Debt free living and looking to the future.

Busy weekend with Father's day, kids activities and poorly animals, anyway I decided to get up early and get a few jobs done.

Ebay sales are going ok and have £250 in the pot, although it is really annoying me at the moment,I have had 4 none payers so far this month:mad:, 1 person complaining they hadn't received an item and when I produced proof of postage tracking suddenly went quiet which makes me :mad: because they were obviously trying it on, negative feedback for an item because it was smaller than they expected even though measurements were clearly listed in the description. Anyway I need to keep selling so just going to have to put up with it I suppose.

Another NSD yesterday (don't count ebay parcels as postage is covered).
I will need to do a small shop today as we are low on milk and bread.
Still havn't got round to seeing Jurassic world 2 and probably won't this weekend as DS has sports all weekend and DD is working.

This weeks to do list -

Pack ebay items
Order DD Text books (£20)Payment not due until 16th July so going to leave until payday.
ebay listing.
Tidy kids rooms.
Ironing
School uniform list and price up.
Post royal mail survey bits.
Catch up with surveys.
Paint over mark on hall wall.

Outgoings June -

DD tutor - £156. cheque cleared
School lunches DS - £50/£30
Groceries - £300/£228.25
Petrol - £100/£55
Bills - £45/£35
Misc & entertainment £100/£64.75

June Goals-

Make £350/£250
Stick to grocery budget.
surveys/ebay.
Meal plan.
Packed lunch for work.
Yoga
Try and read 2 books.
10/6 NSD.

hugglemonster wrote: »

Hi Penny, another busy week for you - I don't use ebay much anymore as the fees seem to put me off, stick to fb wherever possible however still have a few things not shifting!

Ds and I saw Jurassic World on Saturday, it was good but a bit predictable in places. DS enjoyed it though which is what matters.

Have a good day, H x

Hi Huggle, thanks for dropping by, yes ebay fees are stupid and do put people off selling.

Still no idea when we will see Jurassic world, I get the feeling it's more me that wants to see it than everyone else, so might just wait for it coming out on DVD.


Take care.x

Afternoon diary.


Week before payday and feels like a slog at the minute, ebay sales are up t0 £260 and I have another non payer :mad:, makes me so cross that you can't leave a negative comment for this. Don't think i'm going to hit £350 unless I get a mad rush on sales. I have listed a few more bits today and should get some more done tomorrow.
Big vets bill to come as horse has had a health check up, wormer and dogs have had there yearly jabs,also wormed and flea/tick stuff, not looking forward to that bill popping through the door, only positive is because we have an account we have 28days to pay instead of straight away.

Grocery shop this morning and spent £72 would have been lower but there was lots of meat reduced so spent extra on that, also bought a present for £9 which will come out of entertainment/misc pot. Does mean grocery pot is now over by £11 .

Everyone is out this evening at different things so tea is either sausage sandwich or chicken wrap, not faffing around tonight.

Lots of pegging out today as the weather is beautiful, long may it continue.

weekend to do list -

Pack ebay items
Order DD Text books (£20)Payment not due until 16th July so going to leave until payday.
ebay listing.
Tidy kids rooms.
Ironing
School uniform list and price up.
Post royal mail survey bits.
Catch up with surveys.

Outgoings June -

DD tutor - £156. cheque cleared
School lunches DS - £50/£50
Groceries - £300/£326.80:(
Petrol - £100/£92
Bills - £45/£45
Misc & entertainment £100/£88.75

June Goals-

Make £350/£250
Stick to grocery budget.
surveys/ebay.
Meal plan.
Packed lunch for work.
Yoga
Try and read 2 books. 1 half read
10/6 NSD.

Afternoon. Gosh life is busy at the moment and with all the glorious sunshine we havn't been spending much time indoors, hence lack of up dates. So I though I would update for June as overall its been pretty good.

So positives
Outgoings -

School lunches DS - £50/£50
Petrol - £100/£92:D
Bills - £45/£45
Misc & entertainment £100/£88.75:D

June Goals-

Make £350/£375:j
surveys/ebay. Have tried really hard to keep up with this.
Meal plan. Have pretty much stuck to it
Packed lunch for work. Everyday:D


Not so positive
Groceries - £300/£326.80.Went over budget but it's better than what we have been spending.
Yoga. Failed
Try and read 2 books. 1 half read Enjoying the book i'm reading but not had much free time.
10/6 NSD. failed.


So even though I failed on a few things overall there are lots of positives, made some money on ebay even though I have had a few none payers, under on misc spends and fuel. So i'm going to say it's been a pretty good month.

Also had some good freebies this week, john frieda shampoo/conditioner satchets which have gone in hols box and a months worth of dishwasher tabs.