Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

PennysIntoPounds

Great news about the pension info arriving, fingers crossed for you it all adds up and makes sense in a positive way 🥂

foxgloves

Thanks, PiP. I am mulling it over & will aim to contact PensionWise at the end of next week for clarification on the AVC element which is confusing me.

Morning Campers,

Just having my 2nd cup of coffee. On today's list, the budget-helping bits will include:

*Phoning milk company to find out why we had a delivery this morning when I had cancelled it. Shall want a refund.

*Bake a loaf.

*Enter a competition.

*Do an audit of our first aid/medical supplies box.

*Plant out all the random plant freebies that are currently sitting around in pots.

*Finish the shaping on sock & finish knitting the foot.

*Remember to save bathwater later for a thorough watering of our front courtyard 1st thing tomorrow

*We have new potatoes & veg which need using up so have tweaked meal plans to include all of those tonight. Might make a rice pudding too as we now have too much milk.

*Save all peelings, fruit/veg scraps for the worm composter as they are getting low.

*Feed & water all houseplants. I want those geramiums looking nice & lush for planting up summer containers next month.

There'll doubtless be other random bits & bobs but not if I don't stop drinking coffee & actually crack on! Have a good day all.

F x

foxgloves

Saturday Savers, Hello!

Busy day so far but am now out on the reading bench with the weekend papers, enjoying the sunshine. All systems go here getting ready for birthday mini-break. Money saving efforts as follows:

*Far too good a free drying day to leave big towels, etc, till we get back so put a couple of loads on which are dry already.

*How's this for the rigour of the newly water-metered? One fill of the bath = 2 baths, 8 watering cans & 2 loo flushes! As our front door is right next to the bathroom, I think I will make watering our front courtyard from bathwater a regular summer thing. We've paid for the water so it makes sense to get a 2nd use from it where possible.

*Baked bread rolls & biscuits which along with supermarket crisps & our water bottles plus a big flask of coffee will make a decent picnic for the journey. Always seems such a waste to be frittering holiday expenses money on service station sarnies when one hasn't even reached holiday destination

*Mr F popped by Waitbl00m to collect our latest free 'little treat' which was a pizza. We have a coolbag so that's a free meal sorted while we are away.

*Got through to dairy (incommunicado yesterday) & they are going to refund us for yesterday's milk & juice which we had cancelled.

*Found bag of carrots sitting in pantry which won't get used. Now prepped & frozen.

*Did a budget check-in to see if that extra inexplicable £52 is still there. It is....but had increased to £87. I can account for £12.99 of it as found I had mistakenly included a DD twice because it is collected right on the cusp of our new monthly budget cycle..i could find no other errors or peculiarities so have added it to our holiday expenses pot for now.

*It's not my cooking.night so my only other task will be very thoroughly watering all the veg & bedding plants so that all I need to do before we go away is ensure that there is some water in all the saucers I've put underneath extra thirsty plants.

*Mr F found local petrol had gone down by 2p a litre this morning whi h surprised us as tensions & intransigence over the war seem ongoing.

A tiny holly blue butterfly has just fluttered past. Such pretty fragility.

Wishing everyone a lovely weekend,

F x