NST Super September Scrimping challenge

Calling14

Morning everyone.

Apologies for non posting over weekend.

Sat - Nice seaside blustery walk, followed by my kids and grandkids descending on me. Future Son in law put in new pull switch light and fixed a lamp I love. So ended up going out with them and buying a bottle of wine £14 good value for the work I had done. Naughty bit bought a take away on the way home. First Chinese one this year but shouldn't have really seeing my debt mounting up.

Sunday cleared out the drawer from hell in the kitchen. Now my pans can go in there. Was going to continue but got dragged out by dd. I think I was going somewhere nice but hey ho - skatepark and standing under a tree in the rain was actually quite fun. No money spent

SFD 3/18. including today as no money to spend on me.

Home made leek and potato soup for lunch
Heating still off, was tempted to dry clothes last night but not in a hurry for them.
Managed to get my patio doors open properly and oiled up today - may postpone getting new doors until next year as seem to be struggling with debts lately.

f0xh0les

clippy_girl wrote: »

Evening all

Yesterday was def not a NSD! £55 spent on massage and waxing. Normally only get back, neck and shoulder but treated myself to a full body.

I think I must need more coffee, I read this as a full body wax:eek: Had to read it 3 times. There is something very wrong with my brain today.

vintagebrighton

Check in 11/30

Hoping for a NSD today. If not, def tomorrow, depends which day I do my eBay posting. Room turnaround today too but doesn't cost anything.

clippy_girl Whereabouts in the country are you? I don't feel like I need the heating on but am beginning to wonder if my guests might, just for a bit.

Exercise - will go for a walk as the suns out

Me time - hoping to get some crochet done later

Heating - not yet

Have a lovely day scrimpers

VB x

threepenny_bit

check in day 3
NSD today although I was tempted to go to the shops but opted for a lazy look on line instead and spent nothing!
HM SW veggie soup for dinner and SW pasta bake for tea using sad veg from fridge and a couple of chicken breasts in pasta bake, will use leftovers for lunch tomorrow.
Very Autumnal outside today so glad I got my duvet washed and aired yesterday. Need to cut grass today and thats me done!

greent

SFDs - now 5/18. - another one achieved today

Extra monies/ debt repayment - nothing today. SOld 4 things on fleabay, but they all belonged to DS1, so no money for me

Food - running total £185.21/ £450

Eating up/ using up stuff - yep. All meals from home stuff today.

Lunches taken - 3 x packed lunches for children today. My lunch eaten at almost 2pm after I got home from work late

Social life - none

Exercise - new week. Achieved 10K steps by 3.30 and fitbit shows 35 active mins. No formal exercise though

Beauty - £2.73/ £10

Time for self - read a few chapters last night of new book. Will do the same tonight

Heating off - yep. Am now wearing socks

Gratitudes:
* work being fun (if exhausting with Y7s!) today
* seeing my colleagues - some of whom I haven't seen at all over Summer
* a good catch up with my boss
* a good catch up with a mum from school
* my gorgeous children
x

dizzyblnd

Nsd #5 here. No heating down south but it's been very autumnal. To all the green fingered people on here, is it a good time to trim fruit trees back?

LollyPop0312

Another NSD here..just a fivers worth of yellow sticker delights. 5/18. Well wishes to all!:o

ChasingSunshine

NSD here today. Not much else happening. Managing to resist turning on the heating but am wrapped up warm. Have no excuse live down south am just a thin skinned fragile creature compared to most people on here it seems :rotfl::rotfl:

FurryBeastOz

A NSD today. DH cooking our anniversary dinner - phoned to ask where was the pesto. He couldn't find it, so asked me to pick some up on the way home. I talked him through the possible locations until he found it. I knew we had some, it was on my recently updated pantry list:D

Really enjoyed yesterday. Bouldering was great and DH wasn't called in. Apple muncher Thanks for asking. Yes he is fully mended.

Went out for dinner and I ordered a main course. Rather than pigging out I asked for 1/2 to be packed up and took it for lunch to work. Delicious both times. I also passed on dessert as DH is making tiramisu for tonight so I didn't need it twice:rotfl:

Had a good day at work. I needed to be quite clear about my ability, or lack thereof in the arena of passing on information to a classroom. Cue a search for a 'Training for trainers' course. More studying. Joy.

Gratitudes -

- A lovely sunny day in Glasgow
- DH offering to cook dinner
- A compliment in the gym this morning about visible muscle definition. Finally!
- An unblocked and refitted bathroom sink. (Although it took one person to unblock the drain but he had to call a second person to plumb it all back together again. Exactly how is that efficient?)

apple_muncher

dizzyblnd wrote: »

Nsd #5 here. No heating down south but it's been very autumnal. To all the green fingered people on here, is it a good time to trim fruit trees back?

I think the answer is 'yes, if they have finished fruiting'. I have a coxes apple tree that isn't ready to be picked yet.

And doing it before the frosts arrive is good, as the tree has time to heal up the cuts before coping with the frosty bits.