NSK; February 28 Days Later!

ikesmummy

Having a little trouble deciding exactly how t run my budgets as I get paid on the 23rd of the month and hubby gets paid on the 30th and there is something slightly OCD/logical about the way my brain works which means I want things to start on the 1st??? Think I am going to work things from the 1st and would love to stretch things enough that I won't need to break into my wages until the first one month soon but that may need to be something to work towards. All this is mind I am counting the big shop I did yesterday as a February spend. Think I also over complicate my spreadsheets either that or just over analyse them (maybe I just hope playing with them enough will make the bottom line change?? :rotfl:).

Anyway small spend today as my youngest was given a very last minute birthday invite and although I had a card to hand (bulk bought last time) I had to split in half a gift I had bought for a birthday party later in the month and so topped up each half with a colouring set from our local £ strecher. Not long ago I would have thought nothing of spending £10+ for the birthday of someone I didn't know and hadn't heard much about but am changing my approach to school/pre-school birthday parties and managed to pick up some things in the sale reduced from around £10 to under £2 and although in some ways I feel a bit tight I am overall happy with the change. Also needed to give hubby some money for the fluid which goes in our electronic vapour cigarette things. We need to get strict on weaning ourselves off these now. Have saved loads of money since stopping smoking the real things but still costing us pennies we can't really afford to be wasting.

Looking forward to HM pizza for tea tonight and have a bottle of wine in the fridge after abstaining from alcohol for the whole of January, taking some self control to not open the bottle now

Tomorrow should be the first (hopefully of many) SFD of the month, not sure when hubby will need petrol but when driving back from the farm (where the party was) this morning took great pleasure in realising my diesel gauge doesn't appear to have moved much since I filled up last weekend.

Planning a run this afternoon before I make the Pizza's so that should be exercise number 1 added to the tally.

Best of luck to you all for a fab DFW February

ikesmummy

dolly84 wrote: »

I got the Annabel Karmel book when mine were small and it was great, I used to spend one evening each week making things up then freezing in ice cube trays.

I loved this book when my two were small a well. Used to do extra veg when cooking ours and blend this up. Think both of mine loved a mix of carrot sweet potato and butternut squash the best when we first started so we had lots of stew and soup.

littleskintdragon

Thank u, a friend also recomended annabel karmel, but i dont want to buy a book, ill have a google surely ill find them on here somewhere.

I bought ald1 carrot sweet potato and swede and that was a hit so ill be batch making that. Thought id try him with different flavours fors to see what he liked before i fill my freezer
Just need to remember to buy sweet potato next time im out! I had a soup make for xmas which will be perfect for the veggies!

Dd is 8 and i honestly can remember a thing i have her food wise when she was weaning!

apple_muncher

littleskindragon, why not try asking on your local freecycle/freegle? Or try the library? (and cheekily keep renewing it!)

catshark88

One question on NSDs. Do they count if it's just me not spending, or does DH have to have one too?? I realise it would be a total cheat for me to claim them and to just pass the shopping to DH, but I am eternally doomed to fail 'cos I just cannot convince him to take a packed lunch and not pop into Boots (Lord knows I've tried....)????

If I can act independently, then it's a NSD today for me. If not, it was close, but DH has taken the kids to Mr M to buy the ingredients for them to make home made ice cream.

I'm now shopping entirely at Ald1, though extras like today would be mr m due to mileage in the country!

Enjoy your weekends peeps. :-)

Billie-jo

FEB BUDGETS -
NSD - 1/15
Grocery budget - £0/£190
Petrol budget - £0/£110
Birthday present - £0/£10
Food Bank - £0/£3.00
De clutter 28 items - 1/28
Outings 2 - £0/£40

shyspender

Happy February folks!

Still fiddling with my budgets so haven't updated my signature yet. Should get that done tomorrow.

I'm going to struggle with one or two bits of the challenge this month, I'll go into more detail tomorrow.

Kat I hope the move is going well and you've kept your zombie attack gear nice and handy...hope Dorothy is settling in ok too!

NinjaSavingKat

rubywhatashmoo wrote: »

Guessing you mean me I've already been given a number I'm 24

That would be me being a pleb then! I had a lok twice and couldn't see you! Better twice than not at all!

NinjaSavingKat

themarsbargirl wrote: »

.....moving back in with my parents, ...........Mum was mutteeing about charging me to stay at hers so...

May I ask why (if you don't want to say that's fine but I am curious if it was debt related..) and whether you know how much? How long do you plan to be with the parentals..?

NinjaSavingKat

mooomin wrote: »

....so will hit the supermarkets on my way back from Fat Club. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:..

..... I will only buy meat this month if it is yellow stickered AND a really good buy.

It's not actually called Fat Club is it??.... and YES to a possibly vegetarian February!!! :T