Rampant consuming - Take 2

My goal is stop spending!!! Seems simple enough but we have slipped the last few days. Kinda defeats the anti consumerist idea if I keep spending. *sigh*

I've slipped a little too, maybe a new thread will help me find new motivation. Have also made the decision that it is time to stop eating like I am still breastfeeding and get rid of the 16kg of gremlin weight that I'm still lugging around

I think once Erin's birthday passes we will be working on a new goal, of not eating up our "surplus" money every month. We have been good with our budgets, but then there always seems to be something extra - we have $280 a month for things that sneak up on us, but have to be more realistic about what fits into that category. Plus it will mean more cash that goes directly into our savings account, at the moment we only put in $200 a fortnight so that could go up to $340 which would be awesome !!

My new plan is to try de-cluttering my house so I can see how much cr@p we already have, and therefore don't need more stuff to just sit in the cupboards

Good luck!

I have a ludicrous amount of baby clothes in the cupboard - bags and bags of hand me downs from my sisters kids and my cousins kids. Once I find out what sex this baby is (hopefully) will do some culling as this is my last (again, hopefully!).

Daniel and I have sorted out our clothes and it is so much better having less clothes, but good ones.

1. Take lunch to work/uni

2. Sell some crap

3. Make any pressies that need making

4. Pay off credit card

5. Get Hannah's lunch shopping costs down - might involve baking

6. Print out power saving tips and get power bill down

Edited by nikkiwhyte

I'm going to try really hard to get my grocery bill down. I kept tabs on everything last week from the big shop to all the little spends, and it was abysmal (sp?) We ended up buying something extra basically every day!! We've already done a little better this week - I did my main shop which was $177, and our first 'extra' will be tomorrow morning because we need bread (we've had people staying for the weekend)

Plus, today, I've tried making my own dog treats and it's turned out really well (except for the almost-power chuck at the smell once I'd stuck it all in the blender - it was a bit horrific!) and I did a costing on it and it's about half of what I spend on schmackos, maybe a little less. I buy a big bag of schmackos every other week, which is $8. The ingredients for the treats cost $8, but it has made between 4-6 weeks worth (4 weeks min, 6 weeks max depending on how I doll them out) ... and the puppies loooove them!

Oh! And when I did my shop, I bought 1 packet of bickies (Pam's!!) and came home and baked a cake for my visitors so we could have morning/afternoon tea at home

So, renewed energy - we're also getting closer to living off DH's income, which is my major goal. I'll be able to put my entire month's salary on my credit card this month towards paying off the accumulated bills from things fritzing. Yay!

Ooo! And we found a loaf of bread we bought on Thursday during our shop, so we don't need bread tomorrow after all! (Isn't it funny what floats your boat at times ...? )

That's a good idea Jax, but we only have the one freezer, and it's the one on top of the fridge, so not big enough for that! I'm thinking though that it's going to be a good idea to get a deep freeze for the garage, especially if we have a baby, as I'll be able to make up meals, and baby food ... and now dog treats! The little monsters nearly took my hands off last night when I gave them their bed-time treats.

actually we did save money - we decided to pick our own numbers (finnlly) for lotto - we normally get a $12-$15 lotto ticket each week but picking our own numbers is only $8.80...so a saving and possible win too? maybe one day but not last nite...