Bank: £914.10 (was £945.10)
Purse: £2.72 (was £28.46)
Jar: £30.95 (was £4.00)
Grand Total: £947.77
Reduced by £29.79
Days to payday: 20
Spends:
£11.00 – my bargain red converse from e-bay! They are in such good nick, no one knows they are not brand new.
£10.00 – kids x 2 haircut. DS2 was practically scalped so might get away with a few more weeks between cuts.
£2.10 – 2 x bottles of pop from corner shop near footy (OUCH – we normally go to Home Bargains so I almost passed out)
£1.00 – bananas from't market (massive huge ones)
£2.70 – salad stuff from't market.
£1.50 – some chocolate and pop from a freezer shop whilst I was at the market
£0.64 - stamp
£0.35 – bottle of lemonade.
Got to send a cheque for £50 for DS1 and DH to attend DS1's athletics club dinner coz he's getting an award – hopefully they won't bank it straightaway, and tickets for the FA Cup quarter Final game go on sale tomorrow so that'll be £52, oh and my will that I am having drawn up on Tuesday which will be £90.
Budget looks like this
Petrol: £141 budget / £56 spent / £85 remaining (half a tank of petrol left)
Groceries: £300 budget / £74.49 spent / £225.51 remaining
Credit card: £12.84
Interest: Don't know, haven't been told yet, was £16.04 last month
Kids activities & bus fare: £81.60
Bills shortfall: £138.50
My bus fares: £43.50
Tesco CC: £15
Leaves for everything else....£329.78
I phoned Three this morning to cancel DS2's old phone contract (which overlapped for a month with his new one) which will save £6.90 a month, and as I rang from my phone, they told me I could 'upgrade' (so I said no) and then they offered to knock my bill down to £15 a month, which is a saving of £22 a month, so I bit their hands off.
Morrisons sent me an e-mail offering 5,000 extra points (£5) if I spent over £60 online before 1st March so I put another order in yesterday for delivery next on 27th for £62+ but I shouldn't need to do a big shop for delivery on 5th March which would have been my last delivery before payday, other than packed lunches & pop, so I am hopeful to come in under budget again. I already have 19,200 points which is nearly £20 in vouchers but I'm saving them up for the Christmas week food shop.
Bootygirl – HAH, I always (usually) think twice about spending now too, as I know I have to come on here and confess all.
Bunnie – your fella is GORGEOUS!
Northender – such a disappointment that you didn't win – but it was Man U, and if you're going to go out of the cup to anyone, it's no shame to go out against one of the big boys.
Need - I won't dwell on it, but OMG that car is a mess! Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky xx