Awesome August's NSD Challenge!

cathybird · 31 July 2022 at 10:35AM

This challenge is about setting yourself a weekly/monthly target of how many No Spend Days you would like to achieve during August. 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.

August

Off to a start =

5 days =

10 days =

15 days =

20 days =

Target reached =

Target beaten =

cathybird · 31 July 2022 at 10:35AM

August targets

Adeley 10

beanielou 15

bekah89

cathybird 15

CMD79 15

Crazycatlady2 15

Elisheba

GeorgianaCavendish 10

Honeysucklelou2

jammy dodger 15

Keedie 10

LittleMissDetermined 10

mmereeshar

Money Choices

QueenJess 12

sazzles01234

short bird 15

sunshine raincloud

Tahlullah.H 15

Viki2410

WinterWarrior

Newcomers welcome

Keedie · 31 July 2022 at 10:46AM

Hi @cathybird thanks for doing this thread, it really is appreciated. I just completely failed at July 2022 so starting afresh can you please put me down for 10 days in August. Thanks x

Crazycatlady2 · 31 July 2022 at 11:16AM

Going to be a busy month, DH changing jobs, eldest finishing part time job to start an apprenticeship, step dad here firing new bathroom, mum busting for my 40th and 2 eldest children away for a few days then back as school starts argh must try not to spend other than what is actually needed

beanielou · 31 July 2022 at 9:26PM

Thanks as always for the shiny new thread @cathybird

Adeley · 31 July 2022 at 11:10PM

Happy new thread! Thanks for setting this up Cathy. Let the NSD games commence 😉

CMD79 · 1 August 2022 at 7:42AM

Crazycatlady2 said:

Going to be a busy month, DH changing jobs, eldest finishing part time job to start an apprenticeship, step dad here firing new bathroom, mum busting for my 40th and 2 eldest children away for a few days then back as school starts argh must try not to spend other than what is actually needed

Good luck! It's your 40th too though, so around the busy days, enjoy yourself! It's a special month for you xxx

CMD79 · 1 August 2022 at 7:49AM

August eh?!

Well, thanks @cathybird again for setting this up/keeping us going! I only did a last few days, but the difference in not spending over the few days post pay day, will help me MASSIVELY in August, particularly as between pay days is a huge 33 days this month. Mentally though, having a load of money in my account for a few days, has also felt pretty good, if slightly nerve wracking.

I'm going on lots of little trips during August, so I need to make sure I don't spend on the days in between!

Good luck everyone!

beanielou · 1 August 2022 at 10:05AM

I too have a big birthday this month.
Had not thought of the whole of the month being special though!

Kicking off with no 1.

short_bird · 1 August 2022 at 1:30PM

Early call for day 1: this will probably be the only one for the next week.

cathybird · 1 August 2022 at 1:58PM