Magnificent May's NSD Challenge!

cathybird · 30 April 2022 at 2:32PM

This challenge is about setting yourself a weekly/monthly target of how many No Spend Days you would like to achieve during May. To join, just post your personal target and you are on your way!

Tips for the challenge:

1. Decide on a clear goal weekly or monthly of how many No Spend days you'd like to try and achieve. If you've never done the challenge before, it's probably better to start with a goal of 10 or (at most) 15.

2. It is fine to exclude necessary expenses eg petrol, groceries, pet food, etc, when it comes to deciding what is and isn't an NSD. It is also completely fine to exclude automated or recurring payments such as bills, mortgage or direct debits.

3. It does help to post every time you notch up an NSD, or at least every two or three days ... it's easy to lose track! If you want to keep track of your NSDs in your MSE signature, that can be really motivating too

4. It also helps to bookmark the thread, it's much easier to find

5. NSDs are trickier than they seem and easily derailed. It makes the challenge much easier if you notch up as many as you can in the first half of the month.

May

Off to a start =

5 days =

10 days =

15 days =

20 days =

Target reached =

Target beaten =

cathybird · 30 April 2022 at 2:32PM

May targets

beanielou 15

bekah89 15

cathybird 15

Cheesephetamine 15

Crazycatlady2 12

dinglefoot

GeorgianaCavendish 16

Honeysucklelou2

jammy dodger 18

LittleMissDetermined 13

Money Choices

Ms Green

QueenJess 12

sazzles01234 15

short bird 15

Sun Addict 10

WinterWarrior 15

xanderaw

Newcomers welcome

Crazycatlady2 · 30 April 2022 at 3:28PM

Ok so I’m a newbie looking to join if that’s ok. We are having a massive shift in our household in may as hubby is going from self employed to employed so for first time in several years I’ll have a fixed income date rather than just the 4 weekly benefits payments coming in.

So I’ll not include DD or my weekly Tesco delivery as spends for this and I also don’t think I’ll include spending on kids behalf when they are transferring me the money.

looking for tips that help others as with 5 of us someone always wants/needs something and don’t always think ahead but I’m hoping I can manage at least 12

cathybird · 30 April 2022 at 4:15PM

hi Crazycatlady2

and welcome

I've added you to the list, best of luck with the challenge!

GeorgianaCavendish · 30 April 2022 at 5:22PM

Loving the emojis!

Cheesephetamine · 30 April 2022 at 5:30PM

Oh! I’m joining this as my first ever challenge! My goal is 15. I exclude regular bills (energy, council tax, etc), pet food and our groceries.

I really shouldn’t be spending anything at all so hopefully a challenge will help!

cathybird · 30 April 2022 at 8:19PM

hi Cheesephetamine

and welcome to you too

Best of luck with the challenge! I hope it's helpful

short_bird · 30 April 2022 at 11:44PM

15 again, thanks!

Cheesephetamine · 1 May 2022 at 6:59AM

So it’s officially May! I’m excited for this challenge I hope the accountability will help me not spend on things that I don’t need! Do we do daily updates? With what we spent or not? Happy beautiful May everyone. It’s my bday month. Taurus ♉️ ❤️

cathybird · 1 May 2022 at 10:48AM

GeorgianaCavendish said:

Loving the emojis!

Thank you Georgiana

xx

cathybird · 1 May 2022 at 10:49AM