No spend January?

[corinewmoon]

After he festive blowout and considering ive got some big bills in January, (MOT, car tax, insurance) I have decided to try a no frivlous spending month. There is nothing i really need to buy, (apart from new school jumper and coat for DS) .
So I will be taking my lunch to work every day,
I will avoid costas,
and i will limit my self to one bottle of wine per week
I will aim to spend £200.00 on food shop for the month
I will not go for leisurely stroll to the shops during my lunch break.

Any one else want to join in. ?

£3.75 today in the fabric shop on bondaweb (iron-on fusible stuff), ricrac and a couple of oddments from the offcuts bn. In my defence, I'm repairing the rips in DS1's jeans like this which is fun for him! Ricrac is white, for Monster Teeth.

Need to go to library tomorrow and will, by then, owe 50p in fines, but couldn't face it today. I'm actually looking forward to my Aldi shop on saturday.

Fessing up to a spend today. In my defense, as a pregnant woman cravings sometimes just overtake your life. To that end have bought maple syrup ($4) for pancakes.

Also spent a further $5 on deodorant (also a must!!), Greek yogurt, bananas, and loaf of bread. I found out my baby is a boy as well so spent $5 on a gorgeous Ralph Lauren romper from EBay should have been $45. I did plan to spend on one outfit when I found out what flavor the baby was, and it's from eBay so pretty chuffed.

I am still v pleased with overall spend this month.

Ahhhh and my grandma has just given me $5 "just because" so you can cancel out the romper spend

Thanksmoomoo !

reshape I love that wonderweb stuff, I use it all the time for hemming being crap at sewing.

dinky sounds like a lovely few days & cheap too!!

A Blue littlefishie how lovely! Well done Great grandma to be !

Lovely news fishy. Congratulations on finding out you are having a boy. . And well done on your major find on Ebay...Ralph Lauren, no less. Excellent purchase. And what a lovely Grandma . Also, I absolve you of any blame, whatsoever, for the maple syrup ... not only, as a pregnant woman are your exempt, but maple syrup should be available on prescription .

Spent a mere 49p at the shop today (on maltesers for DS) but did spend £11.00 at the post office (Ebay sales again).

Boffin, you are quote of the week on Mumsnet Parenting News email .

It was the "hamster didn't have rectal prolapse... was all boy" quote. .

You are famous ...or infamous

Somebody needs to make a new thread, we are nearly out of space!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/credit_crunch/1387398-No-spend-January-Frugal-February-the-no-spend-challenge-continues

OK ladies. Hope you don't mind the title and please

meant to say - " please God this works".

Anyway, everyone this way please ...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/credit_crunch/1387398-No-spend-January-Frugal-February-the-no-spend-challenge-continues

[http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/credit_crunch/1387398-No-spend-January-Frugal-February-the-no-spend-challenge-continues?msgid=29584145#29584145 Like this RP!! ]

Bollox didn't work for me either......

Hmmm who broke the links hmmmmm???

Congrats on a blue baby fishy having 2 lovely DS's myself, I can say that boys are lovely

Thanks for all the crossed limbs etc, should hopefully know by the end of next week, so watch this space.........

Made some delicious banana muffins today and a rather yummy crumble, so that is puds taken care of for a while :)

mmmn yummy Leilandri

I had a load of going soft fruit yesterday, apples pears & bananas that I chopped up & stuck a crumble topping on, made loads one for tomorrow night & a small one for the freezer. lovely with custard.

10 posts to fill......we all hate waste!

WASTE

NOT

WANT

NOT

Thanks to corrine for starting this thread and getting us all started.

Come on over to the new one.

One more to go ...

See ya ... on the far side