Lucerne June 2013 (#2)

Lucerne

It’s our last full day in Lucerne and we spent most of it just wandering around – you could never tire of the views here.

Spending Tuesday
- 10.70 Supermarket
- 15.60 Lunch
- 10.00 Water (x4)
- 21.60 Dinner

Spending Wednesday
- 7.00 Pastries!
- 7.00 Lunch
- 6.60  Coffee (One S Bucks Grande Cappuccino – yikes)
- 16.60 Gifts
- 8.00 Ice Creams
- 30.00 Dinner

(Today) we bought small gifts for the kids (Swiss chocolate of course), and then this evening we had dinner at the Lucerne version of Chipotle – Mexxx – which was very good.

Lucerne

Back home tomorrow! :(

LUCERNE JUNE 2013

LUCERNE

Hi everyone! I hope you are all well. We’re having a fantastic time in Lucerne. The city is beautiful, and the weather is amazing – what more could you ask for!

As usual I’ve set a budget for this trip (£400), and I’m tracking our spending as we go.

Before we left home we changed £250 into 350 Swiss Francs – any other spending will be done on our fee free credit card and paid off as soon as we get home.

Sunday:
- £27.50 Airport meal (Frankie & Bennies*)
- £2.20 Water
- 112.00 Return Train Fare
- 8.00 Water and Swiss Chocolate (couldn’t resist!)
- 66.00 Dinner

Monday:
- 10.00 Drinks
- 30.00 Glacier Garden
- 8.00 Drinks
- 8.80 Lunch
- 76.00 Dinner and Wine

….as usual most of our spending is on food and drink! :)

* awful meal! I should of refused to pay really, it was that bad!

PS. More photos on my Flickr photo stream.

SPENDING REPORT: JUNE 2013 #2

SPENDING REPORT

I’m wrapping up my spending report a day early this week as we’ve off on our travels to lovely Lucerne in Switzerland tomorrow – I can’t wait!

Monday
- £79.99 Sat Nav
- £8.00 Flowers
- £9.30 Grocery

Tuesday
- No spend day

Wednesday
- No spend day

Thursday
- £12.19 Grocery

Friday
- £8.00 Fish & Chips!

Saturday
- No spend day

Extra income:
+ £25.40 Items sold

On Monday we purchased a Sat Nav – this one includes European roads which will come in handy when we’re trying to navigate around Portugal!  I budgeted £100 for this purchase, so I’ll be able to snowflake the other £20 to our mortgage. I also bought my Mum some flowers and a few groceries.

On Friday, after a stressful day (more to come on that another day!), we succumbed to buying fish & chips from the local chippy.

Three no spend days so I’m happy! How was your spending this week? 

2013 To Do List

Can you believe we’re nearly half way through 2013? No, me neither! Anyway, I started the year with a master to do list, and happily a lot of the items have been completed……just not all of them. So I’ve updated the list adding just the outstanding items.

Here goes:

  1. Paint the dining room
  2. Paint the kitchen/breakfast room
  3. Clean the extractor fan grills (yuck)
  4. Get all the outstanding woodwork completed
  5. Buy a duvet cover for main bedroom
  6. Get a quote for the re-pointing
  7. Clean shower head
  8. Add art to our bedroom
  9. Close unused checking account
  10. Transfer ISA in September
  11. Get engagement ring setting checked
  12. Update all old blog posts
  13. Close old hotmail account
  14. Streamline web hosting
  15. Make (edible) bread
  16. Streamline my menu planning
  17. Visit Lucerne & document trip
  18. Finish de-cluttering Mum’s (including garage)
  19. Go on a day trip with my daughters
  20. Add a solar light at back door
  21. Organise all iTunes
  22. Organise all photos
  23. Lose weight (20lbs)
  24. Complete a no spend month
  25. Source a coffee table
  26. Finish selling all Mum’s unwanted stuff
  27. Make at least £2,500 over and above regular income: £1,068.71/£2,500
  28. Spend no more than £2,00 on groceries: £1,223.65/£2,000
  29. Reduce our mortgage debt by £25,000 £15,000/£6,550
  30. Reduce our gas and electricity direct debit
  31. Update our 5 year plan
  32. Go to the Design Museum in London
  33. Take Mum to London (again)
  34. Update my CV
  35. Make a will
  36. Have afternoon tea at the Ritz
  37. Save £200 in my sealed pot
  38. …..

What’s on your to do list for the rest of 2013? Have you even got a list? :)