Hey guys!
I haven’t visited the thread since last week and now I see I’ve missed 6 pages of posts, must do better.
Had a busy weekend as it was my youngest child’s 18th Birthday, so now we have no children - just young adults. Not sure how I feel about it, I loved having small children, but now I’m excited for them to reach the next stages in their lives and grow, making their own way and choices. so I guess it’s mixed emotions.
Friday was relatively expensive prepping for the birthday itself, sat and sun both LSD and yesterday NSD, today I have a hair appointment so will be around £90, I’ve budgeted for that and it’ll come out of one of my pots, so won’t affect my everyday bank balance. Planning on further NSD’s Wednesday and Thursday too.
So far I’m doing well on my no/low spend Jan, I’ve sold some stuff on Vinted and made around £75, I have replaced a top that was too big with the same one in a smaller size via Vinted also, I kind of feel that this is against the rules but I’m ok with that. Still have quite a few things to list but it’s a slow process. There have been many online baskets filled over the past two weeks that I’ve managed to abandon, so the urge to buy things is still there, I’m just (somehow) managing to resist checking out. I’ve started a list on my phone of things I want/need so I can review it in a few months and see if I’m still interested, so far it consists of a shower speaker, new pasta bowls, a cashmere bandana and some bedding.
Made soup yesterday so that’s lunch sorted for dd2 and I, no idea about dinner yet, I’ll see what’s in the freezer or possibly make some kind of pasta. Eating down the freezer is going well too, still have loads to get through, was hoping for a cut price turkey after Christmas but no luck there, I did pick up two ham joints for a fiver each in M&S last week which was a bonus.
Back on track with the healthy eating, which is a relief as I felt I’d lost the plot and would struggle to cut down, I’d practically had the whole of December off and ate whatever I wanted.
Anyway I hope all posters here are having a good week so far, January is such a long month, feel like we should be approaching Feb, payday for me isn’t until 30 Jan so I suppose that’s part of the reason it’s dragging.
Apologies for long rambling posts on here, I find it a good place to air my thoughts and seeing them written down really helps.
Have a great frugal day everyone 😊😊