NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

weesmiler

candygirl wrote: »

When you due WEESMILER?:D I've had a bit of a spendy day today, but managed to get DGD'S birthday prezzies, a smelly candle, jar of coffee, pancake mix n golden syrup, for £29:DDid well cos one of her prezzies had a tenner off:j

Hi candygirl,

I'm due on 16th June, 18 weeks to go :eek:

candygirl

weesmiler wrote: »

Hi candygirl,

I'm due on 16th June, 18 weeks to go :eek:

Oooh the first NBI baby! Exciting:j

pm2326

Have just cancelled mobile broadband saving £15 a month.....:D

GreyQueen

pm2326 wrote: »

Have just cancelled mobile broadband saving £15 a month.....:D

:j That's £180 a year, forever saved. You go, girl!

vulpix

I really enjoyed the charity shop shift.

Saw lots of people I knew and had a lovely time working with a most entertaining older lady.

I bought a tray.A superior metal tray I might add from the 50's I think.We needed one and it was £2.

Oh how I had to fight with myself not to buy the lovely vintage napkins with strawberries embroidered on them.They would have been an inspirational purchase to go with all my garden furniture for the garden parties that I would like to have!Maybe if they are still there next time...

Vx

purpleshoes_2

I did my tuesday reductions supermarket spend, did well, got loads of lettuce, not for me, but for my mum and her pet rabbit, my mum will have some, rabbit will have loads.

That was all I spent today, just over 7 quid and got 20 items for that. Actually no, a pair of leggings for 99p which I wore to bootcamp tonight.

I also put a few more things on ebay. Gave my mum some coloured paper and some crayons, she'll use them at work, handed in a few items to the charity shop.

Ethical shopping is big on my agenda as well, Im really not comfortable buying in shops where workers are paid a pittance to make clothes, the problem is, so many shops aren't ethical. If a top costs me a fiver, the person who made it wont have been paid the living wage and its also good in a way that I really don't have a budget for clothes anymore and nor do I need any new. I still wear stuff I bought ten years to go on holiday with, last year when I went to spain I needed nothing new, not one thing and its the same this year. Id be lying if I said I live a totally ethical life, I absolutely don't, but I try my best to make positive choices, in the same way I wont wear make up or perfume or household products that have been animal tested, I really try my best to get as much of my clothing second hand. Plus the barnardos 99p shop has saved me a bomb, some of the workout stuff Ive bought there would have been 30 quid plus new. I actually bought workout wear from a company called gossypium around 5 years ago, ethical company. I had about 10 pairs and I wore them until they were literally hanging off my backside (I was teaching lots of classes back then), cost 20 quid a pair but I loved them. Natural collection and ethical superstore are also very ethical companies and they do lovely clothes and handbags (not that Im trying to entice people to buy)

Buying second hand suits me and as I have a charity shop that sells clothes for 99p, all fine.

Im sitting wearing a pair of nike trainers, think they cost me a fiver from the red cross shop years ago, have hardly worn them so Im wearing them now. My mum and I used to volunteer at the red cross in my home town, its closed now, she bought far too much and shes giving a lot of it back to charity, mostly clothes.

Im also giving my mum my toaster as I rarely eat bread and hers is broken.

Its my birthday on friday and this may be the first birthday in a very long time where wine is not on the menu, I have bootcamp on saturday morning and I cant do it even mildly hungover.

But hey ho, only 4 weeks today until I can have a takeaway. First since new year.

edwink

Have been managing to keep weekly shopping down to under £50 a week since joining this thread. We are really pleased with that. No longer have 2 or 3 of anything in the food cupboard now, which us great as it makes making a shopping list easier.


Have managed to get hubby to eat porridge, good man. No sprinkling sugar on it just honey or some of our homemade jam from last year!! He loves it!!! I have been eating it for years but he would never eat it!! Funny what they (men) will eat when you run out of bread!!!


Managed to get out in the garden to dig one of the veg beds over with the help of the hens. Every time my hubby pushed the fork in the ground and heaved up the soil one of the hens went in the hole only to get covered in soil. Hubby even picked one of the hens up on the spade and she just would not get off of it. She was oblivious that she was a foot off the ground in a pile of dirt. She just carried on scratching through the soil for a tasty morsel to eat!! Bless them!! We do love it when they are having fun and have no worries in the world, especially the rescue hens that have had a horrible, uncomfortable first 2 years of their lives. We open up both of our greenhouses for them in the winter so they can dust bath in the dry soil and keep themselves clean!! Happy retirement to them. That's what we say!!!


Langley is doing well but is not joining in as much as the others. She did come up to the veg patch but was weary of what was going on, We just need to give her time to fully find her little feet!! She has made friends with our little Asbo, that's Asbo as in antisocial!!! The little hen that tried to bite me and scratch me when I first picked her up. I said to my hubby "yes I'll have this one and her name is Asbo and the name just stuck. At least Langley has made a friend even though Asbo is a bit skittish and runs around the garden at 10mph and little Langley can't keep up with her.


A*di had a special on Indian meals this week and onion bhajis and samosas. Had them for supper tonight and I have to say it was actually better than our last takeaway. Two main meals, side dish and two portions of rice was £3.99 in one container with separate compartments and 8 onion bhajis and 8 samosas under a £1 each box!! Lovely birthday meal for hubbie for under £6.!! :T


Enjoyed reading the posts tonight and reading about everyone's day!!!


Keep up the good work everyone!!


Edwink x

purpleshoes_2

I hate cooked porridge, my mum loves it, she eats it with salt which is the traditional scottish way. I eat the oats raw with fruit and yogurt.

Currently having half a monster sized sweet tattie, found some apple and onion chutney in the cupboard so am having it with that

Tastes like the best dinner Ive had in ages, I dont get in till 10 on a tuesday as Im bootcamping

(but wont taste as good as the takeaway Im going to have the night bootcamp is done, one month today).

edwink

Arh!! Forgot to mention the pinch of salt!!!


Yummy!!!!


Edwink x

purpleshoes_2

This thread has been beneficial to me in so many ways

1 Im not shopping in supermarkets apart from once a week - saving money due to that, plus the, Ive been to home bargains, lets pop into aldi as its next door and drop into tesco on the way home

2 I am selling things on ebay that were in good condition but sitting in cupboards

3 I am giving away my possessions not thinking oh no, I cant let that go, but great, someone else will make use of that, thats a BIG thing for me

(all power to everyone on the marie kondo thread but I draw the line at samosaing my clothes, not for me, but am just giving it my best in my own way)

Its more than saving money, sometimes you have to realise you have more than enough and that the world wont end if you get go of stuff. I dont know how stuff became a comfort for me and Im far from being the worlds worst hoarder, but it did

Add 4, Im not replacing the stuff Im giving away

I may even be done by summer