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No Spending Days

January 22nd, 2012 at 08:08 am

While looking at my annual figures another tally is noted there.

For 2011, I had a total of 148 days of no spending days that money wasn't changed hands at all in any form. So 216 days some money did find its way into someone else hands.

So I hope to improve on last year’s figures!
So I am planning a new strategy so that I can maximize my no spending day for 2012.

To do this will take some planning and a lot of blinkers on my part as when I shop for my friend.
Multiple tasks spending days is in order I should think, so days that I spend money must be days that all other spending is be done that I know that I need to do! e.g. Pay bills, credit card, buy paper if its Wednesday, medical scripts made up, fill the car with gas/petrol. As many of these tasks that can be done in one day the better thus leaving a number of days that I need not spend money at all.

This will take some will power as today I had to shop for my friend, this is what I faced, buying a loaf of bread now we don’t eat the cheap stuff and the bread we buy is between $2.49 and $4.49 per loaf depending what on special that week.

When she ask to buy 2 loaves of bread it’s a little easier. Why because of the way the supermarkets sell their bread, the best deals are 2 loaves for $6.00 ones the same bread that you would buy at $4.49 each but you have to buy two loaves at the same time to get that deal. So today I bought one for myself so I could get the deal, also one special of noodles that couldn’t find on my last shop plus some white grapes that I had planned to buy. So in I spent $7.00 saving around $3.00 off RRP plus the loaf of bread for my friend.

4 Responses to “No Spending Days ”

  1. veronak Says:
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    Way to go on the no spend days, that's awesome

  2. Jerry Says:
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    I am impressed that you tracked your NSDs so closely, and that they came out so well! I think that it is taking note of such things that leads to some insurance of changes in the coming year, so I would say that you will probably have great results in 2012. Good luck!
    Jerry

  3. Carol Hardie Says:
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    that was a great effort on your no spend day's,i too am trying really hard to cut back,so far this month i have had 13!must try harder!

  4. Tightwad Kitty Says:
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    I do track them when I write in my spending tracker notebook whether I have a no spending day by putting nil against that day, then count them each month.

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