Progress not Perfection

PennysIntoPounds

If a change in lipbalm is needed, I've found the superdr*g own brand one really good

Lovely news on the savings interest, that is impressive. You'll have to book yer next holibob in a tax haven 😁

satchmo1

SA, have you moved Mr SA's tax allowance to yourself? I moved mine to Mr Satchmo a few years ago.

Sun_Addict

Morning all, happy April, another new month.

WFH today. Not as relaxing a start as I'd hoped for as I had a Mr M delivery at 6am and one of the cats had pooped in the hallway so I had that to clear up.

All the regular savers have been fed, cc balance paid off and an oddment of £5.82 has gone to the Christmas pot.

Today's exercise plan is yoga first thing done, dog walking also done, a lunchtime strength training class and live salsacise tonight (in place of Zumba as the instructor is off sick).

Tonight's dinner is an old favourite baked sweet potato with veggie chilli.

To do:

• Contact a tree surgeon for a quote to trim large tree after nesting season (this is becoming a frog)
• Gold sale - I've discovered some more broken/unwanted items so going to re-start this sale
• Renew senior railcard - expires 6 April - use Mr T vouchers for this
• Open ISA and move EF
• Plant April seeds
• Garden tidy/cut grass
• Tidy understairs cupboard (yet again!), one or two things need to go in the loft (job for Friday)
• Patch up paint behind Mr SA's armchair where he's managed to scrape the paint off the wall with it 😐
• Get out suitcases - the holiday is approaching fast
• Book a mobility scooter for Mr SA for our upcoming holiday

The gardening jobs will be done on a dry day over the upcoming Easter long weekend.

The Lid! £5 off £40 spend voucher is live from today for 3 days. I think I'll be able to utilise it as there are a few things I could do with stocking up on from there.

Sun_Addict

Morning all it feels like Friday today 😁

WFH today, actually had a lovely relaxing start to the day with my book and the dog cuddling up to me on the sofa.

When I finished work yesterday I decided to go to the big Mr T for the cheap veg to save us a journey on Saturday. Mr SA wanted to come with me and we took the dog so she got her third outing of the day. I picked up one of those big joints of meat for Mr SA. I cut them up into steaks/small joints and stewing beef and freeze them. I got that plus 2 x broccoli, 2 x 1kg onions, 1 x white cabbage and 2kg of potatoes all for £8.33. I know I said I didn't need potatoes as we still have quite a few from the free Lid! sack but the Mr T ones were good sized ones ideal for jacket potatoes.

I'm planning to go to Lid! tomorrow and use the £5 off coupon. I've made a list of everything I would buy this month from there (non perishable) and it will definitely come to at least £40. Might as well utilise it.

On the to do list front, I exchanged the Mr T vouchers for a senior railcard but as I already have an active card it won't let me buy a new one and there's no way to renew using the vouchers. I'm hoping it's just a case of having to wait until the card has expired and buy a new one and this doesn't mean I've wasted £17.50 of my clubcard points. I've emailed the railcard customer services for advice. I've checked the clubcard Ts and Cs and it doesn't mention anything about it.

I booked Mr SA's scooter for our holiday so I can tick that off the list. Hopefully I can tick a couple more things off today.

I'm having my nails done later this morning, booked and paid for a few weeks ago. While I'm out I'm going to pick up some bird/squirrel and fish food and also go to S@vers.

Today's exercise will be a short yoga session, dog walking, a live strength training class at lunchtime and live aerobics instead of Zumba tonight.

Cashed out £21.03 from PA yesterday, 40p away from cashing out £25 on Op.

Tonight's dinner is another old favourite, Spanish style butterbean stew but instead of using veggie sausages I'm going to finally get rid of the veggie meatballs that have been in the freezer forever.