Hello and welcome to my low spend year diary where I talk frankly about every penny I spend and how I feel about it. As of July 1st 2023 I am embarking on a low spend year to try and find out what drives me to spend, what I miss and what I could honestly do without. In last weeks post I finally had a no spend day and started to think about what things I was going to miss this year. This week was always going to start off spenny ... Day Fourteen - July 14th On our way off on our little adventure we make two stops which usually could end up with some spends! Firstly we stop off at the co-op to post a ziffit parcel. I dont always send my books there, I prefer to give them to friends or charity shops but I has a spare box and managed to make around £12 which will go straight to the house savings fund when it hits my account. Send Tom to do it while I stay in the car. Then we have to pop our insurance forms into the vets to get money back from Ernie's poorly paw and find out because
Hello and welcome to my low spend year diary where I talk frankly about every penny I spend and how I feel about it. As of July 1st 2023 I am embarking on a low spend year to try and find out what drives me to spend, what I miss and what I could honestly do without. If you read last weeks post you will know that we had a bit of a rocky start. Will it get better in week two? Read on to find out! Day Eight - July 8th So after last weeks lot of unexpected spends Im hoping for a quieter week! Started off with an Iceland shop which was I guess unplanned as we didn't expect to have freezer trouble, BUT the plus side was we managed to save the freezer (yay!) and so haven't had to replace that (£54.30) also I had to send tom up to Tesco to pick up some bits for nana along with some more paracetamol for me (£9.64) and once again spent most of the day between the sofa and the bed with my books. Day Nine - July 9th The biggest bill of the month went out today - £895 on rent. I am not