NSK July: Back to Basic’s.

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A funny, fairly MSE weekend away for us. Camped with a gang of friends (£11 for me & DD, for 2 nights!), spent £22 on communal food, but bought several items back with me for the cupboards for summer hols, spent nothing whilst at the beach (could walk from the campsite, and it was a perfect beach with no shops in sight!). Lots of exercise jumping waves and walking up cliffs. Lovely grub with lots of fresh veg from the gangs gardens (all more productive than my 3 tomato plants, it would seem..although said plants do have some flowers now!).
Sunday at DDs sports event, spent just £2 on tea to relieve hypothermia after it poured down. Saw a friend for Sunday tea as sport event was near their house (and 45 miles from home for us!) and got given a stash of veggies from their garden. Home to find our temporary lodgers had hung out (then rescued from the rain) our washing, and had stocked up on a grocery shop from M&S foodhall no less (they are getting reimbursed, so have said no need to provide food for them, in fact help ourselves to things they buy!). Feeling very lucky that they are staying with us!
Today, met up with old friends - cooked lunch at my place (used up lots of veggie leftovers and frozen YS wraps to make fahitas) then to see another friends new house. Found perfect card for them from my card stash, and a magazine I get subscribed but this month had lots of foodie articles I know they would love as a token housewarming gift, along with wine bought as a joint present from the gang I fed leftovers to at lunchtime, so they wouldn't let me contribute.

Friend we are going away for a few days with at the start of the summer has just text to say they have got us a ticket to the Eden project with their tesco vouchers which was our one expensive day out we had planned. I had saved Nectar points for the same but am now less clear what to do with them - as in use for grocery shopping or exchange for vouchers. Need to do some sums!

All in all, a very frugal few days, despite doing lovely things, lots to be very grateful for. Going into work tomorrow to negotiate some overtime for a project that has just been given the go ahead. Particularly grateful that when the junk mail comes offering me balance free transfers, I can ignore it! Got just one CC now, interest free for several months, by which point it will be gone.

Fmess

Wow crazy lady, that all sounds very MSE!! Well done you

The new puppy is called Diesel and he is a lab lurcher cross. He is doing really well apart from annoying the other dogs and chasing the cat. He seems very taken with OH!

Speaking of cats, usually when we get a new dog or when we moved house, our cat wees on everything; our bef, dogs beds, carpets, clothes etc. He hasn't done it this time, so I'm rather pleased

Spend day today on forgotten items from the weekly shop. Hoping for a week of SFDs from now on

I'm quite proud as I've turned down a social invite for later in the month It would be nice to but I don't have the funds and it's against the rules.

Also managed to avoid the tv completely today, does watching things on your laptop count?

Got a free dinner today at my volunteering group and got some lovely presents as it's my last day; even got a wedding fund money box

abundant1972

Evening...

Late night check in as just got in from a mate's...

SFD number 3 here - yeeeeha! Good work everyone with the old exercise... I'm aching all over today too. Kat - the gym I go to - everyone is henched and like 20 years younger than me... I worried at first that they would laugh at my attempts at weights - but nobody bothers and some people even say hi now! You're a lovely person... I always think those people that are meant to be in my life will be... I'm just gonna be myself.

Get well soon to all the people afflicted with flu and the like too!!!

Night! x

speakingofart

Check in for the 8th. Was almost a SFD yesterday but then had to buy milk, so I'm aiming for one today instead. My amazon payment has cleared, so the overdraft is now down to just over £600 and I'm very much looking forward to being paid next week so that I can knock another £200 off it.

NSK: hope you feel lots better soon. My gym is also full of slim, fit, tanned people if it's any consolation.

mooomin

Check in daily: 8/31
SFDs: 3/15
Food budget: £37.05/£130
Outings: 1/5
Exercise: 4/16
Illegal items (clothes/beauty/shoes): 0/0

No SFD again yesterday as I needed to post a letter to Canada - £1.28 :eek:

Hoping for one today as I don't need to buy anything and the weather is mince so I'll stay in the office and read my book at lunchtime

Laminate flooring is coming up today and then my new carpet gets fitted tomorrow. We've had the living room the same for the ten years I've lived here, so I'm chuffed to bits to finally have it all done the way I want it :j

MagicCat

Hello everyone,

Hope you're all doing well. Went to the police station to do a statement about the thefts from our house - glad it's finally done, good news is the police are looking for the thief for a few other things, so more of a priority than if it was just us, not so good news they have no idea where he may be apart from 'somewhere in Somerset'.

Spend yesterday on groceries, pleased as didn't spend too much and got a few household things like bin bags as well as food.

moomin - hooray for lovely new living room decor!:j

Today should be an SFD, working late so less oportunity to spend!

Have a good day all.

SFD 2/15
Groceries 34.40/160
Petrol 71.35/120
Exercise 7/25
House 0/25
Birthdays 5.75/25
illegal spends 4.15/0 (charity raffle tickets/goddaughter magazine)

dolly84

Kat - you shouldn't give a hoot what anyone else looks like. I think many people are put off the gym because they worry what everyone else will think but in my experience no one cares what you look like, they just do their thing and leave. If you are bothered about your skin could you try body brushing or a pair of those scrubby gloves (couple of quid in Boots) with shower gel on and just give everything a good scrub over a couple of times a week.

crazy_lady - your weekend sounds lovely.

liltdiddylilt - well done on getting a new oven sorted.

Yesterday was a SFD, school were selling raffle tickets at the Sports Day but I declined, I may buy some on Friday at the school fair. They do a bottle tombola for the fair, the kids can come in non uniform if they bring a bottle, my DD is taking a full size bottle of Jack Daniels so I think I have been generous enough there plus I have told the kids they can have £2.50 each to spend at the fair which all goes to the school.

Today will be another SFD, I have already cycled 8 miles, will walk the dog, work, then ironing this evening.

NinjaSavingKat

A late good morning from me.... my my my what an evening. I got home last night and showered, sat like a zombie infront of the Kartrashians for 30 minutes then went to bed at 1800 for 4 hours.... up for 1 hour contemplating but not giving into a major Chinese takeaway urge.... then went back to bed at 2330 and slept until 0730...

Last night I had flu like symptoms, massive sore head, achy body and no energy....

Today however I am right as rain.

Bizarre.

Wonder if that was my body's warning signal to calm down a bit..??

So I shall write more later as I REALLY need to get some work done today as I was a little worse for wear yesterday and for want of a better word - useless.

Onwards and Upwards!

P.S. Still craving a chinese

thriftylass

Kat slow down and listen to your body. Treat youself to an "illegal" spend and get that Chinese

Been busy in the house today and done a Jillian Michaels work out. The cat is going to the vet tomorrow. She went for a poo in the litter and then relieved her bladder in my son's bed. Dreading to find her (loads of hidy-holes in the house) and to get her in the box on my own tomorrow.

mooomin

thriftylass wrote: »

Dreading to find her (loads of hidy-holes in the house) and to get her in the box on my own tomorrow.

The trick with my reluctant cat is to get the cat box out the night before. I leave it open and line it with a nice fleecy blanket. I add a cat treat or two.

I then entirely ignore it when he goes anywhere near it.

More than half the time, when it's time for the vet he's asleep in the box and all I have to do is put the lid on