NST Muddy March Marathon

Jo_Blogs

Good morning everyone

Well done with all the NSD's :T

Hope you all have a great NSD

f0xh0les

Still only on NSD3 this month - lots of little bits from B+Q.

I am no longer complaining about the smell of cannabis. The police raided after an anonymous tip off from a concerned resident. Two in custody, cannabis factory closed for business. Poor house has been gutted, every door removed, completely stripped bare for maximum growing potential.
The poor landlord is not going to be happy, I do hope he is insured.

mothernerd

Happy St Patrick's Day

Day Seventeen
Use It or Lose It
I mentioned buying a candle making kit from the charity shop so thought today we would talk about children's crafts (and having a craft box).

It seems to be one of those things that has developed into a 'leisure industry' (alongside adult crafts of which more later). Expensive packages of bits and bobs available from a variety of outlets from pound emporiums to ebay stores..

I am a great believer in encouraging children's creativity and always had a 'craft box' ( little set of drawers). Just household stuff like empty packets, bits of leftover wallpaper, basic supplies and the odd fancy bit. I helped out at nursery and ran a children's group so multiples of things always useful.

Colouring books are okay for co-ordination but children should also have access to plain paper to 'draw' whatever they want without preconceived notions (got to encourage those future scientists, engineers and writers). Rolls of lining paper are great (if you can still get them - they have changed to blown vinyl). When DS2 had to spend a week in hospital, I bought him a pack of printer paper.

So do you buy or do you make do - or bit of both? DS2 was making a Christmas wreath (must make that eye appointment) for a school competition one year and we needed ribbon - I went round the house, stripping every bear and toy that had one.

Day Seventeen wellbeing

Update/ create a new (worship) playlist.

Inspiration

You're so hard on yourself
Take a moment
Sit back
Marvel at your life
- at the grief that softened you
- at the heartache that wisened (sic) you
- at the suffering that strengthened you
Despite everything, you still grow
Be proud of this.


See you later turtles, I have to go downstairs and wait for chinchilla food to be delivered (mummy and daddy are both asleep) and I had planned to go shopping (food plus odd bits like ant powder and shelf supplies).

SpekySquarehead

Morning all,

Although yesterday should've been a NSD, I was shaking with hunger and my homemade soup didn't cut it so I spend £2 at the work canteen. Damn.

Feeling better today so I should get another NSD today I reckon.

thriftylass

Good morning,

spend day. Ordered bedside tables we liked today for £78 for two paid from the savings pot. They're sort of 1950s style and often cost over £100 each :eek:.

But also got an email from the nursery that we still owed them the money on top of the child care vouchers for March. I was so sure I had paid them and it was logged in my spreadsheet. But I actually hadn't :eek::eek:. There was a time when my bank account and spreadsheet didn't match but I put that down to moving money from the savings for home improvements to my current account etc. Shuffled some money around and it will all balance out next month.

crazy_cat_lady

Not managing to get going this March at all. Just busy and always something else to do... I've stopped making lists and lost count of spending. So today I am going to kick my backside and write a to-do list so I can at least make a couple of small steps.

Calling14

Another spendy day as milk tasted weird this am. So milk bread and treats for gs got.

Haven't spent too much on my food budget this month, but only managed to get 4 SFD.

Mothernerd will work through all your challenges over the weekend. I am not ignoring them honest.

Not highly excitable for the weekend when the highlight is tadpoles probably in the rain.

Feeling a bit down, want a holiday. Missing having a man to wine and dine me at weekends as well. Really felt lonely last few nights.

Hoping my replacement hoover arrives today as my house is so dusty and hair everywhere from me.

Grateful for
Work, warm office and bosses are ok generally.
Family living nearby
Finishing at 3pm - heaven.

SkintTeacher

nsd 12
Love all the chat on this page but do find it hard to do the challenges - think it must be with working full time and spending quite a bit of my free time exercising.
This week has been hard - work is tough at the mo for many reasons. Home is my sanctuary but 4 y o does continue to have outbursts every so often that are out of this world. I cope so well with 33 11 year olds all day and then...
Money saving is going really well - I seem to have changed alot of my habits (eg, fancied chocolate but instead of buying it I offered to make double chocolate muffins with Little One and they were amazing - OH keeps my baking box well stocked for just such an emergency).
Weight loss (ahem) has been good too despite the above! Lost 5 pounds this week. I can now see actual muscle definition too.
I don't think I've ever in my life carried on working on new year goals into March and I can finally see why it is worth pursuing a dream.
Gratitudes:
Seeing results
Double chocolate squishy warm muffins
Wedding dress trial tomorrow
Hope everyone has an amazing and money saving weekend

apple_muncher

Thank you for today's inspiration mothernerd (in fact, thank you for all of them). I feel like I am being squashed down by a whole load of concrete. Yet I also know that plants are stronger than concrete and their roots and stems can pierce through. So I am holding on to that - that one day I will realise that the pushing has got easier, that the weight is no longer squashing and suffocating me, that I can breathe fresh air and am growing in the sunlight.


Today I am grateful for having time to mooch around some charity shops, for not buying 2 items because they were not lovely enough, for a walk with dh this afternoon, for finding some gorgeous turquoisey patterned fabric and some blingy gold fabric for bunnies, for getting 6 bunnies cut out, for Mission Impossible shenanigans on tv, for dd getting her 'pen licence' and a pen that she is allowed to use at school, for completing a 'toe-friendly' workout, for catching up with big sis, for mum not hating her visit to a care home (the one that is our #1 choice)

greent

Not NSD today - a few groceries (£25), some reclaimable expenses (50 - will get chq back for it next week) and a McDs for smallies for inset day and a Friday and just because

Need to sort a playlist for running (I use that term loosely - plodding) so will get onto that this weekend

Today's thankfulness:
* selling the bike trailer - money in and lots of space gained in garage
* it's the weekend!
* a good quick moan with a friend about office politics - made us both feel better
* resisting the choc biscuits in the jar all week!
* the small 2 being delightful on their day off
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