my weekends are already full up to the middle of march :(
nothing massively exciting, just nice things in the diary - brother's wedding, few hen parties, 2 weeks in the caribbean, trip to the new house in cornwall, possibly squeezing in a week in madeira or italy in september, hopefully passing my masters, loads of work stuff.

also my biggest change is making a serious effort to budget, so am instructing bank to transfer £1,000 every payday into a savings account for which i do not have a debit card. just not this month, because it's too late. or next month, because i have that big thing to pay for. and probably not march either.... but in april. definitely in may. or june.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 14:43, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I wish I had a grand each month going begging.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 14:47, Reply)

I know, just imagine how much you could spend on a salad for lunch each day...

(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 14:49, Reply)

nothing now
that the bastards have been repossessed.

not even a crouton left.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 14:50, Reply)

You see, I now wonder whether to feel that they had it coming, charging as much as they did for a salad,
or whether to feel a bit sorry for them, seeing as all they were doing was trying to exploit all the fabulously wealthy denizens of The City.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 14:52, Reply)

They were shut down by trading standards
as what they were doing amounted to outright robbery.
( Kroney, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 14:56, Reply)

in their defence
it was £4.95 for a salad, which meant base (green leaves, couscous or pasta) and 3 toppings. then about £1 per extra topping. it's just that i saw it as an excuse to get my 5 a day in 1 lazy meal, so stuffed in every salad vegetable you could conceive. this is why MY salad was £10 but nobody else's was probably anything like that!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:03, Reply)

But you said it took you several days to eat it all.
Making a mockery of the 5-a-day thing.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:05, Reply)

That's man-logic Jeff
It doesn't apply to ladies and their mysterious ways.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:09, Reply)

man-logic.
The best of all the logics.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:11, Reply)

no no no
you are confusing my extortionate salads.

£10 = salad factory bowl for lunch

£20 = enormous cardboard carton from wholefoods market
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:09, Reply)

no no no
£30 spent with no dead animal to show for it = FAIL
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:11, Reply)

..... yet most of the people complaining have been to Pizza Hut/Dominos/[any inter/national pizza place]... and done almost exactly the same thing.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:25, Reply)

Yeah
If I did that it would leave me approximately £100 left...
(berk, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 14:49, Reply)

Consider the possibility of living off Tesco Value baked beans for a few months
and imagine how fabulously wealthy you'd be afterwards. (Before then imagining how you'd blow it all in five minutes to make up for the trauma of several months eating nothing but baked beans...)
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 14:56, Reply)

Blow it all
is right *PARP*
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 14:57, Reply)

I would struggle to pay
my rent and all of my bills out of that £100 and still have enough left for beans...
(berk, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:12, Reply)

going begging, no
spent on total crap so that i can never afford a service for my car/my service charge/contents insurance when it comes up....... yeah.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 14:49, Reply)

*sales shares in the "_fabulous_" department of louis vatton.... buys shares in the luxoury section of George*

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:02, Reply)

You and me both
I want to do the same but with £100, and even that might make things tight.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 14:52, Reply)

I'm currently angry with Sainsbursy credit card
my online account is frozen as I can't get their stupid login details right and they don't appear to have collected my minimum payment for my credit card.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 14:59, Reply)

I checked my bank details at the weekend
I went a fair bit over my agreed overdraft limit last month, so will likely get shafted because of that.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:01, Reply)

their stupid login details?
surely they are your stupid login details which you have just forgotten.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:25, Reply)

I'm one of these people, who it doesn't matter how much I've got, I'll find a way to spend it.
I shouldn't be trusted with my own finances, they get completely abused.

It's only the 10th and I've started quite a bit into my overdraft and I've just found out that some major income isn't gonna happen any time soon (client woes), but at least I have another invoice I can send off so I'm not 100% buggered.

Just to put the boot on, I decided to upgrade my laptop two days ago =(
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:00, Reply)

this is also me.
letting agent on £9k per annum? i'll spend that and some more.

city solicitor? i'll spend that and some more...

hopeless! still at least i am shoring up the economy, eh.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:02, Reply)

s w
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:02, Reply)

*gentle applause*

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:04, Reply)

*ungentle thump*

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:08, Reply)

*massive horn*

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:09, Reply)

Apologies!
Too easy to strikethrough
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:11, Reply)

Me three
Hence next month I'll be starting a standing order into my holiday account. This month I'll be keeping as cheap as I can in order to pay off Christmas spending.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:03, Reply)

This is gonna sound pathetic, but it really does help me.
Say I'm looking at a £50 shirt or something like that, and I really want it, but am short, I phone up my ma' or a mate, and say "I've found a really nice shirt, it's £50, looks amazing, tell me I'm out of order if I buy it"... and 90% of the time, Ma' will say something like "Leave it 'till pay day"... or if it's an offer that is going to expire, she'll say "Remember XYZ bill".

She used to say "It's your money, you do what you want with it", so I would get it most of the time, but if it's something she knows I would quite-like but not really desire, she'll say "Leave it". Which is exactly what I want to hear (maybe not at the time to hear that, but in the long run).
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:08, Reply)

very good idea, mothers always know best
unfortunately i'd need a ouija board to get this advice from mine...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:08, Reply)

That, or find a very good looking male friend with fuzzy hair, award winning smile, fabulous sense of humour and works in 'the media' at an 'extream sports' company.... to do the same ,)

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:19, Reply)

you should make an app for that

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:09, Reply)

I really could do that, very easerly, and it would teach me how to make apps.
Good thinking !
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:19, Reply)

cheers :-)
I may have been inspired by the Big Bang Theory where the hot girl wanted to make an app where you could take a pic of someone's shoes and it'd tell you where to get them
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:28, Reply)

Not me
I need to up the standing order to my savings account as I always have money left over, and every 6 months have to transfer a lump sum.

/ultrasmug
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:12, Reply)