Gentle Jump into June? Did we mention NOT spending...(well this is the NSD challenge)

chris81418

Woo hoo! Yesterday was NSD number 1 for me! Unfortunately, I wont have another NSD for a few days because I have 3 nights out in a row penned in the diary ... every cloud ...

Enjoy the good weather over the next few days everyone!

solventsoon

3Dogs wrote: »

What ...... when .......... why ........... good god where am I? Spoon? PDD? Katenut? LFV? BigMumma? anyone? where are you all? Last thing I remember is going off to the aquarium on Brighton sea-front to rescue the donkeys from the piranahs - then, nothing ........... I must have blacked-out or something - just what did you put in that vodka Spoon? has everyone gone home? what are all these pebbles on the ground? and what are all those donkeys doing? what on earth have I just put my hand in? Ugh it's reddish purple - a bit like beetroot really but a bit too 'processed' for my liking!

Lets see - I remember the flight down with me helium balloons (great views of London by the way - that new Wembley stadium looks fantastic), landing on top of the Pavilion, getting down with me ladders from me stockings (ruined my circus look - nothing worse that a beautiful basque with laddered stockings), drinking lots of vodka, trying to keep BigMumma away from the firemen (they didn't stand a chance poor things), the menagerie on the beach (donkeys, horse, dragon, cow, and aliens of course), having a lovely BBQ steak (oops delete one of those donkeys), then searching for everyone at the aquarium as I'd heard that the gang had took the donkeys to feed the piranahs so I'd gone off to find them, I remember going into the aqaurium, then Kapow - it was just like the lights went out ................... until just now

So either I blacked-out or my internet connection went down and has just gone back on today. Did everyone get back OK - by horse, dragon, lawnmower, Werewolf, .......... etc? Good night wasn't it - I think - ouch my head!!!

Good to see you back 3Dogs, I was worried that your balloons had collapsed part way home and you'd ended up in a pile of manure in a field somewhere ... mind you, that probably wouldn't have been very different to Brighton beach on Monday:rotfl: I didn't put anything in the vodka, honest, but you would insist on drinking it neat from the bottle, so headache to be expected really:p
And yes, it was a good night, although we are now officially banned from Brighton and Edinburgh.. somewhere different next time methinks;)

solventsoon

Hi lovely NSD gang :A
Hope everyone managed to get some of that lovely sunshine today:). I see we had an invader earlier today:mad:.. well done Geebee for zapping it:j

Lots more NSDs rolling in on the second day of June - great start everyone - and even more newbies joining us as well - welcome to you all:j

Thanks for the comments on the “awards”, LfV, I might well use that little pony, it’s cute..

Welcome to:
kajolac: :wave:hi and welcome back to the NSD challenge - glad you’ve returned to the fold. Signing you up for 10 now and look forward to lots of updates from you (and possibly 1 or 2 more, of course). Feel fee to join in with the lunacy on here, you’ll get plenty of inspiration as well as, hopefully, a few laughs!
redcoltraine: :wave:hi and welcome, signing you up for 20 now. Come back and visit us regularly, you’ll get lots of support here and hopefully a few laughs as well
amiehall: :wave:hi and welcome, signing you up for 25 now. Sounds as though you are gettig very organised this month - well done. Feel free to join in with the general chat and laughs on here, look forward to lots of updates from you.
Bigbeff: :wave:hi and welcome, signing you up for 15 now. Good luck and don’t forget to keep updating us, you’ll get plenty of inspiration here as well
empy: :wave:hi and welcome, of course you can join us, the more the merrier. Signing you up for 15 now. Keep posting as you’ll get lots of inspiration and support from everyone and, who knows, you might even make it to 30 next month...


Welcome back to:
positivelypurple: :wave:hi and welcome back, signing you up for 12 now. Sounds as though you have a busy month ahead - good luck
Brighton - hmmmm... lots of us ended up either in very strange places (boultdj and 3Dogs as an example) while the rest of us had extremely sore heads. Doubt we’ll ever be allowed back there again (bit like Edinburgh really!!)
missylaney: :wave: hi and welcome back, signing you up for 12 now - good luck

:jWell done to all the following for their first NSDs of the month::j
:jjintyb: oh no, sorry you were feeling a bit poorly yesterday, but well done for no 1 as a consolation. Fingers crossed for another one today.
Good news about the cardigan - good luck with the sewing up, that’s often the most difficult part to get right, hope you’re pleased with it after all this work.
And you’re right about the thread - except page 9 now....
:jAshamed of Bristol: well done for no 1 for you - great start to the month for you as well.
Hope you enjoyed the film tonight?
:jBigMummaF: off the ground and running now - yay
But as for all those (SOMEbodys) in your post, I seem to recall that you were right at the centre of the action all day.......
:jrachelmk: keeping my fingers crossed for you today - sounds as though you were being very organised....
And you made it, well done for resisting today, brilliant!
Good luck with the job applications - hope something good comes up for you.
:jjwil: great start - well done for resisting yesterday, hope the challenge does work for you. Good luck for tomorrow
:jkathy40uk: great start to the month for you and well done for picking up some tips from everyone. Being organised is definitely the way to go and leaving the purse at home really does seem to work - good luck!
:janonymoose: great start to the month for you as well - brilliant - keep going!
And well done on the weight loss also - great going!
:jNargle: oh no, what a pain in the **** cars can be:mad::mad:. Hope it’s not too expensive, keeping my fingers crossed for you.
Well something went OK for you, well done for no 1 - every cloud and silver lining and all that....
:jslowlyfading: good start for you also - hopefully a better month for you generally as well
:jTMVen: great start for you as well - brilliant. Keep going!
:jmz_grim: great start to the month for you as well - keep going. Yay indeed!
:jfi76: and a great start for you also - well done! Strong resisting going on with you as well - it must be the trend this month!
Oh dear to the liquid gold purchase tomorrow
:jchris81418: off the starting blocks now, well done... Hope you enjoy your nights out

:j:jWell done to all the following for their second NSDs of the month - brilliant start everyone::j:j
:jelfen: you’re doing brilliantly, keep going!
:jpure dead dopey: lunch on your lovely cc must be good - hope you enjoyed it. Hope Hubert has recovered OK now and is settling down well with the aliens?
And well done for no 2 - the blinkers are clearly taking over from the aliens - are you going to pension them off now?
:jkarenccs67: brilliant start to the month for you too, keep going!
:jKrisp: and another one with a brilliant start - well done for resisting the trolly yesterday, they can be so tempting...
:jBagpuss741: and another one - well done. Mind you, having no money is a great inspiration to not spend. Good luck and keep going
:jskaps: off to a flying start - well done, especially as it was lunch and dinner out yesterday, very organised.
Hope the wedding ring purchases went OK and you’re both pleased with them?
Oh no to the boiler though, hope it wasn’t too expensive? Oh dear, it see it will be:(...
Saying well done for 2 NSDs doesn’t seem like much now - sorry I can’t make it any better for you.:(
:jmissylaney: and well done for no 1 - that’s a great start (I love NSDs acquired by accident, they’re the best, definitely!)
And an even bigger well done for no 2 - brilliant start to the month... and you’ve been earning money as well - an added bonus!
:jkatholicos: glad you had a good birthday and well done for no 2 - brilliant!
You’re right about plant labels.... the sage plant will probably recover, they’re really hardy
:jBDINI: wow - brilliant start for you also - and well done for completing the PPI form - yay!!
:jLadyfromVenice: great start for you too, lovely DH buying lunch for tomorrow ..
Hope you have a good day at Woburn
:jmicron: and a brilliant start for you as well - great. Keep going.
We had some lovely sunshine today, hope you did also?
:j3Dogs: brilliant start for you as well and fingers crossed for tomorrow



And hello to everyone else:
Geebee: keeping my fingers crossed for you today. Repeat after me... I do not need to buy anything today ... Oh dear, I see it didn’t work:(....always tomorrow though
boultdj: hi and hope the spend day wasn’t too serious today?
Mythi: hope the physio appointment was OK today and hoping NSD no 1 rolls along soon:)
moneypenny2k: oh no, poor pud, hope he’s OK?:( And poor you for the vet’s bill.:(... Hope you enjoyed the sunshine as some consolation today?
thrifty fifty: :(oh dear, another car hater - hope it wasn’t too expensive?
cw18: no way could I have resisted those whoopsies - some amazing bargains you got there!:T
katenut: :(oh dear to an LSD, but at least it was an LSD, not a mega-spend one.. Fingers crossed for tomorrow for you.
Re May thread, yes I’ve got some updating to do on there, will do it tomorrow so you’ll have your pink elephant then. Sorry for delay:o - it’s taken me all my time to keep up on here over the last couple of days....
Dorastar: well an LSD is better than an MSD (see above for definition!). Good luck to DH with SW.
Hope you have a lovely hols - are you going somewhere nice?:)
AllieBallie: LSD so not too bad - that’s very kind of you to pay for your friend’s lunch. Egg and cress is my favourite too!!:)
Keiss 21: :(oh dear to spend day today and good luck with your planning for the rest of the month....
Will definitely try the brownies, they sound scrumptious:T

Phew..... another marathon post..

Managed no 2 as well today, so pleased with myself:j...

Off to update front page and add all our newbies now, see you all tomorrow

'night
spoon
x

teenyweenyspender

Herbie Im so sorry to hear about your cat, big hugs sweetpea :grouphug:

NSD No. 3/20 for me today, day off work and no need to spend any pennies. Going to do a nice roast chicken dinner for OH tonight, yum yum.

cw18 wowee your whoopsie list was fab. Wish my freezer was full of all those scrummy things

The ickle galloping pony gets my vote too for 'target achieved', tis very sweet. (Nice work LfV)

Geebee

I do not need to buy anything today.... I do not need to buy anything today..... I do not need to buy anything today....

jintyb

Morning all - just catching up with you all - what a lot happens in just one day!
Herby - so sorry to hear about your wee cat. I had the same situation about a year ago when I had to put my old boy to sleep. ((((HUGS))))

Made it #2 yesterday!:j Well chuffed! Today is a spend day though as I need to do a big stock up of groceries. Have been living out of freezer and cupboards for the last few weeks. Its amazing how if you put your mind to it you can eat perfectly well using what you've got. Makes for some interesting combos though! Before this I would just keep buying stuff and sticking it in the cupboard! Now Ive got space to fill!

I also need to get a needle to stitch up my cardi - its thick wool and I dont have a needle big enough plus I need a button. So its off to my friendly wool shop this afternoon. My next project is a baby cardi for a neighbour who is due her first baby in August.

Hope the sun is shining on you today - have a lovely day everyone:)

moneypenny2k

jintyb wrote: »

I also need to get a needle to stitch up my cardi - its thick wool and I dont have a needle big enough plus I need a button. So its off to my friendly wool shop this afternoon. My next project is a baby cardi for a neighbour who is due her first baby in August.

Wow Jintyb, you're so lucky to have a wool shop nearby. I'm an occasional knitter - though I was taught by my grandma in the 60s on a pair of washed and boiled meat skewers from the butcher (real old style living) :money: by a gran that used to knit huge blankets with leftover bits of wool to be put under the sheets to keep the sheet off of the mattress. Sounds like another world doesn't it.

My local woolshops have been dying out over the years so that now I'd have to drive for about 40 mins to get to my nearest one. So it's ebay for me.

My cat is improving slowly. He's still hopping around on 3 legs and looking very forlorn but he has started eating a little so fingers crossed he's on the mend. I just hope that when he's allowed out again he doesn't start fighting again, I can't afford vets bills of that magnitude.:(

Herbie, how are you doing honey? There have been some lovely posts on here I sincerely hope they have helped.

Spoon I've just noticed, your avatar and mine might just make us family members what do you think? BTW can I bring my pet heffalump to the next meet up? He's one of the purple variety and well house trained. :rotfl::rotfl:

I've got to wait in for a parcel to be collected today so I'm hoping that I can make today a nsd. I need a few things but I've decided that I can do without spuds and rubber gloves for a day and I'll wait till I do my shopping tomorrow.

So today is housework, knitting, watching TV, sitting on the balcony reading and a lot of forum surfing. Sounds like heaven :A


What's everyone else up to?

mz_grim

It should be a NSD for me today but wont report formally till I get home from work in the morning as I never know what will happen. I have dinner ready to take with me so no spending on food and I have almost a full tank of petrol so should be good.

Herbaholic

Hi moneypenny, I'm doing as well as can be expected I guess, just read all the lovely posts (many thanks everyone) still very teary and the slightest thing sets me off, alarm went off this morning and half asleep I waited for the little chink, chink, chink as my baby would wander up the stairs to jump on the bed to say morning mummy and it never came

We still have another cat, but the house rules was one for me and one for DH, their rules not ours, but DH's cat is being very supportive, he's not as affectionate as my cat was but he is being more attentive. He's also a little sad as he's lost his partner in crime, but we're helping each other. It was lovely to read all your kind comments everyone, I know I did the right thing, but I still feel bad, the most awful thing was the vet offering to glue his eyes shut seconds after he'd passed, I didn't know what to say how would he be able to see me if he comes back for a visit if his eyes we're glued together!:eek:

The odd thing was DH didn't have time to bury my baby yesterday morning he had to go back to work, so we left him in a box in the garage. When he came home DH dug the huge hole (I have bad back so couldn't do it) and we had a little funeral. Ever since I saw Poltergeist in the 80's and the little girl buried her goldfish with photo, food etc. I've done the same, all my little darlings go to the big comfy sofa in the sky with a toy, some treats, a photo of me and a little bunch of rosemary and heartsease if it's in season. I say what I need to and always end up crying and DH covers them up with soil and tucks them in. I can't believe how much better I felt after the kitty funeral, it's a stupid sentimental ritual but it did me good and despite crying as I write this, 'talking' about it is doing me good as well. You sort of tell yourself that you did something wrong, so it's nice that everyone understands, I know the wrong thing would be to do what was my instinct and keep him with me as long as I could, but that would have been so wrong for him on so many levels.

Sorry for the long waffle, I work alone at home so don't get out and talk to many people so I type 'ears' off instead. I did buy chocolate last night, so it wasn't an NSD I ate almost a full bag of galaxy counters it was magic chocolate though because when I weighed myself this morning I'd lost 1lb DH said it's fluid loss from all the tears shed yesterday, good job I love him. Today will be slow and steady but I'm not going to give up my new MSE ways, hoping to report an NSD later today as we have everything in for the meal planned tea and I have left over chicken fajitas for lunch and no reason at all to go out and spend (bought extra chocolate yesterday just in case I needed more today!) Thanks again everyone for the support and kind words, it made my first morning without Pye easier to bare :heart2:

Herby x

teenyweenyspender

Herby, *tears rolling down my face* Pyes' send off sounded beautiful. You take care today and eat as many galaxy counters as you blummin fancy

Hugs xxx