Daily Spends – A Diary of Spending Habits

Dear mamma joe! I’ve been busy lately . . . so busy . . . absolutely crazy busy. Work is mad as hatter and family life is busy to say the least.

But enough of the rubbish excuses! Daily Spends is now back on track (for today anyway). Wann know what I spend yesterday? Well do ya?

Here you go:

coffee – £0.20
cake – £1.00
fish ‘n’ chips – £8.45
Total Spends = £9.65

PS – i’m now getting a lift to work which is saving me over £200 per month! Whicked eh?

Every now and again I look back at dailyspends and realise that I’m not doing a great job of tracking my actual spending. I’ve also been a bit naughty and neglected the blog slightly over the last few weeks.

The thing about DailySpends is that I enjoy writing it and when I do write it, it actually makes me think about what I’m spending.

This weekend we’ve been a bit short on the readies because we’ve had to spend a few quid on the car (£270 to be precise on MOT, TAX & a new tyre). So it’s been back to basics with some old skool (yes! with a K) thrifty tricks:

1 – Nice cheap dinners: Home made pizza (50p per head) , Nachos (30p per head), Cheap Sunday Roast (£1.00 per head)

2 – Cheap weekend drinks: 20 bottles Becks (£7.59 on sale at Tesco), 4 litres Cider (£3.00)

3 – Family fun: Dog show (free), Craft (free), Park & Walk (free)

Short on cash? Looking for ways to generate extra income? There could be money right under your nose!!! It was right under mine…

I went out for a drink last night & was excited to find £5 in the pocket of my jeans (a pair I haven’t worn for a while). It’s not exactly a fortune but it paid for my 1st two drinks to I was happy

When you next get a few minutes, have a look in the pockets of your old jeans & jackets, behind the sofa & in the car. You may be surprised to find the odd £5 or £10 notes, in amongst all the coppers.

Of course, this is no long term solution. If you are regularly short on money, you will need to find a more reliable & consistant way of earning more, but it’s a bit fun & you can even get the family involved; ‘Finders – Keepers…!’

MyBudgetQuest has just set up what I think will become a really useful financial news resource over the coming months. He’ll be taking the best of consumer finance news, articles & blog posts and amalgamating them in to one handy personal finance hub.

These things can sometimes take a little while to get moving, so we’ll cut him a little slack until it’s up to speed. GFI! Feel free to pick up the RSS feed and stick it on your blog: http://financial.newsvine.com/_feeds/rss2/master?articles&seeds