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March 8th, 2009 at 07:08 pm

Spent a bit of money on food last week. We had takeaway for dinner on Saturday night as DF's sister and fiancee (his mate, the one that helped him move his cars yesterday). We had indian, it was delicious. Keeping with my 'eating smaller portions goal' i only ate half of my meal and put half in the fridge. DF also saved about 1/3 of his meal! So last night we had leftover Indian with steamed veges and I baked some fries that were in the freezer for DF. I had about three fries Big Grin. I think they were DF's sisters from when she lived here, she left a lot of stuff in the freezer but said she didn't want it. I have been slowly working our way through the food in the freezer.
And yesterday I bought lunch for everyone that helped us with the floors at the house. It was $30 including DF and mine. I put $10 as a takeaway food expense and the $20 as 'house and moving costs'. Technically I was paying for labour....?

It looks like we may not have to buy a new fridge! My parents bought basically a whole new kitchen for their renovations, but had them delivered before the renovations (they were worried the company would go bust and they wouldn't get their stuff because of the economical stuff happening...) Anyway so they said we could have their old fridge, which isn't that old. They bought it new about 8 years ago. Well, ok so it is old, but it's much newer than the one we have.

We have just over $8k left in the bank, but I don't think we have paid the solicitors yet... Anyway I am going to wait for a few weeks before planning what to do with some of the money, to make sure everything has been paid for with the house.

Now that we don't have to buy a fridge, that gives us a bit more. We will have to buy paint, termite baits (and a professional pest control inspection)... hmmm. The list will no doubt grow! But we are being careful, and making sure everything we plan to spend money on is necessary at this time.

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6 Responses to “money, takeaway, house stuff”

  1. Blue Eyes Says:
    March 8th, 2009 at 07:10 pm 1236539439
    1236539439

    mmmm...I love Indian food. My roommate in college was Indian. Got to sample lots of stuff!

  2. Amber Says:
    March 8th, 2009 at 08:16 pm 1236543399
    1236543399

    Indian? I had it a couple of times and probably would have loved it, if it wasn't so spicy. OMG was it spicy
    That was really nice of your parents to give you their old fridge. And was the house not inspected before? hmmm I'm concerned about the termites

  3. NJDebbie Says:
    March 8th, 2009 at 10:15 pm 1236550512
    1236550512

    whitestripe, you guys seem to have everything under control. 8k in the bank and a new house... you should be proud. Good luck with those pesky termites.

  4. whitestripe Says:
    March 9th, 2009 at 07:40 am 1236584423
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    amber: you can easily see termite tracks - they are very recognisable, and our house is visible from all angles including under neath, so we know there are none and never was any, anywhere near the actual house. Smile its only on the letterbox post. so dont worry! it will be fine. i did get a bit over-concerned at first, but DF's dad is a builder and he just said to me 'look - don't get too worked up about it, people make so much money out of those that don't know any better and get too anxious about the whole thing. you don't have anything to worry about.'

  5. gamecock43 Says:
    March 9th, 2009 at 02:41 pm 1236609667
    1236609667

    Indian food- I always wanted to try it. But with a person who could help me order. Seems a shame that you cant see pictures of your food on the menu.

  6. whitestripe Says:
    March 10th, 2009 at 10:32 am 1236681168
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    gamecock: usually our menus have a description of whats in them, but as a rule of thumb i usually go with a potato & pea & spinach dish (cant remember the name) a vegetable curry, or palak panir which is spinach and a ricotta cheese. and i always get naan bread - yum! Smile

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