Saving lots in pots!

debtfreewannabe321

Good job on the greenhouse. We have the same plates by the way....  

~FlowerPot~

debtfreewannabe321 said:

Good job on the greenhouse. We have the same plates by the way....  

good old R*ange !!!

MovingForwards

The salon keeps deposits to one side until appointment day / no show / canx, it then gets taken by whoever the client was due to see or saved for the rebook appointment. We do the same with gift vouchers too.

Finance looks good, keep going.

So much garden envy 😍 you're getting through a lot!
How many types of raspberries have you got?
We have dark red, red and golden.

~FlowerPot~

Thanks MF, 
We have the usual red and 2 that are the golden and they seem to be very heavy fruitless delicious. They have also sent up various runners, so I'm trying to make a4th rasoberry bed and transplant the golden ones into that bed. 

~FlowerPot~

Friday round up

EF ~  £2223 of £3000 (second target)

Car pot: £630 of £700 (first target)

Health pot: £50

Pension: £100 paid across this week  (£144 weekly target)

Pupster excess pot ~ £63.46 /£200 some round ups and TTs added here, tis building albeit slowly!! ALso had pupsters second year vaccinations ~ £74!!! for a shot and the quick check over you ever saw. Crazy money!

challenges: 

£1 a day ~ £101/ £366 ~~oops this took a battering due to DHs B/day ~ still intending to make the total. I was quite a bit ahead, so should be fine

1p 365 challenge (XMAS savings) ~ £341

52 week envelope stuffing ~ £0 added this week

MMOP ~ stopping this for now!

Keep buying things this week! 
Hoodie for DS2 on vinted
Crop top for DD also vinted
Shirt and Tshirt for DS2 in sainos
Ooh and pants for ds2, his are falling apart!! ( he doesn't care, but I do!!)
Also had the spends at the garden centre last weekend, but did need the compost and the seeds! 
Oh and i also bought a fat face cardi for me on vinted, it's new without tags and it's the sadness as one I have but a diff colour and I know it's so comfy!

I have nearly repaid the £1 a day out i raided for DH.
I also need to clear the credit card for petrol monies.

debtfreewannabe321

Great progress Flowerpot 🪴
Kids and pets are so expensive aren't they 🙈 we bought the dog some food last month and now he's refusing to eat it so I feel another expense not budgeted for coming on...
And DD has sent me the leavers hoodie she wants from school after I've just paid for a suit for her for her new school in September 😐🤣
Neverending isn't it!

MovingForwards

You're doing really well. Some months less is put away and more is spent, it happens and don't fret too much.

Another raspberry patch would be good. Think of the jam and fruit puddings you could make 😎

~FlowerPot~

MovingForwards said:

You're doing really well. Some months less is put away and more is spent, it happens and don't fret too much.

Another raspberry patch would be good. Think of the jam and fruit puddings you could make 😎

We all love raspberries, so lots get eaten, frozen for use through the year and also some yummy jam! I wonder what the golden raspberry jam would look like! That would be a bit weird! I doubt we would get enough this year any way, but maybe next! 

~FlowerPot~

I am thinking about trying to have some NSDs as I think I pretty much but something everyday. Which is crazy, and partly because I am not organised with my food shopping, but also because the kids ask for stuff and I suddenly remember something. I def need to be more organised with the food shop and then try for 2or 3 days a week off no spend. Maybe a May challenge! 

~FlowerPot~

yesterday was a lovely day, got up early doors and took DH and doggo to the beach (you can walk the dog on the beach until 1st May, so might even try to get another one in next weekend!) This beach is a nice one, its where I grew up and where my mum still lives, but she is away right now. The only problem was it was a park run day and there were a lot of runners! Doggo doesnt really like going out, he is so nervous. But he managed a bit of a run until he saw another dog (in the distance) we always go early and for a bit of beach between 2 break waters that is empty and let him off the lead to have a really good run back and forth netween me and DH, as he is an italian greyhound, he needs that sprint! and he loves it ~ until he sees another dog!!

Then we went to my fav art cafe, its so lovely there and Iwish we liver nearer as it is about an hour away (and longer coming back as the roads were so busy!)

Then we went into the garden and dug out another box hedge plant. SO now there are 4 left in the back garden and a few in the front, but these ones in the front are small and will be easy to dig out. I planted some more privet hedgeing after changing my thoughts on where it should end! and DH dug a trench behond the compost area and 1. boarded the backs of the compost bays and 2 planted a row of privet there too. This was also a replacement as there was box here and these were the first ones to be removed when they died last year.

I also planted my potatoes, weeded the onion bed and cleared a bit more path. The bottom of the garden is really beginning to look better. Of courtse it is going to take a long time for the new hedges to grow and fill out, but im so pleased the mammouth box hedge removing job is nearly at an end!!!

i am hoping to get to the garden centre and I want to buy some plants to fill some gaps. MAybe a lovely big heaed white hydranger, which should cope in the shadt boarder. maybe ceanothus and maybe a lilac, althought he ceanothus would flower at the same time, hmmm, will poner on that one. I do have a rosemary in a wheelbarrow that needs planting too, will walk around the garden and see if I can find the right sunny spot.

Whilst gardening DS2 decided to make rhubarb jam. Its delicious rhubarb and vanilla jam, couldnt find the recipe we used before, so printed ff another one, it is so nice. mind you DS2 did take hours and kept needing my assistance and left a sticky mess, but it was worth it. guess what I am having on my toast this morning!!

then after tea (when I finally could use the kitchen! We went to the range and bought some wallpaper for out bedroom. Weve been here over 8 years and not managed to decorate it yet and it really needs it, threadbare 80 patterned carpet and ripped old wallpaper ~ its amazing what you end up putting up with verus your ideals when you first move of decorating the whole house within the first coupld of years!!!

Have a good day

Flowers x