NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

Lynplatinum

Well done Jackie O for keeping to your £40 budget!!! Hope it all lasts you a while :-)

Yes, i understand the call of the chocolate siren! Some fool signed me up for Hotel Choc0la!e e-mails and now the droolificatious stuff a
faces me when ever I open my e-mail. Yes, I know I could unsubscribe but oh ................ they look soooooo gooooood! LOL NSD for me today yea!!

weesmiler

Vala-Mal-Doran wrote: »

Hello all,

You haven't met me before, long time lurker and only half way through catching up on this thread (only another 97 pages to go )

Just wanted to say your thread has really helped me keep my purse shut and make my purchases more considered.

I have been donating to charity shops since Christmas in small bags (we walk to work in town so can only carry small amounts) and whilst I enjoy looking at the nik naks in cs I rarely 'shop' there if that makes sense..
Well today when I dropped a bag into the bhf shop I had a look for some new (more comfortable) work shoes and whilst unsuccessful, I did find a brand new pair ofm&s work trousers for £4.50 which was fab as my tosco basics pair have got a whole growing in them and whilst I'm handy with a needle and thread it's fraying rather badly.. So I'm really pleased with this find.. It also kept me from buying something chocolate related ato at lunch as id have to write down what I bought in my spending diary!!
:T
Keep up the good work!

Welcome and well done on the charity shop find. I keep a spending diary too, and when I'm tempted to buy little bits here and there, I remind myself that I won't get to write "NSD" in my diary later that night...is it really worth it?! Now and again I give in, and it's normally for cake

Happy Friday everyone, it has been a long week x

vulpix

A spending diary also keeps me on the straight and narrow.

Charity shops are difficult because you think it's only a couple of quid,but most times I don't need it.When my kids were younger they were well kitted out from the chazzer,I don't get them anything now as they like to choose their own stuff and to be honest the lads have good jobs and can afford what they like.My eldest daughter is a charity shop queen but still has more disposable income than me even as a student but she does also work in a pub.Youngest doesn't need too much she wears school uniform and is still growing.I was in the Hospice shop yesterday and was looking at some MnS trousers,they are still calling me,might go back later.:o

Commiserations to any that need them,cars etc.It throws you when unexpected things pop up.

Went to aldee last night.Spent £40.10 More than usual but lots of people for lunch on Sunday and some Eastery bits and a new washing up bowl.Yes call me spoiled.

I seem to have a cold coming on

Patchwork group this morning,not been before but this is me trying to make new friends.

Laters Vx

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Remembered last night the two things I specifically wanted but didn't get which were custard powder and garlic olive oil,but neither are vital I shall use semolina for a week or two instead, and I still have a small tot in my olive oil bottle that I shall eke out.I am definitely not going near a shop for at the very least a week if not 10 days now :) I feel like yelling out FREEDOM like Mel Gibson in the movie as I really dislike shopping anyway and only go from necessity :):)
I can always think of better things to be doing than trawing around shopping ,especially food shopping,which is why I did my big shop yesterday :):)
Today I have History club this afternoon and we are doing The Battle of Culloden, far more interesting than food shopping :):)

Just done all my banking and bill paying for the month so no more finacial stuff until the end of the month hopefully
Have a good and frugal day chums
JackieO xxx
P.S. I have some sunflower oil and lazy garlic at a pinch I could flavour the oil with the lazy garlic and strain it I suppose if I got that desperate :):):)

GreyQueen

Well, not even dressed but have well and truly broken the Not Buying It meme for today as have just paid for my annual line rental, which saves me £36 per year over paying for it by direct debit.

Going to be out and about today and if I do spend, it won't be much. I have a tormenting till-spit from Tosspots, a £3 off £20 spend which is valid until 15th but I think I shall just ignore it. I barely spend £20 in there in 6 weeks and the cupboards are well-stocked and I don't like to feel that they drag me around by the nose by offering these things. A £1 off a £10 spend would be a lot more useful to a small shopper like me.

Righty, time to get ready to face the day, it's shocking talking to strangers over the web whilst still in one's jammies, isn't it?

savingqueen

Busymumofthreeplusdog wrote: »

Why do I never learn?
Sent OH to Lodl with a list, so far so NBI, he came back with more or less everything. However instead of kidney beans etc he came back with baked beans with sausages( much to the disgust of DD, confirmed veggie!) and a £20 bottle of whisky with the excuse that we had visitors coming! (We already have a full wine rack and will be out at a do sat night!) grrrr! And these visitors always bring a bottle with them!
I'm thinking that's £20 not going to OP the mortgage and he's wondering why I'm cross! He just doesn't do self denial. We have a budget for wine but I think the whisky's just greed quite frankly...

Thoroughly hacked off busy x

Oh yes I know what you mean! I have been great sticking to NBI but am a poorly lass today and DH is working from home and is picking up "a few bits" at the supermarket. Watch this space!

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GQ tear the tosspots tillspit up or give it away:) get rid of the temptation and re the PJ I am in my nightie and dressing gown still as I have yet to venture downstairs for my fisrt cuppa :)Had a lie-in this morning ,well to be honest I woke earlier and decided to have a read in bed for a change.I am not going out until after lunch so today is a take-it-easy day.I don't have the school run this morning so I just take my time on a friday morning :):)

grunnie

JackieO I live about an hour from Culloden battlefield. It is bleak moorland with the clan markers dotted about it. Even on a sunny summer day it is a cold and chilly place. The National Trust for Scotland built a brilliant visitor centre so you can get loads of info from their website.

moments_of_sanity

Greyqueen, you are braver than me catching them, I normally get the cats to sort them out for me. No rogue crickets spotted yet but it might take them a couple of days to make their way to the living room.

I do wonder what our neighbours think of us here, I had to take DD1 to the station, as planned, so remained in my pj's only DD was running late so decided to take her breakfast with her and eat it on the way to the station......picture this if you dare....me in my Bambi pj's, unbrushed hair (I did clean my teeth before I left the house though) and DD carrying the ceramic microwave pot which is steaming from the hot wettabix she decided to have for breakfast.

Today is a NSD for me as I don't plan to get out of my pj's, the bedding has been stripped off along with the throw that we put on top and has been washed and is now hanging on the washing line to dry and the dishwasher has now finished doing it's thing.

Busymum, I can sympathise with you completely over the whisky. My DH has a tipple every evening but only likes the bourbon type so JD or Jim Beam and will think nothing of popping in to C0stco for a bottle of JD at a cost of £26 and has been known to do this twice in one month! :eek:

Picklepot

Momentous (sp?) Moment in pickle household!
Dh and i were very early for a hospital appointment so went into a garden centre to kill time. As usual dh shot up to cafe where he stood in front of the chiller and was teetering on a tantrum at the price. Announced NBI! and walked out. Yipee result.!!!