Give It Up-date!
Just realised I haven't updated you on my non-shopping month. Well, the first week wasn't hard since I didn't have any money. I kept a record anyway:
Sunday - nothing
Monday - Bread and milk - £1.75; bus fare to preschool £1.00; eggs 89p; Ripple 44p (no, not exactly essential, but essential to me and giving up chocolate is for another month).
Tuesday - never left the house!
Wednesday - £33 Tesco. All food, no magazines, sadly.
Thursday - 90p postage; £1.25 cherry tomatoes
Friday - £1 bus to preschool
Saturday - £8 something in Smiths on O magazine (for Diane), Look! magazine for me (I know, not essential, but it was only 80p and I can’t resist a magazine’s first issue so let’s call it research, okay?), a birthday card for my auntie, a Ripple for me and a packet of Buttons for H
Total for the week £48.23 and most of it on food, so that’s okay, surely!
Since then I've bought myself some perfume (DKNY Be Delicious) and a magazine (InStyle), both of which because I forgot I wasn't supposed to be shopping, but other than that it's been essentials all the way.
Funnily enough, it hasn't been a problem. I do need some new jeans, but that can wait (it's waited this long) and it's actually kind of freeing since I have a problem with spending money anyway and now I can't so I avoid the guilt. It's the same as how I feel about food (although I'm getting over that, thanks to the Food Philosophy) and the reason the Diet From Hell (raw fruit and veg only for a week*) worked so well.
*It was an exclusion diet to try and establish what was causing my arthritis.
Ripples ARE essential!
Front page of the Express today - chocolate is good for your health, that's good enough proof for me!
Posted by: Beki | 19 February 2007 at 07:40 PM
Lovey, get your thyroid checked. Of course, I'm telling everyone that these days, but it's amazing how many little niggly complaints are caused by this. And GOOD ON YOU for your weekly spending--that's a tough one.
Posted by: Gabrielle | 20 February 2007 at 11:08 AM
I've had it checked, Gabrielle, thanks. Tried the traditional methods before going to a naturopath. I don't think it's arthritis anyway; I think it's carpal tunnel exacerbated by dehydration*
*Ooh! I should go on ANTM! Or maybe not.
Posted by: Keris | 20 February 2007 at 11:18 AM
Our lifes are kind of similar, I plan weaning myself off chocolate this month. I gave up my magazine habit at the start of the year. Not as bad as I thought it was going to be.
Posted by: HealthyMummy | 20 February 2007 at 01:09 PM
Could very well be! I was shocked to hear that thyroid problems sometimes show up as CTS because of the deyhdration. (She says, sitting at her desk with a mucho big glass of water.)
Posted by: Gabrielle | 21 February 2007 at 11:54 AM