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Patch Cabbage starts a Cabbage Patch...home grown must be cheaper?
PatchCabbage
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Evening all...
After posting my SOA on here last week I feel liberated enough to start my own diary so I can mentally think through all my spending and eating each day/week.
So far since I posted my SOA, I've noticed a couple of leeks from my wallet.
1. 'Popping to the shop' - for little things like milk, sweets (I know I know...), when these things are budgeted for from our joint account. Obviously the sweets are budgeted for and need to just be stopped.
2. I put money into money boxes all the time! So I've been through and seen how much I've got, put it all into one piggy and now I will fill the next one up. However, I will also account for this piggybanking behaviour as it's a leek but a positive one.
3. grow our own veg! we grew tomatoes last year but I don't like them, so this year I want to grow cabbages and beetroot and other such yummy veggies, should make us budget geniuses as we'd grow our own food and get whoopsie meat
This weekend should be easy, I'm pretty much housebound! Although the local shop is still close, perhaps I need to head into town and just use the extra effort and call it 'calorie burning'?
I'm a SW member who's been off track recently, so I need to get back on but cheaply! I know it's possible but I just can't make the link between dieting and cheaply dieting. It always feels more expensive to be doing the SW diet, even if our meat is all whoopsies and we're not too bad with binning things.
Key aims for me for this diary and for this year are;
1. Understand where my money is going! 12 NSD's per month are my plan (easy if I plan ahead and take lunch to work).
2. Pay off all my OD's and CC.
3. Lose weight the cheap way!
So today has been ok, I spent £1.70 but it was on sweets so it didn't need to be spent... I've mentally slapped my wrists for that!
Although I am burning money by having the radiators and heater on!
:coffee:here's to a fresh diary and fresh start! (I would have put wine but i couldn't find an image, so lets use coffee- cheaper!)
(although the cats sick so I feel my hard work slipping away!).
After posting my SOA on here last week I feel liberated enough to start my own diary so I can mentally think through all my spending and eating each day/week.
So far since I posted my SOA, I've noticed a couple of leeks from my wallet.
1. 'Popping to the shop' - for little things like milk, sweets (I know I know...), when these things are budgeted for from our joint account. Obviously the sweets are budgeted for and need to just be stopped.
2. I put money into money boxes all the time! So I've been through and seen how much I've got, put it all into one piggy and now I will fill the next one up. However, I will also account for this piggybanking behaviour as it's a leek but a positive one.
3. grow our own veg! we grew tomatoes last year but I don't like them, so this year I want to grow cabbages and beetroot and other such yummy veggies, should make us budget geniuses as we'd grow our own food and get whoopsie meat
This weekend should be easy, I'm pretty much housebound! Although the local shop is still close, perhaps I need to head into town and just use the extra effort and call it 'calorie burning'?
I'm a SW member who's been off track recently, so I need to get back on but cheaply! I know it's possible but I just can't make the link between dieting and cheaply dieting. It always feels more expensive to be doing the SW diet, even if our meat is all whoopsies and we're not too bad with binning things.
Key aims for me for this diary and for this year are;
1. Understand where my money is going! 12 NSD's per month are my plan (easy if I plan ahead and take lunch to work).
2. Pay off all my OD's and CC.
3. Lose weight the cheap way!
So today has been ok, I spent £1.70 but it was on sweets so it didn't need to be spent... I've mentally slapped my wrists for that!
Although I am burning money by having the radiators and heater on!
:coffee:here's to a fresh diary and fresh start! (I would have put wine but i couldn't find an image, so lets use coffee- cheaper!)
(although the cats sick so I feel my hard work slipping away!).
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Welcome PatchCabbage, wish I could grow my own cabbage, I love it!
Will pop in for support!0 -
Happy Diary!! Good luck on your debt free journey!
NoDebtDiva xx0
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