Marvellous Money Saving March.

[CremeEggThief]

Hi All,
Thought I'd start a new thread for all regulars and anyone else who is interested in saving money in March .

I didn't come on yesterday and it fell off my TIO!
Anyway, yesterday was £29 for our dinner out in a nice pub nearby- two courses each (starter and main for me and main and pudding for DS), free pudding for me, for Mother's day, 1 soft drink and 2 glasses of wine, so not bad at all; £9.75 on various random stuff from Wilkos; £3.70 lunch; and £1.80 bus fare, so in total, £44.25.

Today's spend was £31.72 in Tesco, using a £2 off over £20 voucher.

Our meal plan:
Monday : spaghetti with pesto, avocado and borlotti beans.
Tuesday: veggie chilli (left over and frozen) and rice.
Wednesday: jackets with cheese and spinach.
Thursday: gnocchi with pesto and spinach.
Friday: veggie burgers and wedges.
Saturday: veggie toad-in-the-hole with frozen mixed veg. and gravy.
Sunday: same as Saturday.

Oh no Spotty that is terrible

I was thinking the same earlier then remembered we do at least have chocolate ice-cream in the freezer - no help to you though!!

We're all ill. Not done a meal plan yet but I don't anticipate anyone eating dinner today!

Friday spent £26.73 + £1.75 food
Saturday £60.01 petrol
Sunday £12.33 (food, calpol, cards)
Monday £4.01 4x eclipse glasses.

Need to pay sponsorship money tomorrow to school.

Hey all. Hope everyone had a good Mother's Day.

Yesterday I managed to spend £53 in Aldi on nothing. Got very tempted by all the baking things they had in .
Today wasn't so bad, £20 petrol and £5 in aldi again getting some last minute hits to make Guinness cakes for tomorrow

Tomorrow and Wed should be a NSD. Fingers crossed.

NSD here today again (although 2 budgeted DD came out of the account). I made A Girl Called Jack's kidney bean burgers tonight, with home made baps (thanks to DH) and some salad, followed by left over apple crumble and Bird's custard it was a pretty nice meal all things considered (weekly food budget of €30).

I LIE, it wasn't a NSD, DH bought 5 biscuits from our home economics students for €1

Hoping tomorrow will be a NSD. Current account is at €140 (will be -€12 by the end of the month unless Asos decide to refund me, grrrrrr).

NSD here today

pleased to say that DBro has transferred his half of the unexpected expensive birthday meal into the bank.. so have £44 back

Yesterday i spent £12.48 inthe co op and got £20 out in cash

I seriously need to reign in for the rest of the month. I seem to have spent over £260 on groceries and household stuff already and I also have to plan for (fussy, so expensive) weekend guests at the end of the month. But I have £50 due back from Next ,and will send back one of the Monsoon trousers I bought last week which means that Iwill have got the other pair for just £16.60 in the end ..

Also I was booked to get my hair done tomorrow but now will have to cancel (however I do need to get it cut pretty soon its looking terrible ) ...
This is due to the fact im going to have to go off sick or take a day off tomorrow ( yes i know its wrong and im feeling guilty already) , as i was supposed to be working at home today and well... I dont seem to have done much work (any) .. .. so need to do it tomorrow.. there can be no excuses..

I blame MN.. ( and my total stupidity/weakness) for this .

btw ive had to slighly change my name .. went to NC for something i felt strongly about ( but in the end i wisely didnt join in on) , and it seems that you cant go back to your old name?

Im so cross with myself .. stupid stupid stupid..

My food week looks like this:
eggs and toast
tea
vegetable curry (huge pot made)
Dhal (another huge pot made)
cauliflower as 'rice'

Blimey - the boots my work colleague threw in the bin have just made me £104 on Ebay

Hi guys! Havent checked in in a while but have been lurking - so busy with the 2 kids and house renovating... DD had quite an unsettled week last week so I was exhausted, money saving went out the window a bit eg takeaways etc. Have started her on some treatment for reflux and shes back to her chilled out self :)

Back on the bandwagon! Currently having a think about mortgage OPs vs savings... we currently OP £100 extra a month and save 100 each for the kids... but given the rate on savings vs the rate of our mortgage Im wondering would it be wiser to OP that money and save for them when theyre a bit older. Hmm. x

Hi guys! Havent checked in in a while but have been lurking - so busy with the 2 kids and house renovating... DD had quite an unsettled week last week so I was exhausted, money saving went out the window a bit eg takeaways etc. Have started her on some treatment for reflux and shes back to her chilled out self :)

Back on the bandwagon! Currently having a think about mortgage OPs vs savings... we currently OP £100 extra a month and save 100 each for the kids... but given the rate on savings vs the rate of our mortgage Im wondering would it be wiser to OP that money and save for them when theyre a bit older. Hmm. x

Fkn'ell Need, but didnt you tell him you'd split it 50/ 50 ? (we wont tell)

He obvs had far too much money to care anyway..

I'll split it, I am honourable I promise. Still, it's £50 for nothing isn't it? That's me chickens bought!!

cool.. well done.. I need to get back ebaying.. (and working .....)

for Spotty

I have the most astonishing after effect from a recent chest infección that killed my apetite for a couple of weeks. I no longer want the sugary things I used To pig out on. It's like going Cold Turkey really has broken my habit.

Well done on Those boots Need

Blue glad DD is moré settled now. One of mine had/still gets my Spanglish iPad won't let me type the word that problem.

Spent £54 in the supermarket, 2 whole bone in Chicken breast because the whole chickens had no date and had been re wrapped, large amount of nuts as they were on offer and we Get through lot's, ditto large pots of yoghurt. Also bought cheese, veg, fruit and dark chocolate for everyone else. Will need moré veg in a few days and other fruit, apples were far too expensive in the supermarket.

Haven't sorted a plan for the whole week but tonight it's a Chicken salad off BBC Good Food with toms, avocado, onion and grilled Chicken with paprika on it. DDs will have the same but with rice added for lunch Tomorrow.

There will be meat balls one evening/packed lunch, and another Chicken salad, then a salmón meal after I've done some moré shopping.

Not caught up on thread just posting last 2 days

15/2
£2.38 DH took the DCs out for a scoot and they got popcorn for movie night

16/2
£6.75 bus fares
£4.09 macdonalds after work

Mm I love avacado adora.

Should be Nsd today I'm leaving for work soon, feel bad waking poor Ds up!

Not sure about dinner yet, will see what the dates are like of things in the fridge.

Dd has a trip to a farm today but it's free as it's just at the end of the school road.

Need that's great! I need to try and sell some stuff I don't have much though!

Fairly Spendy yesterday, 3 halls and a pint in pub so about £7 in total. My Dsis bought me lunch and then we collected DS from school and went home. DH is sulking as he didn't want to go out or do anything over weekend as he was tired (his own fault for staying up late watching movies) so have to put up with that. Will be getting some work from BIL company as they need graphics for their website so all good there.

Feel like life is just a case of getting from one week to the next at the moment, just keeing going with freelance business as no job offers in sight yet. 2 agencies putting me in for jobs but I reckon I've only got a slim chance. Why does everything feel like such hard work?

Should be a NSD today if I resist a lunchtime walk to Morrison's and stay in instead. Depends on the weather really as can't think of anything I want.

NSD yesterday. Today will be heading to London to meet my potential new employers. Today also paying cleaner £36.

My current boss is starting negotiations. I meet him late this afternoon... Argh. I really don't need this extra stress.

NK I was thinking about you and your work dilemma and wondering what you were going to do. Either way, you are going to have an improved package at least Will pay for your cleaner ha ha ha!! (mines £20)

Should be a NSD (or LSD if I cave and buy chocolate) today.

adora - I think the BBC food website is great, I often Google recipes and their come up, more often than not, these are the ones I use. Also like Jamie Oliver and Jack Monroe.

Get working Laska

Sorry about the result bantam, but you should be proud anyway. Go on the Villa!!!

Hi need, thanks for that! the boss is on the charm offensive. He's replied to a random email I sent this morning (about 6.40am) to which he was copied! Ordinarily he just ignores these emails but he's replied to me saying what he's done and how he looks forward to meeting me later. Wtf?!!!

Yes and get working Laska!!!

I seem to be emerging from the illness hole.

Need that is great on eBay - what a bit of luck.

Someone has offered me a but of self-employed work but I think it will be much more expensive than they are anticipating. Need to decide on a quote and see what they say.

Urgh this bug has been awful - glad the kids have a 48hr sickness policy, not convinced I could manage the school run today!

Oh forgot, also spent £16.99 takeaway on Sunday. Need to update ny spreadsheet!

Hi everyone. New to the thread. Trying to tighten our belts we're a family of 4 and I'm a sahm I have a 5 yr old dd and 10 month old dd. Dh works full time in warehouse. We are struggling so I'm going to go through the thread see what ideas I can poach x