Reformed shopaholic? please can you give me the benefit of your advice

tlb2408

Hope everyone had a good easter..

Spends

Sunday - NSD
Monday £30 in Asda on baby milk, tuppaware pots for weaning, toys for baby! and some food!!!! But still alot of money disappointed with myself really...
Tuesday - £33 on online photography class... Can't really justify it except it's on once a year and I want to take better pics of my baby....

Tomorrow off to TK max to get baby new sleeping bag - might put this off till next week actually i'll see how bored I get tomorrow.

Thursday - supposed to be going out with friends to some kids park!!

Friday - go shopping

Saturday hoping to be a NSD

Sunday - hoping to be a NSD

Writing this all down does seem to help me - thanks for this thread and the support from everyone :-)

T

NGlady

Tyzer - of course you can still play A lot of people on here have same addictions, so a lot of people have an addiction to magazines and crisps aswell as their shopping - Im personally general junk food and magazines lol.

TLB - Good luck with the baby weaning Just for future reference, my sister got all hers from Home bargains and they was lovely and cheap In regards to the baby photography class, I think its justifyable because money can't bring back memories only with photos

Nice to see that this thread is helping you At first it didn't help me, got to be honest but I think if you read back through my messages through the thread i've really changed attitude to money thanks to these girlies - so stick around
Completelylost - Im the youngest in my family so I never went through the little sis/bro doing that thing lol. Bad luck with the hair dye Are you blonde or brunette? I find sometimes.... Lemon Juice really brightens my blonde and I think theres one for Brunette too, maybe with Tomato Sauce (that might be for blondes too tho lol) :S yes I know lol. its so painful when it gets into my neck scorisis though lol.

I can't believe how well behaved we are this week CL :O i was expecting us to be both revealing huge spends after the weekend!

Well hope everybody enjoys their four day week

Im going to Derby today to return a dress to the Coast concession in Debenhams in Deby as i've decided it gives me a fat bum lol, then going to scoot acoss to Nottingham, as theyve got an Oasis concession in their Debenhams as I will be given a voucher for the dress and I could do with something new for Saturday (Argh same as before "could do with something new *slaps her own hand*) anyway budget fo today will be £20 including bus fares and dinner, this will mean an absoloute NSD for Wednesday and a MSD for Thursday. . . If however in Debenhams they give me a cash refund, which they wont, I shall save the money and not buy anything :O (Angela, get up off the floor woman )

Thus endeth my rambelings

tyzer2001

Hi, I know NSD is No Spend Day, what is MSD?

NGlady

Minimal spend day
I.e a bus fare would be a minimal spend, but spending £0p is a NSD. Lots of people have different opinions on what a NSD should be classed as, some people especially those with homes etc class essential expenditue differently, so if they spend anything unneccessarily its not a NSD? does that make sence?

Mags30

tyzer2001 wrote: »

Hi, I know NSD is No Spend Day, what is MSD?

Minimum Spend Day:)

tyzer2001

Ok thanks.

I think I would only class a day when I spend absolutely nothing from either purse as a NSD. I know I want to focus mainly on cutting down my unnecessary spending, but I know we will also benefit if I can trim the necessities as well!

Polly

Hi all. Haven't checked in since Fri (computer down) and really enjoyed catching up with all the posts. Still using the 2 purse idea (thanks again OP) and it's great having some guilt-free money to spend. Got my refund from M&S so it went straight in. Burning a hole in my pocket at the mo and waiting for my friend to text to see if she wants to go shopping. Will report back later.

CompletelyLost

NGlady wrote: »

Tyzer - of course you can still play A lot of people on here have same addictions, so a lot of people have an addiction to magazines and crisps aswell as their shopping - Im personally general junk food and magazines lol.

Nice to see that this thread is helping you At first it didn't help me, got to be honest but I think if you read back through my messages through the thread i've really changed attitude to money thanks to these girlies - so stick around
Completelylost - Im the youngest in my family so I never went through the little sis/bro doing that thing lol. Bad luck with the hair dye Are you blonde or brunette? I find sometimes.... Lemon Juice really brightens my blonde and I think theres one for Brunette too, maybe with Tomato Sauce (that might be for blondes too tho lol) :S yes I know lol. its so painful when it gets into my neck scorisis though lol.

I can't believe how well behaved we are this week CL :O i was expecting us to be both revealing huge spends after the weekend!

Well hope everybody enjoys their four day week

Im going to Derby today to return a dress to the Coast concession in Debenhams in Deby as i've decided it gives me a fat bum lol, then going to scoot acoss to Nottingham, as theyve got an Oasis concession in their Debenhams as I will be given a voucher for the dress and I could do with something new for Saturday (Argh same as before "could do with something new *slaps her own hand*) anyway budget fo today will be £20 including bus fares and dinner, this will mean an absoloute NSD for Wednesday and a MSD for Thursday. . . If however in Debenhams they give me a cash refund, which they wont, I shall save the money and not buy anything :O (Angela, get up off the floor woman )

Thus endeth my rambelings

I hope your shopping trip goes well & you manage to stick to your budget

I have quite dark brown hair that shines red in the light and I dye my hair black every couple of months... Actually, last light it didn't look any different, but today in natural light it looks a bit darker. Just not black :mad: Never mind, it's nothing that another box of dye won't fix!

I have to agree though, we've both been pretty good so far this month. But there seem to be soooooooooo many things I want, and it's taking all of my effort to avoid buying them! I'm tryng really hard this month though, as I feel so bad about my March spends.

Today I *have* to go out. I'll walk into town, so save £2.10 busfare. I've got to post parcels, pay in cheques and then return a top that has a hole in it (hope they refund me as I took the tags off, wore it & then noticed the hole). I just have to make sure I don't end up straying into DP/B&M/anywhere else that might result in a spend. The only thing I *need* is some tea.. can't function without it!

ThinkingOfLinking

Hi all,
Spent £12 on drinks at a gig (I got in free) on the weekend, but that's my first blowout of the year so totally justifiable.
Other than that, nothing new to report although tomorrow I am going to Miss Selfridge, Topshop and DP to hunt for any bargain (sale price) playsuits or dresses as I have a £15 giftcard.
So this week:
Wed will be a MSD; I may get a treat at Tesco, otherwise it'll be a NSD.
Thurs and Fri should be NSDs
Saturday I'll be spending a little.
Sunday should be a NSD.

Wanting a passport so need to save around £70. I can save money on postage by handing the forms in in person as I live near the passport office in Liverpool.

verynewmoneysaver

Mags30 wrote: »

Do it:) Even if it's just for yourself to read back over later.



What perfume did you get? The bag I was talking about is the big plastic one that's free with Marc Jacobs. I don't think the branded paper bags sell for quite so much, probably would sell though.

I got a free gift with purchase bag, a big over the body one. It was free with all perfumes over £20. Do they sell on ebay do you know? Hoping for a NSD today.