The October Awakening!

lilian1977

Thanks for all energy advice.

Just spent about £20 on Halloween party stuff after deciding to have a party at my house for DS and his friends - so no SFD for me!

NinjaSavingKat

I am home... getting ready to meet a friend for the cinema.. we are seeing Blue Jasmine.. (minus any treats)..

I am now dressed in 4 layers on my upper body including a merino wool Icebreaker base layer for hiking... another two layers which includes a fleece and hiking jacket.. and scarf..I am also wearing base layer leggings under my trousers and hiking socks.....

That is how cold our cinema is...

See you all soon!!...;- )

Fmess

rumblytum I don't think prescriptions count as spends so if you didn't spend anything it's a SFD. Is that right NSK?

KittyBoo I'm in Derbyshire too and it's freezing!

Will check in later, hoping for a SFD

cottage_retreatist

Apologies for being in hiding! I've been so tired this week I've just been coming home and curling up on the sofa like a giant cat!

Yesterday I did a Yellow sticker shop in b00ts which was fun! so NSD there! :j

Today - did a Sainsb0bs drop in but OH gave me a tenner from his fun money so it didn't actually come from our budget - can I still class that as a NSD for me?!!

bit worried though - he seems to have quite a bit of fun money at the moment - where is it coming from?!! :rotfl::rotfl:

Made 50 quid doing some overtime yesterday as well so currently my totals look as follows:

NSDs - 7/20 - getting very confused though! all the days are blurring, but the important thing is - i'm not spending (much) money!

Debt - 300/1400

Food/groceries - 112.93/240
Tobacco - 4.15/40
Post - 0/10
Car - 123.75/150
Savings: 0/60
Xmas gifts - 0/60
charity - 0/3

extra: 12.00 on contact lenses

make 100 : 50/100

hope everyone has a good evening - I having yummy homemade (by the OH) curry for supper nom nom!! :rotfl:

xx

shyspender

Managed to con the parking machine into accepting £1.25 which gave me 5 minutes of time after my appointment.

Unfortunately, in that five minutes I wasn't able to buy myself the new sports socks that I needed, so it means I need to cope with the threadbare socks a little longer. I'm not going to go out and spend just for the sake of it.

Lunch to work again and alcohol free.

Instead of upgrading my phone to a sparkly all singing all dancing new iphone, I downgraded the SIM card to a better deal, saving myself about £25 a month. My phone will last, and I have an Ipad if I want anything new new.

Maisie_M

SFDs: 6/20
Food budget: £23.58/£280
Donation: £0/£3
Planned outings: 0/1 Meal out for birthday with OH (paid on voucher already)
Takeaway £0/£20 - Chinese to celebrate birthday with children,
Take lunch to work: 8/20
Beauty spends £2.67/£10

SFD today again and took lunches to work so all going ok, Have done shopping list for tomorrow which DH will get on the way home from work. Hopefully aiming for SFD on Saturday and Sunday.

littleskintdragon

shyspender wrote: »

Instead of upgrading my phone to a sparkly all singing all dancing new iphone, I downgraded the SIM card to a better deal, saving myself about £25 a month. My phone will last, and I have an Ipad if I want anything new new.

Dh did the same last month, previously we would have been steaight out getting the new one so im very proud of us

Not a nsd for us, needed bread, but thats the first food item weve bought since last sat! Not bad!! Getting a new fridge freezer tomorrow, well new to us, from the il's. A big american one theyve decided they dont like )

abundant1972

Evening everyone!

First off - Hugs to Fyggy! Bet your glad that day is behind you!!!

Superdosa - You're going to have home grown vegetables? Nice!!! It will be like 'The Good Life'

Karmachi - Thanks - I loved the book and it's really easy to apply... but you gotta have will power and it isn't always easy!

Kat - If you are going to binge - do it in style lol. I have days like that where I get wicked carb cravings! I have realised I cannot keep things like crisps in the house because I will eat them all within a few days!!! That said I have a bar of dark chocolate in usually and can only ever manage 4 pieces at a time... and it's meant to be good for you!!!

Good day today (although not a SFD) and have emptied the rest of this week's money into various pots. I now have £40 to last me 2 weeks, plus £15 for fuel. I have a fair bit of food in - so am hopeful I'm going to do it this month!!!

Have a nice evening

LoveaDove

Abundant1972 - I'm exactly the same with treats, if they're there I'll eat them! In-fact I obsess about them and my psychology is 'if I eat them all now then they will be gone and will no longer taunt me.' Even hiding them from myself doesn't work- the fundamental flaw there is that I'm the one hiding them! Dark chocolate is a good compromise to treats- I find it hard to binge on as it's so rich- I may follow your lead

SFD - 9 today!

Daisychain1

Good evening all :j

Even though I posted yesterday I went of on one and forgot to post my progress!

Today was a spend day and for the first time in about a year I caved in and bought my lunch at work. I have annoyed myself so much about this because it was the one challenge I thought I would fly through easily :mad:

Anyway,
SFDs 6/20
Food budget £35.39/180
Lunches to work 1/18 :mad:
No eating out 0

Keep warm
DC1