Time to make some changes . . . lots of changes!

karmachilovething

So today I started my MSE attack on 2011 and re-joined the Crazy Clothes Challenge 2011! And I need that one, because I can feel myself slipping back into a spending vein. Clothes have always been my weakness but I also slip into house furnishings . . .

. . . Not unlike how I slipped into Habitat this lunchtime and left holding a half price Joseph Joseph pestle and mortar. Which I really, really didn't need. But it was at least a good price.

Got to get back to those Money Mantras.

ZTD

karmachilovething wrote: »

So today I started my MSE attack on 2011 and re-joined the Crazy Clothes Challenge 2011! And I need that one, because I can feel myself slipping back into a spending vein. Clothes have always been my weakness but I also slip into house furnishings . . .

Do you not find house furnishings are a bit tight around the waist?

karmachilovething

ZTD wrote: »

Do you not find house furnishings are a bit tight around the waist?

Thank you ZTD, very good! Reminds me of an old Goon Show joke that goes something like . . .

Henry: Put the kettle on Min!
Min: It won't fit me Henry!

Anyway enough silliness, I think for the coming year I'm going to note all my spends, as it will make me think before I make them . . .

Today:
£21.21 on food (I won't bore you with my shopping list!)
£28 Dress in sales
£15 Scarf in sales

Hmm not very good, only needed one of those things on the list. Can you guess which one it was?! I can see this will be a good discipline for keeping me in line . . .

ZTD

karmachilovething wrote: »

Thank you ZTD, very good! Reminds me of an old Goon Show joke

Compared with the Goons... :eek:

I must be getting old.

I seem to remember that they weren't available in even black and white... :shocked:

karmachilovething

ZTD wrote: »

Compared with the Goons... :eek:

I must be getting old.

I seem to remember that they weren't available in even black and white... :shocked:

No radio only.

Anyway, I don't think you have to be old to know a Goon reference. I'm still under 30 and I brought it up!

So spends today (sorry if this is getting boring for people) was on a trip to London:
£21.50 Train ticket
£14.25 for lunch (I paid for lunch my friend paid for entry to Kew Gardens, over £20 so I got the better end of the stick)
£5.90 :eek: for coffee and cake in V&A
£5 on oyster top up.

I feel a cheap week coming on!

ZTD

karmachilovething wrote: »

No radio only.

Not radio! "The Wireless"...

karmachilovething wrote: »

Anyway, I don't think you have to be old to know a Goon reference. I'm still under 30 and I brought it up!

You can get them on t'internet these days.

karmachilovething wrote: »

So spends today (sorry if this is getting boring for people) was on a trip to London:
£21.50 Train ticket

Don't forget if it was planned reasonably far in advance, you can get advance tickets

karmachilovething wrote: »

£14.25 for lunch (I paid for lunch my friend paid for entry to Kew Gardens, over £20 so I got the better end of the stick)
£5.90 :eek: for coffee and cake in V&A

:shocked::shocked::shocked:

You'll not get rich eating that cake...

karmachilovething wrote: »

£5 on oyster top up.

I feel a cheap week coming on!

Don't forget the forthcoming spend of £432.92 over the next week or so on various pills and potions to treat all the plagues and pestilences you'll have picked up in London.

karmachilovething

ZTD wrote: »

Don't forget if it was planned reasonably far in advance, you can get advance tickets

Don't forget the forthcoming spend of £432.92 over the next week or so on various pills and potions to treat all the plagues and pestilences you'll have picked up in London.

Thanks for your concern ZTD, but I seem to have avoided the London Plague.

As for train tickets, I used to book in advance, but I've found that the inflexibility doesn't work so well for London trips - so often it takes an age on the tube and you miss your train, so I've given up.

NSD yesterday, although meeting a friend later, so may have to suck up some spending there.

karmachilovething

OK other spends yesterday:

£1.50 Postage for a parcel to a friend
£4.25 Glass of wine (:eek: I almost fell over at that, not a posh place, and not a large glass either!)

and today:
£9 ish (8 something) on food bits
£6.25 on cinema ticket (off to see the King's Speech in a moment)

karmachilovething

OK I am well and truely in the pinch (as in beyond feeling the pinch, IN the pinch). I have £28 to my name, and I have to go to London for a meeting on Tuesday, and probably will need some more food next week too.

But I am determined not to go over my overdraft like I did last month.

karmachilovething

Cheap if not spend free weekend -

Went to see the DPs on Friday for dinner, and then went to an auction viewing with DM and her friends, followed by being treated to a pub lunch by DM. Placed a couple of small bids, so will see if anything comes from it.
Bought some food from Mr. A on the way home (£7.50 ish) and cooked dinner for some friends in the evening.

Sunday, was a very quite potter about the house, cooked lots of things, went for a swim, and the only spend was £5.80 on some face wash.

Going to re-join the Grocery Challenge this week in readiness for February, and going to get the sewing machine out again and start some MSE crafting.