Another new day to add to July: The No Spend Day

cw18

solventsoon wrote: »

I'm sorry, but that's a rest day?:eek:

From training it is :rotfl:

Last week I also had my school voluntary work in the morning, but the school broke up last Friday and I'm not going back in September so that was my last session (GDs have left the school with their house move, and I wasn't working when I started helping out)

How do you keep going?

Can't afford not to

If I collapse, then no-one's going to take over for me at home or work, and I'd lose too much income to be able to stay afloat for more than a couple of weeks

The new exercise regime is partly to help me lose weight, as the GPs keep nagging me that my 'excess' isn't helping my back problem. 11 weeks ago I was at 10 st 9.75. This Monday I was at 10 st 1 - and I've not changed anything with my diet, other than drinking more water and now eating chocolate on a regular basis (App F00ds M@rs Bar after each exercise session). GP's would like me between 8st and 8.5st, but I know from past experience people think I look anorexic/ill below 9st so have already said I have no intentions whatsoever of going below that. 8.75lb gone, 15lb to go........

solventsoon

Jo_Rourke wrote: »

Morning everyone! :hello:

Hope everyone's well. Got my lovely stock made from my chicken carcass, so tonight I am going to make some soup - I'm thinking chicken noodle & mushroom and maybe a creamy chicken one too. Got the recipes from the Old Style boards - so many ideas!

Thanks for your updates, Spoon, I love reading them in the mornings - it's so lovely of you to do it every day. :kisses3:

More florentines today for anyone who wants them Help yourselves!

Today will be a spendy day for me as it's my changeover day, so I got my money out this morning and I am doing my grocery shopping today after work at A$da. Managed to finish with £29 left over from last week's money!!! :j

Hope everyone has a good morning!

Jo

Soups sound good, Jo, how did they turn out?

Thanks for the Florentine today, went down very well with my cup of tea this morning:D

Ahh... thanks, they seem to help everyone to keep track that's why I keep doing them;)

Hope the shopping wasn't too painful today?
x

solventsoon

cw18 wrote: »

From training it is :rotfl:

Ahh.. got you now

Last week I also had my school voluntary work in the morning, but the school broke up last Friday and I'm not going back in September so that was my last session (GDs have left the school with their house move, and I wasn't working when I started helping out)

Can't afford not to

If I collapse, then no-one's going to take over for me at home or work, and I'd lose too much income to be able to stay afloat for more than a couple of weeks

The new exercise regime is partly to help me lose weight, as the GPs keep nagging me that my 'excess' isn't helping my back problem. 11 weeks ago I was at 10 st 9.75. This Monday I was at 10 st 1 - and I've not changed anything with my diet, other than drinking more water and now eating chocolate on a regular basis (App F00ds M@rs Bar after each exercise session). GP's would like me between 8st and 8.5st, but I know from past experience people think I look anorexic/ill below 9st so have already said I have no intentions whatsoever of going below that. 8.75lb gone, 15lb to go........

Wel done, Cheryl, it really is paying off, well worth the effort then - I still think you're a bundle of energy - but I guess, like most of us, it's needs must - no choice:(
x

solventsoon

Mainyasha wrote: »

Hello Trinny

Try keeping a record of what you're spending on, and come up with ways of avoiding them spends.
For instance with me it was Fresh milk (8 days in a month), Fruit, Veg(4 days in a mont), Chocolate (lost count) , Crisps (lost count), mineral water (a lot of times just because the bottle looked nice:o), mc$nalds (because I missed one) Sain$bury's danish pastries (because I happened to be passing by and the smell invited me in:o), and all sorts of impulse spending on toiletries, clothes etc..

For milk, Spoon suggested freezing it to preserve it, and I've also tried UHT and powdered depending on what you need it for.

I had to ask myself if I NEED or WANT it - the chocolate, crisps, mineral water, if its a want then i can do without it, find a substitute at home, and increase my NSDs, (and reduce my waistline in the process;), and increase my savings account balance too..:p)

So work out a plan where you do one big spend - say one or two big food and toiletries a month shopping,
try and group all your menial spends together, so you save yourself some days - e.g instead of buying bread today, milk tomorrow, fruit the next day, pick one day where you can buy all..

• Freeze your veg so it doesnt go off, preserve anything that's likely to go off to avoid wastage, freeze all your left overs rather than bin them,

• use salads first week of your shopping so you don't throw them away as they go off quicker

• Learn to home make your favourite take away, that's why take aways and fast foods are in business, its cheap to make from scratch

Make a budget for all essential spending like DDs, petrol, transport
costs, utilities etc.

Anything else thats unplanned will be your Spend day, so the trick is to ask yourself what you can do to avoid spending?




Examples -

• Do I really need chocolate?
• Do i really need still water or i can do with tap water
• Do i really need a can of pepsi or i can settle for a cordial?
• Do i really need a macdonalds or i can use the mince meat i have at home to make my own home made burgers since i already have mince, mayo, ketchup tomatoes, lettuce and buns/bread at home? Oh and use those potatoes to make better home made chips to go with it.
• I only have very little toothpaste left, can't i squeeze every bit out of that tube?

Is it worth spending £6.00 on a pub club sandwich or i can use the chicken and bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayo and bread i have at home, and take sandwiches out when going to work?

I've learnt to make my own pizzas, much better than spending £15-20 at pizza h!t.

On the first page of this thread are some links, they are very useful, take look when you have time. The very act of minimizing your spend days in a month will train you too look after the contents of your kitchen and bathroom cupboards, in the long run everyone around you will follow suit.

Great advice there, Mainyasha :T:T:T

solventsoon

Hi lovely NSD gang :A
Sorry some of you are struggling with the heat, we’ve got the opposite problem, rain, rain and more rain:(......

Lots more NSDs rolling in today and two more targets being smashed - well done everyone:j

Target met today:
Looloo: :jyay, well done for making your target of 10, that’s brilliant, the little dancing kitty is now yours. :j
Revising your target to 13 now - good luck, Johnny is waiting for you:(
Sorry you’re having a mega-busy time atm:(, hope things calm down soon for you
GeorgieFTB: :jyay.. well done for making your target of 5, fantastic, little kitty is dancing your way now. :j
Fingers crossed for some more coming your way soon:)

Well done to:
:jfranby64: well done for no 6 - NSD bug is very infectious, one it gets hold, that’s it. Only 4 more to get now, you can do it!:)
:jchris81418: well done for no 14 - you really are on a roll now, only 5 more to get now, keep going:)
:jshoe_gal_84: well done for no 11 - you’re doing well, only 4 more left now:)
:jverynewmoneysaver: well done for no 5, but sorry you’re not feeling well:(, hope you’re on the mend soon
:jrentawitch: well done for no 9, but sorry you’re not well either, oh dear:(, hope you’re better soon
Ahh.. thanks:o....
:jelfen: well done for no 11 - you’re doing brilliantly this month, only 4 more to get now
Like the sound of your challenge - good luck!:)
:jKeiss 21: well done for no 8, you’re doing great, 4 more and the kitty is yours. Johnny Depp would definitely be a reward
Hope you manage to get back into tutoring, take it easy for now though:)
:jTixy: well done for no 7 - only 3 more to get now. Hope you managed to avoid the shops at lunchtime;)
:jifwishes: well done for no 11 (think you got no 10 on Sunday - you’re doing better than you think you are). Hope the spendy day isn’t too painful;)
:jTrinny: well done for no 4 - halfway there now, that’s brilliant.
Organisation is the key to NSDs, definitely, some good advice posted today:)
:jkarenccs67: well done for no 7, nearly halfway now. Fingers crossed you make it to Friday before the next spend:)
:jBigMumma: well done for no 12, you’re doing great and really well done for the 300 since last year - that’s fantastic, not surprised you’re chuffed.:T
Love the sound of the snails, it’s good being in France, isn’t it.... No reports of a man being garotted, but strange reports of aliens and a purple coloured donkey on the loose in Scotland :rotfl:
:jboultdj: hope the haircut goes OK and not too painful spendy wise
Update: not painful at all, no spends.. well done for no 12:)
:jslowlyfading: well done or no 11, you’re doing great this month:)
:jMainyasha: well done for no 18, you’re doing great, only 2 more to get now:)
:jfedupandskint: well done for no 8 - unexpected NSDs are always the best. Good luck for Wednesday and Thursday:)
:jNargle: well done for no 6 - you’re on a roll now... nearly there!:)
:j3Dogs: well done for no 10 - 2 more to get now, brilliant. I love the no spend spendy days - hubbie must be feeling better now to be requesting food
Your dogs will love the little kittykat and she’ll definitely show them who’s boss:rotfl:
:jilovetea: well done for no 14, you’re doing great, only 6 more to get now. Oh dear to Monday, but that was only a minor spend, much better than a mega-spend.
:jBDINI: well done for no 10, you’re doing great this month even though you think you’re struggling (little “pressie” on the front page for you). What’s happened with the trademen now, not more patronising behaviour I hope?:(:(
:jkatholicos: well done for no 15, you really are on a roll this month. Hope the spending tomorrow isn’t too serious:)
:jcw18: well done for no 16 (you reported 15 yesterday, so I’m assuming it’s 16 today??)... Johnny Depp is moving ever closer;)
:jSmilerwoman: well done for no 6, you’re doing brilliantly.. yay indeed:)
:jSoma: fingers crossed for no 7 today, grrr to the washing power running out
Update: and you made it, well done - only 3 more to get now, keep going:)
:jkathy40uk: well done for no 14 - only 1 more to get now, brilliant:)
:jFirewalker: well done for no 10 - you’re doing brilliantly, only 5 more to get now:)

And hello to everyone else:
jintyb: hope work was OK today, and lovely mum sorting out your knitting for you. Fingers crossed for an NSD today:)
Broken hearted: very supportive bunch on here, hope you’re OK today?
rachelmk: LSD yesterday wasn’t too bad then, better than a mega-spend day. Good luck for today, keeping my fingers crossed:)
csarina: oh dear to spendy day today, fingers crossed for some NSDs for you now:)
candyapple: oh dear to spendy days today and tomorrow, but I’m sure you’ll make target no 2, Johnny is waiting!
Weather has been vile here today as well.. summer :mad::mad::mad:.....
Jo_Rourke: great bargains today by the sounds of it - well done:)

Managed to get no 15 here today, very pleased with myself:j. Hoping for no 16 tomorrow as well.

Off to do the usual update now, see you all tomorrow.

‘night all
spoon
x

butdoineedit?

solventsoon wrote: »

:jBDINI: well done for no 10, you’re doing great this month even though you think you’re struggling (little “pressie” on the front page for you). What’s happened with the trademen now, not more patronising behaviour I hope?:(:(

Aww thank for my pressie Spoon, has made me smile this morning

No patronising from the tradesmen, just not turning up or returning my calls, in the grand scheme of things it wasn't that major, it was just a sulky sort of day (& i'm dying to get finished so i can start to clear up all the mess!!!!)

Right, off to work now, thanks again Spoon for all your fabby work on this thread, see you all later!!!!

jintyb

Good morning all - very muggy and sticky here, didnt sleep very well!

Managed no 11 yesterday - today will be another as Im not taking any extra money or debit card. I'm doing a little experiment. I stashed a tenner in an old purse last Thursday from my grocery money and I wanted to see if it would be still there a week later. If it is, it's going in the car tax fund. I know its a small amount but this is the girl who never used to save for anything and bunged everything on credit cards and is still paying them off :mad:

Didnt do any knitting last night, my eyes were tired from staring at a screen all day so watched telly and just relaxed.

Nargleblast - I put my details into Ringtons, so just waiting for them to get in touch, thanks for the tips re what type to get. I'm very excited! I'm a saddo, I know!

lots of great posts from you guys - and lots of good tips!
I'm going to investigate the "clicks"

Have a lovely day everyone -:)

katenut

NSD number 11 for me yesterday, sadly today has already been a spend day though. Hope everyone is well, haven't got time to catch up at the minute xx

Nargleblast

Hope you enjoy your Ringtons tea, Jinty. the biccies are not bad either! They call here once a fortnight on a Tuesday, so I try to plan any food spends for that Tuesday. However, this week I had already put the cash aside so I count yesterday as a NSD. Today hopefully will also be a NSD, despite DS mislaying his school bus pass! I had to give a him some bus money just in case, but I deducted it from his pocket money account. I remember him emptying his pockets yesterday and putting his pens and bus pass on the hall bench, but needless to say they were not there this morning. He probably stuffed them into his school bag somewhere, little oik! (Well, not so little, he's about five foot two and I'm only five foot three - will have to chop his legs off, methinks!)

shoe_gal_84

Oh, it was all going so well for an NSD yesterday, then my cat got fleas (we think), so I had to spend £19.36 on flea treatment - how annoying! I did make £3 by selling a top. Fingers crossed for a NSD today!