NSK Challenge;Marching Forever Forward!!!

PurpleJay

Hiya sorry for not checking in yesterday! March is not off to a great start spend wise although it was mostly planned. Yesterday I bought a cake for £1 at work in aid of comic relief and then went out for a meal and wine in the evening. I did at least take my lunch to work!

Today was M's first new swimming lesson and it went really well I took him for lunch after and we went to a brewers fair which cost £15. Roll on. The good weather when we can picnic! it has been nice and sunny here today but still cold! Tomorrow will hopefully be a SFD if not Monday will. One or the other I need to get hubby a birthday card and another pressie and will get my mums cards for her birthday and Mother's Day at the same time. I will also look for a gift for mum but might order her a photo book online. She will be 80 this month bless her.

My budgets are as follows:-
Groceries £220
Petrol £120

I hope to make the £100 with eBay and Avon. Hoping for enough avon orders so I have reached my commission and have no excuse for buying any for myself. I am we'll stocked up with all things avon!

I have to take 2 cats to the vets this month for a check up and claw clipping. We have a takeaway or meal out planned for hubby's birthday on Tuesday and I am seeing a friend for a meal later in march. Nothing else social planned so not to bad. There will be no more takeaways. Hubby bought half a dozen bottles of wine the other day and these will see us through march.

I haven't been to slimming world for a few weeks and think I am going to try and save myself the money and do it on my own. I haven't been doing very well with it anyway since about October and have put a few pounds on since Xmas. My heart isn't in it at the moment but I would like to get back to my pre Christmas weight before our holiday in 5 weeks (can't wait)! Being inactive the past few weeks with my knee and having time to bake really hasn't helped

Had a busy afternoon painting and reprinting my purple feature wall in the kitchen. It looks fab I am worn out now tho!

Watching Harry potter with the boy and having a glass of red. Cheers :beer:

Learning2Budget

Had a lovely sfd till oh suggested popping to @sd@ cos he wanted some beers and it was more economical to buy from there than c©©p. Ok i said and ended up £8.39 worse off but have some fruit n Veg for the weekend. Not very impressed but we did avoid all junk food.x

nannygladys

Evening everyone, had a lovely day with DD3 baby shopping:) I bought her the bouncy cradle and pushchair cosytoes thingy, both from Mamas & Pops and as it was extra discount 10% day and it was an outlet shop I only spent just over half what I had budgeted for:T so Im a happy bunny. I was treated to some lunch and a drink, and then treated myself to some new socks from Primani, last of the big spenders me:rotfl:we had a really great time, had her and bump all to myself and it was lovely just to wander, sit and chat baby:)

So tonight I have had salmon, salad and new pots for my dinner, just 11 more fish meals to have before the end of the month:rotfl:

Off to update totals, as I have put the fuel in the car
Jxx

poodlegal

Sounds like a lovely day NannyG! I used to love buying baby stuff when my lot were babies, the bouncy chair will be a godsend!

beckyboo1980_2

Evening all.
Pleased to clock in with my first spend free day. Was so good today that even when I realised I had forgotten to pick up Mothers day cards for my and the hubbys mums I got the girls on board with making some homemade cards. Off to mash the rest of my potatoes and then freeze in portions for the week - what a fab idea - never done that before!!!
Determined to be more successful this month than last.
Off to mums tomorrow for 'Christmas dinner' - can't wait!
Happy weekend everyone!!!
Beckyboo
XXX

B17c

Hi everyone, hope you're having nice sat nights!
I very nearly had a NSD today but I spent 85p on a tea from BB's as I went for a hot drink and a chat with a colleague on my break today (and £5 on a bottle of Shiraz on the way home...ahem)

Pleased that I didn't spend anything on food though, all too easy to grab a meal deal everyday but last night I cooked one of the huge basics lazy agnes I bought from saino's on thurs and cut it into 6ths and boxed it up to fridge/freeze so took a portion of that in and a sandwich. I keep a box of Alpen and a bag of Porridge Oats at work so theres always something for brekkie. Tonight I made pasta,bacon,mushroom with a spoon of pesto and drizzle of double cream and boxed a couple of portions of that too. Working tomorrow too so I'll prob take that in for lunch!

I also withdrew £100 for my budgeted nights out; my birthday meal and my works xmas (I know) do: £20 each night, my haircut :£35 and food budget :£20 now (due to wine needage).
I've loads of food in the cupboards so should only need bread, fabric softener, milk, bacon, maybe some meat and potatoes... does anyone know where I can get a cheap sack of spuds?

I need to buy a couple of birthday cards too and a mothers day card but I'm fine for pressies as I give most people Clarins bits (used to work for them so have loads of "gift" sizes)

Aiming for a definate NSD tomorrow!
night night xx

Doris65_2

Hi All
Planned spend day today, big shop, I tend to shop for two weeks at a time, its easier with my work patterns, so I made sure that planned menu for two weeks, made a list, and only bought what I needed, also should stop me 'popping' into a SM for this or that and end up spending!!!( I hope)

so Food £94/£240,
SFD 1/2
other than that i didn't spend on anything else,

Did make some vegi curry soup this afternoon, that portioned up in the freezer ready for lunches,

Dx

stoplurking

Hi all checking in with SFD today!

Nowisnow

Hiya. Managed to tackle a couple of hours of public transport without succumbing to junk food and drink, which I usually do. I really like the concept of being a warrior against all the enemies lined up in the station concourse waiting to take money from me that I don't have. Thanks Kat! :T

Siouxsie32

Evening warriors Just checking in with a second SFD!! More of the same tomorrow? We'll see......