The Lets Make It Awesome April NSD Thread

tomandjerry

Candlewick, Have a Fantastic Birthday tomorrow. :beer: :bdaycake: :beer:

heyjude2013

Hello all,

Declaring NSD#5.

Very sad that its the end of the weekend and therefore my week off, and that I'm back to work tomorrow!

Hope you've all a good (and cheap) weekend!

rogueylawyer

Evening all.

I have had some very spend days recently, including falling off the wagon with toiletries spends, but today I have snatched a NSD which makes #6

Baileys_Babe

Here is my very belated update for April so far:
Monday 1st NSD #1
Tuesday 2nd spent money
Wednesday 3rd NSD #2
Thursday 4th NSD #3
Friday 5th NSD #4
Saturday 6th NSD #5
Sunday 7th NSD #6
Monday 8th NSD #7
Tuesday 9th spent money
Wednesday 10th spent money
Thursday 11th NSD #8
Friday 12th NSD #9
Saturday 13th NSD #10
Sunday 14th NSD #11

phew, in conclusion unwell children have resulted in 11 NSD so far & 6 NSD's in-a-row out of anticipated 8 :j, hoping for another 4 NSD before the end of the month, new target 15NSD's

Hopefully I will be able to report in daily from now on.

matttye

matttye wrote: »

My advice: try and find a cheap hobby like reading. Either buy ebooks for something like a Kindle or buy books in charity shops (can pick up many books for £0.50/£1).

The latter is my preferred method for several reasons: -

1) They're cheaper than kindle books.
2) You can sell them for profit afterwards!

A book will keep me busy for several days.

I also have an Xbox (a game will keep me amused for years; I don't feel the need to buy loads of games) and an iPhone/iPad (which have thousands of free games).

Plenty of things where, with an upfront cost, you can have fun with them for years without having to spend any further money.

Geocaching is a free, outdoor activity, that you can do with friends/family/OH or on your own. You need a smartphone or other GPS device and you go out in woods or places like that and navigate to hidden 'caches.' These usually consist of a logbook and little trinkets that you can swap, hidden inside containers of varying sizes. You then log your visit to the cache on the geocaching website, and you can write a comment about it and read comments by others who have found it before.

I bought a music album and a new book that came out yesterday that I wanted. I probably won't spend any more money until next payday now other than on necessary expenses.

Edit: put me down for 15 days.

Presumably money spent on items for work from work's petty cash doesn't count as spending for the purposes of this challenge?

So far I've spent nothing on:

1st April
4th, 5th April
7th April
9th, 10th April
12th, 13th, 14th April

My direct debits went out on the 2nd and 3rd April because of the 1st April being a bank holiday this year.

I bought petrol on the 6th April.

Petrol again on the 8th April.

I got a hair cut on the 11th April.

Nine days so far! Should easily make it to 15 as planned

bt1

6+7 NSD for me

I'm hoping for a few more this week!

Baileys_Babe

EverTheOptimist wrote: »

Spend day for me today.

However I can declare that I became DEBT FREE today. :j Feeling pretty pleased and relieved. Just need to stay focused now.

ETO congratulations

MissE001

Woo hoo, NSD #10today. Ironing all day has some benefits

charleybear

Well done to everyone. i usually don't post that much here,
I want to start a savings challenge but don't know how to get people interested and to join. Hmm.

Really glad i haven't spend much for this month

OutofDebt-NOT-OutofDanger

No NSDs this weekend:(

Was going so well until the car decided it wanted more oil so an emergency purchase required:mad:. Decided to make the most of a spendy day and took the opportunity to fill up the freezer with some good value meat from the mobile butcher - £50 and enough to feed me for at least 6 weeks:D.

Hadn't been able to contact DF since yesterday so an emergency trip to make sure he was OK was needed (normally he's like the Olympic flame - never goes out:rotfl:) - so more spend on petrol than budgeted . Everything OK - the daft old *** had lowered the volume on the phone too low so didn't hear it ringing.

Oh well, a new week tomorrow and the NSD count [STRIKE]should[/STRIKE] will go up!