Wednesday, September 28, 2011

062. Save £100 a month (£1100/£3300)

Today is payday and I've straightened out my savings. I had owed my ISA £200 for quite some time and my excessive spending throughout August and September meant I couldn't pay any of it back. I'm now trying to get set for Christmas gift and winter wardrobe shopping.

I now have over £1000 saved which is pretty amazing. I just need to complete some more of my goals - each one of those completed is another £10. I might not be able to complete many more just now but I can definitely go through and mark some more in progress.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Two years to go....

I've been updating my 101 list tonight and noticed my finish date is September 7 2013. This means I've just passed the two years to go point!

With only 11 goals completed and 33 in progress, I better get a move on.

013. Eat at 10 new restaurants (3/10)

On Saturday September 3 I went out to dinner with some friends from work to celebrate a birthday of theirs. We went to an Italian restaurant called Prezzo. I'm not an Italian food fan, when it comes to pasta and pizza I just don't eat it! Too much cheese, too much garlic - not for me. Thank goodness there was something on the menu I could have, that turned out to be a burger! The burger was supposed to come with cheese and mayo, I had neither - no cheese, no mayo. It was really great, not the best burger I've ever had, but still great. We also shared a few bread boards as starters, I just went for the plain, un-herbed variety! And, for dessert the majority of us went for the chocolate and honeycomb cheesecake - amazing!

I don't think I'll go back with just James, neither of us eat Italian - although James might be more adventurous than me. I think we'd go somewhere else for burgers. But, it depends I suppose, I might fancy a slice of that amazing cheesecake again!

Shopaholic

October will be another 'no-buy' month. There is no rehab for my addiction, just straight up cold-turkey!

It's only September 10 right now, 19 days til payday.

And we're going to London and Liverpool! Oh no!