NSK; The August Fairwell

NinjaSavingKat

Just found another £3.93 on my TopCashBack page.. which is now £5.46 in my current account (Forgot about £1.53 in there).... I feel ALIVE I tell you .. ALIVE.

There is something about trying real hard with those pennies that is entirely satisfying.

And apparently porridge around lunchtime at work is "weird".

Don't care!

karmachilovething

I go away for a few days and come back to find I'm a turtle! Sounds like an excellent plan to me, and definitely happy to lead one month.


Lilt so impressed that you save so much on so little, you put me to shame


Abundant, since I know you're a fan of self-help lit, I was reading somewhere that internal scripts/fear of the unknown can trigger self sabotage once you get near a goal you've been working towards. Might explain some of your feelings being so close to you DFD.


Little to report here: another SFD bagged, two more exercise chunks last week. A small grocery shop today. Plugging along, and the bank account looking reasonably healthy for this point in the month. Feeling quite in control of it all right now.


Trying to get onto Orange/EE-Wednesdays vouchers, as I'm entitled due to my broadband service. Problem is they need to know my landline number. My handset is still in a box somewhere, so the question is do I go digging around to find it tonight, or just give in and sign up later?! I know what Kat would say, but I won't get the living room painting finished if I spend the evening unpacking random boxes!


[Is anybody else having difficulty with the emojis? They don't seem to want to join me on my messages recently!]

MagicCat

Hello all,

Lilt, I'm so very sorry to hear about your brother, I hope you and your family are managing OK and he is doing as well as he can. And (on a lesser level of stressful life things!) how weird about the broadband, I had no idea that could happen!

Mothernerd - you are amazing, I love the turtle back story! :j

Like a lot of others, I seem to have spent an awful lot of my grocery budget considering we're only 11 days into the month...have stocked up on quite a lot though, so the rest of the month should (hopefully) be lower. Not doing very well with NSDs either - had a hospital appointment today so had to pay parking and yesterday we had a really busy day doing lots of house fixing type stuff, so got a takeaway Feeling very guilty now.:( Ordered OH's birthday present online as well.

I weighed on Friday and had lost 1lb! Really not much, but at least it wasn't a gain like it's been almost every week since June...I hope it wasn't all the blood donation.:eek:


SFD – 2/12
Groceries 149.66/£190 (0/£20 buffer)
Petrol/parking 44.05/£90
Personal (prescription/toiletries etc) 9.68/£12
House 14.17/£25
Birthdays 69.50/£130
Car (MOT/insurance/breakdown) 0/£550
Social 30.50/£40
Dentist 15/£20
Exercise 8/25 Steps 66167/186000

Siouxsie32

Hey everyone Wow, lots going on - hope everyone's well!!

So, yesterday was a planned spend day...£19.02 on food, plus the very thing i went shopping for (Spider Stopper spray from Lakeland - it's an essential purchase to keep my sanity intact before we hit September mating season!!!) was out of stock. Rather than use up another SFD to buy it when it came back in stock, I cleverly ordered it (and paid) online yesterday and I've to pick it up tomorrow! I went mad and bought two bottles so that's £9.98 out of my misc budget and tomorrow will be spent cleaning, spraying and not spending!

Got a decent amount of food for my money, but I definitely need to get back to the batch cooking again - short of time and short of kitchen space! I take porridge and almond milk to work regularly Kat...if your colleagues think you're weird, they should watch my concoction of fruit, cacao nibs, cinnamon, chia seeds, hemp and maple syrup! Sometimes it looks so yummy I take a photo of it - now THAT's weird!!! But it's yummy

Oh, I also had a naughty spend yesterday - I left it too long between meals and had a thumping headache so I bought an espresso and some chocolate! Bad Siouxsie, but it stopped the headache in it's tracks so it was kinda worth it! That's another few £££ out of my misc budget!

Oh heck, while I'm confessing, I also bought a book from Amazon. I had some money left in my Amazon account, so it only cost me £2.02 in real money and it's a book I've been after for a while. I've learned from experience that I'm rubbish at library borrowing...book returning to be more precise. £2.02 for a book I can keep and not get fined for returning late is well worth it in my eyes!

Enough of the spending news - one of my ebay listings sold last night! I made the huge sum of £11.48 after fees and postage so I'm not complaining. I relisted everything else so maybe I'll have better luck this week? I also added a few more items this week too, although I still have to add photos (washed the clothes last night so I'll get ironing and photographing when I get home).

MrsGSR

Hi everyone *waves* sad that this is the farewell challenge and that NSK will be soon off on new adventures but my question is... Has she handed the reins on? I wanted to start again in September!

speakingofart

Checking in on this rainy monday - managed not to get blown away when I went outside for some exercise...

SFD 7/12
Exercise 5/16
Food £43.59/ £80 (till 15th August)
Petrol £20/£20

apple_muncher

Lilt, hope your brother makes a full recovery.

My spend confession today is a Monopoly set from a charity shop - for the princely sum of £1. Dd and I played all week when we were away together, but at £12-£16 new, I wasn't going to buy a new one! So we went to the local c shops with a mission today and were fortunate enough to find one - but only because I asked if they had one out the back. It's an old-style one, but doesn't look like it has ever been played with. Bargain!

On the free side, dd and I went blackberrying together and got a load. I've made her some tarts and I'll freeze the rest of the stewed fruit for winter crumbles.

Thank you mothernerd for taking on September. It's tough to be the first one to follow in kat's footsteps, so thank you for leading the way.

Today I am grateful for the lovely ladies in the charity shop who trawled through the stuff to find the Monopoly for us - and then wanted so little money for it, for blackberries being free food, for time spend pottering with dd, for my sewing machine, for all 6 buses coming quickly today as we were definitely not dressed for the weather!

TiptoesDB

Happy Monday Turtles!!

SFD here, tough day at work and resisted the vending machines and the call of Waitrose at lunch - the things that usually grab me when I am low. No exercise as Monday is rest day. Feeling very tired and flat this evening, but curled up with my book, DH and the cats so no complaints.

I am really excited about the blackberry season starting here. Last September DH and I got so much free food in the village and countryside beyond - apples and plums left out in baskets by those with fruit trees, loads of blackberries from the bushes and all the overflow from the nearby allotments that the kind people leave out for free - I am looking forward to that again!

Enjoy the giant moon tonight turtles - free ecotherapy!
x

L_D

Evening folks,

Lilt, I hope your brother is on the mend soon.

I'm a big fan of the spider stop spray too Siouxsie, it's a life saver and worth every penny!

Quick check in to report a SFD and an exercise day today. No weight loss though, put on 2lb!!! I'm pretending its muscle.

SFD 2/12
Exercise 6/16
Food £36.66/£100
Petrol £25/£50
eBay 2/20
Weight lost 0/4lbs

mothernerd

lilt wishing your brother a speed y recovery.

NSD and I have done the selling part of the challenge - sold 70 dvds and cds to music magpie for the grand total of £38.38. They have given us a lot of pleasure over the years and now they are only keeping the cupboard warm. may try again in a couple of weeks as there are still some left. 29 to go to the cs and de-junked a few broken things so my de-clutter total is going up.

I think I am on a win win in September. If I am rubbish you will all think it's just in comparison to Kat and you will be fighting over October because whoever follows me will also look great.

crazylady you beat me to it. Going to do it anyway. Today I am grateful for my leg (poor injured much maligned thing). I may have to wait but I live in a country where I have access to doctors, other specialists such as physiotherapists and radiographers when I need them. This isn't dependent on whether I have health insurance and I won't have to take out loans that would leave me penniless for the rest of my life in order to have the treatment I need.

My life is going to be different, I have to stop and think if I drop something on the floor and moving house has suddenly become a logistical nightmare. When arthritis was mentioned in the numerous question and answer sessions I have been through recently I said no out loud but in my head I was 'that's an old person thing' (although there are some forms that affect children). In my head I am still 24 (probably why I get a shock when I see my reflection in a shop window).

I may never be able to go hill-walking again but this isn't the end. My mother told DS2 that I was not going to get better. Well arthritis is for life not just for Christmas but that doesn't mean that this, here and now is all there is. I will re-build my life, there are limitations but I will work out how to do things.

So for now I am grateful for my injury, for this enforced period of reflection, re-assessment and re-adjustment. The wild sex will have to be put on hold.