No spend October

[purplepigs]

I have successful had 'no alcohol' September and I am suggesting no spend October - who's in ?????

Gothefcktosleep

NSD rules.
Definitely helps hearing everyone's inputs.
I am home now for the evening so can't see me spending anything now

^Decorative plant?????? Was it a bargain though or a full price item.
^
Friends of mine went for lunch today but I choose lunch at my desk

Pennies make pounds !

Purplepigs you are doing well.
I had a NSD today.

80p on milk today

Forgot my breakfast at home yesterday so £1.99 on a sandwich. Otherwise a NSD today too (I had lunch with a contact today but it's on expenses so I don't think it really counts!)

Great to hear how everyone's doing. I agree Purplepigs that it really helps :)

Today I picked up some protein bars and ingredients for homemade chicken soup ..... so it wasn't a NSD for me today but they were a necessity as I have a stinking cold - on the plus side went to Sainsburys and avoided buying anything in the home aisle although we saw some lovely bits :-( sad face

@purplepigs hope you feel better soon.
I had my online grocery shop delivered and I had to buy petrol. Total spend £60.

@RoseMartha thank you.
I feel better after my homemade chicken soup - how crazy that something so simple works so well.

I am hoping for a NSD today. Although just had a statement through that my Argos card is due...... mmmm £10.00 spent !!!!!!!!

Happy NSD everyone !

Unexpected expense day. DH’s auntie died this morning sadly so £31 on flowers to the family.

£8.95 on a personalised santa’s Sack for the baby - saving £15 and includes P&P so bargain!

NSD Saturday for tomorrow we shop.

@gothefcktosleep sorry to hear that :-(
Bargain Christmas sack though!
NSD for me today.
Chicken soup for dinner ..... thinking soup might be a cheap alternative for quick dinners ...... hhhhmmmm

Thoughts?

Soup lovely alternative but make sure it’s got enough stuff in it and you have bread, soup always makes me really hungry!

@gothefcktosleep yep! Bread is a definite.

So it's Friday of our No spend October!
Who gonna be tempted by a naughty work lunch or a takeaway after work .... ?

Anyone?

I'm failing really badly! Wednesday was a food shop so I suppose that could be classed as essential spending.
My Dad turns 65 this month so I got a couple of presents and cards for him yesterday, plus a few things that we needed like new tights and bedding.
Hoping today will be a NSD.

Ooh, i’m Going to join in today. Love these threads. My office is fab for NSD as it’s literally in the middle of nowhere with the nearest shop about a mile away and I don’t drive. My previous office was in the city centre so loads of temptation. Does £5 on DS’s pocket money count as expenditure? It’s all accounted for. Other than that should be a NSD but will update.

@purple

DH and I are on a self enforced austerity drive thanks to DD’s nursery fees. It means I’ve put a stop to our pizza takeaway nights... and replaced them with buying shop bought pizza with the big shop instead - still something to look forward to!

Although he’s demanded (joking) garlic bread tonight so my shopping list is now:

• sweets for friend’s children as she’s giving me a HUGE bag of her DD’s clothes £5
• Primark voucher for DNiece birthday £20
• garlic bread 80p
• bacon for the morning £1.80
• part-bake bread 41p

Absolutely loving this thread. It’s therapeutic writing it all down!

We are at my mum’s tomorrow so should be NSD. Sunday we’ve been invited for a roast dinner... i’d rather go for just drinks but we haven’t seen these guys in ages so the expense is nearly justified...

Errrrr... oh no! Spending went a little awry today.

£2 on shampoo
£5 babygrow
£6 Halloween outfit
£6 gift for friend’s little girl, £4 on sweets for her other kids, £3.50 on chocs for her

I don’t know whether to take the Halloween outfit back as we’re not even doing anything for it?!

£4 train fare

10p bottle of water in poundstretcher

Today we had a few home visits to do and on the way back to office my colleague wanted to pop into Sainsbury's for a bottle of water she said .... ended up coming out with a bag full. I stayed in the car and read the news instead which resulted in me spending NOTHING !!!! Lunch I brought in and ate at my desk.
After work was going to take a walk around town but decided to go home and use my time wisely and cleaned the bathrooms !

NSD for me.

£1 i needed a sweet fix and got three bags of kiddie sweets in tesco. Only ate one bag for me though. I blame my boss as he sent me out the office 15 mins early to drop all the mail at the post office which is next door to tescos.

Right... NSD Saturday...

Today we went for Sunday lunch. Bit mortified I didn’t realise it was going to be one of those lunches and the expected £25/30 for two of us was actually £66.60 🙄 which is just over my budget for the week going forward.

Taking back the babygrow and Halloween outfit I bought in the week as she doesn’t need them - especially after being giving a big bag of nearly new hand me downs at the weekend so that will be £11 back in the pot.

My no spend weekend was going so well ..... until I went into Wilko this afternoon and we spent £32 on cleaning stuff !!!!

I love cleaning so very much but it was suppose to be a no spend weekend !!!!

Are cleaning things .... and quite a lot of them - is that allowed ??????

Technically they’re “needed” items??

I love a bit of Wilko but probably lucky I don’t have one near me!

Finally had a NSD yesterday!
Today won't be one, but hoping tomorrow will be.

Well done 6 o’clock!

I’m NSD ysdy, today, could make through to tomorrow/Thursday potentially...

Cooking mainly out of the cupboards and freezer this week as both pretty chocker.

Right... I’m on my third NSD.

It’s running out pretty quickly as I need some food for the house 😂 we had tinned fruit for breakfast!

Brought milk n cereal today
Tinned fruit for breakfast.... how did that go?

It needed yogurt or something... I used to eat it all the time.

I’m running my cupboards and freezer down for reasons that aren’t clear to me yet, but DH has a cold (very serious man flu) and is refusing dairy products so it’s all I had to offer him.