Attack April with An Alternative Approach; the NSD Challenge.

slowlyfading

I'm off to the airport now and may be tempted by something in the duty free so won't declare anything for today - I shall let you know what happens tomorrow!

katenut

BigMummaF, you truly are the ultimate mother!! :A :A :A
Thanks so much for the suggestions - hopefully with your help I will become a much better stepmother :j I think I mainly need to plan ahead more, and get him more involved with things around the house. There's loads of good suggestions there, am looking forwards to putting them into practice. I think I also need to limit TV hours, he tends to sneak off as soon as I'm not looking back to his beloved Miss Montana. The hardest bit is achieving this without being the proverbial wicked step-mother!

I know what you all mean about the sponsoring, seems like every week someone at work is asking for money (usually for toddlers throwing wellies at the local preschool!). They seem to ask the boss first, who sets a precendent of £5-10, so everyone feels they should follow suit. I'm getting less and less ashamed about only sponsoring £1-2, every little helps and when I'm debt free I'll be more generous. I also try to give more of my time to charity to compensate, havent got as far as running anywhere yet though!

willbdebtfree, cant you count the water as a medical emergency therefore saving your NSD?! Seems as shame to lose it over a 38p bottle of water

I am declaring early today as NSD number 7 - yippee!! Theres no reason why I shouldn't get four in a row and be at 11 by Friday. Will probably pop back later anyway, happy NSD's everyone! xx

boultdj

curlygirl1971 wrote: »

I seriously have no objection giving money to charity (well certain charities) but I am finding it increasingly hard. Loads of people do Race for Life now and also found out that another family member is running a marathon. What's awful is you go on their 'Donation Page' and find that every one else has been donating £20-£30!! and I feel darn tight only donating £5. I've spent £54 (OMG) on charity donations (Including a charity night) so far this year, but I still have a marathon and the rest of the year to go! Good god I wish I hadn't totalled it all up! Ah well it is all for good causes and I only give to Charities that mean something to me or I think are really worthwhile. Perhaps it will rule out some of my badness

What does everyone else give when they are sponsoring someone? If you don't mind me asking

Not a quickie really - but I type reeeeeallly fast. Oh guess what? It's lunchtime....

Know what you mean about the amount's some people put down, personaly when I ask I do say 2 tell me 2 go away if it's not convient at the time, some say no, thanks 4 not trying 2 push it, some say can I put 50p down. My reply,yes please it's 4 charity I'll take owt I can get. OK, what I came on for got a NSD. Yes SPOON got some bargin's, that's the advantage of living in a market town, veg was large cauli,a cabbage + carrot's[bowl of veg] for a squid

LadyfromVenice

BigMummaF wrote: »

If you re-arrange the letters in C-A-R-P [or K], you'll get another word for brown, smelly stuff I left a message for my boss once, saying there was a load of carp in the fridge at work, & he asked me where the fish were :rotfl:

:doh:Oh...that karp. Thanks very much BigMumma:T. Must remember that.
:rotfl:about the fish.

Slowlyfading: Hope you have a good flight.

Baileys Babe: Talking of men in kilts....DS1 & DS2 are watching Monday nights WWE Raw. Just seen my Randy fighting (that doesn't sound quite right;)) *Goes back to have another look as those pictures......* *Pages 23/24 in case you've forgotten*

BigMummaF

Have a safe journey SF--will you manage to fit in a sleep while you're soaring with the owls--how long is the flight?

I'd forgotten you'd said about HM Kate! Keep an eye out for a tape recorder & get him singing into that

Charity is difficult isn't it? I guess the only way around it, is to say that you have your "own way of contributing but I wish you well with your walk/ weigh-in/ wellie-wanging/ *enter wottevva here". A lot of folk do have standing orders etc for their extra-special chosen fund-raising, so I don't think many would object if you declined an offer to sponsor. Still hard to put into practise tho...

Dorastar

Had a good nsd at work today - didn't get home till gone 6 and came home a different way which doesn't take me past supermarket and clothes shops, and turns out to be half a mile shorter too! Have had a productive day - have started getting a list together of stuff I want to achieve and am steadily getting there - I'm convinced I suffer from SAD cos can't get anything done from September till about now each year! Or it could be I need to hibernate:p

BlimusOreilly

Yay NSD number 7 today :T

solventsoon

3Dogs wrote: »

Sunday and Monday are spending days for me, I'm afraid - perhaps if I pay up-front (pay for 5 and get 1 week free) at slimming class, I can change Mondays to NSDs - it will have to wait until I can afford to pay up-front like that - maybe one to sort out for next month

Should be NSD's for me for the rest of the week - until Friday that is - I will report in tomorrow Spoony

:eek::eek: last time I looked, Spoony was a young black male DJ on Radio 1:eek::eek:

PS: Hope you got your NSD today, 3Dogs:):)

mookiepook

Hi everyone - just popping on to report NSD No 4! Ooh I'm on a roll now, will try to have another tomorrow, it's very addictive to not spend money isn't it! Day off tomorrow so will read back all the posts then. Have a lovely evening everyone xx

jintyb

Another one today - that's no 7 ! Yippee!!!!!!!!!!:j