Single, six kids and going to be debt free!

So tonight I have been researching sweet cone bags. Three of my kids are having a joint party at a soft play centre and I was going to get some sweet cones made up. But now I am thinking I might make them myself.

I have paid for exclusive hire first thing on a Sunday morning for a soft play centre. It is cheaper to do first thing and have a joint party rather than individual parties for the three kids. The money will come out of the present fund which is looking very healthy at the moment!

So onto sweet cones. I was going to pay someone else to do them, but I thought why not do them myself. The bags are looking about £3.20 for 100 bags. I also hold the makro card for work and there is a makro nearby so I thought get the sweets from there. Pretty sure they won't be that expensive but I might go and research!

Then whilst I was looking on the makro site, I saw offers on meat. Meat is expensive and we eat a lot of chicken. So I might try the meat from makro as that looks like it will work out cheaper than buying from the supermarket. Does anyone else buy meat in bulk?

Drawingaline wrote: »

My clothing budget can't keep up either. I have decided to increase it for a few months and do a seperate line in YNAB for dancing clothing.

I think I will see if I can up it by £5 per week and then hopefully build up a bit of balance in there!

JoJoC wrote: »

I have no advice on Makro, but I did sweetie cones for my son's borthday party a year ago - a couple of quid for the cones and ribbon, i printed off some sticky labels for the outside saying 'thank you for coming to X's party' with a picture of a ninja turtle on it and I got two boxes of sweets from my local cash and carry and that more than did the 30 sweetie cones I made up.

Top tip - I bought one bag or giant marshmallows and putting three of those in each took up LOADS of space, so I wasn't having to fill them to the brim with all the little sweets

Great tip JoJo, I think I will definitely do my own cones. I reckon there will be about 60 kids there as the two older ones are inviting their whole classes (new school so haven't really got any special friends yet) and surely it would be cheaper than paying someone else to do them! Love the marshmallows tip as well.

CoffeeCakeYarn wrote: »

Receipt hog is slow, but you can upload multiples from the same shop in one day so good for wombling

I might do receipt hog then. With Shopprize, a couple of days I have got to the maximum allowed receipts upload for a day, so I have kept them and just scanned them the next day. It doesn't take me long and its all free money!