The October Awakening!

shyspender

I have a feeling my fuel light is going to come on today driving to or from work. If it does, I can eek it out to get me to the supermarket tomorrow. No, I will eek it out to get me to the supermarket tomorrow so that all my spends are on the same day.

I know I said I wrote my list last weekend and wasn't going to add to it, but I need some oven cleaner, I can't remember the last time I bought some, I want to give my oven a good clean this weekend. Also added some yeast, I have loads of bread flour and I've been making fresh bread every day. I do have some yeast but it is past it's best, although I may just stock pile it because the bread I made today proved better than the last couple of batches.

SFD and AFD yesterday and on the cards for today. Lunch, or supper is currently in the oven baking.

I've been sneakily catching up on the TV I miss working lates. There is nobody else in the office and it does actually help me to work, because it's background noise, I can't work in total silence.

GreenNinja

lilian1977 wrote: »

Hello everyone

Back on board this month, I really want to get to the end of October with money still in my brown envelopes so I'm going to try extra hard this time.

The first thing I've done is said NO to Justin Timberlake tickets. I have been waiting for this show for, ooh, 6 years - and the tickets are £104.50. There are cheaper ones (£77 and £55) but I don't want to sit at the back, and if I'm paying £77 I may as well pay £104. I can't afford either. I love him but it's not worth the money.

*sobs* *breathes* *moves on*

Right. Spreadsheet done, SFDs planned. Money looks as follows:

NSD: 1/20 (including today)
Food budget: £0/£150
Foodbank: £3 to Trussell Trust DONE
Packed lunches: 1/18 (including today)
Extra money: £18/£100 (DSs clothes and toys being sold)
Beauty products: £0/£10 (shouldn't need anything)

Will need to get DS a halloween costume but will ask around on my Facebook group before buying new.

Also just about to send off final payment for our remortgage which will bring our term down from 21 years to 15 years with no extra cost - woohoo!

Good luck everyone xx

For the record... I really think you should go to the Justin Timberlake thing.... you've waited this long... and if you don't go you will always regret it. Split the 104 into 4 or 5 whatever and "pay it back" over the amount of months you've split it into.
I went to Las Vegas last October and went to the Matt Goss show, afterwards I met him kissed and hugged him and boy am I glad I did that trip now! Got that memory for ever.
So I think you should do the JT thing. :cool: xxx

NinjaSavingKat

I spent another £11.66 today in Tescimos. Beetroot, Tofu, Almond Milk, Black Beans, 750g of Almonds, and a large jar of sauerkraut. I'm so bad - doubt I will need much more for a while.. good thing too really. £80 a month is not enough for a vegan lifestyle.. ;-(

Siouxsie32

NinjaSavingKat wrote: »

I spent another £11.66 today in Tescimos. Beetroot, Tofu, Almond Milk, Black Beans, 750g of Almonds, and a large jar of sauerkraut. I'm so bad - doubt I will need much more for a while.. good thing too really. £80 a month is not enough for a vegan lifestyle.. ;-(

Ooh, that sounds like my shopping list! I know what you mean, I reduced my shopping budget to £80 as well and I'm finding it really tough. I'm hoping it settles down a bit as I'm still filling my kitchen with mineral powders and goodies to put in smoothies so I'll soon have enough to keep me going for a few months and my shopping list will settle down to just the fruits/veg/seeds etc that I need. I'm planning next month (yes, already!) and I'm going to up the budget again to £100. I'm going to have to buy conditioner as well (the bottle is at the splodgy stage so I'll only get a few more hairwashes out of it) plus I need hair dye - was £10 the budget limit for this month? I spent a few days collecting samples from beauty counters earlier this month as I'm at the splodgy stage with my cleanser too

So far still no more spends, although I have been eyeing up a slow cooker. It'll only cost £9.99 as I have a voucher and I think it will be money well spent. My next planned spend day is Saturday so I'll have a think between now and then about how much I want/need it.

Oh, and I found a 20p coin right outside my front door on my way to work It wasn't mine (funny, I know exactly how much money I have and it's all present and correct so that's an extra 20p I can add to my "Money Made" pot!) I have a few items on ebay and also two books listed on Amazon so hopefully my £1.75 will increase significantly towards the £100 target!

One last thing: Lillian, I'm with GreenNinja on the JT front. I think experiences are much better value for money than things, and they do say that you are more likely to regret the things you don't do rather than the things you do. How significant is £105 in your quest to be debt free? Are you able to pay for it and claw the money back somehow? If you have successfully raised an extra £100 this month (I think that rule was for oldies and not compulsory), could you use that to buy the ticket - I know that's NOT why we're all raising an extra £100, but if it's something you really really want to do, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing. You can't control when the concerts happen. It's not like you can wait til you're debt free! However, if you've already made your peace with not going, ignore everything I just said Kat'll have me on the naughty step for aiding and abetting unnecessary spending :eek:

Maisie_M

SFDs: 8/20
Food budget: £45.48/£280
Donation: £0/£3
Planned outings: 0/1 Meal out for birthday with OH (paid on voucher already)
Takeaway £19.40/£20 - Chinese to celebrate birthday with children,
Take lunch to work: 9/18
Beauty spends £2.67/£10

Another SFD for us today, hall, stairs and landing painting is almost completed. Tomorrow will be a spend day as lunch out (pre paid, booked and planned in sept) and also food shopping tomorrow.

thriftylass

Both girls in my office have left for the day and one is off tomorrow. So she threw two handfulls of grapes in the waste basket before she left. They were perfectly fine. I fished them back out and gave them a wash :rotfl::rotfl: yum

NinjaSavingKat

Okay.. I am SUPER naughty today! Spent £3.65 in Holland and Barrett.. I am going to bake over the weekend and want to get away from any snack that is not strictly vegan so purchased coconut for macaroons amongst two other things..

Thrifty I would have done the same thing!:T We are wombles! Kinda!

Lillian if you have been waiting for 6 years like you said I think you should go. I am all for experiances and I think this is one you deserve and have waited long enough for! So... what's the decision?

You people who aren't on Facebook need to come find me - I just had the MOST amazing dinner ever. I love being a vegan - however Siousxie all the extras are something I would love to buy in bulk like you said - the almonds will last for ages but I like brazils / pecans and walnuts in the mix.. pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds over everything, hemp, flax and I want to be able to actually buy myself a mango without feeling guilty..:rotfl::rotfl:

So I am settled in front of the TV, new vegetarian book from the library and LLL is out for the night and away for the weekend from tomorrow - can't wait....:rotfl:

Right I am off to fry-up a banana with cinnamon for desert..

Onwards and Upwards...

Superdopsa

Evening all. Check in with SFD number 10. Made it in to double figures so well chuffed with that!

Hoping tomorrow will be another SFD - fingers crossed for that. Need some more bits to make my advent calendars but will leave those purchases until next week.

Have a good Friday everyone and will check in again tomorrow.

Fmess

Evening all,

SFD today yay

Took my lunch again and didn't eat out

So excited that tomorrow is Friday

abundant1972

Arghhhh!

Left my lunch on the kitchen sideboard this morning and subsequently had to buy from the canteen, so no SFD!!! Ate lunch for dinner this evening though - no preparation required!!!!

Still time to make 20 SFDs!!!