The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread! Part 5

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Mine would be about £5/ £10 for every drinking day.:eek:

9th day AF for me today. I think I will read a book in bed tonight, I have a big pile of them on the bedside table.;)

jo1972

Gotta be quick cos off home, but Fay, £5.00 per day and I pledge 31 for Oct please, can't remember if I already told you? I'll reply to your PM when I get in

Just had a good idea.....we should start a AF book club

Different_Corner

Interesting idea Fay.
Would buy 8 cans of stella for £7.50, drink two or three a night, sometimes four. So I'd say £2.81 a day.

Pippilongstocking

jo1972 wrote: »

Just had a good idea.....we should start a AF book club

Tis indeed difficult to read when plastered :rolleyes: another good AF mechanism

Well most of us read Marian Keynes ..............I'd be keen!

The book I forgot earlier was:

'The woman who walked into doors'
Roddy Doyle ISBN-10: 0749395990

200+ used for 1p on amazon:rotfl:

dreamonsu

My daily spend on a drinking day would be about £7. Nearly £220 a month, and that's just me my husband drinks more than I do :eek:. What could we do with that? Well I have 'saved' £14 already with my 2 AF in September and I have pledged 10 for October so next week I am buying a new handbag next month sod what my OH says;).
I love the idea of a book club; could I recommend Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky? It's no bundle of laughs but it is brilliant

Pippilongstocking

dreamonsu wrote: »

My daily spend on a drinking day would be about £7. Nearly £220 a month, and that's just me my husband drinks more than I do :eek:. What could we do with that? Well I have 'saved' £14 already with my 2 AF in September and I have pledged 10 for October so next week I am buying a new handbag next month sod what my OH says;).
I love the idea of a book club; could I recommend Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky? It's no bundle of laughs but it is brilliant

That's the spirit if you pardon the pun although I live alone so I can spend my newly saved cash on anyting I want - use [STRIKE]me [/STRIKE] the motivation to save money as an excuse to Hubby if you like..................:rotfl:

cazzasmazza

What a great idea Fay for the savings. I would say mine averages out at £6 per day.

And I love the book club idea too. Shame we can't all swap books and make super money-savings! :money:
I would like to suggest a book (mostly for the laydeees I would have thought) called "A Hopeless Romantic" by Harriet Evans. It was a wonderful, fun read about the love life of a hugely likeable main character called Laura . It's sort of along the lines of Bridget Jones, if I had to make a comparison. I couldn't put it down and was a bit sad when I finished it, because I'd enjoyed it so much!

Hugs
Caz
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fluffyb

Just whizzing in quickly Hope you are all ok.

I am on 11 AFDs now YM - had a couple of unexpected evenings out so thrown me a bit but hope to rack up one or two more before the month is out

Is it you next month Fay? Please can you put me down for my usual 10? Might be having a few days away at some point so not expecting the best month I have ever done :eek::rolleyes:

Off to try to catch up a bit

Have a good evening everyone

jo1972

Fay, the woman who walked into doors is one of my favourite books! Im getting goosebumps just thinking of it. A very sad but true tale x

Fay once again managed to text me the minute I was about to walk into offy, the word stick was mentioned, insert eek smiley! Came out of said shop with a packet of twiglets and nothing else.

Will have to log in on my phone tonight cos OH in a poker tournament online 'rollseyes' so smileys will be written and spelling errors obligatory

Will be trying to catch up with you lot and read a bit more of my marian book tonight

Pippilongstocking

Waves to Jo well done lovie :0

Fluffy B it is me so duly noted

Cazza - if you have that book i'd happily borrow it and pay the postage? Its sort of liek a book club then?? 60p should be about the size of a paperbacks postage? What do you think

PHEW - glad you all the responses to the money saving are positive - thought maybe it was a step too far - I just know how much it motivated me last year when I started out on this thread

My kids go for 2 weeks to France in October again (*sigh Daddies turn again*) so I know I need to keep myself busy and motivated.

Thinking up what I might be able to 'save/splurge' my money on for staying AF in Oct

Maybe a flight..................I could look into the MSE Scottish meet (Festive Fling) in Edinburgh......how outrageous?

Away for a bath with candles and a book and then out comes the spreadsheet for a bit of work -

And I really do have several big sticks - and am about to purchase my very own chain saw soon - so watch out chaps and chapessess

Evil meglamaniac power laugh moawhwhwhwahahahahah