Cherry takes the reins

Today was supposed to be an NSD until I remembered that the special offer on an Ebook was running out. I then looked through the other Ebooks I'd sampled and gave in to three more at 99p each. I hasten to add I decided against one or two as well.

I haven't done nearly enough exercise so I went to the shops after work for dishwasher salt and tablets and some bin bags. It adds a couple of thousand steps or so! When I got home DH had (yet again) no clean shirt for tomorrow so threw a couple of shirts in the washer with what smelled like a lot of laundry liquid, so I've gone on line and ordered a couple more work shirts for him. I reckon it will save on both stress and washing powder. I won't add the shirts to my spending as they're his and will come from the account he pays in to.

Nothing much else to report really. I have a lot of housework to catch up on, but I'm on early shift tomorrow so it will have to wait. I poured over the rota at work but despite there being a worryingly large amount of shifts up for grabs, I've only picked up one. Everything else is either when I'm already working (there's one afternoon where apparently I am the staff team all on my own!) or when I've arranged to work on Mum's house or the only day I get off in a week. It's going to be like that while I have the house to work on - all the more reason to sell once we're free to do so.

Spends:
Books/downloads £8.96
Garden £5.00
Housekeeping £13.65
Clothing £35.00
MS stuff:
Leftovers for dinner at work.
Bought a big bag of dishwasher tablets because they are cheaper per item that way.
Got all the books on special offer.
Didn't buy myself any clothes (as far as I can remember).
Resisted various exotic plants marked down to half price.
Resisted a book on Turkish cookery because it was more than 99p.
Confession time:
I had no plans whatsoever to spend £5.00 on a huge pot of lilies even though they were reduced from £10 and the picture on the label is lovely and colourful.

P.S. I think I'm losing focus... the above doesn't sound very money-saving at all to me. I do have most of my 'investigating offset mortgage fund' in place though, mostly because that just requires me not to do anything for a while and let it grow by not spending the money from that account. I still have to get my courage together to do something active about it - but that's a story for next month, if I ever get long enough between other commitments.

Canna lilies... I think the slugs like them too!:eek:

NSD today - I think it was about time! Lilies not yet eaten by slugs, either.

I did actually manage to spend some money via work but it was work's money on behalf of work so it doesn't count, even if it somewhat assuaged the drive to buy things.

I was really tired after this morning's shift - always happens - and fell asleep, thus managing to lock DS2 out and send him on a trip to borrow his brother's key. Muzzy evening till we decided to go for a run on the strength of not having been for a few days and DH saying he's never come back from one regretting it. He was quite right: I feel part of the real world again though I have a feeling I'm going to ache. I was a bit lazy about stretching afterwards.

No MS stuff of note. Just plodding on and still not read all of the diaries I fell behind on during holidays. I'll get to you eventually folks! Just takes time.