Yay!!!! Finally!!!! It’s such a relief to know that we have a house to move into next year, and it works with our removal dates and all. We only have about six more weeks here until we leave, and I was starting to worry. We were hoping (and now can) to move into the new house in Canberra on 11 January, so we can have Dian’s birthday party on the 17th. We’ve only seen the house online, that’s how Defence allocate them, so hopefully it will be suitable for the animals and parking.
We have a house next year!
November 2, 2007 By
Yay for having a house!
yah! that’s awesome! whoop whoop!
Yeah…$40 a week. For the two of us or $20 each. That’s breakfast, lunch and dinner for me and dinner for Peter – he pays for breakfast and lunch at the mess separately.
I’ll post and tell you my secrets
but it’s really a combination of getting almost nothing processed/preprepared; not having “snacks foods” – we eat fruit or sandwiches instead; shopping at a greengrocer for fruit and veg; and the fact that I don’t have to count in Peter’s brekky and lunches on workdays.
We probably average take out or eating out one night a week but we don’t count that in the grocery bill, it’s separate. And we’ll go quite a few weeks without take out but then have a week where we eat it a lot for whatever reason.
If you spend $400 a fortnight I think it’s only 5 times as much?? Because we spend $80 in a fortnight – $20 per person, per week. And 400/80 = 5.
And 5 is nowhere near as scary sounding as 20!
Well I’ll do up a post and maybe some of the info can help you… Peter reckons he spends around $40 at the mess each week which instantly doubles what we spend on food but he can eat as much as he wants and it’s pretty decent and much easier for him than bringing in lunch and brekky.
I’m still thinking about doing a no-buy challenge like yours but I’d maybe start with three months – i’m a wimp