NSK July: Back to Basic’s.

Munchin

Hi all

I missed a check in yesterday. I finally hit the shops and my grocery budget is almost gone:o. I will use July just to see what the heck I'm spending my money on and see what I can do in August.

Sending my best to all those who are having a bad time at the moment.

Check in daily: 11/31
SFD 7/15
Groceries £105.41/£110
Odd 20.95/£65
Petrol 40.01/£120
TLTW 8/19
Exercise 2/25
Illegal items (clothes/beauty/shoes): 0/0

liltdiddylilt

Hello all.

My heart goes out to those and their families afflicted by the big C. My mum has had breast cancer twice, followed by a benign tumour in her throat, and then to cap it off, cancer of the cervix & lining of her womb. She has battled through it all and won; but inspired me to get myself checked out as regularly as possible. Thanks to what she has gone through, it is pretty much an on demand service to get myself checked out, especially as I have endometriosis. Silver linings.

What a lovely thing to do with your wedding list thrifty. making a real difference to a lot of lives.

Dolly, I saw it sneak from 49lbs to 51lbs. That is highly impressive, and especially in such a short time! Well done you!!

Yesterday was not a SFD. It was for an excellent cause, however it was an illegal spend and is coming out of my food budget. My 11 year old nephew got his final primary school report. He is 5 key stages ahead of where he should be for starting secondary school, and his report glowed with words about how polite, and wonderfully nice a young man he is. I have to agree and therefore he got a little message last night with a code for £15 worth of microsoft points. I got it for £13.50 but I would happily have paid £15!! Such a special little man. I shall pop it in red next to my food spends.

Today is most definitely an NSD. My house is still in it's pyjamas. The weather is pants although warm enough. Jellytot has fallen asleep on her bedroom floor and been hauled off to her bed. Wonder what time she will go to bed tonight. She had me up for an hour and a half at 4am. Not fun.

Might pop back in later but I am going to watch a film and do my budgeting! Keep on swimming guys! xx

dolly84

Thanks liltdiddylilt.

Your poor mum having to go through all that, it just isn't fair.

It has been really hot here today, 28 degrees again, although it is supposed to rain this evening.

I have managed to get a free non stick frying pan for product testing today, I could choose whatever I wanted from the range available but this was actually needed so it seemed a wise choice.

I have just put two homemade pizzas in the oven, one pepperoni and one spicy sausage. I am totally starving, having cycled 10 miles in the heat and one part was a 25% (right number but not sure how you write it) hill, it went on and on.

thriftylass

Another spend here. Sent off most wedding invites (made our own and they were a hair width too thick so nearly a quid each to send), got some eggs to bake with DS tomorrow as it's meant to pour down all day and got hours of resh air at the beach and in playparks.

abundant1972

*Really* quick check in...

SFD bagged here... off to a mate's tonight. Had a nice lazy day...

Catch you all tommoz!!! Have a nice evening

Byebyedebthellolife

Can I join please? I know i'm late but I need motivation! I will aim for the 15 SFD £30 food spend and 12 exercise sessions (after my cold clears up)

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for the opticians (without glasses, I'd have precious little vision), for finding a fleece top to use for craft, for good coffee, for a comfy bed, for the Tour.

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Liltdiddy, what a survivor your mum must be. I'm sorry she's had it so hard - and I know only too well how this disease (probably all diseases tbh) really sap the strength of whole families, not just the person who is diagnosed. Hugs to everyone.

In money news. Secretly delighted that my guests staying tonight have rocked up, gone out to watch the footie, and are planning to be on a train traveling onward by 820 tomorrow morning. And tomorrow nights guests are leaving on the 630 am train Monday morning. I'd be sad if all my guests were just passing through but it really helps with my schedule and energy this weekend not to have to do too much hosting! And to be able to get the sheets in the wash nice and early :T

I am currently tackling a ironing mountain of bedding for next few lots of guests (though just paused for dinner - frozen bagel!) meals all wonky. Ate some of my inherited pasta sauce with pasta at about 3pm as had forgotten lunch time. Ate a lot of fairy cakes this morning. All gone a bit wrong on the eat well front! Pasta sauce advertised itself as and was VERY spicy - have put the rest of it in the freezer to be mixed with extra can of toms next time! Not sure if you should freeze the leftover bits of a jar of sauce, but its something I have always done and never died - keep a tub in the freezer and just add the last scrapings from any leftover tomato based sauces in it. It builds up like a very slow growing glacier (cos I rarel use bought sauces) then when theres enough I use it in something.

Luckily good news to offset spending today. Got DD her ticket for the festival next weekend where I am stewarding. £53 instead of the £75 I had anticipated. I am free (as is our camping) and get food vouchers, She has her eye on my vouchers, and I'll eat our grub from home I suspect...tbh that will probably suit us both pretty well!

'Discovered' £46 lurking in paypal. A sign of how distracted I've been over the last few months, not to notice it creeping up (from ebay sales). Have withdrawn £44 to my account (towards ticket) and used £2 for P&P DD birthday present (in autumn) - running vest from Special K promotion! Red will look lovely on her and is her team colours too. Also found I almost had enough to cash out £5 voucher in survey points, so did extra survey and have ordered a amazon voucher, to use for books for my kindle (which was a birthday present back in May and I am only just setting it up, despite being super excited to recieve it, its just been too busy!!).

So, overall I think I'm down £9 in illegal spends. As it wasnt a NSD I went to aldi and stocked up on cereals, washing up liquid, fruit juice, milk & butter (stocks for guests) and drain unblocker (on 50% free).

Off 2mrw to a community meal - mega street party. Inspired by the adpoints ad I was watching earlier I started with what I had a lot of in my cupboard and googled recipes. Found I have everything I need for a slightly unusual but nice looking lentil salad, and then heard it was a USA / UK themed party. Still taking my salad but instead of baking a cake from scratch, going to finally use the cornbread muffin packet mixes that I got gifted when I was working over there! Just needs an egg...which I have from my inherited stash from the lodgers last week.

So all round, feeling pretty lucky today! Hope others are as well.

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PS, welcome byebye (here too, we must stop meeting like this!) and thrifty..how annoying about your invitations width & postage limits...but..I am absolutely sure they will be treasured messages, so worth it! Exciting that they are all out!

speakingofart

Had a very productive day yesterday; cleaned the flat, went to the library and did some dissertation, then went to the pub with a friend and had dinner. So that's 2/3 outings for the month and quite a lot accomplished. Today's goal is to at least start my final writing up for my methodology, and hopefully avoid leaving the flat/ spending any money.