NST June 2018 A JUNE ODESSEY (Staycation)

Toni'sfriend

Last day of the month.
17 NSDs. Pleased with that as I was only aiming for 10.
Still a tiny bit of money left in the household budget even though we bought quite a lot of things for the Boy and didn't resist the YS bargains. Positive is lots of food already in for next month .
Did eat lots of salad and fruit but the amount of stuff in the freezer kind of scuppered the healthy eating but not to bad. Same cannot be said of avoiding alcohol. The lure a couple of glasses of ice cold sparkly wine in this heat is too much to resist (well that's my excuse).
I have to confess I have been very. very lazy this month. Really must do better.
Glad you enjoyed your break, Mothernerd and thanks for hosting June. I truly do not know how you manage to fit so much in to your life.
Still very hot here. Paddling pool is out, noise levels rising as we speak. Have a good weekend everyone and roll on July.
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apple_muncher

Your holiday with your mum sounds lovely, mothernerd. You do not buy much for yourself and I think that having clothes that make you feel good about yourself is a vital part of looking after yourself.


Thank you for running June!

indigowarrior

Sounds like you had a good holiday mothernerd. I didnt achieve my second goal of 15 but thats okay

greent

Apologies for absence - have been busy again for the last week at work at the tiredness caught up on me. Plus a social night out (too late with work the next day, but I wasn't driving) and I've just not made it on here


A Ask 'Is this necessary?' -Food shopping. Suit, shoes and shirt for DS1 for his leavers dinner for Y13.

J June challenge runs from 1st June to 30th. NSDs 10/10 - think I just scraped in!
U Use the food & other stuff you have in yes but have done a HUGE shop today
N No takeaways, coffee, chip or pie shop purchases. We have a family end-of-exams meal planned (tradition for the past 4 years) and a meal out with work - budget set accordingly Meal out this week with work
E Eat well . Hit and miss


O Offer help and be kind (inc to self) -
D Debt or savings payments should be made first - live on what is leftRepaid the last CC - now debt free, excluding the BTL mortgage :j:beer::j
E Exercise Minimum of 3 times a week. Try to get outside every day. too tired.
S Set all your budgets .
* Food - totally busted/450
* Fuel - 65/£70
* Toiletries - 20.45/£10
* Cleaning/ household 37.29/20 (bought new bath mat / pedestal mat for boys' bathroom and stocked up on dw tabs and wul)
* DIY & garden - 6/50
* Social - 1211.90/£125
* Clothing - 267/£50 :o
* Gifts - 25.5/£20
S Someone is worse off than you. Donate . Monthly DD gone out for WWT. New CS bag started. Donation to Meningitis Now for non-uniform day and £10 to Cancer charity for friend doing race for life. Sorted out a good sized bag of toiletries- split between foodbank and shoebox appeal.
E Every day check in Here - eventually!
Y You are the most important person in your life. .

Gratitudes:
* the amazing weather we're having
* repaying all CC and tax credit debt
* another fleabay sale
* a5da price guarantee

swimminginaseaofdebt

Evening everyone :hello:

Today was NSD#8. Didn’t quite meet my target but better than none!

Have read a bit of my book and will read some more hopefully when the little one goes to sleep.

Mothernerd thanks for running the thread and hopefully see you all over in the July challenge

Kerry_Woman

Mothernerd - Thanks for doing the thread.
greent - Congratulations on becoming debt free.
A - Will definitely be asking if it is necessary before purchasing. Not needed to do today.
J - 19/20 NSD. Was an NSD today. Pleased to how many I have achieved.
U - Will be looking into cupboards etc and make sure I will not buy unnecessary and use what already in. Used what I had in.
N - No need today.
E -Have to make a special effort to more healthy eating. Was ok. Did drink more water.
O - Will do.
D -Savings sorted out for the month.
E - Did not go out today.
S - Have set my budgets.
S - All done for the month now.
E - Checked in.
Y - The usual mindfulness colouring, reading, wordsearch. Also did some of a jigsaw. Chilled out totally today. Had a relaxing bath.

Eager_Elephant

I have spent today so I am finishing the month on 18.

Thanks mothernerd for leading us so well this month!!

Thanks to all Turtles for being fab!!

Puddleglum

Sorry I haven't been around much. I was trying to keep up but then the marking went potty this last week and all extra activities like mse and sleep got put on hold!

I've finished June with 18/10+ NSDs and have ALMOST paid off my credit card. £400 has been paid leaving the grand sum of £1.82. Next month I will pay it off completely and not let mild ocd get in the way. Then I can claim to be debt free and mortgage free. Just need to stay that way!

f0xh0les

Thanks for the motivation to do well this month, mothernerd.

Congratulations to greent and whispered congratulations to Puddleglum. Less than £2 in debt should be celebrated. I would!

See you on the other side.........

DawnW

Evening all
Your holiday sounds lovely Mothernerd, and it was great that you found some new clothes that you love

June has gone very quickly (well, I think so), my totals for June were:

NSDs - 12 / 10
Groceries / cleaning / toiletries / pet food etc £293.24 / £250
Fuel 191.85 / £100 :eek::eek:


I have exceeded my budgets, but have plenty of food in to start off July. I was shocked by the fuel :eek:, OH says it has gone up. He did a couple of long trips, and certainly at the beginning of the month, I wasn't able to walk far due to my surgery, so I guess we have used more than usual. It doesn't help that we have a couple of gas guzzlers And I guess we are all struggling with rising prices, for food as well as other things

'See' you all in July!