Positive thinking for May - what are you goin to do...?!?!

painted_lady

My realistic aims are
- ebay the items in understairs cupboard
- sort out tax credits renewal
- transfer rest of my balance on vrigin to interst free card I have
- get boy back onto washable nappies, at least 4 - 5 days a week, he moves so much during a change its easier to use disposable, but its killing me using them.

Doesnt sound like a lot, but I am not well at the moment, so its hard for me to do tghese things.

DreamerHelen

Here are my Aims For May:

* Sell things on Ebay.
* Add more money to my Change Pot.
* Stick to the hours that I plan to do in both of my Jobs - No Work, No Pay!!
* Amend my Spreadsheet to keep track of my Debts
* Look at Previous Bank Statements to see if I can reclaim bank charges.
* Not spend more than £50 out of my £100 spends allowance for the month.
* Save up for a Deposit on a new flat (this could take some time!! LoL)
* Pay off my Capital One Debt completely (£171.19)
* Stick to my Diet during the Week and have a bit of fun (no spending) at Weekends.
* Save money on my Phone Bill by getting people to call me! LoL
* Contact the Tax Office about my Self-Employed Part-Time Job to make sure that I don't get landed with a huge tax bill!!

debtbegone

debtbegone wrote: »

:hello: Hello! :hello:

My first month putting down my aims, hope it gives me the kick I need!

* Make the full £310 in the £10 a day challenge - Made £245.70
* To do this I'm going to sell on ebay, amazon, play and greenmetropolis - Yup
* Accept any overtime offered (rarely happens but might over the next few weeks, fingers crossed) - None available, but have offered to do overtime in the summer months
* Take £10 out on a Thursday to last me the week (spends for myself) - That's a big no, May went a bit mad
* Have at least 3 NSD's over the week - Lost count, boo!
* Get my bum into gear with my business stuff I've been procrastinating over. - Yup, things are looking good!
* Spend only £10 a week on fuel (easliy do-able now I've got a small car again ) Yup, loving only spending in a month what I had been spending in a week driving the other halfs boy racer car!
* Cancel the Credit Card Repayment Cover so I'm paying off more debt - DONE!
* Pay at least £500 to my Credit Card - Only managed £300, must do better this month!

That's all I can think of at the moment :beer:

I've popped what I achieved/didn't in red beside my bullet points, didn't do amazing but managed to get through some of it.

Must do better in June!

hypno06

hypno06 wrote: »

OK, I am going to aim to do the following:

• start my new job next week Done, and loving it!
• stick to the budgets (very strict ones) that I have set myself. Daunting but do-able Failed Miserably
• Make my full £10 a day for the challenge Made £20 a day!!!
• Take £10 out of the bank each week and not spend any more than this on coffees/lunch extras etc whilst at work. Any surplus into ISA. Hmmmm...moving on.
• Do a car boot sale with Pania Did a car boot sale!!
• List at least 10 things on ebay 30 things on ebay and Amazon
• Start jogging.........hmm Yup, and have improved already!
• Stick to diet.......double hmmm Lost 9lbs so far!!

So, I am pretty happy with most of that.

A little more effort required on the budgeting and spending though

Skippycat

My aims this month are to...

- open a new ISA and put in at least £300. I've only put in a hundred so far (but I've got some more to put in next time I can make it to the bank)

- enter 250 comps a week. Doing well with the comps and have had some lovely prizes this month

- hopefully sell some more items on play.com and amazon. Yes

- make only home made lunches for work / no buying stuff at work. :rolleyes: Yes

- start on my diet. not really..........


So May wasn't too bad overall. Can hopefully improve on it in June.