Buy Nothing Day!

Katykat

My mum used to be a home help. She got paid weekly ( it was a long time ago) Each week she drew her wages out of the bank 1 day later. ie -one week she drew it on Mon, did the shopping to last 8 days, then the next week she drew her wages out on Tues and did the same. Every 7 weeks she had a whole weeks wages spare, she used to treat us all and felt really pleased with herself.

happiness_fairy

OH used to do same with his wages, now goes straight 2 bank the Direct debit fairies seem to get it before we do!

Katykat

Know what you mean HF, most of us get paid monthly now, and it just doesn't seem to work for me. I tried it once years ago, divided salary into 5 and made it last 5 weeks, but it was too difficult. You can scrimp for 1 day maybe, but we couldn't manage a whole week. Its the old saying yet again. THERES TOO MUCH MONTH LEFT AT THE END OF THE MONEY :wall:

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Katykat wrote:

My mum used to be a home help. She got paid weekly ( it was a long time ago) Each week she drew her wages out of the bank 1 day later. ie -one week she drew it on Mon, did the shopping to last 8 days, then the next week she drew her wages out on Tues and did the same. Every 7 weeks she had a whole weeks wages spare, she used to treat us all and felt really pleased with herself.

Hi my late father did this when he was posted to Bulford camp during W.W.2 and it ment that my poor old mum went short every seven weeks .She had to be even more inventive with her little store cupboard.

Liney_2

Just to let you know....Buy Nothing Day 2006 is on Saturday 25th November. yay!

https://www.buynothingday.co.uk

Nix143

I'm up for this!

I love when I have a no spend day and they are getting more and more frequent nowadays - hurrah for packaged lunches and working in an area with no decent shops!

Liney_2

haha, you are so right it's a nightmare to exercise self-control when you work near shops!