September - The NSD Challenge

ilovetea

9-10

hi,
didn't manage a NSD but will have one tomorrow,don't need anything and the weather is still to bad to go out,unless you really have to.Could be a lot worse,I've seen pictures of the floods,hope everyone is alright.

ilovetea

lilmissmup

15-16

Didn't manage a NSD, i volunteer at a cats protection league charity shop and ended up buying a gorgeous ginger cat cookie jar and tin with cats on.

Then a burger from McDonalds!

Tomorrow will defo be a NSD though!

Lelc

9-10

Apart from the few groceries, nothing for me today. Makes it 4 nsds this week. I'm hoping not to spend anything tomorrow either. Dh, ds and dd are due home tomorrow night so I should make an effort to make the house look like I've not spent hours in front of the telly or on the internet;)

Lula-Hula

11-12

Hello

Hurray hurray its NSD 4 for me today

Achieved by only leaving house for 1/2 hour to whizz down to library

lula x

notanothergreyhair

I've had a NSD - and I've only just realised it. Yay!

BridgetJones_2

5-6

NSD number three!!

Optimisticpair

15-16

piglet6 wrote: »

Having just achieved the July challenge (5) and spectacularly failed the August one (3 out of 6), I had said to myself that I wouldn't do September...but I've changed my mind and would like to set 5 days again as a target.

I've worked out that even though I failed in August, the main two reasons were:

1. Buying fresh milk. We tend to get through 8 pints every 3 days (Mr P is a tea addict!), so I tend to buy a 4pt carton on 2 out of every 3 days - which greatly reduces the amount of potential NSDs available to me (although on occasion, if the milk has a long date, I have bought 8pts at one time to try and avoid this problem!).
2. Buying yellow sticker foods. I walk home past an M&S Simply Food and a Sainbury's Local, both of whom have some pretty good reduced bargains at the end of the day. Being a MSE-er, I pop in for a look, and if something is reduced to a good price, and can be frozen for future use, I pick it up there and then.

I have no intention of stopping either of these practices, as I can't stop buying milk, and it seems daft to not take advantage of a bargain (quite often 75% off) for the sake of being able to call it a NSD. However, quite often these are my only spends, so I am going to try and count "proper" NSDs, but also keep an eye on "milk only" days and "yellow-sticker only" days. I won't count these 2 types of days in this challenge, but I think it will give me encouragement - I know for a fact that even though I failed last month's challenge, I still spent lots less than normal, as several of my days were just "milk spends" or "yellow sticker spends" on the way home from work.

I hope this is acceptable to people on this challenge. I may well officially fail again this month, but at least I will have a record of why...

Piglet

I'm not sure what counts as a spend. I spent on Stardrops and lunch which as it is essential spend can't really count can it?

nickynoo08

17-20

Yay another NSD for me today. Had to buy some milk but my lovely mum got it for me instead.
For me an NSD is what is says- no spend, i include everything in that, busfare, grocery essentials, pocket money, if its coming out of my purse then its classed as a spend regardless of how little. Does everyone else do this too?

Piquant_2

Spent a fiver on a space at a carboot sale but made £42.80. Strictly speaking, not a NSD so I won't count it!

shinyhead

13-14

nickynoo08 wrote: »

Yay another NSD for me today. Had to buy some milk but my lovely mum got it for me instead.
For me an NSD is what is says- no spend, i include everything in that, busfare, grocery essentials, pocket money, if its coming out of my purse then its classed as a spend regardless of how little. Does everyone else do this too?

I look on it the same way. Only exceptions are regular payments/DDs coming out of bank acct. These don't happen on a Sunday though! I wanted to try for a NSD but like you had to get some milk and had to fork out myself!

I'm going to try for 3 NSDs next week. In the past I've done this regularly but wonder how far I get now I've talked about it?