Glad the site is back up - I've been having withdrawals!
Staying home again today - Payday tomorrow and I've managed to keep the £20 odd we've had in the bank since the middle of last week. So we won't go overdrawn. Feels like a victory.
Kids are moaning that there isn't anything to eat in the house - it's because they've eaten it all. So the last of the bread was used for lunch and all the fruit and biscuits have gone too. Tesco replaced the small ham joint I ordered last week with a huge gammon joint, so that's cooking in the slow cooker right now, I'll use half for tea and freeze the other half.
Tomorrow we are in Disneyland Paris for the day, so I've given dh a list of bits to pick up from Lidl and the pound shop to take with us for snacks and breakfast when we arrive in the morning. We were going to have a late lunch/dinner at a buffet restaurant there but now I'm thinking I might opt for a McDonalds instead, it won't be as good but the restaurant would cost near to 100E whilst McD's will cost about 25 Euro.
What are your best tips for controlling the impulse buys and excessive spending? I've got a short list of things I'd really like to buy, nothing majorly expensive £50 max - but I feel like my impulse buys of cheaper things all add up and prevent me from having enough spare cash to buy the things that I really want. It's shops like Home Bargains that I go into for toilet roll or dishwasher tabs and come out £50 lighter with a load of random stuff that I never knew I wanted or needed. The other thing that I do far too often is compromise and buy something that I didn't really want but that's cheaper that the one I do, for instance I wanted a jacket in black, green was £10 cheaper so I got that as it was a bargain, but I've hardly ever worn it because it doesn't match the rest of my clothes. If I'd have spent the extra £10 I would have a jacket that was worn loads.
I think I need to get my head around all of these 'false' bargains - it's only a bargain if you really want it, isn't it?