£67,031.92 is a frightening number indeed....

Verbatim · 10 July 2018 at 7:19AM

I hope the weather holds for your sister's wedding TOPM. Have the macarons turned out well? How many are you making?
I do miss your daily updates but thoroughly understand how much time it must free up for you.
You didn't mention work/ increased earnings so I presume and trust that all is going well there?
Best wishes for a super weekend for the wedding.

arsenalbarnie · 10 July 2018 at 8:52AM

I agree about the real cost of food and clothing. We eat organic where possible and buy high quality meat but eat less of it. My clothes are only bought twice a year when the wardrobe changes seasons. I got this tip from Bea Johnsons book. I do get the occasional charity shop find if am browsing my local one. I can't resist a look when nipping to the corner shop. Latest finds, gorgeous baby Zara top for my niece and for me Jaeger linen shirt, nomads linen trousers brand new and some lovely slouchy pants ideal for my camping trips. New clothes tho are carefully thought out in April and October and kept to an absolute minimum. Saves me going in to town which I hate! My daughter on the other hand hmmm parcels arriving all the time from Missguided and Boho! No wonder the high street is dying, I hardly ever visit it and the youngsters buy everything online!

Good luck with the wedding and cake. My mum is a professional cake decorator and she is doing a lot of naked cakes this year.

Treadingonplaymobil · 10 July 2018 at 9:04AM

Verbatim Work/earning more is going reasonably well, but the 'extra' work time which I had planned is taking a bit of a back seat while DH is doing overtime - I've lost four weekend days to it over the last month, which is most of my weekend work days (the only time I get to do a solid 10-12 hours work) - and with all the end of term shenanigans at school. Income continues to tick along though, and I feel like I'm making some headway. At least we'll get a good £500 from DH's overtime at some stage (hoping half of it will be paid this month).

Macarons are going well! Storing them is the challenge but I think I've cracked it now.

Arsenalbarnie I think I'd like to shift over to shopping more like this (twice a year) again as it's much easier to keep a handle on what's needed. I used to do it, but when I cut my budgets right back I then didn't buy anything for a couple of seasons, and building my wardrobe back up to the point I can go six months without buying much is taking some time - almost there though. As I become less client facing I'll reintroduce my clothing budget back into our normal budget rather than having it as a percentage of turnover, which will be an interesting change.

I used to love a good charity shop browse, but I never seem to have the time any more, boo.

Cherryfudge · 11 July 2018 at 12:14PM

Love what you are saying about ethical shopping. It was an eye-opener for me when I realised that most of the stuff in the supermarket is more about marketing empty calories than providing real food!

Have a great time at the wedding!

Verbatim · 14 July 2018 at 7:10AM

Hope the wedding goes beautifully.

Suffolk_lass · 14 July 2018 at 7:42AM

There are lots of us thinking about you and your Sister's wedding and hoping the weather is good. Have a relaxing time

PositiveBalance · 14 July 2018 at 10:34AM

Yes, hope you are having a wonderful time at the wedding!

Treadingonplaymobil · 17 July 2018 at 9:32AM

Week 75: Day 2

Aaaaaaaaand I'm back. Albeit with eyelids propped open with matchsticks and a brain which isn't really functioning in any meaningful way. What a full on weekend. So much to organise, plan and execute (I am the organised one in my family so got handed an awful lot of extra jobs). The day went off without a hitch though, and everyone was thrilled with it (and with my cake/macaron production skills).

I absolutely cannot make my bank accounts make sense with YNAB at the moment (did I mention my brain isn't working?!), so I have just adjusted my budgets upwards and downwards as necessary (my business account had about £30 less than I thought it should have, the joint account about £50 more) and am not going to attempt to work out where my maths has failed. No major spending to report, have not had time.

I'll be back soon with more when I have the energy.

To do this week
1. Pack orders for smaller business.
2. Tidy house.
3. Clear emails and deal with any firefighting that needs to be done as a result of not working for virtually a week.
4. Restart daily social media (again, a week off!).

Mini goals:
- £9.22/31 June rounding down pot.
- £3,114.53/£5,000 2018 debt repayment goal.
- £348/£932 extension pre-build costs shortfall.

Starmummy · 17 July 2018 at 11:21AM

So glad your sister had a lovely wedding.

I sometimes find that it's the change of routine that exhausts me and frazzles my brain rather than it actually being because I've been busier.

I hope you get on top of things soon but make sure you are kind to yourself

Take care

SM

Chrystal · 17 July 2018 at 11:23AM

Glad everything went well and your baking was a hit!

Give your brain at least 24 hours before you attempt to get it into money working mode - after a week it probably thought the 'emergency' was over and decided to take a well earned rest, a bit like we do when we eventually collapse after coping heroically with a crisis. :rotfl:

Remember, slow and steady wins the race. X

£67,031.92 is a frightening number indeed....

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