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NST April 2018: April Fool's Challenge
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#13 Checking in for yesterday! Will do today's later.....
Aim for at least 15 NSDs - 4/15
Pay to your debt or savings first - WIP
Report in every day - Didn't yesterday but will do 2 posts today.
Interests - Downloaded pokemon go on my phone as,a cheap activity with DS. Great fun.
Love yourself, do something to make yourself feel fab - Got offered a new job! Go me!
Find time to get outside - Spent 2hrs walking around our village pokemon hunting.
Overpay - Will revisit later in month
Organise your month - Does anyone use different supermarkets each week to do a monthly shop? I'd like to use t£sco, @ldi & Icel@nd but can't be bothered visiting each one every week so tend to stick to t£sco which is expensive.
So my thinking is go to one a week but get what I want from that shop to last the month if that makes sense. Anyone do this does it work?
Lose one bad habit. Have a timer on my phone when using fb. Gosh 30 mins goes quick.
Sign off your daily post with a list of gratitudes.
Finding Pokemon's
DS being excited being outdoors
Catch up with my best friendLightbulb moment - 17/08/2017 £17,033. Current CC debt £0.00 DFD 31/7/24 🥳. Member #8 of Fiver Friday Challenge £175/£260. PAD member.0 -
#21 checking in for yesterday.
NSD 4/15
Outside- dog walking in the fields
Love- only usual presentability
Overpay- skimmed a few pounds from current acc to savings
Interests- still can't do garden. So reading a lot instead.
Grateful for- local library. We're very lucky here; a lot of villages don't have them anymore.Savings from frugal & simple living:
Jan ISA& Save Acc £1600 Mort o/paid £250
Feb ISA&save acc £1330.89 Mort o/paid£500
March ISA&save ac£811.35 mort o/paid £250
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Morning, I've been mia the last couple of days due to work being busy and me being tired and not sleeping well. I'm got a plan for a bedtime routine that I'm hoping will help. I love a routine!
So, yesterday:
Spent for the first time yesterday so 5 NSD
Interests- meditating: 4 days
Outside- walking: 0 days (this is causing me huge stress. I'm wondering if I need to just make it being outside?
Lose a bad habit- no snacking: 4 days
3 Things: Counselling (I never would've realised how helpful that is!), A lovely cooked meal, a book to read.0 -
BadBookKeeper - congratulations on your new job!NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!0
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Aim for at least 15 NSDs. 5/21
Pay to your debt or savings first always!
Report in every day. 3/7
Interests - knitting needles are out again - havent got very far!
Love yourself meeting up with old friend for cinema tonight - family can look after themselves
Find time to get outside. in the garden now most days - even today despite rain
Overpay see above about debt paying
Organise your month on it and need to look again
Lose one bad habit. I am going to make sure I have a "shiny sink" at the end of the day a la FlyladyAlways leave something in there and it irritates me when it greets me in the morning. Of course if its not me thats left something then I will just have to re-educate the OH:rotfl:
Sign off your daily post with a list of gratitudes.
Grateful for well stocked freezer, solar panels doing there stuff and good friendsBe the change you want to see -with apologies to Gandhi
In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn
'On the internet no one knows you are a cat'0 -
apple_muncher wrote: »BadBookKeeper - congratulations on your new job!Lightbulb moment - 17/08/2017 £17,033. Current CC debt £0.00 DFD 31/7/24 🥳. Member #8 of Fiver Friday Challenge £175/£260. PAD member.0
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BadBookkeeper - Congratulations on your new job.Frugal Living Challenge 2025 Mortgage free as of 1st August 20130
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Bad bookkeeper-well done on the job. I have this issue.I go to the shops I use in town on my lunch break & then Aldi once per week in an evening & then Tesco straight after that if there's anything I can't get from Tesco. Luckily they're close together. Please let us know how you get on.0
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Hi all
A-today is NSD #5. My kids have spent some of their Easter cash off my folks though.
P-savings & budgets still the same.
R- here I am
I-cooking from a new recipe tonight.
L- day with my kids & film night with hub tonight is just what the doctor ordered.
F- the plan was to go to Beamish today but, for the second weekend in a row, our plans have been rained upon. We are going to try again tomorrow. However my lovely boy & I did go to Richmond castle instead & we had a fan time despite the weather. Even better they told me of an event the week after next that I can take my boys to, FOC with our English Heritage .
O- as part of my "making things stretch" I have taken a free trial of prime I will buy a book with this on my next spend day
O- meal plan done
L-not at work today but still being mindful of being on my phone
S- grateful for-a lovely morning with my boy & the lady in the shop being so good with my boy. I shall review later. Hub tidying the house while I was out & having time to do some baking0 -
Afternoon all.
Didn't go for my Parkrun this morning. I woke up in the early hour to hear the rain lashing down. The Parkrun is usually soggy on a dry day, so didn't feel like facing the mud. Still went out for my run, but kept to the tarmac.
Bf went food shopping, then we took the pup up to the Hoe and town to hunt Pokemon. I did want to buy some jeans while passing by Primarni, however they only had skinny jeans. Skinny ripped, skinny high-waist, skinny ankle, skinny jeggings. Does nowhere do 'normal' basic jeans anymore?
Would have ended up with a NSD, but picked up some rechargable batteries from the closing Maplins. £9.99 down to £5.00.
Aim for at least [STRIKE]15[/STRIKE] 25 NSDs. 4/25 NSDs.
[STRIKE]Pay to your debt first.[/STRIKE] Mums monthly payment made.
Report in every day. Missed yesterday, here today
Interests - Gaming. Played lots of Pokemon today, bonus as it keeps us moving.
Love yourself. Tempted to pop to the cinema with one of my free vouchers tonight. I'll check whats on.
Find time to get outside.Looooong walk today, pup and bf now both snoring on the sofa.
Overpay - More surveys
Organise your month. Trip to Brighton for the Marathon is next weekened!
Lose one bad habit. - Not practicing my sax. It's Bfs cooking week this week, so I think I'll practice while hes cooking.
Sign off with a gratitude. Today I am grateful the rain held off to just a drizzle while we were out.Debt Free as of 17/01/2009 Turtle Power!!
EF Challenger #3 £1543.72 / £5000
MFW 2024 #100 £1300.00 / £10,000
MFiT #40 Jan 2025 Target - £99,999.00
Mortgage at 30/09/22 £113,694.11 | Mortgage at 24/01/23 £110,707.87
Mortgage at 21/04/23 £107,701.01 | Mortgage at 20/07/23 £106,979.65
Mortgage at 04/10/23 £106,253.77 | Mortgage at 10/01/24 £105,324.57
Mortgage at 01/04/24 £104,424.73 | Mortgage at 01/10/24 £103,594.980
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