NST February frugality and frolics

greent

Small spend at Tesc0 today on milk, cereal, f&v & some limescale remover (vinegar wasn't doing it) Have deep cleaned DD's ensuite top to bottom , vacuumed most of the house, done the ironing, polished/ dusted in living room and cleaned some windows. Am very achy now!

DS2 is off school today - was feeling unwell yesterday with a temperature and woke up today with a temp of 101.3 and still feeling unwell. Should be ok for tomorrow, I hope- had a very lazy day today and a few doses of paracetamol (last one reserved for bed time).

Today I am grateful for watching a big bee buzzing around my garden, strawberry strepsils (I have a throat thing which I'm trying to keep at bay), a sunny day, DS3 doing some homework without being asked!!

Kerry_Woman

NSD today - 19/20.
Went for walk in that in afternoon.
Dealt with a couple of frogs.
Self care done.

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for such a warm day (I was scraping ice off the windscreen at 7am, and driving home in 17 degrees!), for sorting out a very tricky issue with a colleague, for seeing one of my mentees, for getting all today's marking done, for being able to help and advise a colleague, for freezer food for tea, for chilling out time, for having a plan for my £2 coins.

mothernerd

Went for a long toddle with the walker today - 4 books back to the library (2 finished, 2 I really tried with), 6 items for the charity bin, 7 for the food bank box and 2 things to people who can make use of them. It all helps.

Bought mum's shopping on the way back + ys dips and sandwich meat, took cucumber, celery and a bag of carrots from the fridge to mum's with me.

Sat in the sunshine eating my sandwich, admiring the crocuses. As it was so sunny mum had decided that 'we' could take down the stuff we used to hide the broken fence. Mr and Mrs builder called at weekend and although they had a lot of work on, they will buy and replace the 4 broken panels and do some bits that we can no longer manage. Mr Builder dealt with the shed for which the key has been lost, so that's a frog off my list.

The large decorative trellises were easy (fence has broken down further since I put them up last summer, so they were half down already) then I did the bits at the bottom (metal pegs and plastic grid), used a pair of pliers to pull out the cable clips for re-using and finally took out all but one of the long screws spread out across the fence (last one was in the worst panel and was frightened the whole thing would collapse if I took that screw out - had already been a few rumbles).

All done in five minutes or less chunks with resting in between while mum sat in her walker watching me and complaining that I was making the washing line post bend (by using it to pull myself upright after sitting down). Everything put away in the shed for now - then I said it was nap time.

Read my book then went to lie down (falling asleep in the chair) for a short while. Mum was asleep in the dark when I went back in the front room but woke to watch her programmes and then I made food for us both. Have washed up and restocked the kitchen cupboards.

Mum has 2 appointments that need sorting out. One clashes with the revised dates for our next holiday and one is not on the calendar or in my diary and the letter isn't in her bag. I think it's in April, the day between DS2's and DS3's birthdays, as I referred to it as my day off when the letter first arrived. Mum thinks it's a month sooner, the day before my brother's birthday.

She gestured vaguely at one of the cupboards near her and said that 'everything from before Christmas' was in there so that's a job for tomorrow. Just could not face it having already dealt with a money panic (it was the amount I said it was, she had misread it as 4k less) and something else where she was basically going round in circles.

Today I am grateful for sunshine (although it means I should probably add the hayfever tablets to my morning pills), lots of flowers (primulas, hyacinths) and getting things out of the house.

misstara

Oops haven't posted for a week

Food expenditure - £161.18/£170

Budgets - YNAB updated

Useful leftovers - no frogs ticked off

Aim to take your lunch to work every day - have done all last week

Remind yourself of what you have and be grateful - surviving work (awful day!), leftover roast beef for tea, good exercise class

You should pay to your debt or savings first and live on what is left - various £s paid to the debt

Spend Free Days - now on 16/18

Exercise is important - gym class today, think I'll struggle to walk tomorrow :rotfl:

Fmess

SFD yesterday Back to work, busy but non-dramatic day. Walked the boys, worked and made spag Bol when I got home. Need to sort out budget as got paid yesterday but haven’t had time so I’ll just avoid spending until I have done that!

f0xh0les

Morning!
Shoe hostage situation peacefully resolved. £8 left in budget until Thursday now. Maths morning at primary school today. 2 hours!! Oh well, show willing and all that, I have a feeling the parental turnout will be quite low - it's maths innit?
Should be spend free today, I think that will make it 11 NSDs. Which is double figures.

GlendaSugarbean

11 NSDs for me, hoping to get to 12 today but I'm not going to make my 15! Still, if I get to 12/13 it's a lot better than nowt.

Can't believe Feb is nearly over. My budget for March is looking OK so far, it will look a lot better once the chunk of cash marked as confirmed on TCB actually arrives...

apple_muncher

March is good to go:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5969945/nst-march-2019-wins-against-the-debt

SpekySquarehead

Morning all,

NSD #12 today. Final push till the end of the month now. Not long to go.

We can do this!