NST December Challenge - Festive and Frugal

Cherry_Burton

Hip hip hooray, I finally managed a SFD today! So at last I managed to keep my purse closed for once, that make's 1/10. I'm hoping for another one tomorrow as I don't need any groceries and I have things in the fridge/freezer for lunch and tea.

Fmess

Sazzlebgood that is brilliant news about your daughter

Today was a spendy day and didn't do LTW as it was Christmas dinner day Not much else to report except I'm already in bed as OH is being grumph at the moment and getting snapped at is putting me in a bad mood. I've retired to bed and your company instead

Did tutoring so another small payment off the debt Slow but surely...

CEW

sazzlebgood wrote: »

took dd2 to the local panto with school today, was a bit on edge as i only had 3 hrs parking and the panto seemed to go on forever.Got out in time though. trip to MR S £24.66 as OH had forgot to get the chicken (did get other things) out the freezer and chicken curry was promised to DD2 for doing so well with her physio. STOOD UP ON HER OWN TODAY . Nearly cried as she has never been able to do this independently (she's nine). Trying her at school for a couple of hours tomorrow but will be on standby if needed. Fingers crossed.

What a lovely Christmas present for you all. I nearly cried myself. You must all be so pleased. I know she probably has a long way to go still but little steps :T

Today was most definitely NOT a SFD for me as I finally stRted my Christmas shopping. 9 presents completed and a couple more part done. Some parcels will arrive tomorrow thanks to a free trial of Amazon Prime which I will cancel just after Christmas :money:

25% of the shopping completed but still a way to go. Next year I will be more organised.

Just lost 3 posts in a row so off to bed before I lose this one too.

Night all

Chez x

liltdiddylilt

Samiszel fantastic news for you just before Christmas with DD. Bless her she sounds like a strong little trooper.

Mr S have cut the price of 'my' bread from £1.45 to £1 to match Mr A!! :j So £3 spent on 2 loaves and 4 pints. It shall last until Sunday hopefully, maybe Monday. SO aiming for SFDs x5 in the next 5 days! Also got Jelly a much reduced wooden alphabet puzzle with real solid wooden lower case letters. Less than half price, less than £5. Perfect for Nursery Santa.

Night all xx

stewby

Hello hello.


I would call it a lazy day but it has actually been quite busy. I had to finish unpacking, wash all my dirty stuff then found that OH hadn't done any washing whilst I was away so four loads later...
:eek:

Anyways... spent the afternoon with my mum. Spend-free day had so that is now six out of fifteen!!
:j

Important news is that the workers have come to create my drive today which is awesome!! Very excited to see as I can't wait to get our campervan back home!!

vintagebrighton

Evening all

Read through all the posts to catch up and promised myself I must do a post before I go to bed!

Congratulations on all the challenges overcome, sofa's, shopping, dd's et all

Donation done, another NSD in the bag but not much else to report. Still not done any listing but have arranged one outing for next week (budgeted for of course)

Night all

VB x

Synonymous

Hello everyone, well done to everyone who is being frugal, even the splurge on clothes was in a charity shop so still very MSE And congratulations to strong, brave DDs and their mums, who are an inspiration to us all.

Today was thankfully an NSD for me as I had a coffee meeting but was treated as I was offering advice. LTW and WTW, and was also treated to a lift home which was lovely. This was certainly a good deed - meeting a stranger to offer advice although I'm up to my eyeballs in work at the moment, I think it was a big help to her.

Freezing and blowing a gale here so already tucked up in bed in thermals, onesie and dressing gown, and a fleece wrapped round my head, if only the bf was here, this sexy outfit is going to waste Night All.

Wanna_Bee_Free

Morning all,
I took lunch to work much more often, managed yesterday, Monday, Friday and Thursday. I am not at home this morning so I will need to buy my lunch today. My non-spending days were Thursday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday so I'm up to 5/15 so far. I still have Christmas gifts to buy but am feeling very pleased that I joined in on here as it's making a big difference. I'm surprised how much more money is in my purse if I make lunch and take it in each day.
WtW 100% so far since month start.
Now if I could just exist on nowt for the rest of the month I'll still be debt free!
Have a good day turtles

kaspadoc

Been MIA again keeping on with the mse things though :j

In the big smoke for a few days on a very tight budget - job interview tomorrow :eek:

Today - I'm travelling with an Oyster Card to save on tubes, using free WiFi and drinking free coffee. I've also been and bought food for my l/d to avoid the temptation of eating out.

Hope everyone's festive frugality is going well :j

Kaspadoc

vintagebrighton

Oooh, good luck for tomorrow Kaspadoc, let us know how you get on

Spends today but all budgeted for. Vitamin's 3 for 2 at B**ts and double points. Have £8 now which I'll use when I need handcream or something. One more pressie too so £87 left for Christmas shopping which should be plenty. A couple of bits of food but that was out of the shopping jar ~ nothing left till the weekend when the last £22 will go in to do till Friday 19th.

Also bought a new duvet for spare which wasn't budgeted for. Was on offer though and needed. Sains sent an email offer, if you use 500 points at Argos they'll give you 1000 back, so result I think :T

Nothing else to report on the challenge front, still not listed anything or made any extra pennies!

VB x