Not Buying It- A Consumer Holiday 2016

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Went to my local M&S today as they had a 'summer event' on. Basically a roped off area with a very slim elegant lady telling all the ladies sitting on rather uncomfortable seat how to'plan' your summer wardrobe

Mine is easy I just wear slightly less than I do when its cold :):) Interesting show though, and there was a free glass of fizzy stuff and free cake so whats not to enjoy when its a freebie

Wasn't keen on the colours of the stuff she was showing I'm afraid mustard isn't my colour !! or a sort of 'Bet Lynch' print either but hey ho someone must like it

I then decided as I had £8.00s worth of vouchers I would treat myself to a pair of light summer PJs, spotted a nice blue and white pair for £12.50 which with the vouchers came down to £4.50,my kind of bargain all around the store were very skinny young guys handing out free cheese cake tasters ,so not being one to want to appear rude I had a taste and very nice it was as well, but it didn't entice me into parting with just under a fiver for one as I came out of the store there was another young lady handing out free cornets so guess what another freebie:):)

Came home stuffed for free and only just managed to eat a healthy salad for dinner tonight :) no pudding though I think I have had enough sweet stuff for one day.

Enjoyed my trip out to the centre though,its not often I go there and I was pleased my total outlay today was £4.50 from my 'Happy Cash Stash' for my holiday jimjams.

Wonder how Lynplaitinum is getting on and if she has found a home yet.

Wimbledon soon and I am looking forward to that,football is getting a bit tedious now.


Cheers chums
JackieO xx

RicardaRacoon

Evening all

Blackcats, I think if we don't go to THE celebration of the year we all have enough nice clothes at hand, we just have to put them together nicely. Well done on resisting the temptation!

Happytravell, I also really love planning! We will travel the South coast, starting in Jackies part of the country and then see how far West we will get in two weeks.
Ankle is doing much better, thanks to a very expensive but apparently also very efficient cream I put on it.

Jackie, looks like you had a fab day for very little money and a lot of nice things to eat too.

Guess what, after talking about just how few clothes I have bought so far this year I had to replace my second pair of jeans and spend 8 precious clothes points. So 30 gone, 70 still here so I guess I will buy a summer dress and maybe sew a blouse and then there is enough left for some winter stuff. I'm really curious how my little challenge will turn out and if I go over points...

Will now watch a little bit of telly and see if I can finish the first sleeve on my cardigan. I'm still a bit worried that I might not have enough yarn... Might need another ball... I guess yarn will be my downfall in July, since I plan to go to two of my favourite yarn shops on our trip and my mother goes to her favourite yarn shop while I'm away and will have to buy some yarn for me too as a friend of mine will have a baby and I want to knit a baby blanket with the same yarn I used for my cardigan (different colour though) Should I find an even nicer yarn on holiday I can always use the other yarn for another jumper or cardigan for myself and a hat or two for charity from the left overs.

Have a nice evening everyone

Margaret54

JackieO glad you had a nice day out without spending much My kind of day I worked hard in the garden today and later picked some lovely sweetpea flowers for indoors. The scent is so lovely. That made me feel happy and now I am in my jammies after a bath and relaxing on here with all of you lovely like minded people:)

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Just paid a large chunk of money out for the balance for our holiday,but its budgeted and saved for in advance so not too bad .
No more spends to be done for this year hopefully as my TV is got ,and I love it roll on Wimbledon :):)
Hope you all have a pleasant weekend and the sun shines down on you(nowhere to be seen at the moment in Kent )

Cheers chums
JackieO xx

Margaret54

Hi everyone Having a restful day today. Dh is working and won't be home until about 7pm. I have the washing out since early this morning, and have a little ironing to do later but not waiting on anything so may leave it until tomorrow. I also tear up old stuff for cleaning cloths, always have done, and it saves money as they can be thrown into the washing machine. I must pop into the Tourist Board to see if my dh and I can have a nice day out, something we have not done in a while. I have only bought new pots and plants for the garden and they are important to us as we enjoy it and it will add some colour to it at the front. We also have bought some more clothes for our little Grandson (2 and a half) but other than that we are NBI I am really enjoying reading here and to find like minded folks is lovely as I have no such people in the real world that I know :)of. Thank you for the tips to

Happytravelling

So this week I have dived into the sea of consumerism and loved it! :eek: Let me explain....

When I was 4, my mum had my sister and I remember my gran taking me into town to buy her a gift- a soft white rabbit and a rattle in a boxed set. Its a memory that means a lot.

My sister has a 4 year old and baby no 2 arrived this week and I wanted my niece to have the opportunity for a special memory that marks the arrival of her sister. We had a lovely little potter around a shopping village. She didn't see any toys she liked so instead I suggested and she chose a helium balloon to welcome baby (plus one for herself- well, she is only 4!) and a photo frame for mummy. Then we had some lunch out And bless her, she insisted on saving half her cookie for her sister! She was so well behaved, which is noteworthy because she is notoriously tricky to take out for meals- its like she has ants in her pants and won't sit still, and we had a nosey in the pet shop, book shop, and shoe shop and generally had a lovely time together.

Anyway, it was a lovely and special day. I hope some part of it sticks in her long term memory and she can cherish it like I do my memory

nursemaggie

Oh that was nice Happytravelling.

Bathory

Hello, Hope everyone is ok? Just checking in to say not much has gone on here since I last posted but have had a stressed couple of weeks with OH being poorly. He is now on the mend but had to go for tests for one thing and another.

I've not bought much apart from food and keeping up stockpiles of certain items (mainly teabags as I hate being low on them more than anything). We are also going to have to either buy or hire a water pump as water has been seeping in somehow under the crawlspace of the house and gone stagnant.

I've just had a bath using some shower gel that was given to me and now smell like a vat of fruit salad mixed with candyfloss on steroids - it was so horrendously sweet!!! It will get used somehow.

Its been raining all day but is now clearing up and a nearby robin has been singing earlier this evening which is always a delight to listen to.

Happytravelling

Gosh Bathory, sounds like everything is happening at once! Glad that your OH is on the mend though. Hope you can get your water problem sorted too.

It was my birthday last week and I really was spoiled! Lovely Aussie shampoo and conditioner that I won't shell out for myself :rotfl:, not one but TWO board games :j (and I have found a new participant/ victim to play), a couple of lovely bottles of red wine- very disciplined, not touched yet!- and chocolates from the one and only hotel chocolat , which I want to open but I don't want to use up, so I've not opened those yet either.

Hubby is super at greetings cards, he always goes for blank ones with photographs (wildlife or a beach, for example) or the beautiful laser cut ones. Last year's card is in a frame in the living room and I think this year's might replace it, although last year's happens to go perfectly with my colour scheme. (I know greetings cards are not exactly in line with NBI but so much thought goes into them from OH... at least they don't immediately get thrown away).

I made myself a cake (why not, I thought!) only to discover my scales have broken, which explains the less than perfect outcome I had with some biscuits not long ago, so regrettably they will need to be replaced. It was edible though and washed down alright with a cup of tea!

What else? Oh, I finally got round to going on a lovely walk, around 7 miles we reckoned, with my mum and her dog. I obviously haven't been walking reasonable distances enough because my calves with rather achey afterwards! I must admit that there was some financial outlay associated with the walk, as I shelled out 31p on a bag of chocolate buttons to take with us.

I also shelled out for a book for my niece (the older one). So many people have been generous to my sister by buying things for the baby, so I wanted to make sure her big sister felt involved. She loves a bedtime story, but is at the point where she can recite some of the ones she owns because they have been read to her so many times. I think my sis will appreciate something new too! And better than plastic tat that the shops are full of.

Normally for my birthday, I indulge in a cheese board, but I figured I'd had so many lovely gifts that I'd save the cheese board for another time so it feels like a real treat :T

Gosh, that post was longer than anticipated! Hope everyone is well and still onboard. Speak to you all soon

Lynplatinum

Hiya all

Sold my house in MK and let the lovely couple who bought it move in - despite buyer of second house pulling out (selling 2 to buy one) so I have been homeless for about 2 months - but thanks to fab friends I have been staying with various folks and going to Writer's Group and Rock Concerts and been staying with my son and getting a load of cuddles with my granddaughter (now 4 months old :-)

So enforced NBI but am contributing to the households I stay in by cooking meals/ giving lifts / buying takeaways and doggie and house sitting!!

So am not quite NBI at mo but will be once I get into my new place.
Hugs Bathory -
Am feeling v lucky here at moment! But I too have had times of much stress.
Take care folks and keep on frugaling!