Another £50 off the holiday!
Saturday 24 September 2011
Thursday 22 September 2011
Business is booming...
ANOTHER £50 off the holiday! I'm trying to pay this holiday off as quickly as possible while my business is going so well. Being self employed isn't stable at all so while I'm making lots of money I'll be paying off as much as I can as quickly as I can!
Maybe the goal of being all paid up before xmas might actually happen!!! Then I'll have 10 whole months to save up tonnes of spending money! If I can do that, we are going to have one hell of a holiday!!
Maybe the goal of being all paid up before xmas might actually happen!!! Then I'll have 10 whole months to save up tonnes of spending money! If I can do that, we are going to have one hell of a holiday!!
Wednesday 21 September 2011
Woohoo!
I bought some stock that just arrived today which sold within an hour and it paid off, over 100% profit!! So I've paid off another £100 off the holiday making £1840 and I'm 0.5% off half way!!! Yay!!
Royal Palm lounge booked!
For Sanford airport on the day we fly back to the UK. Free drinks, free food, kids area with toys and playstations etc, cinema, all sorts! Only cost £50 which I think is great. There's also a smoking area for Ben so he'll be happy!
Paid £50 off the holiday but then added the lounge so still £1940 to pay there. Another £50 off the tickets making £1050 left! :D
Paid £50 off the holiday but then added the lounge so still £1940 to pay there. Another £50 off the tickets making £1050 left! :D
Monday 19 September 2011
Oooh just a little bit moooore...
Another £50 off the holiday bringing the total for the booking to £1940 :D
Tickets I have £1100 left :D
The man at Cosmos said there is a deal for the Sanford airport lounge, but I can't find anything about it. He said it includes food and drink (cold buffet and drink include alcoholic ones!) and costs £12.50 for everyone over the age of 3.
Which makes £50. Proably the same amount of money we'd spend on lunch and drinks on the way back in the three-four hours we're there? But we'd probably be more likely to eat more if it's already paid for! lol
If I can find more about it I might add that on. We'll be getting to Sanford at about 1pm, flight leaves at 4 ish. We'd have to leave Orlando about 12pm I'd guess then drop the car back etc. So we'll probably be pretty hungry by the time we get there!
Tickets I have £1100 left :D
The man at Cosmos said there is a deal for the Sanford airport lounge, but I can't find anything about it. He said it includes food and drink (cold buffet and drink include alcoholic ones!) and costs £12.50 for everyone over the age of 3.
Which makes £50. Proably the same amount of money we'd spend on lunch and drinks on the way back in the three-four hours we're there? But we'd probably be more likely to eat more if it's already paid for! lol
If I can find more about it I might add that on. We'll be getting to Sanford at about 1pm, flight leaves at 4 ish. We'd have to leave Orlando about 12pm I'd guess then drop the car back etc. So we'll probably be pretty hungry by the time we get there!
Thursday 15 September 2011
Woop!
I now owe less than 2k for the holiday! And I'm not far off £1k for the tickets!!!
Getting there very quickly :D
I've bought some of those replica Tarramundi pots (same thing but cheaper!). Cameron has a superstar son one.
Alyssa has a party fund one (only red one there was lol).
Charlie has the best brother one.
And we have the Dreams fund!
The kids will smash theirs open the week before we go and I'll change it into dollars for them while they're at school so I can hand it to them when we tell them we're going :D
I think they all have about £20 each in theirs already and we've got over a year to go yet! We may need to smash them before, they'll be full before then, and get another each :D They're only £5 compare to £25 for the real ones!
The dreams fund has nothing smaller than 50p going in so once that's full there should be loads in there! And we're putting notes in too so I'm hoping at least £1k when it's full!!! :D
Apparently when full of £2 coins it amounts to £1k, so we might make that target if we include 50's and £1's but also notes too :D
That can be a big chunk of our spending money then :D In the meantime if the dollar rates gets to a good amount I'll put some more on my fairfx card.
Getting there very quickly :D
I've bought some of those replica Tarramundi pots (same thing but cheaper!). Cameron has a superstar son one.
Alyssa has a party fund one (only red one there was lol).
Charlie has the best brother one.
And we have the Dreams fund!
The kids will smash theirs open the week before we go and I'll change it into dollars for them while they're at school so I can hand it to them when we tell them we're going :D
I think they all have about £20 each in theirs already and we've got over a year to go yet! We may need to smash them before, they'll be full before then, and get another each :D They're only £5 compare to £25 for the real ones!
The dreams fund has nothing smaller than 50p going in so once that's full there should be loads in there! And we're putting notes in too so I'm hoping at least £1k when it's full!!! :D
Apparently when full of £2 coins it amounts to £1k, so we might make that target if we include 50's and £1's but also notes too :D
That can be a big chunk of our spending money then :D In the meantime if the dollar rates gets to a good amount I'll put some more on my fairfx card.
Tuesday 13 September 2011
Almost past the 2k mark for the holiday!
Another £50 off the holiday :D
I've got a good feeling about being able to pay this holiday off quickly. I won't say I definitely will as I don't want to jinx it! But I'm well over a third of the way there now already just over a month after booking!!
I'm really hoping I can be paid off by the end of the year! I doubt it, I'm aiming for my birthday :D But then all we'll have to worry about is spending money :D
I contacted www.fairfx.com as I noticed one of the cards I used before had a negative balance of $73! I asked them about it and they asked me to cover it because something came out but whatever I bought were late taking it, so fairfx released it back to me to spend which is why it's negative.
Well! I told them that since they were the ones who authorised that transaction they are responsible for the negative balance considering they're a pre-paid card who specifically advertise that you can't go overdrawn. They kindly put my account back in credit :D
So I'll be using them again next year :D
We still have to get Ben and Charlie's passports sorted, ESTA's done and API's filled in.
And of course we need to choose where we'll be eating and what/when we'll be doing! The fun bits!
I've got a good feeling about being able to pay this holiday off quickly. I won't say I definitely will as I don't want to jinx it! But I'm well over a third of the way there now already just over a month after booking!!
I'm really hoping I can be paid off by the end of the year! I doubt it, I'm aiming for my birthday :D But then all we'll have to worry about is spending money :D
I contacted www.fairfx.com as I noticed one of the cards I used before had a negative balance of $73! I asked them about it and they asked me to cover it because something came out but whatever I bought were late taking it, so fairfx released it back to me to spend which is why it's negative.
Well! I told them that since they were the ones who authorised that transaction they are responsible for the negative balance considering they're a pre-paid card who specifically advertise that you can't go overdrawn. They kindly put my account back in credit :D
So I'll be using them again next year :D
We still have to get Ben and Charlie's passports sorted, ESTA's done and API's filled in.
And of course we need to choose where we'll be eating and what/when we'll be doing! The fun bits!
Saturday 10 September 2011
Tuesday 6 September 2011
Annnnd back again!
Changed the date again!! I thought I'd get more knocked off but apparently they couldn't match the online price even though they did the other day :S But hey ho, back to the 11th-25th Oct again!
Paid off another £100 for the holiday and £86 for the tickets to round it up a bit lol
Good news, I expected the school half term to break up middle to late October which meant them missing a week or more of school but the dates are out and they break up on the 12th!
Which is perfect, they'll only have two days off school, maybe one and a half, and it gives us a few days to get used to English time again before school starts.
Which is another reason why I changed the dates back, if we left on the 13th we'd only have 1 day to get over the jet lag before school again!
Today is also 7 years since my dad died, just 43. :( Very sad day. My first trip to Florida was with my mum and dad and it bred the Florida lover I am now so I have them to thank for that.
Here's a few pics of him in Florida 1995!!
Paid off another £100 for the holiday and £86 for the tickets to round it up a bit lol
Good news, I expected the school half term to break up middle to late October which meant them missing a week or more of school but the dates are out and they break up on the 12th!
Which is perfect, they'll only have two days off school, maybe one and a half, and it gives us a few days to get used to English time again before school starts.
Which is another reason why I changed the dates back, if we left on the 13th we'd only have 1 day to get over the jet lag before school again!
Today is also 7 years since my dad died, just 43. :( Very sad day. My first trip to Florida was with my mum and dad and it bred the Florida lover I am now so I have them to thank for that.
Here's a few pics of him in Florida 1995!!
Monday 5 September 2011
Woohoo!!
Just over a month since booking and exactly a third of my holiday and tickets have been paid off!! 33.3%!! :D
£50 more off the holiday today :D
£50 more off the holiday today :D
Sunday 4 September 2011
Dates changed...
Now we're going on the 13th-27th I've had to ring Orlando Ticket Deals to change our dates and the day we go to Discovery Cove.
Originally we were going on Sunday the 14th but now that's only the day after we arrive and I wanted it to be more in the middle as a rest day. So now we're going on the 18th :D
I had to pay £25 admin fee but saved £44 changing the date so still quids in :D And paid another £50 off the tickets as well :D
Originally we were going on Sunday the 14th but now that's only the day after we arrive and I wanted it to be more in the middle as a rest day. So now we're going on the 18th :D
I had to pay £25 admin fee but saved £44 changing the date so still quids in :D And paid another £50 off the tickets as well :D
Saturday 3 September 2011
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