DailySpends Monday 29th December 2008

Nice quiet day in work today. Busy cracking on with some work – bit of music, bit of banter:

Fuel – £10.00
Total – £10.00

Monday 29.12.08 Back to work

Ola! Well . . . Back to work today. Had a lovely Christmas break. Very nice indeed. Plenty of stuff to keep me busy for the next couple of days.

Stayed at home over Crimbo so managed to keep the spending down to a minimum. It’s surprising how expensive visiting familiy can get!!!

Merry Christmas

Just a quicky. Wanted to wish all my many millions of regular readers a very happy Christmas and all the best for the New Year!

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Unexpected train journeys

Nasty one yesterday. . . Car share friend got a touch of Christmasitis and had to go home a lunch, leaving me to foot a grim £10.20 train fare on the way home. Wouldn’t mind but I had to stand up most of the way. The public transport in England leaves a lot to be desired!

DailySpends – Monday 22nd December

Jaffa Cakes – £0.60 (should have been £0.55 but the machine stole 5p)
Train fare – £10.20
Total = £10.60

Christmas Shopping

Christmas shopping this weekend. Got my wife some lovely presents but I’m afraid I’m not going to tell you how much I spent or what I bought 😉

Thursday 20th December

Oh . . . how I laughed when I tried to pay for my groceries and my card was declined because one of my childeren had bitten through the chip . . . I’ll now have to make counter withdrawls until after Christmas . . . Marvelous!

Lunch – £3.06
Total = £3.06

Wednesday 17th December – a cheap un

Work day yesterday. . . Nothing too exciting to report on the spending front, although I am still pondering that recent pizza price index increase . . . 43p it’s gone up! Fascinating! Just wait ’till Robert Peston get’s onto that one – DailySpends will be all over the news 😉

DailySpends Wed 17.12.08:
Travel – £2.50
Breakfast – £1.50 (sausage butty if ya must know)
Lunch – £1.06 (diet coke and snickers)
Total: £5.06

Tuesday 16th December 2008 – Afternoon off

Nice day yesterday. Took a half-day to go watch the children’s Chistmas play. Learned not to give the ‘thumbs up’ during a solo as it results in crying:

Fuel – £20.00
Breakfast – £2.76
Lunch – £1.76
Groceries – £16.56
Pizza & chips – £5.99 (lamb, mushroom & black olive)
Total = £47.07

Monday 15th December

Love Mondays . . . absolutely love ’em!

Breakfast – £0.00 (no time – I know that’s bad)
Lunch – £3.06 (ham & mozarella pannini, coke, kit kat)
Total = £3.06

Woke up this morning on the back of a dream about winning the Olympic Gold in the mens 4x100m. Brilliant dream! I could feek myself running and everything.

Christmas party – weekend spends

This weekend could easily have racked up a lot more of my budget . . . but I’m proud of myself that I took it ‘relatively’ easy and kept the costs down as far as possible:

Friday Night:
Food & wine – £15.00 (night in)

Saturday:
Family treat – £25.00 (Bribes so I could go to Christmas party)
Christmas party spends – £30.00 (Cabs, drinks, kebab)

*Note to employer: BRILLIANT party, thank you 🙂 Free beer always much appreciated.

Sunday:
Shirt for my son – £6.00

Total weekend spend = £76.00