Day 7 No Spend August / I,ve Shot Myself In The Foot

 


Today was Grocery day and all up I,ve managed to spend $70.00 plus $10.00 on a gadget for getting jars opened. Since the operation on my hands I,ve not got the strength to open anything up and so I,m hoping this will be money well spent. My freezer is full and so is my pantry and in normail circumstances I would be able to manage my no spends really well.


"BUT WAIT FOR IT"

I have just had the Mother and Father of all rows with my Hubby over the length of time my BFF will be spending at our house, and so I have booked us a couple of days away while she is here. I will tell you more tomorrow while Hubby is not around.

Day 7 No Spend August

$170.00 Still In Kitty

Breakfast ~ boiled Egg and Toast
Lunch ~ Homemade Burgers on a Bun
Dinner ~ Salmon and Salad And Chips
Snacks ~ Biscuits from Pantry.

Day 6 No Spend August / Did I Cheat Today ?

 

I,m wondering if it is considered cheating to allow someone to buy you lunch while you are not spending. This happened to me today, I met up with a close friend , although we are close friends we don,t actually live near to one another, and so we don,t meet up that often. My 60th Birthday is at the end of next week, so she insisted on paying for lunch as an early present, her 60th is in September and I will return the favour. I breathed a sigh of relief that all I spent today was $7.60 for two cups of coffee, but it,s niggling at the back of my mind that maybe I was too quick in allowing her to pay.

I watched an episode of Clean House the other day, the family were swamped in clutter, I had honestly never seen anything like it, but what stuck out for me was that because they never put anything away, and there seemed to be no shortage of money going into the home, they had piles of coins and notes lying around everywhere. At the end of the big clean-up they had found $5000.00 just lying around their home. So spurred on by that I checked down the couch, in some of my handbags and hubbies trouser pockets. And guess how much I found NOTHING !!!! not even a red cent. However I now have a tidier home.

Day 6 No spend August

$ 252.40 Still in the Kitty

Breakfast ~ Porridge ( yum )
Lunch ~ Bought by BFF
Dinner ~ Tuna casserole
Snacks ~ None today

Day 5 No Spend August / Chief Babysitter

 

Today I performed my all time favourite task that of Babysitter this time it was for my youngest Grandchild an 18 month old little girl, she has the biggest brownest eyes you have ever seen, and is a one girl comedy routine. She giggles all the time, and copies every word you say like a little Parrot, but her favourite saying just now is " no way " and then she flashes one of her broadest smiles. Who could be annoyed at this precious little one, who is so blissfully ignorant and innocent.

Because I was stuck home all day I never got the opportunity to spend any money so once again this was a no spend day. I,ve looked through a few blogs and there are a few of us out there doing an August no spend challenge, so I am going to draw on them for tips and motivation.

Once again my apologies to those of you who,s blogs I am following but have not added to my blog sidebar, I can,t remember how you do it and so I reach you through my dashboard.

Day 5 No Spend August

$270.00 still in the kitty

Breakfast ~ Tea and Toast
Lunch ~ Homemade Soup & Turkey Sandwich
Dinner ~ Curried Chicken & Rice
Snacks ~ Biscuits from Pantry

Day 4 No Spend August / Conspicious Consumption

 


While watching THE VIEW the other day one of the ladies expressed disgust at the amount of money that was spent on a foreign car that P Diddy ( sorry to all his fans as I, m sure he is called something else now )bought his Son for his 16th birthday, she called it tacky to be seen to spend so much money on an imported car, when there are workers in the States losing their jobs. And the panel also spoke at great length on the millions spent on the Clinton Wedding. I have never had an enviable amount of money to throw around, but it got me thinking would I make sure that I only bought Australian, whenever I made a big purchase, or would I still buy that gorgeous Italian Leather lounge suite I so admired. What is your take on Conspicious Consumption ???

Today I spent some money, and I hope I spent it well, I noticed that our local Supermarket,s weekly specials were Brocoli, coffee and pumpkins. So I bought 6lbs of brocoli which I have blanched and frozen in 6 single serve amounts. I saved $10.00 on my tin of coffee and I now have enough to last for a couple of months and as all of the pumpkins were the same price I picked out the largest one and Hubby has chopped it up for me. I will make soup, a pumpkin and red lentil curry and still have enough for roast pumpkin with our weekend roast. I also bought some tinned goods and chickpeas. I also put a little petrol into my car, no money was spent on coffee out as we had lunch before leaving home. Brocoli $6.00 Pumpkin $1.69 and petrol $10.00. So all up I spent $40.00.

Day 4 no spend August
$260.00 still in kitty

Breakfast Cereal & Banana
Lunch Turkey and Salad Sandwich
Dinner Spaghetti Bol.
Snacks finished off the Apple Pie.

Day 3 Of No Spend August

 

A really short post tonight as I have a migraine, or maybe it,s withdrawal symptoms LOL

Day 3 passed without me going to the shops so I have spent nothing again, and I think it,s rubbed off on Hubby as he was paid today and he came home without the usual chocolate, a lottery ticket or a bottle of wine. When I quizzed him about this he admitted to trying to spend less this month. I am so pleased that we are on the same page at last.

No spend day 3

$300 still in kitty

Breakfast ~ Toast and Jam
Lunch ~ Macaroni Cheese ( leftovers from yesterday )
Dinner ~ Chicken, Potatoes and Cauliflower
Snacks ~ Homemade Apple Pie ( yummy )

Day 2 No Spend August / Passive Spending

 

Day 2 and I have still not spent anything at all, although I very nearly went for a coffee as I was up at the Hospital getting the stitches taken out of my hand, but on looking at the time I decided just to go home and make Dinner, and have a free coffee instead.

And talking about free coffee I realised today that although I have kept to my budget by not taking money out of my purse, I am PASSIVELY SPENDING every single day, we all are. Whether we are asleep or awake it is costing us money.
Take our fridge for example we never switch it off or our freezers, so 24 hours a day we are spending money on electricity. We are paying road taxes even if our car is sitting in the garage. The same goes for insurances most of us make no claims, and of course we can,t forget taxes, in one form or another. My conclusion is that we have to be aware of our conscious spending, when we can do little to prevent the passive spends.

Day 2 No Spending August

$300 still in the kitty

Breakfast Tea and Toast
Lunch yogurt and a Banana
Dinner Macaroni Cheese and oven chips
Snacks biscuits from my pantry

A Pinch And A Punch For The 1st Of The Month

 

Day 1 and I hav,nt been over the door so no temptation to spend, although yesterday my Niece phoned to tell us she was planning a surprise visit to see her Gran who lives with us, and it,s next week, and not 5 minutes ago a friend of mine that I see only occasionaly phoned to make a lunch date for next Friday.

Still I am looking forward to navigating my way around these arrangements and sticking to my $300, I went on to a cheap recipes site and I have got a load of inexpensive recipes to follow which I will have the time to cook as I am not working. And some of them look really interesting and tasty.


Day 1 of no spend August

$300 still in the kitty

Breakfast boiled eggs on toast
Lunch sandwiches with roast beef (left over from yesterday) and pickles
Dinner chicken mince rissoles with sweet potato and brocoli
Snacks biscuits in pantry