On account of feeling quite poor right now, I'm doing exceptionally well not spending money during no buy month 😁

The best No-Buy meal recently, or rather No-Buy dish, was a pear and blackberry crumble made by my wife. All the crumbly ingredients were already in the cupboard (just stuff we keep in as standard), and the pears and blackberries all came from our own garden. I'd have taken a photo to post on Hive, but it was too nice so I just ate it.....

A tip for longer term No-Buy is to plant some Swiss Chard. It's best planted in the spring, so probably too late in the year now. Once established it's frost hardy, but needs protection from temperatures under about -5 degrees centigrade. If you plant it in planters or similar and move it into the greenhouse, it'll keep growing during winter (although at a less crazy pace than summer) so you can harvest a leaf or two off each plant as they grow. When you cook with it, you use it like spinach, and it's just as nutritious and iron-rich. Many websites will say that slugs don't like chard and won't attack it. They lie. Our whole first crop was munched to nothing by slugs and snails, so protect it ! Also ensure good airflow around the plants to keep mildew at bay.

I'm not doing too badly for no buy month. It's easier when you have no money. !lol

My month without purchases is more like a month without generating debt hahaha I am prohibited from using a credit card this month

Great and amazing weekly progress. Thanks for sharing.

No sweat for me, lol! Kidding aside, it is pretty smooth sailing as I do not often buy stuff. We make do with what we have.

Speaking of a no-buy evening meal, we came home from a wedding Saturday with a bag (probably a kilo) of fresh meat and they were given to us for free, lol! We had some of it grilled for yesterday's dinner. That's one of the yummiest no-buy dinner meals we had recently :)

So my comment is coming in a bit late! Better late than never I guess.

For this week, I had to replace some food stuff like potatoes and onions. Also has to get the light bill sorted and get the gas refilled. Then I set aside money for transportation to and from church. That all was about 45 Hive I spent🥲. That’s N10,000 (£10.64).

Buuuuuuut, I slacked! Big time. I got some doughnuts too 😪 I just craved it so much and felt like I needed a pat on my back for my unrelenting focus! 😫😫😫 it was just two I promise (well four because I got for mom too and they all costs N400 - that’s like £0.10).

I still think I can do better with my finances. I feel like sometimes I loose track of how much leaves my pocket! So, I have decided to take down notes! Hopefully, I can see how to cut down costs at home.

The one way I want to do this is stopping the purchasing of drinking water. Yes. We buy clean water to drink.

But now that we have a home filled with water, I am thinking, I can sterilize the water right? Boiling it does that. Besides, that’s pretty much what these water companies do. And I’ll be saving about 800 naira (£0.85) monthly. I don’t see why I should be buying water when I have lots of it at home.

So the goal is to get containers. I will boil water and wait for it to cool, transfer them into these plastic bottles and put into the fridge. Good idea huh?

That’s it from me this week. I know I will do better.

Of course i have been aktiv this Saturday again 😄
Even when it was very hard to handle, but here is my report:

https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@arc-echo/auf-zu-den-stacking-sternen-schritt-fur-schritt-11

At this Point, i just Voted for the Autor of the Week :D

To be true, the no-buy September is not comparable with my current situation....
I tried my best, but there has been few Sport-Events and these have required all my energy. I just didn't have the head for anything else, especially a changeover.

First of all: please move my goal to 7000 HP 😁

My No-Buy month is going well. As a novelty, I have installed the app of the supermarket closest to home to always carry with me the card that gives me discounts. A little more savings doesn't hurt.

Happy saving, dears!! 🤗
!PIZZA

I completely failed on no-buy month this past week . Instead we spent a fortune on going out, visiting attractions and eating out :( !
The only thing we have done well on is not turning our heating on yet. This last week in Scotland it has gotten colder, but we have agreed that we will not switch our heating system back on until October - and so far we have managed that, and I expect that we can manage it quite easily for the rest of the month.