Goals for w/c 18th April 2006

beanielou · 16 April 2006 at 9:00PM

Good luck all.
All i want to achieve for next week is be less angry about the mess that Im in!
Try v hard to not mess up the good work done this far as have GREAT desire to spend money that I just do not have!

snoozer · 16 April 2006 at 9:46PM

This is the first time I've posted goals - hopefully I'll be able to stick to them.

Go to the gym at least 3 times - wasting the sub at the moment.

Claim my opticians fees back from HSA

Pay paper bill before they stop delivering!!

kathfisch · 16 April 2006 at 9:50PM

beanielou wrote:

Good luck all.
All i want to achieve for next week is be less angry about the mess that Im in!
Try v hard to not mess up the good work done this far as have GREAT desire to spend money that I just do not have!

Hi beanielou

Try not to be too hard on yourself hey! Your anger is a good sign cos it means you want to change the situation, maybe you can channel it into working really hard at something dfw style! Good luck

Ok then, my goals for last week were:

Spend as little as possible to make up for last week's huge gas and elec bill Yep, spent not much at all. Home with parents who have paid for food, takeaways etc :smileyhea

Get my shopping fix by spending some of the £55 in various vouchers I have (hmv, whsmith, high street). These are payments for little jobs I've done just to buy some treats for myself so enjoy spending some (not all!). Nope (but not bad really!), been busy with uni work so no time for shopping :j

Make nice food at home for lunch rather than always going to nice sandwhich shop in town, maybe allow this once as a treat! Yep, only had this once!

Start clear out of my room into "keep", "ebay", "charity shop", "freecycle" and "bin" categories Nope, busy with uni work. Will try this one next week.

Don't get bored and buy stuff on ebay! Keep busy by investigating new version of turbolister and listing stuff (see above). No buying :j but no listing either

Don't eat too much chocolate Ummm.... well..... maybe not quite. Have only had one lindt bunny, much less than I used to have, with easter as my excuse!

So this coming week my goals are:

Use vouchers if I feel the need to shop.

Don't buy anything on ebay,

Make lunch at home instead of going into town.

Start sorting room. Add as much as possible to turbolister (about 20 items already there) and list all on tuesday, 15p day :j

Thats about all I think.

Good luck everyone

Tashja · 16 April 2006 at 10:08PM

Tashja wrote:

Hello this is my first time on here to post !!

GOALS

1) Have 3 no spend days excluding train fares from work. Yes - was done and managed to do no train fares too !! lol
2) Take lunch to work every day Yes - managed this
3) Meal plan for the next week so we don't spend any more on food. Yes this was fun
4) List 2 things on Ebay this week No
5) Use my slow cooker x2 this week Yes - 3 times !!
6) Find out EXACTLY how much we owe on th electric bill (£150 is a guesstimate but I think it is less and so does DH) Yep - they owe me £188.50 !!! WOOOOO
T xx

So now for this week

1) No using the tumble dryer this week
2) Take lunches to work
3) Chase bank statements to see how much they owe me in charges.
4) 3 no spend days
5) Chase £50 from Water Co that they owe me !!

If everyone gives me what they owe me I would have no debt

Well doen and good luck everyone else !!

T xx

Chortle_2 · 16 April 2006 at 10:25PM

Redvelvetkiss2 wrote:

good luck with the hospital appointments, I'm having a colonoscopy on Wednesday :eek:

Thanks Redvelvet - good luck with your colonoscopy!! *shudders at the mere thought of that one!*
Luckily, I just have my normal appointments with my nurses, physio and neurologist (and possibly yet another MRI :rolleyes:) so it won't be painful, just exhausting! It's just unfortunate that they've all come through in the same week!

emylou · 17 April 2006 at 12:27AM

Last week:
1) Buy easter eggs/presents for 15 kids and adults but don't spend more than £30! Nope, final total was about £36
2) List old cds and books on amazon or ebay Done, one of the cds sold on Amazon the day after I listed it! :j
3) Make Thursday and one other day no spend days Only managed one no spend (sunday), I'm back at work now after 2 weeks holiday so should be able to have more no spends again

This week:
1) call/write to Egg to close and cancel acount
2) have 2 no spend days
3) list more on ebay or amazon
4) get more babysitting/tutoring jobs and use the money to pay more off cc

Good luck for the week everyone!

cha97michelle · 17 April 2006 at 9:22PM

Last weeks were:

1) Try to spend no more than £100 including petrol money when visiting DH's parents over the bank holiday. - about £105 because we had to stop at a service station to buy food as my morning sickness was bad. Otherwise we did loads, but only spent the minimum

2) catch up on washing/ironing before Thursday, so i'll go back to work after the bank holiday without worrying about it. did lots of washing - still have some ironing to do, but i have enough clothes to wear for work this week

3) finish 2 mini-cross stitches before going back to work.didn't touch - got distracted by my 2nd job starting a couple of weeks earlier than planned, so trying to get ahead there

4) go get all veg needed for less than £10, and use new slow cooker to make at least 2 meals with freezable leftovers this week spent around £9.40. Used the SC once, but managed to freeze leftovers on 3 occasions. Shouldn't have to cook much this week :j

5) have another look at the budget to boost my savings - got as far as working out we need new car tyres for both cars, so we need to squeeze this out of the next 5 to 6 months budget

New goals:

1) For me to not personally spend any money this week until the main shop next weekend. DH may have some business expenses, so i'll try to limit him to that.

2) work out what money can be transferred to savings over the next month, and then organise transfers.

3) find out when deadlines are for main job over may-june, so i can then get on with them early to allow for time to do my 2nd job

4) investigate train costs/times for me to go on a course in a few weeks.

5) Take packed lunch every day this week.

Good luck everyone :rotfl:

CAFCGirl · 17 April 2006 at 9:44PM

2 no spend days Just managed
Lunch to work each day Im working Did A OK on that one
5 meals from cupboardCooked home made sausage burgers with honey and paprika coating, pasta with home made tomato and thyme sauce, with sausage and sweetcorn.
And to be honest had a couple of rough nights so didnt quite make anything decent for food. Ben and Jerrys one night :eek:
Outstanding bills Have paid off electric, have to call water board tomorrow.Am ignoring British Gas for as long as possible :eek: not good I know but should have £800 from previous flatmate on the 3rd May to pay off!

Return books to waterstonesDid so last sunday,
Post ebay itemsAll done for £3

And sent off letters to Abbey regarding Bank charges and PPI on loan and credit card.No real response as yet.Got fobbed off with some rubbish about investigating my loan application given that I felt I had been mis-sold the insurance. Sent another saying just cancel the insurance thats all Im asking for! :mad:

So for this week:

3 no spend days at least
Call water company, pay off outstanding amountShould hear back about BT to I.F 0% CC
Do another budget plan for May
Get together some more OS recipes
Fight Night saturday.OH paying for ticket £20! :eek: Steer clear of bar!

We'll see how this one goes
Budget for week measly £5!!!!

Bothered! · 17 April 2006 at 10:22PM

Goals for this week... :rotfl: here we go

1. Dont' put on make up or do hair then I won't feel the need to go out!!

2. Don't try to find any excuse for not locking oneself into ones work room to complete outstanding work. BOO :rolleyes:

3. Forget the housework and put mind towards completing one outstanding job and make atleast one customer happy, so I can get paid :T

4. Use payment to clear o/s suppliers (£500 aprox.) and hopefully if any left over pay off Debenhams a/c. (£120)

5. Start work on next two o/s jobs to complete by end of month and use money to pay off Barclaycard....hopefully.

6. Have atleast 3 no-spend days.

7. Work out how much I owe the taxman for yr end 31.3.06 :eek:

Wish me luck please I need it....totally lacking motivation again.

Hipkiss · 17 April 2006 at 10:26PM

Well, I didn't do one last week as I'd only just started my job in London a couple of weeks ago (which cost me £165.00 of travelling and eating).

Last week I didn't do one as we moved to the new office and I didn't know what facilities we had there.

So my goals for this week are:

Have at least 1 no spend day.
Try to get £20.00 put into my savings account
Stop using tumble dryer and put clothes on rotary line outside.

Not many at the mo, but as I said, getting to know the area and the facilities for lunch at the moment.

HK

Goals for w/c 18th April 2006

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