That's me. I loaned my car to my son this week as he has a training course some distance from home. I borrowed my husbands car for work. I had already used up all of my parking allocation for this month as I was expecting to get lifts to and from work. We do have a car park a little way from work. You can park there for three hours free so I normally leave it there for a but and then at midday move it into any spare spaces that we have around. Today there were no spares so I payed for my parking online and then forgot about it. Fast forward to tonight. Big fat parking ticket. £50 but reduced to £25 if you pay within 14 days. I was just about to write them a mean letter when I realized that I parked Fahed's car and paid for parking on my own car. I have written a grovelling letter instead. I am a Muppet.
Other money things are going better. I am using an app called Spendometer (which was free, obviously)to record all of my spends. I only divide the categories into food and drink (all shopping), travel (all fuel, parking etc)and entertainment (my pocket money) because that is how I budget. Its fun and I don't forget as fast as I do with writing it down. Wonder if it will stop me from spending any money which doesn't fall into those categories.
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The increasing cost of shopping and fuel is well documented everywhere. I don't usually find increasing food prices to impact on us too ...
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Hope you get an understanding reply to your letter Lizzie. Type of thing I'd do.
ReplyDeleteI like the sound of your app.
Sft x
Oh gosh, that's a dent to your budget. I hate when good plans go bad.
ReplyDeleteHi SFT.
ReplyDeleteSadly nothing yet.
Hi Daizy
Even more annoying as it was my own stupidity.
Ah well.
Lizzie