NSK: The June Overhaul!!!

XSpender

Quick update from me following the weekend.


We had a great time at the meet/event thing on Saturday and only spent £6 on activities for DS then went to Mr T and left £100 lighter:eek: Some was food, an ironing board when we only needed a new pad to go under the cover :mad:, metal water bottles on offer for our holiday walks and some fairy lights for the garden.


I should hear about the job the early part of this week and need to start looking for others I think.


Today I need to pick up a couple of prescriptions, tidy and vaccum downstairs and a quick clean of the kitchen. Will do a couple of loads too as it is dry but dull.


My totals are:


Food £265/£296.69
SFD 12/3
Exercise 16/4
Hols Savings Pot £309/£307.74
Lose 7lb/1lb
3 things off my list/0
Cut down sugar given up on this
No takeaways 30/15
No weekday wine 20/5 (lost count a bit)


Hmmm I think the food spends, not cutting out sugar and no weight loss may somehow be connected...........

mothernerd

Another NSD added but otherwise not doing great. Re-introduction of fresh fruit and veg is making me feel really good but leg is not co-operating today. Have managed a few jobs - 2 lots of washing out on the line, a simple meal made, put soda crystals and hot water down the sink, watered all the indoor seeds (could have done with doing yesterday) and taken some things out of the freezer to cook and make up into meals. All slow and painful - bending from sitting or standing needs logistical planning and any wrong moves (of which there seem to be many) results in agonising pains shooting up and down my leg.

Can't even think of anything I did yesterday that would have made it worse. Haven't even attempted my exercises - other days I have tried to think of ones that will ease out a particular pain but today it just seems to be avoid doing anything to make it worse. The only thing stopping me standing in the middle of the room screaming (other than standing isn't easy:rotfl:) is that DS3 has been ill for the past 2 days and is finally able to sleep so don't want to wake him.

Have been taking solace in nature - waited by the back door with a basket of laundry as Mrs blackbird was hunting for a juicy worm and I didn't want to disturb her and have also seen a beautiful butterfly small with solid black and red wings.

Think not being able to do much is giving my mind too much time to fret - have taken a hay fever tablet in case that is a contributory factor. For every job I did, there are nine that need to be done. Need to get some money from somewhere - will try to focus on that, break it down into individual tasks. I am trying to think differently about the things I have, definitely want to keep my bed and would like to hang onto the coathangers (even if I don't have clothes to put on them at the moment:rotfl:- the pun was unintentional). Everything else is up for grabs - is the money I could get for the freezer more or less than its utility to me in being able to take advantage of ys bargains and batch cook and portion meals.

Hope you are all having a great day - normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

phoenix_dragon

I too will stop counting food shopping as spends. I have to top up every couple of days.

Yesterday was spend free, today was a low spend day of 50p for playgroup.

Fmess

Evening all

SFDs number 11 here so very chuffed. I'm starting to begrudge spending money again, which is a good sign.

No official exercise but walked the dogs and did 14400 steps

I like your thinking apple muncher, only 9 more sleeps until payday here . I feel like we are flying through this year, where did the first 5 and a half months go!

XSpender

Hello all


Money spent on fresh food again yesterday but I am aiming for exercise and a SFD today.


I weighed myself this morning and I am back to where I started which is not surprising the amount of rubbish I have eaten the last week or so. My F&V per day has dropped off too.


The good news is I stumbled across my workout gear and sports bras at the back of my wardrobe this morning:j The cycling stuff and some other bits must be elsewhere but I have 2 bras, 1 workout top and 3 gym bottoms now so I am sorted:)


I still haven't heard about the job and the interviews and wondering if I would need to start work at short notice has been messing with my head and routine but I have got my mo-jo back this week and the house is now all clean and tidy, I crossed several things off my to do list yesterday and I am even going to tackle the ironing today before I go for a swim at lunchtime. Shock! Horror!


A friend has said she will come to Zumba with me on a Friday night so I might squeeze in another session this week.:)


My food spend is way over budget and I need a new strategy for next month as this is our biggest expense and the one we can reduce with a bit of work.


I am trying a new AFCJ recipe tonight.

NinjaSavingKat

Good day to you June Bugs.

I have had a tiring, long, chaotic weekend at my cousins house. It's a turbulent life she has to lead and still shares her house with her soon-to-be abusive ex-husband.

I did not have access to the internet as I was staying with her friend across the road so as to not aggravate an already volatile situation. Nor would I have wanted to spend time online - I need to be with her constantly.

The weekend culminated in my having to ring the police at 0130 on Monday morning and sitting up until 0300 while they calmed her down and gave her some much needed advise.

She was not happy with me calling the police but the morning after said she now feels empowered.

Ladies and Gentlemen - domestic abuse is not just a slap in the face or a physical beating. Emotional abuse, controlling behavior, intimidation and threats are also domestic abuse. I had to take control of this situation without my cousins say so while I was there to witness it.

I don't want it on my conscience that something "should have been done" while standing at her graveside.

If any of you are suffering from domestic abuse, call someone. Tell a friend. Call the police on 101. Don't suffer alone and don't put up with it.

I have a lot to read through, a spread sheet to reconcile and food to eat.

I will check back later as I am here until 1900.


Onwards and Upwards!

mothernerd

Oh Kat you have taken the wind out of my sails. I helped a couple of victims escape many years ago. The first thought I was 'safe' because I was outside her immediate circle of friends and relations and her husband would not know where to look for her. Her husband had been violent throughout their married life and it was widely known about - many friends had urged her to leave but she had to reach the point where she was ready to. She moved on safely and had help with furnishing etc.

A few weeks later I helped another friend, who was in a lesbian relationship. Whereupon the first escapee denied that there could be abuse within a lesbian relationship (there are abusive gay relationships and increasing acknowledgement of the number of male victims of domestic abuse - Women's Aid has links with the organisations that deal with these groups) and that I was interfering between a loving couple. I pointed out that the difference in physical size (one of her arguments) was far greater between the lesbian couple than between herself and her husband.

We also have a good track record of helping runaways - many of the youngsters who used to stay with us regularly at weekends (15 - mid twenties) had been physically or sexually abused or just 'benign neglect' - the friend of DS3's who lived with us for nearly 2 years would bring bundles of budget curry flavour noodles from the supermarket (he ate anything I provided) - he and his sister had been 'feeding themselves' since they were small. These young people are the reason I wanted to be a foster mother - I don't know if I am still physically capable (not at the moment) but would still like to do something like providing supported lodgings for children leaving the care system.

Good news today - my body is working (slow and creaky but a million times better than yesterday). Found a 'knot' about 8 inches above my knee and massaged it hard until it eased off. Have found a few smaller knots nearer the top of my leg - can't replicate what the physio did but if it helps.

The plan for today is to continue exercise round as appropriate mixed with low effort high impact strikes on the house so bathmats are in the washer, the oven is full (all long slow cooking items which only need checking and turning round about once an hour), taken a letter to the post box (had to hold the wall all the way back) and chopped down a teasel - not a weed (heritage plant) but self seeded from the soil I brought from the other house - will let the others grow but this was very close to the house and it makes getting into that corner to weed a lot easier. I had to squeeze in yesterday as I noticed some of the blackcurrants were ripe.

My main priority is to get to the photography taster session tomorrow and don't have any money for bus fares. My one and only photography lesson (using an SLR) was over 30 years ago, lasted 10 minutes and over half of that was how to put film in the camera - with my arms the wrong way through a jacket, the camera invisible under the jacket, me crouching under a space under the kitchen worktop (all to avoid exposing the film to light) as he of a thousand cameras wasn't organised enough to have any usable film in his house. I was then sent off to buy film, do the under jacket magic and take photographs of our local MP with the punks at the opening of the local Centre for the Unemployed (not being abusive - the youth group at the Centre were all punks - ten years after the rest of the country). They were not very good photos.

NinjaSavingKat

mothernerd wrote: »

Oh Kat you have taken the wind out of my sails.

Why have I taken the wind out of your sails?...

MessyMare

I have totally lost track. Work has done a number on me but has had the effect of making me focus on what really matters in my life. Have written out my debt total and stuck it on my monitor to remind me of why I'm really there.

clippy_girl

evening all!

feeling very disappointed with myself today as i spent £1.63 on sweets and ate cakes at work. now feel poo and so did not go to the gym

so far in june i had 4 sfd before i went on holiday and 7 sfd whilst i was away (came in under budget- got 45 euros left) no sfd since back as food shop sun, bought eggs yest (prefer colleagues eggs to supermarket) and then sweets today as long as i dont need to do any work journeys (then will need petrol) i am hoping for sfd tomorrow and thur

going to open the 5% nationwide account tonight cant believe i still have not had the bill from the electrician- was 22 may he did the work! o well its more interest for me!