Hello everyone, sorry to hear all the bad news.
Mum has another chest infection. I'm not convinced the pneumonia fully cleared as she hasn't stopped coughing.
£19 in Tesco on croissants for breakfast, some chicken wings (4 packs?.. Why DH?-I suspect because he hasn't bought home dog food and we have run out) cucumber and spring onions and Soy sauce. £40 on a box set of DVD's.
I won't be doing a proper food shop this week as we go away on Tuesday morning, but will check if mum wants me to do an order for her. I will be buying groceries on holiday though.
I got my credit card bill yesterday. It is horrific. I left £600 on it last month as I knew I needed cash for my trip/our holiday. I have about £850 coming back from work in expenses, and should be getting about £500 extra this month from work getting my maternity pay wrong when I had DD2 (that was worth complaining about, I was actually due about £800 in childcare vouchers, but as I don't use much in the way of vouchers anymore I opted to take cash instead so I have to pay tax).
So, the bottom line is that I need to stop spending money, clear the bill and get into better habits. Plan 1: don't let DH come to the supermarket
much easier now he is back at work.
Plan 2: we have a healthcare cash back plan. I will do the reclaim on that. I am due back about £350, which will help with the credit card bill.
Unfortunately, I also have to sort out our timeshare, which will cost money! We inherited a timeshare, which isn't great as it isn't for the UK school holidays.
We can convert to points every other year (I have to convert last year's week we didn't use to points, which I'll need to pay to pull forward) and we can trade weeks via a club which I have to pay to use. A 3 year membership is cheaper than paying annually, but we may hand it back, so I'll just pay for a year.
But, when DD2 was a baby we had a week near Disneyland Paris, we are hoping to trade our week to get another week there next Easter.