Low User - thats me!!

After my depressive blog the other day Ive cheered up back to my normal self.

I have a day off today, so as I had some vouchers from Mr Ts I thought I would go and have a look at stuff.  Anyway I am really pleased with myself and although I have spent £27 I gained lots of points and all the stuff I bought is only what I will use, so some of it I will take off next weeks food money and the rest I will take off next months as the bulk of what was bought is really for my next four weekly food budget.  I also paid on my credit card and got an extra 650 points so I will be paying that off when the bill comes through!!!

And the Low User bit in the title is what the young gentleman from EON called me!! I have managed to revise my DD to them to £50 a month instead of the £56 which is what they wanted to charge me, so my skinting on the elec has paid off and I must keep it up now.  On a Sunday when I get home from work I read both the gas and elec meters and record it on my calander so I can work out how much Im using each week.  The other week I went without the TV for the week and it made quite a difference and then another week I went without the computer the difference wasnt that great, I must admit I was pleased about that as I use the computer more than watching the TV these days.  It makes a difference when the off spring came back even though they try to be careful, but I do try to compensate the following week and really make sure things are switched off, lights arent left on etc.

I have also phoned the water people as I havent paid a bill since last August when I went on a meter, as I was so much in credit, the next bill is due this month sometime so it will be interesting how much I have used as I save water for flushing the toilet and only normally wash up once a day, take quick showers (saving the water of course) and only doing one load of washing a week. Its quite exciting really - how sad am I????

There are things I cant economise on though, the one that springs to mind is decent coffee, I cant abide the cheap stuff so that was one of the things I stocked up on today, another thing is the toothpaste I use, cheaper ones just dont do it for me!!!

Anyway must go as its front room cleaning day and I havent started it yet.

Jxx