Weekly spending round up

Last week was a fairly thrifty week, I think I'm the opposite to most people whereby I save as much as I can the first few weeks then as pay day looms closer I allow myself some little treats. This week my spending went as follows;

Monday- No spend day

Tuesday- Bought Diet Coke pack of six on offer for £2.50. One can is 65p saving £1.40 (Joint account)

Wednesday- Had to buy petrol in advance or  I would never go to the gym. I saved my Sainsburys voucher which gave me double points on fuel for the occasion & popped into see my BF at work and he made me a frothy hot chocolate (freebie :D) =£20. 

Thursday- Had to re-order my contact lenses as I had run out (Glasses are definitely not for me) from Day Soft Lenses http://www.daysoftcontactlenses.com/GB/CountryHomepage.aspx?gclid=COTO7re9h64CFeontAodOUzHyQ. One months supply costs just £10, whereas before I bought my contact lenses from the opticians at £32 per month- what a shocker! this saves £220 per year.

Friday- Free night out with the grads from work thanks to company funds. Fast food dinner £3.50 (wish I had waited for my mums stew instead!)

Saturday- Coffee with friend £2, her amazing company, free. Exchanged Xmas present £7.50.

Sunday- No spend day thanks to annual season ticket taking me all round London and Kent/Surrey borders. 

Though it looks more red than green (or blue) it came in within my weekly budget.

Total £52.70. Next week will be easier too as the lenses will last two months and the petrol around one month.

I'm planning on going to the cinema on Sunday to see 'The woman in black' as I have buy one get one free vouchers, maybe coffee with a friend Saturday afternoon and a date night with the BF Fri, as well as popping round his sisters to (hopefully) drop off the Wii and pocket the cassh Tuesday evening! In the week I might (try?) and squeeze in a few gym trips if it doesn't snow again.

It's snowtime!

Hopefully this princess will get to go to the ball someday

This weekend has been fairly productive on the saving front. Friday night drinks was paid for by the company, so I decided I was hungry at charing cross and bought a burger king happy meal which was actually quite revolting, so I left 3/4 of the burger, so it turned out to be a bit of a waste of money but hay-ho we learn from our mistakes.

I got the train back from London to my parents house after the drinks and on Saturday afternoon met one if my best friends from work in the town centre. My mum had bought me something from H&M which didn't fit so had to exchange it. I found a lovley cobalt blue lacy dress which was £10 more than the original amount, but using my friends staff discount it cane to £7.50 more, seeing as I had put aside £10 for the previous nights drinks which I didn't spend I thought I would splash out a little. Afterwards we drove over to blackheath for a change if scenery and popped into the pub on the Heath. I'd decided to have lunch before I left to save the pennies, so just had a coffee and a cosy catch up which was nice.

My friend was telling me how she uses eBay all the time and bought up the huge pink vintage gown I bought years ago in New York and how she thought I could sell it on eBay.

So this morning, after popping out to take pics of the beautiful snowfall I enlisted my sister's boyfriends help to put my dress up on eBay. When I left home there were three people watching it already, and I also found a pair of red converse trainers which were hardly worn that I found at a train station about four years ago and an almost full bottle of perfume I didn't like anymore and these have also been put up on eBay.

The auctions finish in 10 days so hopefully will be a nice little money earner to put towards the fund. I'm also hoping to sell my wii this week to someone & stash the cash in my saving account.

I'm thinking that once I hit my summertime target of £10k I'll treat myself to some nice Russel and Bromley boots :).

In other news I got the train home from the work drinks with a girl who had just bought a house worth £144k with a £14k deposit who earns around the same as me and the BF so that's extremely encouraging, and very exciting for me.

I heard my housemates put the central heating up to 25 and put it on overnight on Saturday which I said was stupid, and the BF said he woke up in the middle of the night feeling hot and sick because if it. I mean it's not a wonder they're both in debt, but I don't appreciate being dragged down with them when I have to cough up my share of the bill they've racked up.

Anyways, I guess I can't show it's irritated me too much as it's getting closer to renewing the contract and hopefully all we need is another year there.... Fingers crossed! Time to grin & bear it for the time being- good things are worth waiting for after all right?! :)

Enjoy your frugal Sunday x