The Mad March NSD Challenge

cw18

Jelly_Biactol wrote: »

mainly due to spends on postage to despatch the fleabay items I sold over the weekend

I don't think anyone else counts that as a spend - the buyer pays for it, so it's not actually your money you're spending

FallenArcher

Can you put me down for 10 days in March please, I have already managed 2 I was rubbish at sticking to this in February - must do better!

solventsoon

The_Boss wrote: »

It's going to be an inadvertant NSD today for me - was up all night vomitting and will be spending the day in bed.

Still, should also help my weight loss plan too as can't imagine I will be able to eat much today

Hope you feel better soon Boss

solventsoon

Jelly_Biactol wrote: »

NSD 1 today.

A slow start to the NSD hunt this month, mainly due to spends on postage to despatch the fleabay items I sold over the weekend .. but they did go for £200+ so I'm not too downhearted:)

Wow... well done on the fleabay sales Jelly, that's brilliant :j:j

freebyfifty

Good Morning

The front page has been brought up to date again

Loads of NSDs this month so far :j



Have a great Friday Eve

freebyfifty

There are

57

of us taking part in the March NSD Challenge

and so far we have collected

130 NSDs

:T:T:T:T:T

freebyfifty

FallenArcher wrote: »

Can you put me down for 10 days in March please, I have already managed 2 I was rubbish at sticking to this in February - must do better!

You are on the front page Well done on those first two and good luck on reaching that target :T

freebyfifty

Jelly_Biactol wrote: »

NSD 1 today.

A slow start to the NSD hunt this month, mainly due to spends on postage to despatch the fleabay items I sold over the weekend .. but they did go for £200+ so I'm not too downhearted:)

cw18 wrote: »

I don't think anyone else counts that as a spend - the buyer pays for it, so it's not actually your money you're spending

Cheryl is right, I never count postage for sending ebay parcels as a spend as the buyer has paid the postage
Brilliant ebay sales - well done :T

freebyfifty

cw18 wrote: »

So I plan to stop counting some of my grocery spends when it comes to this challenge. I did think of just ignoring anything that comes out of my grocery budget (as I know at least one other person does), but I decided that made it too easy for me to buy meat (or ready meals!) rather than use the freezer contents - and also allows me to regularly pick up sweets, crisps, biscuits and desserts (all things I need to cut back on until they're special treats only).

So as a trial for this month it doesn't count as a spend if it's fresh or frozen veg that I need to complete a meal using meat/fish from the house (or where I already have most of the ingredients in if it's a vegetarian type meal), fresh fruit (I have a supply of tinned, and can stock up on tinned/frozen fruit weekly), or milk for DS (I've been able to stock up weekly while Mr T have had their filtered milk on offer, but once I'm back to buying from A!di I need to watch dates more carefully and am likely to end up shopping for that at least twice a week). This means I can nip to local shops on a daily basis for couple of carrots, some mushrooms (what I was planning to get today, but doing mince and mash instead of bolognese as I've got potatoes need using up) and a banana/apple for that day.

I never count spends on groceries, as they are (to me) an essential.
I do have a budget for the month though and when it's gone it's gone so anything after that will count as a spend. The plan had worked for me so far

Good luck with your new plan

LionessInWinter

2 NSDs in a row