Goal 1: Ten Pound A Day.

This post sounds like a diet advert. The only diet I'm going on is a 'bank balance' diet. I do adore my food. Rub my belly for luck!

It is a truth universally acknowledged that I am always skint. 

How can someone who ends up borrowing from her nearest and dearest at the end of every month even begin to wish about travelling to work in a cab, never mind trotting the globe? Yeah, I've been thinking this too. So, I've come up with:

a) a time scale

b) an attainable goal

After investing one solid and hard earned pound into a tin that cannot be opened (decked in Frozen characters for the love of Disney) my aim is to pop £10 a day in it, for exactly 365 days.

I chose the 7th July 2016 as my date to run away a few months back. Which happens to be yesterday. And yes! Ten whole solid British pounds have been deposited into my tin! 7 is also my favourite number- I'm not wholly sure why. You could put it down to being born on the 7th, I'm Libran therefore 7th sign of the zodiac and not forgetting there were 7 horcruxes- which is the most powerful number in the wizarding world,

Is it not. 

Any mathematicians among you can work out that 10 x 365= £3650. That is not a bad starting point. In reality, £10 gets burned every day on bits and bobs of mindlessness. I am re-teaching myself frugality. On a whole new level. 

1. No cabs. Utilise that bus pass Little Miss £5 to spare. 

2. No takeaway coffees. Get a cheeky one in work. £2.50 average soya flat white? (Sorry Pret, I'll miss you).

3. No extravagant lunches. Make a packed lunch. Use it as an Instagram opportunity.  Bye bye dry and tasteless £3 Tesco Meal deal which I eat out of convenience anyway. 

That's a potential £10.50 a day I can waste. I'm already making profit with that 50p! 

Here's hoping I don't start writing IOUs on post-its instead...