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NSD but did order a 4 person curry meal deal and dessert for Friday when I have friends over, so that will be £20.

£30 in sainsburys on fruit and veg and presents for DS as its his birthday next week.

Was NSD yesterday and will be tomorrow as well.

bantam that would drive me crazy about your DH! Sorry you have had that when you are doing so well yourself

£4.32 inc reduced price bread, reduced price potato farls (so delicious), decaf teabags and a box of vegetable suet.

There's more free money on topcashback (sort of), EE payg sim, top up £1 & get £7 but they will price match quidco at £7.50 if you apply for it.

BUT

Topcashback is payable in tesco clubcard vouchers which can be boosted so its really £26, more if your oh has an account too.

bantam I would have bought the scarf too - so awkward! (Perhaps it's a cunning scam and there are people all over your organisation in hideously expensive, but very cosy, hand-knitted scarves!)

Spendy here...£3 lunch again (a sure sign it's the end of term as I cba to make lunch!)...£2.50 bus...£12 primark on stocking fillers (e.g. reduced hat, scarf, thermal vests etc)...£4.50 mcd's for me and dd.

NSD. Really happy with that as I've an expensive week going on

£12 in Tesco on lunch £3 meal deal, plus 2 bottles of lemonade on buy one get one free, 2 multipacks of crisps, 2 packs of giant chocolate buttons and 2 boxes of half price matchmakers.

Thanks everyone for the kind wishes. I'm feeling fine. As soon as I arrived at work this morning my boss called me into his office and shut the door. I was a bit concerned since I did about 1.5 hours yesterday then told him I was taking the rest as a sick day. He was concerned how I was, and whether I shoupd have done anything yesterday. Something strange had happened, and I think he thought I had lost the plot and messed up the system, but I hadn't used that at all, apparently it crashed and may have lost the invoice during the crash!

He said he hadn't expected me to do anything yesterday so was happy that I had checked the various mailboxes and replied to a couple of messages.

I feel much better about having Donne it now. DH had warned me not to work the day after the funeral, I had compromised by working at gome, but clearly was more emotionally drained than I expected.

Now I just need to motivate myself off the sofa to get some dinner!

£8.70 travel.
£8.50 cinema tickets (Orange 2-for-1).
£1.30 popcorn and water.
£29 Pizza Express (birthday meal).
Total: £49.50.

Happy Birthday *Creme]

audit creme

Have been a bit MIA - currently sat feeding 6 day old snuggly newborn DD though so have an excuse

Naturally money tracking has gone a bit to pot but not too badly as far as I can tell. Back on the bandwagon now :)

audit creme

Have been a bit MIA - currently sat feeding 6 day old snuggly newborn DD though so have an excuse

Naturally money tracking has gone a bit to pot but not too badly as far as I can tell. Back on the bandwagon now :)

audit creme

Have been a bit MIA - currently sat feeding 6 day old snuggly newborn DD though so have an excuse

Naturally money tracking has gone a bit to pot but not too badly as far as I can tell. Back on the bandwagon now :)

Lol sorry thats posted so many times!

Lol sorry thats posted so many times!

Happy birthday Creme, and huge congratulations blue!!! Snuggly newborn, you lucky thing :o :o

needa would you mind posting your pasta bake recipe. It sounds yummy. I have a chicken and chorizo pasta bake recipe if anyone would like it.

bantam your DH sounds a lot like mine. A few times I've gone to the trouble of working out our disposable income and withdrawing it from the bank only for DH to put us onto minus figures by carelessly paying for stuff with his debit card. It's really annoying. Then he acts like a sulky child when I confront him .

blueteapot congrats on the birth of your beautiful baby girl ! Lovely to hear your happy news.

lila good news about your mortgage

I'm meeting my BFF for drinks tomorrow night so that'll cost a bit but it's been over a year since I saw her. I guess I should pick up a Valentines Day card for DH too.

Happy birthday creme Congratulations blue Enjoy every minute.

Nsd. I'm going to attempt to keep tomorrow spend free too apart from small Tesco delivery that's arriving in the evening. There's a bottle of champagne in it as there's some good pre Valentine’s deals out there which has bumped it up a bit but I'm putting it away as part of wedding present. Not very original but they've asked for money to be paid into their PayPal account and I just can't do that.

Bantamgirl I would be fuming if my dh behaved that way. Would weekly pocket money suit him better? I would have bought scarf too and then lied to dh about the price!

Thanks everyone .

Huge congratulations, Blue teapot and family!

Congrats blue and belated Happy birthday creme!
Not much to report. No NSDs this week but all spends within budget.

Congratulations blue! And happy birthday creme

Playgroup today £2 with unlimited coffee, biscuits and cake.

Another NSD yesterday - no generous clients this time but I didn't have time to stop to get anything to eat, which I suppose had a financial silver lining. Today may be more expensive.

Congratulations, blueteapot! Lovely news.

Happy birthday creme! Audit - do take some time for yourself. I lost my mum 20 odd years ago when I was 18 and it was difficult then... V difficult.

NSD yesterday and day before. Today will have lunch out for work reasons. And another late night for work.

Not sure how this is going to pan out today... I have meetings from 9.30-12.30, lunch meeting 12.30-2, another meeting 2-3? And then a board meeting to chair from 6. I have 3 hours in between to deal with work work. Argh.

Can't believe we are on 30 pages already this month!