser by far!! Just a thought.
Thanks for that website Nyk, have added it to my list of ones to check out. I love that smilie, makes me laugh every time I see it! Right, off to the cinema (no Orange Wed as I have lost my phone, doh!) so will spend a bit unfortunately. See ya all on the other side. (ps thanks for the info about watching Martin later as I'm interested in the chickens too... of course ). BTW, there are some ex-battery hens at our RSPCA centre, I'm assuming they don't lay any more, is that right? I'd take em anyway if we had the room :rolleyes:

fizzel81

evening all

shooting on to say hello before i go to watch martin.

hope you all had a good day today, i need to have a think about ebaying some bits, cleaned up my double buggy today though little man walks so just one in a buggy but wondering if its one of them things best for freecycle?

the figures for what we have all spent so far this month is so impressive, ive told a few people i know who think im mad, and then a few who have said goodluck with it

im enjoying it, its a challenge and its going to be hard at times, but ive set my sights and what i want from this and i aim to get it

Janey51

Oh double bum

Went into Tesco (bad move) to get a loaf for my Mum and ended up spending £23.28.:eek:

In mitigation, I did buy 3 Christmas presents totalling £14.43 ....bargain

wornoutmumoftwo

Well so much for recording it, computer decided to throw a wobbly, got the first ten minutes and the last ten minutes of Martin's show, but if you missed it you can do a search under itpaystowatch and catch up that way.

In the meantime I really need to sort this excuse for a computer out, really tempted to throw it out the window!:mad:

debrag

So I've been doing some spending

£40 for pair of trainers & ankle boots on Littlewoods so I haven't paid for these yet
£60 for Chess in concert in May at Royal Albert Hall - I do hope I like Chess lol On my mums card so haven't paid for it.
£90 for 2 Dancing On Ice Tour tickets in Nottingham - mum has paid for these

I've kind of lost where I was with my spending diary so on the last day of Jan I'll just work it out by counting what's come out of my acount minus what I have in cash.

Aril

Right then you lot I am holding you completely responsible...I now have a name for my affliction...it's called challenge by proxy syndrome [ie hooked to a challenge even though not partaking in it:D ] I am totally cream crackered today because I thought it would be a fabby idea to sit up in bed with my OH until midnight and discuss the totally thrilling results of his electrical experiments. Yes he's now been round all our applicances with his oh-ometer...it's a black box that measures the current of things which he walks around with and mutters "oh!" at regular intervals [erm I think...you are asking a complete technical Luddite here] and I got myself totally overthrilled at the prospect of saving £9 alone by totally unplugging the pc. It's been all this talk of meter readings it's thrown me into a complete flat spin:rotfl: :rotfl: [reminder to myself...one day when I manage to peel myself away from these boards I must get a life:D ]
Keep up the good work everyone...still seeing great progress and determination from everyone.
Aril

mumzyof2

evening all im here ...... How is everyone doing? I will update tonight or tomorrow with totals of what i have spent today (around £20!!!)

liuhut

Aril....can I ask you where you hubby got his little black box from!!! I'm hooked on watching my lecky dial going round!!! Would be interesting to see where its all being used.

Thanks a lot

Aril

Apparently it's called a current meter and OH tells me you can get it from DIY places and such like.
HTH
Aril

wornoutmumoftwo

I did mine manually, turned everything off then turned it on one at a time, the culprits were the tumble dryer and immersion heater.

My computer uses hardly anything - which is good as I can't drag myself away from this forum for more then 5 minutes,
Is there a thread around here for MSE addiction?:eek: