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NSD - No spend day
LSD - low spend day

We are a friendly and supportive bunch, recording our spends, frugal wins and frugal fails daily/when we can. Lots of good tips on discount vouchers, household cleaning and maintenance, cheap meals and more!

Just spent (in audible amount) on tickets to barclaycard british summertime in hyde park. It'll be for my birthday.

Hello so ystd was a NSD, was at work all day and babysat for a friend in the evening so no chance to spend today have nothing planned (which is not like me) so good chance of a NSD again! Have got lots of boring housework I should be getting on with though - rubbish!

I should be doing housework too but all I've managed so far is putting a load of washing on. Haven't even washed up

I'm still in my dressing gown. Dh describes the colour as pensioner purple.

I hang washing out in it and everything.

fluffy I feed hens & cats & put on washing in mind. It's spotty.
€10 henfood €30 diesel and €3 on strawberries

very, very, very spendy today but I am not buying anything else for Christmas:

£26.40 on family stocking fillers
£200.00 on kids Christmas presents - Christmas is now done
just need to get Christmas wine now- hurrah :)

NSD so far. Am filling bags for charity shop and tip, DH will carry to car this afternoon and we'll purge. Can't wait! Sent off bag of dried goods to the food bank to clear space for xmas and make me feel mostly soups, custards etc.

Listening to carols, don't care if it's too early

Peonies on Monday I'll be getting out my Christmas carols piano book :o can't wait!

Yesterday:

£4.10 bus
£5.10 book for DS for Xmas
£8.80 lunch
£10 thorntons (partly on advent calendars)
£10.40 sainsburys on dinner stuff etc
£22.98 hmv (Xmas presents)

Had to get some bits for a food activity I ran at work but I get to keep the leftovers so not so bad really!

£30 at the Post Office sending presents! Begrudge spending my weekend doing housework but I am too tired during the week. Grrr...

A very boring day, but have done some hoovering, dusted my bedroom and done some washing. Now having a sit down with a - more than enough tidying for one day Harry Potter is on which is making me feel a bit Christmassy

Am thinking I might have a day out at Bath Christmas market next wend, would be about £30 for me and dd on the train which I didn't think was too bad, could take a fair bit of food with us but would have to take a set amount of money with us so don't go too mad on all the stalls!!

When is everyone else putting their tree up then?!

My tree will go up on the 13th. We have a real one and I usually take it down the day after Boxing Day!

My sister lives in bath. The market was in the news last year because it was so busy it was dangerous, we were meant to go but were ill.

Spendy day here - Saturdays always are. Food shop £115, including a couple of presents. Money for babysitter tonight so we can go out and plan Christmas without constant interruption from DD. We also promised her a bike for Christmas so need to go out and get that this coming week.

We're planning to put our tree up in two weeks' time. Don't want the needles to drop before Christmas.

Tree up mid December but we always try to get one that doesn't drop its needles. Just one more Christmas present to get now! I do love this time of year.

Me too collie but I really want another baby and dh and said no. Hope your cousin is ok

Today I have spent £9.99 on cat litter, £4 on some nibbles for some friends coming round. I have also spent £29.99 on upgrading my phone and set up a £19.99 per month contract as my special overdraft pay off reward. I have been using a £10 pay as you go talk and text cheapy for years and it is really time I got with the times and got a smart phone. You would never guess I work in web development and digital transformation would you :o

I am very old fashioned about Christmas decorations and tree. I refuse to have anything up before Christmas eve and it all comes down on twelfth night. We have dmil coming over to look after dd on christmas eve so will be leaving them lots of decorations and craft things for doing the house with while we are at work :)

we have a treeeeeeee! It's standing in the living room but not decorating until tomorrow as we need lights. Smells amazing and wintery already!

I ended up buying myself a dressing gown, DH a dressing gown (Xmas gift) and a box of candles (Xmas gift), so not an NSD after all BUT it came to less than half of a refund I received today for unused ferry ticket, so not too shabby.

DH bought me Tatler to read while he cooks me dinner I love reading about the crazy posh people. It's like going to the zoo, in your living room.

Our tree will be coming inside tomorrow (lives in a pot in the garden for the rest of the year!) and then we'll pick an evening next week to decorate it. Festivities start on Monday for me! (still a bit early for DH!) I will be eating my first mince pice of the season - has anyone tried the Iceland ones? I'm intrigued!