MSE blog 2008

MushyPeas

Morning....gosh it's a bit late isn't it . Went out with my friend last night and paid for the curry. Not very MSE but she's just had her 'lightbulb' moment so I thought it was the least I can do. It was nice to chat with her about money in a postive way, rather than her taking the pea for what I do!

We then went back to hers and watched a DVD (I let her pay for that :rolleyes: ) and I drove back home....then online till 2 am:eek: . V. naughty of me, I think I'll start setting a timer.

Aims for today:
* Visit aunt & uncle / gran & grandad (not seen for 6 months or so & look at TomTom for shortest route) done
* Crack on with the ironing pile (washed some of the 'musty' clothes so 3 loads!) done
* 5 hours work different jobs about 4 hours
* Spend at least an hour tackling paperwork pile! nope

I have accounts due.....really don't know where lost of stuff is

jamtart6

hi mushers! i went to bed at 4.10am and got out of bed at 12.45am - i seem to think im some sort of student! heehee!

Car petrol costs - fill your whole tank up with petrol from when its empty - mine currently is about £35-38 per tank from completely empty (a guess from when it goes onto red). Reset the mile clock and see how many miles you do until it gets to the red again. Mine is about 300 miles (approx).

£36 / 300miles = 0.12pence per mile .
My round trip is 24miles = £2.88ish. Its shocked me really, I thought it'd be about 90p!!!

my car doesn't do many miles to the gallon, but its all city driving and stop and start - but I'll review this when I buy a new one later in the year !!

Sorry to be nosey but what exercise dvds did you get? I'm in Murphy's no more pies club in the Moneysaving Arms and keep saying I'll do my exercise dvds and dont oops! I need an exercise buddy to get me back into the swing of it!

MushyPeas

Morning jamtart

I set my alarm for 7 this morning, up at 9am I'm sooooo rubbish at getting up when the alarm goes off!

I'm very excited, my DVDs have just arrived:
* Davina The Box Set
* Davina High Energy Five

They look really good and I can't wait to use them. But I'm flat out today and then away for 3 days so it will have to wait till the weekend! I haven't got a telly at the moment (my punishment for not unpacking) so plan to use my computer. I'll let you know how I get on Exercise buddy sounds like a grand plan, I deffo. want to do one this coming Saturday morning. I know that's 5 days away but it's better then nowt .

Thanks for the fuel consumption tip. I'm definatly going to have to try that as I want to work out detail such as which would be the cheaper way of getting into town:

* 16 mile drive & train journey
* 54 mile round trip

I can then also work out, like you, how much I save by working from home for a few days

I had a funny dream last night, that Martin had passed away in his sleep! Glad to see he is still with us

jamtart6

:eek::eek: poor martin!! :money:

Let us know your figures and then we can see howyou can do it cheaper

Exercise buddy is a plan! i need to do at least one this week!! I LOVE davina, she is so human in the routines and dies on the floor half way through (exactly how im feeling) - they are really hard tho! I have 3 30minute workouts and power of 3. you don't half ache the next day!

ps - if you need any photos developing - snapfish (+ quidco or pigsback) are doing an offer 50 for 50p (+99p postage)...im going to sort mine tonight which is pretty good price! (i have about 400 to develop!)

MushyPeas

Hiya jamtart So shall we say we're doing one video this weekend? Which one would you recommend starting with for a newbie? Sounds like I won't be able to walk the day after :rotfl:

Thanks for the tip on photos...but I have so much to do I can't look at that at the moment.

Today I've been working from home....my back aches from being hunched over the computer all day . But, I've had two NSD is a row, yippee It's getting quite addictive now! Feel a bit shut off working from home, but back to the smoke tomorrow for 3 days.

jamtart6

definitely not the boxercise part! it kills me off! power of three is slightly less aerobic!! i'm going to do strictly come dancercise once this week and probably some toning exercises (there was an exercise section in the paper today). They are my aims!!

Well done for your NSD's!

Graham_Devon

Mushety, remember that the slowest route, i.e. shortest is not always best for fuel consumption. If it's slow roads with stop and starting, lots of breaking, suddenly your using more fuel, more wear and tear etc.

So saving 2 miles might cost more than driving an extra 2 miles on a straight road.

So say you had 100 miles to do, on the motorway at 70mph.

Or, 75 miles on A roads, possibly 30-60mph.

The 100 miles would probably or at least should, work out less expensive overall.

Look at taxi's, they go through clutches and gearboxes like I go through sausage sandwiches! Lots of stopping, starting, gear changing. Then look at a rep's car with the same sort of mileage. The rep's car will have clost less to keep on the road, and will probably be on the same clutch and gearbox as it always has had.

jamtart6

good point Graham! I always use less fuel on a long motorway trip than the little city driving trips!

Mushy - guess what I did today after the excitement of the Boots sale?? Yes thats right..the exercise dvd, 30mins of dancercise i nearly died! so you have to stick to your part of the bargain now! can't wait to update my total spends for week 3 on my thread with the excitement of Bootsing!

MushyPeas

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Mushety, remember that the slowest route, i.e. shortest is not always best for fuel consumption. If it's slow roads with stop and starting, lots of breaking, suddenly your using more fuel, more wear and tear etc.

So saving 2 miles might cost more than driving an extra 2 miles on a straight road.

So say you had 100 miles to do, on the motorway at 70mph.

Or, 75 miles on A roads, possibly 30-60mph.

The 100 miles would probably or at least should, work out less expensive overall.

Look at taxi's, they go through clutches and gearboxes like I go through sausage sandwiches! Lots of stopping, starting, gear changing. Then look at a rep's car with the same sort of mileage. The rep's car will have clost less to keep on the road, and will probably be on the same clutch and gearbox as it always has had.

Hello GD, oh blimey you've confuddled my brain now But thanks for input I do really appreciate it

I kind of get what everyone is saying with speed, corners etc. But on the plus side I am learning some interesting routes around the countryside .

I ultimately do think you guys are right though about lots of breaking etc.

With gears...does it make a difference if you have an automatic...

MushyPeas

jamtart6 wrote: »

good point Graham! I always use less fuel on a long motorway trip than the little city driving trips!

Mushy - guess what I did today after the excitement of the Boots sale?? Yes thats right..the exercise dvd, 30mins of dancercise i nearly died! so you have to stick to your part of the bargain now! can't wait to update my total spends for week 3 on my thread with the excitement of Bootsing!

Wow that's brilliant!!! :T

Oh....erm...confession time . I've kind of stressed myself out this weekend and so ran out of time...but, but, but (pathetic excuse coming up) I DID watch the DVD whilst ironing :rotfl: .

But that's so I'm prepared when I work out! And I bought an exercise mat .

Does that count? No :rolleyes: .... ok *hangs head in shame*.

Sooooo after trying not to be a stressed Pea I've been lured by the bright lights and now have 254 879 jobs on the go! :eek: So, stressie weekend, but did managed to:
* Up to date with washing and ironing
* Unpacked a box (ok, it was from the smoke so doesn't technically count, but was a box!)
* Begged my brother to come over to spend all day sorting out my itunes, uploading to my ipod, updating my tomtom, researching cars to buy for me
* Begged my mum to come over and tackle my paper mountain, which she did
* Food shopped (my second in this flat...second shop in 10 months being here!) Made a chilli, yum, and have a menu plan for this week

I was feeling a bit pants, now feel a bit better coz it looks like I achieved a *few* things this weekend.

Roll on next week, I hope everyone else is doing ok!