The 'Gone Racing' Jolly June NSD Challenge at Royal Ascot

The_Only_Girl

marmiterulesok wrote: »

These things do happen.It's not always easy to plan ahead,especially if you're a family,and not on your own.

:money: to your 2nd LTW!

PS A lot of us don't count grocery spends if you stay within budget.

I definitely stayed within budget. I had £24 in my wallet allocated for the aldee shop and when I got to the cashier, I asked her to let me know when I am near that amount so I can decide what to keep and what to ditch. I spent £24 not a penny less nor a penny more. Pre-MSE, I would probably have walked out of the shop with £60 worth of shopping or maybe more. Now that I do grocery shopping with cash and not with my debit card, I feel so much better sticking to my guns and having to let go of some of my wants than when I gave in to instant gratification.

cw18

marmiterulesok wrote: »

PS A lot of us don't count grocery spends if you stay within budget.

I don't count groceries as long as I'm not buying "junk" food (sweets, cakes, biscuits, crisps, fizzy pop, ice cream, puddings etc. Tinned fruit in juice isn't classed as 'junk' even though I do class it as a pudding, as I prefer it to fresh fruit which I wouldn't count.). But I do have a 'work around', as I don't count the ingredients as junk, so if I make my own cakes and puddings I don't lose NSDs. However I don't often feel like I have the energy to make them, so it means I'm cutting back on junk

I also don't count petrol as I car-share with DS1 and have very little control over how much he's going to use - so it's nigh on impossible to plan ahead to make sure fill-ups happen on days that I know won't be NSDs like I used to.......

scotmumof3

Evening peeps :wave: NSD #1 making it's way to the cauldron today I nearly gave in and bought a bar of chocolate but managed to talk my way out of it :T. Sometimes work just sucks but never mind I didn't lose me my NSD over it

gothrockchic1

Hello

NSD No 2 for me today.

See you tomorrow!

Aphidgirl

Off the blocks with NSD 1 today :beer:

slowlyfading

NSD 2 for me today

Siebrie

Nsd2 has happened today.

Nargleblast

And we're off......number 1 NSD caught and saddled up and ready to trot into the Cauldron of Doom! Is it just me or was the whole MSE site playing silly boogers today? I couldn't get onto any page at all!

cw18

Not just you. Loads and loads of page unavailable messages here - a right royal pain in the proverbial, as I was trying to do all my change of month reporting in :eek:

Yesterday (1st) was a spend day - direct debits galore, and I picked up a new permanent marker from B'n'M as my old one is starting to complain at times
Today (2nd) was NSD #1

Gem-gem

started off the month well with 2 x NSD.
Yipee!