NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

cydney65

Well another NSD here yay. OH was ill today so she stayed in bed and I pottered. I put a bread on, made soup for tea and cut OH's hair when she woke up so no need to go to the shops. Will probably need to get those mushrooms tomorrow though as it's curry day.

No decluttering today as I didn't want to wake sleeping beauty, but I have managed to sell some baby stuff, which counts XD.

Lots to do tomorrow. Have a good evening everyone.

CydneyX

Sox77

Slowdown wrote: »

All aboard HMS NoBuy! Still recruiting so up you come.

Kind regards
Slowdown

Permission to come aboard?
Great idea and certainly something I need to aspire to, well actually I've always aspire to less stuff, I just need to stop aspiring by actually doing something about it!


I do try and buy second hand anyway as I hate the thought of landfills, but am guilty of buying lots of second hand bargains just because items are so cheap and buying stuff I don't really need or want!


I will still be buying gifts, but will cut down and will buy second hand where possible. my kids know I buy them second hand things and even the 10 year old doesn't mind... yet

dumpling wrote: »

Plus points for me is that I am a very good internet shopper in that I find the cheapest price for what I want and then always look for codes for money off. All my friends ask me to find them a bargain .
Minus points are that I'm a very good internet shopper :rotfl:. I need to find something that will replace my addiction to getting a bargain.

This could be me too Dumpling, I convince myself its such a bargain I have to have it... but I don't really. As my dad is always saying, you haven't saved anything in a sale because you've spent it!

Boomfloom wrote: »

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1. Do not buy it first time you see it...
2. If it's broken, fix it...
3. Careful with spend to save: I find knitting and sewing very expensive hobbies. I think the electricity monitors a waste of money (tho I did get mine for free). Same with spend £40 to get £5 off - it messes up my budget and shopping list.
4. Treats...

These are brilliant Boomfloom and number 3 really resonates with me, I am so drawn in buy the Spend so much to get so much off. It's ridiculous! I also bought an expensive sewing machine last year before checking how much material/thread etc was, and it remains mostly unused...

suse* wrote: »

I have trapped myself in a prison of my own making, by buying this house at the wrong time. I am finally at the point I am thinking of cutting my losses though as I am just working to over pay a mortgage in a house I don't like, just in the hope it goes up again. It is looking though more likely the price will need to drop even more to sell any time soon, as there are 4 empty houses round me already that aren't selling so the recovery is a long way from my neck of the woods.

You have my sympathy entirely, I bought a house in 2007 and realised as soon as I moved in I didn't like it. I was never happy there and eventually sold it at a £30k loss in 2011. The money still hurts to think about, but the relief when I was all moved out and it was gone was maybe worth it... well it seems so now anyway


Anyway will subscribe to this thread and read a lot to keep me motivated as I know there will be times I need it!

[Deleted User]

Thanks everyone for the support. Been so busy today.
I can't remember who suggested it but I was going to buy a diary. Someone suggested making one.
So I have.
I dont need a page a day my life's not that interesting :rotfl:.
I bought a lovely side spiralled book with perforated pages in December reduced from £4 to 30p. So I've split the book up into 4 sections and attached 4 handmade matching tabs. Now instead of a diary and separate notebook. I have a diary section (complete with a lovely matching ribbon I attached at the back so I can get straight onto the week I need easily). A second section for my wages and banking for outgoing bills and spending money the 3rd section for savings and money I put away for annual bills in an isa ie. Car insurance. The 4th section is for eBay sales and miscellaneous. All matching.... I've never made anything like this before. I felt like I was watching Blue Peter all over again.. :rotfl:
Sections of the 4parts have been written in now as from 1/1/15....
Will update later as in doing a SOA from last year atm.

Primrose

elaine241 wrote: »

Hello All,

Forgive me I have had a big spend day!

I have spent £308.99 on a new chest freezer to go in the cowshed ( redundant) thats attached to our house. I had tried freecycle, got one and it didnt work well at all as the cowshed was too cold. Doing research I realise I need one that operates down to -15. I looked around and got the best deal for the largest freezer, also free collection of huge failed freezer.
In my defence it will be used for future NSD's as it will be used for home produced veg, fruit and meat plus my obsessive compulsion to but YS bargains whenever I see them.

Anyway hope you all can forgive me!

Elaine x

No sin committed you have to speculate to accumulate and that can apply to goods as well as finances. :T. But i think there is a big issue with the modern day freezer manufacturers which they need to address because virtually none of them now are suitable for cold locations like garages, shred or outhouses which are the only places where most people have the space to store big freezers.
We have a large upright freezer about 30 years old which lives happily in our garage no matter how low the outside temperature falls. I dread it packing up because I have been unable to identify a modern replacement which will survive the same conditions

Aril

Evening:D

NSD here. Didn't bother turning out for the Park Run as it was tipping it down. Instead I've made lemon curd in the SC and supper was jacket chips made with the last few Xmas tatties, pork chops I found lurking in the freezer when I defrosted it a couple of weeks ago and the last two hg leeks which we braised in the oven at the same time.By my reckoning that is the very last of the fresh Christmas leftovers dealt with and nowt wasted:j

Today I've finished scouring the tops of my kitchen cupboards. All are now covered with old clean tea towels which can be removed and washed as needed. The larder is next. Loads more sorting out here. Now have an exact idea of what I have in stock toiletry wise. No more showergel or toothpaste needed for 3 months I reckon.

More books and clothes have been culled and a big bag of clothes will be collected early next week. The first book from the pile of doom has been excavated and is now ready to be read:rotfl:

Still unsubscribing from emails and very little is coming through now.

Have borrowed one set of knitting needles from my Mum. Need to get a pair of 2mm ones- if she doesn't have any I'll try freecycle and then the charity shops which will mean I am then in the position to start my next craft project....a knitted gargoyle [I'm a bit of a mad old bat in real life:D] for which my Mum bought me the wool for my birthday back in the Autumn. That will keep me out of trouble.

Arilx

boultdj

Between work,accidental training and being mad enough to sign up for the january challange of the 'sisterhood of the skinny jean's', I think I'm going to struggle to keep up to date with this thread, but I did keep in mind the princable's of here when I went shopping after work to Li*l and just got the oranges and musil that was on my list.

Bobarella

Aril wrote: »

Still unsubscribing from emails and very little is coming through now.
Arilx

same. My inbox is so much better now. I am unsubscribing as soon as mail comes in on my phone to make sure I do it. Trip Advisor & Pintrest took the longest to really get rid of.

nannytomany

Well just got back from Mr T just a wonder round and managed to buy 2 stew packs, chopped carrots, 4 packs of mushrooms and 4 chicken and gravy pies and a BOTTLE OF WINE all for under £5, can't be bad.

Work was busy, people still returning presents, such a shame, and then people ordering so much more, I am always seeing things I like when people return things but then immediately forget what it was that I liked so much.

Found a great charity shop that sell everything for 99p, labels or not, took a bag of handbags up there last week I must have had them for years at the top of my wardrobe, never used them, so a nice new home for them.

Islandmaid

Evening all,

Our evening meal all from Xmas leftovers

I,ve just completed my manicure - I used to spend £30 every 2 weeks to get them done, I bought a gel nail set October time including UV light box for less than £60, and have saved a fortune doing them myself £240 minus my outlay so £180 so far - of course it would have been even cheaper not to get them done at all, but a girl needs a little me time

Shep pie tomorrow from NYD LO lamb, will make double mash to have with sausages for Monday night as I,m back to work and will not want the fuss for dinner.

Am off to turn some LO wine into water now

csh_2

Well i spent £14 in B&Ms today. I only nipped in for some cleaning stuff while eldest had a job interview next door but i also bought a wee toy box for some of the overflow christmas toys. It was only £5.99 and doubles as a seat so much better than plastic storage.
Theres was loads of bargains there, loads of stuff heavily reduced that i would have previously bought but didn't need such as table mats and coasters and the like...but i have a set of table mats so resisted.

I made a start on holiday planning by printing out a map of wales and marking the areas of things i want to see, where we have already decided to stay and where we need to be on what dates so.now we just need to find a cottage for a week in South Wales and we're all set for our 16 days away.