Cheery's buttling diary: tea in one hand, plant pot in the other, running shoes on

Cheery_Daff

Well, would you believe I'm having yesterday as my second NSD? :eek: Nope, I can't believe it either!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Did the parkrun first thing (free!) and then after a shower popped down the road to FINALLY take some books to the charity shop. These have been sat upstairs for YEARS and when I finally got round to putting them on Amazon I found they were actually already on there and had been for some time :rotfl: :rotfl: Clearly not sold though so I took them back off, brought them downstairs to go to charity shop. Put in the car and took, but charity shop wasn't taking donations, so brought them home, then sold the car so they ended up back in the house :rotfl:

Yesterday we took all four carrier bags, on foot, and were prepared to traipse round charity shops until someone took them - and the first one did and were very grateful :j :j :j

Anyway, spent £2.80 on tea and homemade toast and marmalade at the WI (from treats budget, so doesn't count )

Then Mr Cheery bought a bit of food (which also doesn't count)

And then I didn't spend anything else at all!! :j :j

Today has been different though

Our city has an 'open art' weekend where artists open up studios and houses for you to go and nosey round (and, let's face it, I'm nosying round the *house* not the *art*... :rotfl: )

So £4.80 on lunch in the cafe first

Then the last artist we visited was lovely, offered us a cuppa, and managed to sell us cake, raffle tickets and 4 cards :rotfl:

So that's £10 altogether

Then £2 for milk and bread on the way home.

Not tooooo bad considering :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

£2 in the donations pot tonight, bringing today's total spends (from my fun budget) to £12.

Just going to update signature to £23, and NSDs to 2! :j :j

Cheery_Daff

Nice day today, although not a NSD.

Popped to community garden first thing, did a bit of digging, and came away with a giant lettuce, some parsley and a couple of leeks for free :money:

Then the treats budget took us out for lunch at the city farm And we saw the most adorable teeny tiny piglets

Bought a sage plant to go in the tub by the back door to replace the one I killed off last year :rotfl: That was £3 - will easily get that back in dried sage over the years :j

Then popped to see some pals, and wandered to their allotment, and came home with some mint to plant (for mint tea) and a giant bag full of leeks

Bought some food but Mr Cheery replaced from food budget

spent my planned £5 at slimming world (put on 1lb, darn it :rotfl: ) plus another £5 on cereal bars and the raffle.

Will update sig tomorrow!

Working tomorrow, so except train/bus fares (which don't count) it should be a NSD :j :j :j

Cheery_Daff

Yep - today I managed May's NSD number 3! :j :j :j

Just bus/train fares (which don't count) and £2.50 meeting donation which, as discussed previously, is now in its own special pot So it'll come off the total in the signature, but not count on a NSD.

And don't even think about asking me to justify that - it works in my head :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I guess for me it's about not having as many days when I *fritter*, and not using 'oh well I'm going swimming anyway' as an excuse to have a waltz round the charity shops looking for things I don't need...

Working at home tomorrow, will need to go swimming (again, in its own little pot) but that should be it, crikey, possibly even another NSD?? :j :j

EssexHebridean

Oh you rotten show-off with your NSD's - I'm still on 1! :rotfl: Mind you absolutely NOTHING to stop me making it to three by close of play tomorrow...well, in theory!

Cheery_Daff

Yes but I'm using all the tricks from the NSD thread to mean I can actually spend money and still count it as a NSD :rotfl:

Been swimming this morning, but that £3 has come from the swimming envelope, so still on track for a NSD :rotfl: :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Darn it, just ruined a NSD by booking online for an event I'm going to next week :mad:

Still, should be cheerful and only £6 :j

I'd forgotten about the perils of spending money online - I was thinking because I wasn't leaving the house I was safe :rotfl::rotfl:

EssexHebridean

And there's not a pot you can allocate it from?! :rotfl:;):D:p

Greying_Pilgrim

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Yep - today I managed May's NSD number 3! :j :j :j

YAY Cheery - you got to 3 before I did - Bravo :T:T

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

I guess for me it's about not having as many days when I *fritter*, and not using 'oh well I'm going swimming anyway' as an excuse to have a waltz round the charity shops looking for things I don't need...

:j :j

Absolutely, that is where the 'damage' is done. I'm finding NSD's are becoming the by-product of targeted, mindful spending. I'm not 'collecting' NSD's for the sake of it

Greying

Cheery_Daff

Indeed Greying, it's all round mindful spending (Although I confess I do like the collecting aspect - but i'm not using 20 NSDs in a month as an excuse to spend an unnecessary fortune on the other 10 days!)

I don't think so anyway :rotfl:

Another 50p donation at a meeting tonight (from the donations pot, of course...) and then I stopped in the shop on the way home for milk and fruit and spent £7 :eek: Milk, fruit, yogurt, eggs, and a freddo - not exactly extravagent and I will reclaim from food budget tin

Out on fieldwork tomorrow so trains and a long day. Mr Cheery made me lunch (although having just eaten a bowlful of the same stuff for tea and being still hungry, I suspect I may need to add something substantial to it...).

Have got some yogurt that I'll need to mix with berries and decant into tupperware.

Also got plenty of fruit, and a cereal bar, and I shall make sure I take my flask of tea in the morning, even if I don't get chance to bring one home with me

Planning for another NSD - reckon I can do it?! :j