The Spendaholics Anonymous Thread!

jennyred

good morning roomies

member number 8 checking in

no compulsive spends for me this week. and am on nights from tonight so will not be spending anything for the next week either!

feeling very positive at the moment.
-have started an ISA putting in £200 per month
-decided that I will pay off creditcard with savings
-weightloss to date - 14lb in 5 weeks
-OH have decided where we are getting married!! palm island in the grenadines (near barbados) - its perfect, private island, just 37 rooms (private huts with own private beach), no one under the age of 16 allowed - am soooooo excited. gonna plan for march 2010, so plan to be debt free before then and have enough savings in ISA to pay my half.

feel like I am walking on air
who cares that I am working 87.5 hours this week - not me!!!:j

loopylu36

-weightloss to date - 14lb in 5 weeks



Wow!!!That's fantastic! What diet are you on??!!

iamashoppingaddict

loopylu36 wrote: »

-weightloss to date - 14lb in 5 weeks



Wow!!!That's fantastic! What diet are you on??!!

Ditto!!!! *crosses fingers and hopes that wonder diet involves eating chocolate and crisps and left over easter eggs*

PS Don't go to Tescos, my local one has a half price sale at the moment. I now have four pairs of the same type of jeans!!! *cries*

jennyred

am doing the slimming world diet but am trying not to use any sins.
am doing it with a friend so I have lots of support
also a couple of legs, bums and tums classes a week will help (if they dont kill me first!)

also just to point out that I have a lot to lose - 4 stone in total - 3 now!

iamashoppingaddict

*sighs* I wish I could do slimming world, all the weighing and measuring does my head in and OH doesn't like veg so I'd have to cook something seperate for him!

Little_Chicken

compulsivespender79 wrote: »

Deary me, what has been going on here for

erm, £26 on coathangers?????? I'm shocked!

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BUT they're padded and embroidered with lovely buzzing bees. And they have made me iron, so it's a positive purchase;) Have ironed again today, and sorted out the shelves in my wardrobe - releasing a few more things for ebay. I'm not ALL bad...:p

Little_Chicken

jennyred wrote: »

am doing the slimming world diet but am trying not to use any sins.
am doing it with a friend so I have lots of support
also a couple of legs, bums and tums classes a week will help (if they dont kill me first!)

also just to point out that I have a lot to lose - 4 stone in total - 3 now!

AND I saw you were sorting out an ISA on one of the other boards. Is one of our number turning sensible on us?!?!!?:rotfl:

jennyred

Little_Chicken wrote: »

AND I saw you were sorting out an ISA on one of the other boards. Is one of our number turning sensible on us?!?!!?:rotfl:

your right
am a traitor.

***runs away and hides from all the shouting***

GeenyWeeny

Hey all, just carrying on the compusive spending posts.

When I was a uni, I had no money, which made me want to buy things even more. Is it just me or when you have money, u can't find anything you want to buy, but when you have none suddenly everything seems so tempting!

Well.. I ran up a debt of £8000 in 2 years whilst at uni. I had two student overdrafts, credit cards, store cards, I just had to spend money - because I had none. I even went to measures such as getting a store card at Jessops, buying £250 digital cameras, £350 video cameras, etc, immediately selling them on ebay so I can have the cash!

This sent me into a spiral of depression, I was seeing a psychiatrist who diagnosed me with OCD, shock horror, I was a compulsive spender!

Just to add to it all, around the same time, I walked into a car dealership, and bought a £8000 car on finance, with no deposit, still a student and a 8 hour per week job - could I afford the repayments? of course not! i couldn't even afford to insure it, let alone run it.

I was stupid, and now i'm paying for it.

Funny though, that was 4 years ago, i'm a total little saver now thanks to all you guys on here

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sohurt

Thanks for my number guys Number 37 checking in then! :roftl:

Well, no uneccessary spends for me (well, not really)

Got paid the other day... and so far all I have done is put petrol in the car and bought a print card up at the uni for some things I needed printed (£25 for petrol and £10 print card).

Some of you might see this as uneccessary but I don't lol.. I have to go to Belfast to get my Visa for going to America, so phoned and booked that ($131 - £75? ) for the 16th May. Phoned my friend and she said 'why don't we make a weekend of it'? So, booked flights today, for the two of us £100. (£50 each), she has paid on her debit card and I've to give her the money whenever. She can also get discounts on hotels so it's not too expensive, and not until May anyway so plenty of time.

On the down side, I spilt red paint all over my mums living room carpet (BEIGE) so have the insurance excess to pay on that: £125.

Also need to pick up my cd player for my car which has been sitting in Ford for 3 months - £120.

Owe one of my friends £40 for show tickets.

SO no money to spend on myself! I even resisted going to Tesco late last night! :rotfl:
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