NST August - AB's Amazingly Aware August Challenge

Bobarella

The Only Girl - I am so pleased for you lovely lady. You have moved mountains to get to this day. I really hope you enjoy the feeling for weeks to come. And glad you are not leaving us just yet either. Wonderful news to start a very grey torrential raining Monday!

apple_muncher

Yippee!! CONGRATULATIONS the only girl + hubby + boys! A fantastic team effort! :T:T:T

dolly84

TOG - a massive well done to you, you must feel like you are walking on air.

dolly84

It's raining here which is a shame. Me and DD are doing a riding demonstration thing today but it is after lunch and will have hopefully stopped by then.

Yesterday was a spendy day, we had to buy a new mouth guard for DD as we had totally melted the first one. The first was a childs size (woman in uniform shop gave us it and I never checked) so we bought an adult one and trimmed it down then moulded it, it is reasonable for what she needs - £3.49 spent there. Then we bought her shin pads, she had some of her brothers but they seemed really small so another £5.99 there.

I have sold a clothes bundle on ebay last night - only £5.84 after fees and postage but it almost pays for the shin pads.

Thank you academia for this month's challenge - see you all next month.

academiablues

Hi all! Thank you so much for doing the challenge with me this month, you're a fantastic bunch of people and are all working so hard towards your goals, it's really inspiring to see.
TOG - how wonderful! :j You've worked so hard for this, and it's very much deserved. I hope you'll continue to do these challenges now you're debt free, we'd miss you
Today is my wedding anniversary (two years) - OH is cooking, so if I'm not in September's challenge it's due to the food poisoning! :rotfl: hope everyone has a lovely last day of August and I'll see you on the other side hopefully!!

The_Only_Girl

Thank you all for your kind words. It is a great feeling to be debt free, a massive weight has been lifted, although it is accompanied by an atmosphere of caution because we do not want to end up in that ugly situation that we were in again.

And.... I will definitely stay with this wonderful bale (just learned that this morning - a group of turtles is called a bale). I'd feel lost without your inspirational experiences.

We were planning to go back to the car boot to sell our unsold items from last time but the weather forecast is not car boot selling weather ☔️ so we decided to just chill. Went to bed with a migraine and woke up with it as well. Hubby is so sweet though, he gave me breakfast in bed, with an order to stay in bed til it's time to get ready for work at 3pm. (Perks of marrying a nurse).

Happy anniversary to you and your hubby academia. Here's wishing you many more happy years together. Thumbs up to your hubby for cooking on your special day!

:T on your eBay sales dolly. I have a few items to list as well.

Enjoy your bank holiday fellow turtles!

WelshKitty85

Hi everyone!

Sorry I've been absent for a few days. Real life took over!

Well done TOG!!!!!

Thank you for the challenge academia!

I'm sorry to say that I have blown the budget over the last few days. A colleague's leaving do and DHs birthday have cost me over £100 between them.

On a positive note, I have cleared the spending credit card and am ready to start a new month.

dolly84

Happy Anniversary academia.

Well riding in the rain done and £1 spent on a hotdog which me and DD shared. The car has been filled up with diesel so £43/£85 spent there also bought a carton of milk and weirdly received a £1.63 price match coupon when we only spent £1.

Fmess

Happy anniversary academia

Congratulations the only girl

Sorry for my absence for the last third of the challenge. I got an opportunity which was too good to be missed and have spent 10 days in the sunshine on a cruise!!! Don't worry, it was very MSE as I have a relative who works onboard and I pretty much got a free holiday (all food and transport included) and just paid for drinks and the odd upgraded meal! It was completely surreal and lovely to have a break, but its also lovely to be home with my boys again.

Hope you've all had a good couple of weeks and see you in September!! (where has this year gone?)

apple_muncher

Fmess - how wonderful! So glad it happened and was so lovely. You deserved a treat like that!