NSK; The August Fairwell

liltdiddylilt

Hello everyone. Sorry for absence yesterday. Must do better with the 2nd of the month

SFD #2/12 today
Groceries have rocketed already this month and I am feeling a bit panicky. £49.51/£130.
To stop myself panicking so much and to force creativity and steadier thinking in general, I emptied all of my food cupboards onto the kitchen floor and sat happily making lists (:rotfl: Loveadove another list appreciation society member here) of everything I have. The upshot is that I shouldn't need to buy any dry goods other than herbs & spices for the next 3 years.... :D:D:D

I meal planned before I went shopping, but I actually spent £4 on ready meals the night of my meal planning, as I was too exhausted to turn the meal plan into a shopping list & go to the supermarket after work Friday. I did get the cash out for the shop though, and stuck to what I had. I came home with £3.88 from £50, and bought a £15 ASDA gift card for my besties new arrival. Forgot that I had spent £6.69 the night before, and £5.50 on 480 teabags from a chap at work (which should last at least 3 months!)

I also discovered during my cupboard rummage that I have so many cake decorating bits and pieces my mum has donated/bought to make Jellytot smile (edible zebra heads etc), & all of the ingredients to make cakes for nursery teachers when jelly leaves at the end of the month. £10 budgeted towards this, saved. I am sure we can make a thank you card

No real exercise today. I did take Jellytot out for a walk, but half an hour with her is actually only about a mile bless her little legs. Cheating to call it exercise for me.

Found another couple of bits to ebay. Didn't have time to post this weekend so will have to wait til next weekend. I will download turbolister and get it done over the week ready to list at the right time.

On Friday I braved leaning out of my 1st floor window to in front of a roof full of burly men to tell our next door neighbour to stop dumping the branches from the tree he was cutting down in his garden onto 'our' garden. He glared, but started pulling them back over without a word with all the roofers whistling etc. I then rang the new managing agent and let him know about it just because I know all of the 'owners' of the building are trying to finally do something about the state of the place, and the garden and are spending money sorting these things out. Maybe that counts as a good deed. I am unlikely to get anything back from that and wasn't expecting to. Just trying to save them money removing rubbish that isn't theirs. He told me that he was going to ring a gardening company this week to come and sort out some of the garden for the owners & I had reminded him I will look for other things to do. That doesn't seem big enough!

Loveadove I have every faith in you getting a new job soon. Try and liberate some pens/pads for your lists on your way out of the current place eh

Abundant I am glad someone else bulk bought a few things. I wish I could make my brain split it down into weeks but I just can't.

Off to play with YNAB. It is shouting at me for overbudgeting to the tune of £600 or so. I have some money coming in this week! Lol.

nannygladys

Hello everybody

Just a quick post before bed. Just been working the last few days so not done much, Not spent anything either so nsd and grocery money still intact.

I'm grateful for my next door neighbour mowing the front lawn and cutting my hedge without asking, I find it too much these days and I haven't seen him to thank him yet.

My legacy is something that I can't decide on perhaps I should make a list, I'm another one who works by lists, I love crossing things off as I go along and I take my little book everywhere so I can add things as I remember them as well - so sad but it makes me happy!

So I'm off to bed as I'm in work early again tomorrow and have to get up at 4.30 so it'd good night from me and ......

Nannyg

apple_muncher

Another NSD and workout under my belt :j

Today I am grateful for finding some beads to use in my crafting, for the green at the front of our house where dd can go out and play - back garden is teeny, for cripps apples - possibly a substitute for pinklady, for stretchy fabric plasters, for getting the furniture back into dd's room - it fits!!

stewby

Wow.... hope you get the job loveadove. Is it the same post (as in has the original winner person left or is it with a different company)??


Love the reply CEW!!!!! My dad is currently complaining about his grass due to one dog... why does she always choose a different patch!! So I can only imagine how bad it is with 5 or 7.
:eek:

I love lists... use them at work, and for fun. My current thing is google maps. Free to use, hooray!! Basically, I see things on tv, in books or brochures, or that my friends and work colleagues mention that attracts my interest. So I google them on the maps thing on the internet... add a wee link to the website and tada... I have a list of places that we want to see.

Example: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=217577551513104226623.0004fce6fc8e83a65a7cc&msa=0&ll=52.816043,-1.999512&spn=7.372861,21.643066

We have come back from our weekend away. We had a lovely free trip today... headed to a distillery then on to their estate for a 6km (apparently) walk. So exercise is a massive tick for today!!
:j

Have spent money but not too bad. I spent £30 on a lovely steam train ride for us both. It was lovely and something we are going to do once debt-free (they do meals on the train which sounds amazing).
OH used his £30 to pay for us to have a meal out on the same day so we shared expenses equally.
The same with the campsite (£50) and the diesel (£50) we paid half each so again, all split down the middle. A lot of money but still below £100 each for the whole weekend which is impressive but still pretty scary.
:eek:

Shopping budget hasn't been touched and neither has the official fuel budget. (the weekend away was using other monies). So I am classing it as a kinda-win although not counting it as any spend-free days.


Today I am grateful for a loving OHs who puts up with a lot (especially from me), travel games like monopoly that cost a fiver from tescimos but it kept us well-entertained on a rainy afternoon and my parents for being such an inspiration to us... it is their 35th wedding anniversary tomorrow.
Hugs to everyone.

abundant1972

Evening everybody!!!

Had a cheeky spend here today, but only a couple of quid on milk and some chocolate for a friend No gym sessions still this month - but been on holiday!

Back to the grindstone tomorrow - but with that comes routine and so will hopefully get back into the swing of things asap.

Night all x

Fmess

Evening all,

Lost a SFD as went out to lunch with my sister. I've been moaning all week that I was home alone and so she called to say could we catch up over a pub lunch

Exercise done today - 18000 steps, 5km run, 5km on gym bike

I did a good deed yesterday but forgot to ask for it to be passed on, plus it was only a tiny favour. My neighbour is selling his car and the potential buyers weren't sure their dog would fit in, so I leant him one of mine, and they bought the car I'll find something better I think.

Night all.

dolly84

Morning guys.

Yesterday was not a SFD, oh the shame. I went to look at running shoes and ended up buying some. Mine were wearing thin on the sole and sharp stones were digging in to my feet, I got some lovely Asics ones for half price, I also bought 3 pairs of lovely running socks, they are very grippy and don't move on my feet. I went for a run yesterday and they were very comfy. I promise not to buy anything else.

DH wanted to buy a cycle carrier for the car yesterday but on closer inspection it seemed to weigh a ton and the nose weight of our cars was not suitable so that was money saved on one hand but he has now decided we need to buy a more expensive aluminium version.

DS is going to his friends house for the day so me and DD are in for some peace and quiet, unfortunately I need to work so will have to try and fit that in around doing something with her.

NinjaSavingKat

GOOD MORNING (AFTERNOON).. to you all!


Please excuse my absence over the weekend. It all started with a puncture on Friday night and a 40 minutes walk home pushing my bike. I have since repaired the holes in the inner tube ( oooh get me! ) to then wake up to the tyre still being flat - queue a slight panicked change of inner tube this morning and off I went.

Saturday was with friends and thus my first SFD. I left their house at midnight.... :rotfl:

Sunday was spent at Woburn Safari Park - pictures to follow - and was not an SFD considering I spent £5 ( yes you read that right ) on 2 ice lollies. However my friend paid the entrance fee £21.99 each so I can't complain....

I nearly caught a Lemur. You fluffy creatures lovers woulda been proud - but seriously you could only pat the goats. That was enough for me - although the monkeys on peoples cars was rather amusing....:T

So today I am sorting out my pennies - I know have £7000 in my travel fund. £1000 down from what I originally wanted in August but £1000 up from what I was expecting since the purchase of my MacBook so clearly these OT shifts and living like a hermit is paying off. I have added another unexpected £85 to the travel fund though to cover some "music" purchases as my ipod has not changed in two years , a travel dress and a unauthorized clandestine payment from my insurance company ..:o... so need to recover that money from another area.... Whoops!

I shall be back having checked out what you have all been up too...

Onwards and Upwards!!!

karmachilovething

Hello All! Shamefully this is my first check in of the month.


It was a spend-y weekend, although not hugely: groceries, petrol and a couple of sunshine beers with friends (pre-planned social). Today is my first NSD.


I'm counting two exercise days because on Saturday we painted the living room on Saturday (up and down ladders, squats and stretches for 3 hours!) and Sunday walked a fair way round town.


I'm also going to be aiming for 3 cycles to work this week, but not today; I have to go pick up an electric toothbrush from freecycle. I really want it for the charger (mine inexplicably died, and a new charger on it's own is £23, almost as much as a new brush) but if the brush is OK I might keep it at BF house as a spare.

apple_muncher

Am sooo excited as I have just sold 2 more items - £4 more in the pot! Go me!

Am also trying to use webuyb00ks but each time I input a barcode and it offers me an amount, the next time it offers me an amount, it resets the total to zero. Grrrr. Pesky site! Will persevere later...

Like Stewby, I don't have an 3bay account - not because I'd go on a spend-fest, but because I just cannot be bothered! Fees, packing, posting...! I do all that for my exam board marking, and that fulfills that particular need in me!

And anything I cannot sell, I am completely happy for the Salvation Army to have, and to benefit from.

Oh kat - what a pesky inner tube!

dolly - no shame on buying decent running shoes - you don't want to give yourself joint trouble when you're older. A sensible investment - the socks too.

Fmess - lunch with a sister is ALWAYS worth losing a NSD for, in my opinion (ducks down to hide when kat reads this...)

Gotta go and read to two 6 year olds - they are getting impatient...!