No Buy Year

Slowdown

Hurrah for tea. The saviour of many a wayward spender 😁

YORKSHIRELASS

Spent £7.92 in Lidl today and £56 on coal, both necessary.  DH and I use the Alexa shopping list very successfully and I was passing the supermarket and saw there were a few things we needed so called in.  I also redeemed a free voucher that I had, 79p saved but it all helps.

Reading my library book in front of the fire tonight so no temptation to go online shopping.  The last half of this month is going to be tight but it is manageable if we are careful. 

Fizzy11

I’ve just found this thread and so far this year I’ve kept repeating the phrase I don’t need anything but then I realise what I’ve already bought this year. However I’m ashamed to say I overbought sweets for Christmas not things. My GC 4 & 6 already have so much so we didn’t add to the plastic pile but bought wisely. The only ‘waste’ of money was a newer Kindle as the original one was starting to hurt my eyes. My D always buys me secondhand books for my birthday, December, and Christmas. I have always encouraged this as she’s on a very limited budget.
Good luck everyone and I suppose if it cuts our spending down it can only be good. 

Worlds_Worst_Superhero

Tuesday- another No Buy Day 

Wednesday- Later today I'm going to go through the fridge, freezer and cupboards and making a list of what we have. Then use this to make a meal plan for the week and shopping list ready for tomorrow's food shop.

bouicca21

Well I bought the posh sausages and am now resolved that the rest of the month I will make up for it by living out of the freezer and cupboards only buying fresh veg and fruit.  

Rosa_Damascena

bouicca21 said:

Well I bought the posh sausages and am now resolved that the rest of the month I will make up for it by living out of the freezer and cupboards only buying fresh veg and fruit.  

We have another 14 days of this miserable month to go, the odd unplanned treat won't hurt and could bring a lot of happiness.

I am not a fan of January (can you tell?) and this cold spot is having a particularly adverse impact on me. My electric blankets are my saviours!

Watty1

I have spent.  I bought a head torch for WattyDog as he can wear it round his neck when walking in the dark. I think this was justified as essential safe item and the one he has is broken and many a dark night i have wondered why he is not moving in a field only to find he light has come off his collar or has simply stopped working. It was rechargable but the charge was only lasting 30 mins and we walk back via dark road so i felt essential. I'm allowing

I also bought myself insoles on recommendation of physio.  Again allowable as is a health spend.  

It is hard having a no spend year but my list of categories where I can spend is enough to stop me feeling deprived.  The head torch was a hard one though as I kept thinking the old one "would so" then getting exasperated when it stopped working

YORKSHIRELASS

Hi all

Feeling rather pleased with myself.  I went to buy deicer in a local shop today and they had some smart little lunch boxes with three compartments and a sticker that said only £3.49 MUST GO.  I actually picked one up then reminded myself that we have loads of tupperware boxes and I don't need another box, so put it back.

I have calculated that we are going to be short of funds for what needs to go out for the rest of this month.  I will have to shuffle funds around and be very careful. 

SecondStar

15/17 NSDs so far.

Purchases have been - £35 at Homebase, for paint stripper & colour sample pots, on Sat 6th before I’d fully mentally settled into a low-spend year; £6 in charity shops on a linen table cloth and a necklace, which will both be used for my main hobby which is viking age reenactment, on Sat 13th.

I had been so good about avoiding charity shops, but my partner needed to get another pair of jeans for working at the forge, and we both prefer to buy secondhand. Both the tablecloth and the beads were faaaar cheaper than their equivalents would be, if they were bought new. They’ll also be used from spring to autumn, for the reenactment events season.

Rosa_Damascena

SecondStar said:

15/17 NSDs so far.

Purchases have been - £35 at Homebase, for paint stripper & colour sample pots, on Sat 6th before I’d fully mentally settled into a low-spend year; £6 in charity shops on a linen table cloth and a necklace, which will both be used for my main hobby which is viking age reenactment, on Sat 13th.

I had been so good about avoiding charity shops, but my partner needed to get another pair of jeans for working at the forge, and we both prefer to buy secondhand. Both the tablecloth and the beads were faaaar cheaper than their equivalents would be, if they were bought new. They’ll also be used from spring to autumn, for the reenactment events season.

That's a high rate! I was congratulating myself on 2 NSDs in a row but am resetting my boundaries having read your post

I am not going to start depriving myself if stuff that I actually need fort the sake of maintaining a NSD. OTOH its all the micro-purchases - a few quid here and there - that I want rather than need that make up the bulk of my spending outside of bills. The easiest way of going about this is staying in I'm afraid!