NST March: Marching to a different beat

archwaysaver

Happy birthday Dolly!

NSD today - came straight home after work and made a nice dinner and split a bottle of wine with my husband that we got for his birthday a few months ago. Happy weekend all!

abundant1972

Good evening...

Happy weekend (almost) everyone! So today was out with the parents and made a few small spends on drinks with them, though once more they bought lunch. Annoyed I didn't shop for Mother's Day on Sunday as we are having a little buffet. That means another NSD gone tomorrow. Grrr!

Nice day though. Still sticking with my food plan and exercise... trying not to focus on results just yet.

Hugs to Indigo - if it's the right thing then hang in there. Happy Birthday to you Dolly - I hope you have a good one! Congrats Debtfreewannabe on your debt busting progress!!!

Catch you all tomorrow x

bizzie

A within budget spend on a meet up with friends. Looking to "earn" enough through surveys to fund this in future.
Still on 7NSDs. Overall budget looking good at this point in the month but have weekend errands to run which will involve parting with money.

laurenh1

indigo hugs to you & all involved
debtfree congrats on getting your debts down!!

bit tired this morning as I was up til midnight arguing with my parents as to wether Id let my little boys leave the house in a dress :rotfl: theres pretty much nothing my family can't debate & it always gets heated. hub & I are giggling that they are downstairs right now showing them pictures of appropriate clothes for boys to wear :rotfl::D

some pretty good news last night. Wonga emailed my husband to say that they were refunding him £1400 after I submitted a complaint about irresponsible lending. thought I had no chance as the loans were 7 years old but hurrah- they upheld it. Need to send new bank details off later for them to pay. will not put it in budgets until its paid I am only getting 1200 of it as he wants to spend the rest on himself. fair enough really as he does not get a lot while we are saving for the house...

hub & I have decided to do a rota this weekend for house work etc as I am getting very stressed & hub thinks Im taking too much on!! I am pretty much getting no time to myself & its no good for my mental health. I haven't sat down to watch tele or read or unwind all week, not once, somethings got to give.

have a lovely weekend all

f0xh0les

NSD 7 yesterday

Today is a planned spend day - Lego Ninjago movie at kids club, should have change from £10.DS2 decided to come along as well, so £10 on tickets and £2.80 on supermarket popcorn. Bonus surprise Jackie Chan!!

Apart from that I am going to move some furniture about a bit and try and free up some space - I have created a bottleneck and I need it shunted elsewhere.

As it is a spend day, I am going to try and sort house insurance (buildings and contents) If it comes in at under £250 I will be happy. - I want accidental cover on buildings as we have work that needs doing. Otherwise it would be £170. £248.30 all in

Also have to go to Ireland over Easter holidays - step gran will be 79 this year and is all alone and housebound.

Laundry,cooking and all the nonsense having kids entails.
Plus cleaning hamster cages.

Have a great weekend turtles

Debtfreewannabme

Good morning - feeling slightly fed up this morning. My DH seems to want to eat everything and the meal plan is being compromised. Its hard as he is an emotional eater and says hes feeling fed up but then Im trying to explain that its much better if he can talk to me instead of eat 6 choco breaks ( aldis kitkats ha).

indigowarrior

Bit of a headache today. Today will be a NSD. Plan to stay in and try and earn more pennies doing surveys. Hope everyone has a good day.

dolly84

Thanks for all the birthday wishes. Had a takeaway and a cake last night, also called at Tesco and used the Vodafone voucher, me and DH both had one and they were supposed to be used on easter eggs or smoothies but they worked on anything so I got some of the mini cans of baileys with them.

Collected my free sparks birthday gift today, two packs of tights, one for me and one for DD so 6 pairs of tights free. Called at Sainsburys to use some vouchers for things we buy (they don't let you use them online) and a £6 of points voucher so £7.60 in points on a £12 spend. Small spend in boots on toothpaste and superdrug on nail polish remover, hope that is it for today.

Nicky_Noo_Na

Sorry I haven't posted for a while - been a busy week solo parenting as hubby as been working away. In the space of 2 days I've had to deal with an enforcement officer threatening to send baliffs round for a debt belonging to the person who owned the house before us, the burglar alarm needing resetting, the boiler breaking and the police needing another statement as they've recovered our stolen car and they were desperate to charge the baddie! Plus DD has a bad virus with a hacking cough I've been up in the night every night too. Oh and going to work too! Phew! Hooray for the weekend.

Up to 6 NSD now - no time to spend haha. We're going out for a meal in a bit though for my Mother's day present. We have a voucher but it's not valid tomorrow so we're going today instead. Hardcore MSE!

apple_muncher

Consistency is not perfection. It is simply refusing to give up

Indigo Warrior and Nicky Noo na - this quote made me think of you. Hang in there x