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Help! Just had my lightbulb moment!!
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Outgoings weekly:
60 (petrol) (see below with the train fare!)
40 (food shop) = £225 / 250 (2 and a cat! just have trouble making it cheaper with one veggie and one meaty! any advice appreciated!)
Outgoing Monthly:
550 (rent)
100 (council tax)
50 (tv, phone, internet) (I need to contact Virgin and see if I can reduce this to their 3 for £30)
35 (mobile) (contracts up in April so going to cancel it then)
160 (train fare) (see below!)
30 (water)
50 (electric) (this is just a basic put to one side for when the bill comes in, but I've just tranfered when we moved house so hopefully it'll be a bit less!)
60 (car insurance) = £1085 / 1100 (only one more month, so hopefully with OH's years no claims it'll drop)
Thank you so much for both of your comments.
Just wanted to clear up the train fare and petrol. Unfortunately I dont drive so have to get the train from Northampton to Leighton BUzzard eveyday (160 monthly payments on a yearly train card). OH works in Milton Keynes so drives in everyday. No chance of a car share as he starts at 5:45 and i start at 8am. So its unfortunate but I dont plan on staying at my job past Jan 09. Hopefully going to reduce weekend driving so should be able to get petrol down to 40 (bloody cold weather does nothing for our little car!)
Again thank you for your help, am going to try and save energy (elec and gas) where I can, have already turned down the thermostat and only have the heating on for an hour in the morning and a couple of hours in the evening as the house holds its heat thank god!
Also have decided to stop smoking and OH is going to join me so thats another expense gone!
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