NST April 2018: April Fool's Challenge

Kerry_Woman

A - 18/15 NSD achieved today. Did add up totals as to what I have spent this month. Shocking. Think it was emotional spending and not thinking before I brought things.
R - Done.
I - Did mindfulness colouring and wordsearch.
L - Put on coconut oil.
F - Did not go out today.
O - Done.
O - Still ongoing.
L - Ok with social media today.
S - Grateful for:
A pj day.
Having a good night sleep.
Rested today and went to bed throughout the day and had some more sleep.
Did all the ironing of my clothes and put them away.
Washed the clothes that needed washing.

x_raphael_xx

Evening all. Thoroughly enjoyed my day off today.
Woke up feeling refreshed and ready to go about 7am, so hopped downstairs, gave Donna her weekly weigh in & a bath. She now weighs a whopping 100g.
Spotted a strange yellow orb in the sky, so rushed the washing on the line. (Immediately it clouded over for the rest of the day.)
Brought bf up a cup of tea and we stayed in bed for a leisurely breakfast and watching videos.
Realised Duncan was out of food, so popped to the pet shop after lunch, and finally dropped off my exam entry and cheque.
Got home and had another burst of energy so went out for a run, very pleased with my 9:44 minute/mileage. At the start of last year I was running around 11:30-12 min miles, so happy I'm speeding up again.
Friend popped around to borrow my mini freezer I'm not currently using, as his fridge freezer has died, then cooked a roast when he left.
BF has dissapeared for a lenghty bath, so I'm on snuggle duty with Duncan.

Aim for at least [STRIKE]15[/STRIKE] 22 NSDs. 20/22 NSDs. No spends today.
[STRIKE]Pay to your debt first.[/STRIKE] Mums monthly payment made.
Report in every day. Back again
Interests - Gaming. Watching more youtube playthrus, played a little Minecraft, got a new Pokemon.
Love yourself. When BF finally gets out of the bath I think I will take a cuppa to bed and read my mag.
Find time to get outside. Only time we left the house today was to pop to the shops
Overpay - More surveys.
Organise your month. Dug out a card in case I can get to the b'day party tomorrow.
Lose one bad habit. - Not practicing my sax. Didn't get round to it today, waiting on my friend to come round and collect the freezer. Did drop my exam entry off thou.
Sign off with a gratitude. Today I am grateful for clearing alot on my to-do list.

swimminginaseaofdebt

Evening everyone,

Didn't get a chance to login yesterday but it was NSD #11 and I sent £12.19 to the holiday savings.

Today I've been grocery shopping (but will come out of my wages hitting the bank account at midnight and budgeted for in May so will pop the totals over on that thread), done lots of ironing, washed one load of clothes and hung them outside, made pizza pinwheels for the little one (1 portion for lunch tomorrow and 3 portions popped in the freezer for future lunches) and visited my family.

Grateful for a productive today (for me - I know others fit in a lot more but I'm rather lazy!) and mums homecooked stew.

apple_muncher

Wow - the last day of April. And plenty of showers to accompany it! Thank you for running April, misstara.

misstara

For yesterday
NSDs - still on 17/15 as I bought a bag and sandals for the wedding plus some new socks
Report - 29/30
Interests - went for a 7 mile walk
Love - new skincare regime
Outside - walk was through a wood
Organise - OH and I made up a meal plan and shopping list
Overpay - nothing
Bad habit - no crisps
Gratitudes - lovely walk, roast gammon for tea, only a week left of work until a week off

dolly84

DH is off work today and I believe he is planning to re-paint our bedroom. He did have to buy paint for the ceiling and a roller but we have the paint for the walls already but he is wanting to paper one wall so we will have to discuss that a bit further.

Will run later as it is wet and cold and I don't want to cycle in it, at least I get really hot when I run. Lots of after the weekend cleaning to do today and some job applications too.

laurenh1

Good morning all, misstara thanks for running the thread


today is NSD #16. & pay day which means my mind is very much in May. Car insurance Tax & MOT means we don't have a lot this month but that future months our outgoings will be lower (I usually pay car insurance monthly).
The kids & I have have had scrambled egg for breakfast which sees the last of my eggs used up, we have chickens but recently we have ended up with a huge back log & I have been trying to use them up. We are now off out with my son on his electrical car. I bought it him last year & he was too young really so I am trying to get more use from it.
I hope you all have a brilliant end to the month

f0xh0les

Yesterday was NSD 16 (yay!)

Did not leave the house.
Just the usual Sunday whirl of laundry, homework, cleaning and clearing.

New month tomorrow,

Today is payday, which is handy as the pantry is getting bare - if I had mice they would have packed their bags and gone - I am waiting for DH to give me housekeeping so I can plan the month.

See you in MMMay's challenge.

thriftylass

Hello,

thanks for running April, misstara. And sorry for disappearing half way through again. Must/will do better in May. Got DS' and DH's brithdays. But DS is pretty much sorted and paid for and DH is included in the savings.

Had my 40th birthday fancy dress party on Sat (delayed from February due to snow). And it was fantastic. Walked home at 6am :eek::eek:. Must remember at 40 one cannot party like when one was 30!!!!:o.

But this will be a turning point now. I am not where I wanted to be financially at forty. So my new target is to catch up with my plans and give myself till the end of my 40th year. Plus I got 3 months to my big race (need to train, train, train and eat better again) and two months till the remortgage.

LavenderBee

Oops, busy weekend. I'm on NSD 19/18


Final budgets aren't wonderful:
Groceries - £109.51/£200. But I have been by myself all month so it should have been half. I don't think I've used any of my 'easy for batch cooking' ingredients purchased at the beginning of the month, so they can all be used next month. May is my month of batch cooking and filling the freezer
Personal - £82.38/£80. Not sure how I still have a couple of pounds left on my personal spends card and £1.50 in my purse. Must've double counted somewhere!
Presents - £17.20/£15. Overspend due to lack of suitable card in stash
Diesel - £51.06/£60


Leftover money from groceries already spent on reusable nappies


Overspent on personal stuff yesterday, the haberdashery shop had money off everything so I got some more bits to keep me entertained during maternity leave. All for making useful things for little one's arrival.


Grateful for:
- The NHS
- Last week of hubby being away