Today, I saw my bottom set Year 8s for the first time since I did a quiz with them, three weeks ago, and promised the winning team a box of chocolates. I had bought said chocolates three weeks ago, but on failing to deliver them they were subsequently used to bribe another set of "lovely" year 8 students, and all memory of owing the others was forgotten. Until this morning.
Knowing I only had £5 to last the day, I sucked it up and refrained from fobbing them off with a poor selection of Twixes and Mars Bars, instead plumping for a fat box of Thornton's. I know, I know - I'm just a nice person. However, this thoughtfulness did impact on me later in the day, especially since my graze box wasn't delivered on time - again. Only having 40 minutes to play with at lunch, zero petrol and a complete lack of willingness to spend cashmoney on food I didn't really want, I resorted to supping a hot chocolate, manning up and getting on with the last lesson sans lunch. Kind of sucky, but it meant I got to haul ass out of school at 3.15pm with a sterling excuse, and exactly twenty-seven minutes after emailing them to complain (signing off "yours in hunger, Rebby x"), graze had emailed me back to say they were giving me another half-price box and, on top of that, a free one too. You can't beat that for customer service!
I'm currently playing Jeremy Clarkson's fuel chicken game, and it's kind of fun. I just hope I don't run out in the middle of a junction or something - the gauge is getting dangerously low... I suppose I'll just have to suck it up tomorrow and spend a fiver.
In other money-scraping news, I managed to locate a further 54p in my jacket pocket, followed by another £2 in a different coat - it's actually amazing what you find when you look for it, and as hobo-ish as it sounds, it really does all add up. I'm over a hundredth of the way to my target, and I'm only three days in - I really do hope I manage to achieve what I set out to do. I suppose it'll be an achievement in itself - after years of spending money I don't have, I have never fully committed to a saving plan. Sure, I've put £50 away here and there, but for me, whenever I've come into money it's always gone straight back out of the account to pay off some other lingering debt, or I've headed down the shops to spend said cashmoney on clothes/food/booze/club entries. I spent a lot of my time kidding myself that I was thrifty because I bought stuff from charity shops and Tesco, but in reality, I wasn't saving anything - I was just buying more. In a nutshell, I suck at saving. I suppose if I manage to do this, I'll really have proved something to myself.
Cashmoney spent: £3.00
Cashmoney saved: £2.00
Cashmoney found in various coats and jackets: £2.54
Total: £4.54
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