How much money have you spent today?

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Just being nosey!
£152 weekly shop in Tesco
£129 DS’s main birthday present
£25 soft play
Was going to stock up on my skincare (been substituting with cheap stuff for a few months) this evening but feel like I might need to hold that off now.

£881 on a mattress
£45 on some aus wooli boots

my mattress is about 13 years old and overdue for a change

Oh fair enough. I haven't bought a 250ml glass of wine for ages as I rarely drink now (due to medication) so if I do it's just a (boring) small glass! 🙇🏻‍♀️

Just looked online at my local '& yep £8.40-£13 for 250ml.

probably just as well I can't really drink anymore🙇🏻‍♀️ the price of a latte is bad enough🙇🏻‍♀️

Today I spent £3.50 on bus fares

After nil on Saturday and Sunday, £60.03 on petrol (1.24 !!!!!!!), £62.50, including a large Shiraz at the Holiday Inn, £64.50ish, top up shop at Sainsbury, £3.60 Americano after the dental hygienist at £75.00. - £250 plus! Meeting a friend for coffee tomorrow, so it will be at least a tenner on coffee and parking!

Zero spend for me today , I did debate about a Greggs delivery but decided it wasn’t needed - sick pay runs out this month but mortgage now paid off so getting head around my new budget

Nothing spent today or yesterday.

Being unwell with a nasty virus is good for wallet!

£30.19 Life insurance
£72.49 Gym/Swimming lessons
£9.99 Ring doorbell button replacements
£67 Groceries

£131 weekly shop.
£4.50 train ticket.

£50 on the mot. Car passed so I’m happy.

£45 on books for DD1’s boyfriend’s birthday.
£30 on new bathroom scales - to see if the weight training I’m doing is increasing my feeble muscles.

£80 on a mani and pedi (which I do about once a year)
£6 on ingredients
£4 on parking
I had a voucher for my clothes shop. Lucky me.

£160 ocado food shop
£35 in Sainsbury’s on my way home from the gym as I had forgotten a few bits plus ds needed stuff for food tech.
£8 for my book club book

I was about to say nothing and then remembered I impulsively ordered a sweater earlier online. Goddamit! I was doing so well!

I spent £6 in Greggs on mine and DS lunch and also £6 on bus fare 😆

£5 on uv pens to mark bikes. Very dull

-£7.96 ... Vinted completed on £12 of sales and I bought £4.04. (I've gone from 18 to 6 so it's the only thing I can justify spending money on 😂).

I did do the Sainsburys order for £64 but it's not due til Thursday so I'm not counting that.

£22.44 in Asda on formula, potatoes, coconut milk, maltesers, washing up liquid, milk and veg stock.

Scrumptious puppy

Exercise is really not free. Maybe walking and open water swimming. I love exercise and my yearly costs are triathlon club membership, gym membership (cheaper than paying per swim/class), bike maintenance, running shoes, race entries ( doing T100 in London in July). Triathlon is pricey as sports go, but very little is actually free.

Reading is only free in the library, which I am a member of, but not all books I want to read are there.

I can understand no/low spend with a specific saving goal or debt, do you not treat yourself to the occasional purchase?

Yesterday

£103 on the weekly shop

£275 at Boots Opticians..... really not ideal at the start of the month but my prescription has changed so I really did need new glasses.

£4 at Costa as I needed a sit down after the Opticians visit 🤣

£20 on craft stuff......wool, latch hook etc.

£3.60 parking at the hospital for my son’s eye appointment
£77.95 on diesel for the car
£6.32 two cheesy bacon flatbreads (one for me, one for DS) and a large caramel frappé (for me), total was reduced as used points on the app
Shouldn’t spend any more today, unless I get carried away ok Vinted later (quite likely!)

£18.88 at the Co-op. Lager, chicken, taco shells, sour cream, lettuce, two small bottles of wine.

It's tacos for dinner obviously! I usually would only shop at Aldi, but we have a bunch of road closures and what used to be a quick pop into Aldi on the way home from the school run now involves a 7 mile diversion. So the Co-op it is.

I walk for exercise so technically I need some good walking boots but I’m not buying them every day
Reading for us is free either by using the library or because we always get lots of books for birthdays and Christmas.
I have shelves full and still catching up

We live semi rural so popping out isn’t just a matter of walking down the road so incidental spends are rare

We have a couple of days arranged this month to go to National Trust properties ( £1each tickets ) for dhs birthday. We’ll have something to eat there to support the Trust esp as the tickets were practically free

but generally we spend very little and have never been huge consumers. I hate shopping but if we need something we have to go out and buy it. I’m the sort of person that if the soles have fallen off my boots and can’t be repaired I’ll buy three new pairs all the same all at once.

£39.56 for the weekly shop in Lidl

Yesterday I spent…
£74 petrol
£20 leaving donation for work
£12 lunch contribution (we got a big takeaway and all chipped in)
£4 kindling
£18 Tescos top up of a couple of bits