Posted by: Wealth&Healthy on: August 29, 2009
Finally after months of searching, I have a car. I’m so pleased because that means that I have a bit of my independence back and will work towards being able to drive long distances again.
I ended up getting it from Leeds from an ad I saw on ebay. As soon as I saw it I [...]
Posted by: Wealth&Healthy on: August 15, 2009
A few weeks ago when I stayed at my flat to get away from the world, I decided that when I move back, I’m going to utilise all the secondhand furniture that it is possible to get nowadays.
Last night, I was sitting on my bed, and felt the base drop and break. When I laid [...]
Posted by: Wealth&Healthy on: June 7, 2009
This week I wanted to see if it really was worth the effort going my local market instead of going to the supermarket.
My market still has most of their signs in pounds. I’ve converted it to grams for comparison. Now 500g is 1.102 pounds, but for ease I’m going to go with 500g=1lb.
I used Asda [...]
Posted by: Wealth&Healthy on: May 5, 2009
I was surfing blogs when I came across this post by The Frugal Duchess.
I started think about the term ‘emergency fund’ and wondered if people really sat down and calculated how much they need a month.
I have locked myself in to a very high mortgage rate. I’m not complaining because I love my flat, and [...]
Posted by: Wealth&Healthy on: May 3, 2009
My mum has the house phone locked in her room, so when I need to ring 0800 and 0845 numbers I have to use my mobile. It’s bumping up my bill a lot as my doctor has an 0845 number, and I do telephone banking.
I searched one of my favourite forums MSE to see if [...]
Posted by: Wealth&Healthy on: April 20, 2009
In this post, I said that to reward myself for paying off my debt I was going to enrol in a clothes making class.
As I was set on money saving, I decided to wait until I was confirmed for incapacity benefit as the course price would be drastically reduced.
Well the letter hasn’t turned up, and [...]
Posted by: Wealth&Healthy on: April 19, 2009
Even though I have given myself a budget of £28 a week, I only took out £25.
£10 Groceries
£11 Taxi to and from hospital
£3.05 Financial times weekend and a bottle of water.
That means I have the grand total of £95 p left, or £3.95 if you include the money I didn’t take out.
As you can see [...]
