NST May 2020: May the force be with you. (Star Wars 1977)

shabbychic12

Me please again only just found you😂

Tanya12345

Me too please, fallen off wagon n need a major kick up the turtle !! Finances, diet, exercise and alcohol consumption - all need to be sorted !!

XSpender

Hey Apple and Turtles

Please may I join the challenge this month?  I want to focus on saving as much as we can and I might (saying that carefully in case I jinx it), just might have got DH properly on board with the debt busting.

apple_muncher

“This is the time to be slow,

Lie low to the wall

Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let

The wire brush of doubt

Scrape from your heart

All sense of yourself

And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,

Time will come good;

And you will find your feet

Again on fresh pastures of promise,

Where the air will be kind

And blushed with beginning.” ―John O’Donohue, Benedictus Book Of Blessings 

AuctionFever

I would love to join please 

apple_muncher

I think I have numbered everybody up to here. Give me a shout if I have missed you - no going in to a corner and crying, now!

abundant1972

Happy 01st May!!!

I really appreciate the more relaxed forum this month... I will try and check in more regularly and stay sane amidst all the changes coming my way. Really liked the quotes and the passage you posted today 

Today I am grateful for: 

1) A brand new month and fresh start
2) My savings account should mature so have some dosh towards my car
3) Waking up feeling more positive!

I think I realised I need to avoid alcohol... I got a bottle of my favourite wine... but even only a glass a night I think affects my mood the next day. Last night I didn't have any and feel markedly brighter. Darn it!!! 

Budgets balanced and chunk off my debt paid (now under £1950)... I may clear it with my savings - but whether I buy my existing car (at the end of its 3 years) or trade in and get another new one... I will probably rack up something more on my card (0%)... Will see if there are any deals on anywhere. 

Have a great 01st May everyone!!!

outoftheviciouscircle

Good afternoon everyone. 
So 5 things I am grateful for today
1. Woke up to an email to say my annual bonus will be in next weeks pay
2. The sun is shining
3. I have my weekly video call with the girls tonight
4. I have all day to do nothing 
5. I’m going to have a think about this one 

f0xh0les

Abundant - I was trying to think yesterday if I had imbibed  this year, and came up with No.  I have not bought anything since the cooking Amaretto spree in December.  I have a bottle of fizzy stuff in the fridge as today is my wedding anniversary (dh forgot again - bless!) so I am feeling happy to have had 22 years with my bit of fluff and can still happily chase him up the stairs.

Today is NSD1, I  food shopped  last night, and it was horrid. I do miss my ys  bargains but that time will come again. 

I have £5.50 in reserve on a survey loyalty card I can use in The Polar Shop so I can stock up on frozen fruit or burgers as a treat if I need to get out. I can take a walk up the road and have an hour out of the house and pretend it is exercise.

It is chucking it down here, I do not want to go out today and I do not have to, as my fruitbowl overfloweth and my fridge is rammed with veg and smoked vegan cheeses.  I am going to do another inventory of what I have bought, what I had in, and then menu plan for that and see how many days I can go without setting foot in a shop again.

Hooray for it not being April anymore.... Onwards into May!

[Deleted User]

Happy anniversary f0xh0les x