NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

maddiemay

Hi everyone, I would like to join in please if there is room, I have been reading along since the beginning.

I live in a small market town, generally a prosperous area with an Aldi, a small Tesco , One stop and Co Op, no discount stores, Wilko £1 shop or the like. I support local traders as much as possible, but budget will not run to buying all the staples like tea, coffee, tinned goods, sugar etc. from the deli's or the health food shops, we have market 3 times a week, but being inland and not in a veg producing area all the fruit and veg is so expensive, no bargains to be found here:( at the end of the summer in lovely little greengrocers 8 or 9 cherry toms, half a cu and a weeny piece of broccoli cost more than £3:eek:bigger SMs are a round trip of 52 miles minimum away. I have a very comprehensive store of foodstuffs, everything gets used, I hate waste, but in the short term it would be good to run my stocks down, particularly as I may need to become GF (awaiting test results:()

This may not be relevant to many, or indeed anyone here at all, but I note quite a few ship mates have Fibromyalgia or ME, MS, I have Pernicious Anaemia (a B12 deficiency which cannot be corrected by diet or tablets), on the support group that I belong to an increasing number of people are now finding that they are B12 deficient and probably do not have the aforementioned conditions that many have been diagnosed with for many years and now they are receiving B12 by injection, may be worthy of investigation.:)

Happy New Year:)

nursemaggie

Why is it after reading 4 pages I have forgotten who said what. If it was a real ship I would be hanging over the side being sick too.

Someone went to bed very very early not well get well soon and anyone else who is not feeling well.

There are so many of us over weight I hope we will not sink the ship.

Wishing you all a Happy New Year. Time to get on board we sail in half an hour.

katkin

Ahoy Captain Slowdown & Shipmates!

Wishing you all a Happy No Buying it New Year: 2015

See you all on board

This is us all heading off at first light - the consumer pirates flotilla

pixiedust09

Can I jump aboard please . I've been lurking for a few days and have read from about page 40 onwards, and have picked up some sound advice here. My shopping habits have gotten out of control for the past couple of months, mainly due to lack of time and organisation, but this is something I need to rectify in 2015. It's been a pretty horrible 2014, so let's hope 2015 is a good one. Happy New Year folks! :beer:

1of3

Here we go!!!

Happy New Year-Not Buying it 2015 has arrived

Thistle-down

I am cheerfully enjoying everyone else's fireworks from the comfort of our flat window. Some people spent a fortune on them, glad it wasn't me!

Ches

And we're off. Happy New Year.

ScaryGreen

OK, so I've been reading parts of this thread and i get the whole 'not buying it'.

I'm trying to work out how the no SM is going to work for me and I don't think it will however by thinking it through a bit more I can see why a weekly online shop (with all delivery's for £6 a month) and using the local market for fruit, veg and meat and the newly opened bakery is the most cost effective option.

This is because I'm self employed and bill my customers by the hour therefore if I'm shopping I'm not earning. I also have a toddler whose bedtime coincides with the best YS times. By doing an online shop I am fully in control of what I spend and the trolley gets amended until I'm only buying what is needed for the week.

tori.k

ScaryGreen wrote: »

OK, so I've been reading parts of this thread and i get the whole 'not buying it'.

I'm trying to work out how the no SM is going to work for me and I don't think it will

It wouldn't for us either, "Not buying it" gain is subjective the appeal for me is the the amount of time I will get back, I feel our possessions are definitely owning me rather then me them due to the shear amount of time it take clean it or shuffle one pile to another around the house (usually for it to end up back at the start) I want my freedom back so for me shopping will take on a military approach make a list get in then out ASAP if I can get something on my list reduced it a bonus but im doing away with the reduced bargains that usually end up being rehomed in the freezer for months. TBH I don't wish an alternative place to buy stuff I just don't want the stuff in the first place

black_cat

Happy New Year to everyone on the best MSE thread ever! :beer: