NST Challenge - Spring is here!

mothernerd

Just made SFD number 15. Been MIA as internet has been rubbish. Not sure what I have done other than breaking up an old fence panel and went to get the bins today and spent another hour in the garden.

Love the new challenge applemuncher but not sure if I will join or just cheer from the sidelines. I need to do one or two things differently this month and once again am starting the month without enough to cover food and bills let alone extras. Not giving up yet.

Reviewing this month I have spent a lot on rubbish. Think my plan of using up what was in the freezer has backfired - there wasn't enough variety and some meals were a bit bland, resulted in too many 'treats' to compensate. Need to allow for more salad things and healthy treats in this month's budget. May include a couple of unhealthy items too - I keep getting cravings for weird things (stuff I haven't had for a year or two) but would save money by having them bought in frozen rather than paying shop prices (it's steak puddings and chicken pasties, can buy identical products from the polar bear shop much cheaper than the chippie).

Today I am grateful for visitors going home (and promising to take DS3 for a few days next month), for music and books (no internet meant no tv, no games, no you lot) and for DS3 (gave him the contact details for the internet people - phone wasn't working when I tried the other day - and after sighing a bit he has spent ages on the phone talking through solutions with the tech advisor,kept going even though they got cut off six times).

apple_muncher

mothernerd - please do join us in May, even if you sit on the sidelines. It would be good to have you along x

Calling14

Lilt - Fitbit sounds great way to stay fit and healthy. Could be given a royal pardon off the naughty step for that.:j

Fmess thanks for running this months challenge. Up to 16 sfd today so something has worked:T:T:T

Mothernerd - stick with us turtles, starting to worry if we don't get regular ivy updates.:rotfl: We need every turtle on board, is it me or are we declining in numbers.

Kat - saw on facebook the other day off to Australia next and I am still fighting this debt.

Thanks Fmess and Lilt feel better after tummy upset. Roll on a lovely long weekend.

Acamedia 9.50 it is madness, luckily I go to kids cinema sat/ sunday mornings under 2 pounds or a small local one, films a few weeks later coming round for a fiver and popcorn only a pound.

Catch up with you all on the May thread. Expect you all now:rotfl:

Synonymous

Hi guys, is there an Aldi voucher today? Do you know which paper it is (in England) - new to all this and never buy papers!

Thanks

CEW

Synonymous wrote: »

Hi guys, is there an Aldi voucher today? Do you know which paper it is (in England) - new to all this and never buy papers!

Thanks

If there is a voucher it will be in the Daily Mirror. It is usually the 4th Thursday in the month but there was not one last week so they may have delayed it to cover the Bank Holiday.

Just going out for a walk so will check to see if it is in the paper and will update later.

Chez x

CEW

Sorry, local shop had sold out of the Mirror and didn't manage to get to another shop so I can't. Confirm if the voucher was today or not.

Chez x

liltdiddylilt

Evening everyone

First of all... thanks fmess for the fab challenge. I appreciate it a lot after my spendy month last month. I've had hurdles but I have done well overall

Now, to my month. I have way overspent on groceries. This is fine, I had to restock my entire fridge until it was groaning with foods I can *now* eat. Mainly green veg, meat and fish it would seem. With bulletproof coffee if you have ever heard of such a thing :eek:

Everything else came in fine within budget. birthdays were much cheaper than expected because so much was bought by others for Jellytot that my share of our birthday gift to her was around £12 :rotfl:

Looking forward to my new diet plan, courtesy of a $2.50 (£1.67) spend today and am off to spend the evening reading it and working out costs for next months groceries

Not a SFD due to aforementioned little spend. As apple knows, when I spend, I spend big, so this is actually a very good day xxx

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful I got plenty of admin done, for lovely chats with pupils, for fresh air, for padlovks, for apple blossom.

So we reach the end of April. 1 month ago I was in Texas! Thak you fmess for the challenge.

Samiszel

Thank you for this months challenge, Fmess :T

Fmess

calling - I too have noticed that the numbers are dwindling


I checked in the shops for the Ald! voucher but couldn't find it anywhere Maybe they've stopped them!!!!


Today has been an unexpected SFD, I was going to buy the paper for the voucher but as it wasn't there, I didn't spend LTW also and another tutoring session completed Bring on the 3 day weekend