NST February 2020

BadBookkeeper

Wow can now see signatures will have to set mine up! 😀

DawnW

Morning all

Sorry for absence, I have been struck down with a horrible virus that seems to be doing the rounds. Feeling more human this morning though!

Toni's Friend, I am so very sorry about your sad loss    Take care.

Hi to all readers and lurkers, do feel free to join in, we really don't have standards. It is a lovely happy, supportive thread where we try to do our best, whatever that is. I don't take an active part every single month, but always read along

I will be on 14 NSDs today, mainly due to illness, as I tend to prefer to shop little and often, but I haven't shopped much at all this month.

Today I am grateful for feeling better, getting a few things done at last, and no rain today.... so far!

Toni'sfriend

Just popping in to say a really big thank you to you all for your kind thoughts. I'm off on holiday on Friday and won't be able to attend the funeral. We tried all combination of ways to get home by public transport (we don't drive), people meeting us half way, etc but just isn't possible. We have a little plan of our own to remember her. It's been a tough old time.

So I hope you are all well and I'll see you in April.

f0xh0les

NSD 15.  Feel much more human today, yay!  Need to bake for lunchboxes tonight, as they complained at the lack of cake - apparently shop bought biscuits are not acceptable outside the house, who knew?   So I will make a gingerbread loaf and a chocolate cake and hopefully that will avert the threatened rebellion. It will also use up the leftover half pot of gifted ginger jam.

Supper tonight is something horrendously spicy based on beans, and ys cous cous.   All food from stores, nothing bought in. Still have half a tank of petrol. Roll on payday on Friday!

PurpleFairy26

Small spend today in the SM but stuck to list apart from 4 lots of ys meat. 1 cooking for tea and 2 in the freezer. The other will be cooked later and frozen cooked in portions. 

Gratefuls today:
no rain
loving cat 🐈 
finishing a box set with DH on TV snuggled under a blanket 

BadBookkeeper

Nothing much to report today.  NSD - think that’s 6/8.
Debts - had my petty cash money and £10 transferred to EF.
Gratitudes - lovely work colleagues, not having to go anywhere tonight, having left over money in my account (85p) 2 days before payday! 

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for the swathe of daffs on a local bit of green starting to show, for the first cut of the grass at work - smelled divine!, for getting everything done today at work that I could, for a hailstorm (as it's prob the nearest we'll get to snow here), for a lovely catch-up with a friend, for the news that I'm going to be a gma again in the summer (this one's out in Oz), for being on nsd #18 - not sure how I've managed that, esp with having had half term, for my surgery scar healing up really well.

facethemusic

Wednesday- hello turtles and lurkers,
If you're lurking and worried about joining in-don't be, I lurked for years and only started posting a couple of months ago and everyone is lovely! It really does help motivate/make me think about "planning" my spending.
Today however was food shop day so still on 12/14. I also bought fuel so no excuse to go near  a shop tomorrow! I'm hoping Thursday and Friday will complete my 14. I also had a dentist appointment which was fine (£11 for a scale and polish only) BUT between the free car park and the dentist I walked past a clothes shop with a sale on! Bought an unplanned jumper- but it was £22 reduced to £8 and I love the colour and the quality in that shop is generally good, so I have minimal regrets. I will however get rid of 2 jumpers to a CS box or a ragbag to try not to fill up my wardrobe any further.
Gratitudes today- teeth all fine, bargain jumper,learning new things,mum and dad being super (this should be a daily gratitude but I do often take it for granted, then I hear other people's family tales and I'm reminded just how amazing my parents are). 

dolly84

My new month started yesterday so all March budgets are done and dusted.  We are still on with DS's room, we have completely gutted it and due to time it is going on a bit but should be done by Sunday.

When we emptied DS's room we sorted through his clothes and I listed a bundle of really lovely items on Freecycle along with some gaming magazines.  I had 4 people interested in the clothing bundle and 3 of them just sent a message saying 'is this available, can you deliver', nothing else, no Hi, no thank you, I just deleted them all - so rude.  The fourth one never came back to me so I am donating them to the charity shop.

Plan for today, clean floorboards, sand skirtings, paint skirtings, walk dog, do some cleaning, school run and make tea then a trip to Argos after tea.

mothernerd

Sorry, forgot to check in until it was too late to turn the laptop on again (without messing up my sleep plan again). Did a few little jobs at home. Stockchecked the fridge and freezer (did get given some of their spag bol the night before but I had planned on making chilli). Lots of butter/spread, pint bottles of milk in the freezer (something worked), not much else, still quite a lot of frozen veg. Went to the community shop and spent £7.60. Bargain of the week, festive 4 pack of cheese for 40p - use by 5 jan but presumably has been kept in the freezer and will be fine for cooking.

Freezer has not been shut properly (some time last week) but going to try scraping it rather then a full defrost. One or two bits I can use (at least I know the vegetables are safe from the 'house mice' (my son and his gf, two nearly 30yos). Going to try basing my meals (and the freezer restock) using the community shop (and join the longer established one too). A challenge and an adventure.

Will people stop saying we have no standards - it sounds like we lie around all day drinking gin with no knickers on. We have a lot of extremely tough rules. We may not always quite reach our targets (turtles never 'fail' - none of that defeatist talk) but we try and we keep on trying. We are unfailingly kind and supportive. Many of us have been through extremely tough times and survived and we choose to use that knowledge for the benefit of others. Those are standards (even if they coudn't be ticked off in little boxes).

Most of us have a great sense of humour (mine is very black, but humour is a great survival tool). We adapt, we learn, we improve, we are all different and at different 'life' stages. I am filled with awe at dolly's fitness regime but then I used to walk everywhere, carried all the food and supplies (including bags of sand and cement) home in a large rucksack and did a daily 3 hour walk for fun. My life isn't like that now but I have learned not to compare myself with dolly or my younger self. I just need to be the best possible version of 'me' that I can be now.

Today I am grateful for having food to eat, for good sleep and good books and all the turtles, past and present and all out lurkers and readers.