misstara's debt diary 2024

misstara · 25 November 2024 at 12:31AM

Not much to report but trying to get back into the habit of posting every day.

Today has been a NSD

I've cashed out £8.90 from PA as well so it's been transferred to the LISA holding fund, now sitting at £25.04. I'll transfer it to the LISA tomorrow.

Didn't get round to claiming my expenses back at work today as it was a busy day so will make sure I do that tomorrow.

misstara · 25 November 2024 at 11:40PM

£7.87 spent on bread, milk and muesli. Very annoyingly OH has just informed me that we will need sugar so will need to get that tomorrow.

Claimed my expenses back and it was a bit more than I thought - £37.53 so fingers crossed I can get to payday without using it and then it can go towards the LISA

misstara · 26 November 2024 at 11:59PM

£2.14 spent on sugar, got a big bag so hopefully it will last a while although OH does drink a lot of tea.

My lovely colleague gave me £20 today for often giving her a lift into work

hoping to be able to put it into the LISA as well.

misstara · 27 November 2024 at 12:47AM

Just cashed out £9.53 from surveys so that has been added to the LISA holding fund

_Dolly_Rocker_ · 29 November 2024 at 5:31PM

Woo hoo go you!

misstara · 5 December 2024 at 11:40PM

Thanks Dolly

So decided to spend the expenses money and money from colleague on dinner and drinks out with a friend over the weekend

🤦 no regrets though as had such a good night and not something I do often these days.

Had a little left over so stuck that into the LISA holding fund so it's now sitting at £19.74

Payday has been and gone. Opted to just put £125 into the LISA this month so that more money was available for Christmas stuff. Only have £75 to go to max out for this year so easily achievable in January and then I'll just pop the usual amount into the LISA holding fund and transfer it in the new financial year.

Work has been pretty awful this week, service users are great but the staff 😱 sometimes wish that I didn't have the responsibilities that I do and could afford to step down but it will get better, it always does. Long shift tomorrow but then off the weekend. Need to do a proper food shop (have spent £36.31 of the food budget already, mostly on utter rubbish) and make a proper start on Christmas shopping.

_Dolly_Rocker_ · 6 December 2024 at 4:29PM

Glad you had a nice time out with your friend.

Och work can be like that and it's horrid when it's happening.

misstara · 8 December 2024 at 12:11AM

Thanks Dolly, yesterday was mostly a good day but then had to go in for 4 hours this morning because someone phoned in sick 😫

Yesterday and today have been NSDs 😊

£7.13 cashed out from surveys so £25 has been moved to the LISA leaving £1.87 in the LISA holding fund. £50 to go to max out the LISA, am going to set myself a mini target of trying to reach that by the end of the year.

Heading off to bed with a hot water bottle, been in a lot of pain this evening so have loaded up on strong pain killers and hoping that I'll wake up tomorrow feeling back to my usual self especially since me and OH are planning to go out for a carvery lunch.

misstara · 8 December 2024 at 1:50PM

Not a great night's sleep as had to get up during the night to take more pain killers but slept until 9.30am and have woken up feeling fine thankfully.

Me and OH are heading out shortly for our carvery lunch, so looking forward to this as we can rarely be bothered cooking a roast in the house. There's a Lid! near to the place we are going so will pop in here afterwards to get some food shopping.

I've done some online Christmas shopping this morning and have spent £185.76 - 5 kids, my sister, brother and brother-in-law covered by that. Just need to get for my parents, gran, sister-in-law and some stocking fillers for OH.