No-Spend November - sign up for a frugal month ahead!

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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!

Have been posting rarely the past few weeks but I'm back and focused again!
MissA hope you get sorted soon.
Spent £85 on food today but apart from a few fresh bits that should be it for 2 weeks now. Have got beef casserole in one slow cooker, jacket potatoes in the other ready to go on in the morning for tomorrow's tea. Should be enough beef to make a pie later in the week.

LSD here today - just £7.60 on Tube fares. However, I've got to pay the gas and electricity bills later this week, so it's going to be a bad month overall.

I HATE food tech!
A last minute trip to the co op for bloody sun dried tomatoes.

Yes Fluffy which is why I was driving 40km each way to get things that need to kept chilled. In one of the big name stores here I found warm bacon in the fridge, clearly just moved out of the store room to the shop floor, and the same with milk. I don't mean not quite cold enough I mean actually warm to the touch like it's been cooked and is cooling down. Also loads of icicles in the freezer display where it's defrosted and been re-frozen.

I'm hoping this new branch of my preferred store is up to standard, seems okay so far.

Spent £5.50 on a whole chicken to cut up for a couple of meals and £3 on veg.

Will catch up properly later/tomorrow. DD1 has classmates here for study, I plan feeding them pasta from the freezer. Hoping for an NSD tomorrow.

£4.50 on Amazon for an Xmas gift for DD. I've been watching it on the Camelcamelcamel price alert for ages, usual price £7.99 or so, so I got a good price. Am delighted. That's 2 gifts I got for her now costing £8 together when the usual price would have been £18 for the 2.

How is a LSD defined?
And do you all just disregard what partners are spending?

Also, whoever wanted to have a family organiser. Aldi is selling them on Thursday for £3.99. Think I will get one. As well as a dressing gown to keep warm in the mornings.

I don't count what dh spends but we keep seperate accounts.

MrsHuxstableReturns thanks for the tip off about the Aldi family organiser I will be having a look when I do this weeks food shop.

At work all day and working all evening so NSD

This morning £7 for a taxi to retrieve my car after yesterday's kunch out, but that is about half the cost a 7 seater would gave been yesterday.

Lunch £4.79, doughnuts for the 3DC after dancing 90p, but I got back £7.50 towards DS's travel to the show.

Unfortunately I need to buy white dancing shoes for DS for the show at the end of the month, I have asked in our Facebook if anyone has secondhand ones to sell. Also need tap shoes for DS, but another mum thinks she has some for me.

I don't count what dh spends either thats how today is a nsd for me, he got milk at the shop

Made a big vat of soup yesterday, thats lunch for me for most of the week & for ds one or two days too
Took out ingredients from freezer for quiche that I froze a few weeks ago only gotta add eggs & cheese tomo so quick & frugal dinner

Good luck Girlie

Good luck girlie!

Should be a nsd today as I'm working.

Thinking of you today girlie :o

I'm never too sure about counting what DH spends - as sometimes he will be getting something I've asked him to! So at the moment I'm just counting what I spend (or what DH and I spend together if we both go to the shop for example) but not DH on his own. I'm thinking of trying the writing my spends for a full month (I've done it a bit before but often forget stuff or full days) and then if it makes a difference I'll get DH to do it too.

just checked my banking and forgot one spend from Sat €27 on detangling spray for dd's hair. This was actually a bargain because I got two bottles of salon shampoo included as they were christmas giftset, the same amount of detangling spray on its own is €30.

Child Benefit just in so divvying it up for the various things its got to cover.

Won €20 in Gaa Lotto so now I've enough for my Berndes Cast Iron Casserole dish from Tesco, have saved two €10 vouchers from a survey site and it costs €45 worth €140. I've coveted a cast iron casserole dish for years now but everytime they came up in Aldi I had my sensible head on and said I don't actually need one. Well now it's covered from bonus money I'm getting it. I'll pay the remaining €5!

I take both our spend but we also have joint account and I'm the banker of the family.
Going to Chinese supermarket today and a quick squirrel in Ikea.
We have to bring the dessert and dessert gift for Christmas so need to find a thing that 5 generations would like

Yay lilac! A win is always good. I'm waiting for a £20 voucher to be emailed but it's not arrived yet, wondering if I should email MN (it was an insight panel one)

Aaaargh DD is desperate to go on school dinners. It's £2.25 a day so much more money than packed lunches although I haven't worked out exactly how much. The weekly shop will be cheaper I guess and I can't deny the convenience would be good (although it's DH that does them before I get up) and less washing up of Tupperware etc. DH wants to try it for the rest of the term (could start from the 17th) it'd be £45 til Xmas as I've already booked Fridays anyway. So that's doable but it's such a lot of money long term given that we've just had a big reduction in tax credits.

can I join you guys? I desperately need to cut my spending, want to clear my overdraft! im rubbish when it comes to impulse buys, my weaknesses are reduced aisles in shops and eBay!!

for example today I went into Tesco for bread and milk ended up buying reduced toys... am going to take them back though!

November is quite expensive for us as got my sisters 18th this weekend, and my eldest dd bday later in the month. doing her a party but hoping to keep it under £80 in total (hall is 45)

NSD today. That's two of my four for the week. I really like the sound of the errand day as I think this will definitely help me save. I have too many shops conveniently located and popping out to get a bag of flour turns into more so easily. I'm going to try to only shop on the days I choose and if it isn't in the house on a non shopping day I will have to make do without it.

fuzzpig will that mean that she won't be eating dinner in the evenings, having just a supper?

nocutsnobutts I found doing up a spreadsheet of my debt and recording it reducing and some savings going up, using the principles of ynab without actually using the package, some glitch means I can't get it working on my phone, maybe at christmas holidays I might have the patience to sit down and figure it out what the issue is.

I've come to the stage I think long and hard before I buy something, mainly because of following this thread. And as a result have only used my credit card twice since April.

Not sure lilac, could work it that way I guess. Dinner ATM is usually pasta or jacket spud or stir fry type stuff and they only eat small portions.

DS gets FSM anyway as he's in yr1.

Made £51 on e bay :)
But then had to spend £7 at the co op on stuff I forgot last night!
Hoping that's it for spending on food this week...
Dh away next week so theoretically we should spend less on food next week.
Off to aldi again on Friday.
Ds2 is starting gymnastics lessons tomorrow...no idea how much that will be but at least you only pay on a weekly basis so if you miss a week you don't pay.
He is also starting swimming but fil pays for that :)

£41.80 today for DD's activities! That's £37.80 for a term of toddler type thing and £4 for today's gymnastics. Hopefully that's it.

NSD for me. I am so bored today, I seriously need to get a job .