An experiment in not spending money.

<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;">I was reading <a href="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/personal-health/savings-tip-have-a-buynothing-week-080372">Apartment Therapy</a> the other day and something jumped out at me: Buy Nothing Week. The idea is to have one week where you ONLY spend money on necessary things like food, medication and transport. I have no idea why this is such a novel idea to me, you'd think it'd be common sense. If you want to save money, don't spend money. But I suppose it's easy to lapse into spendthrifty habits... anyway starting from tomorrow I'm having a no spending week. Exceptions are: if it rains, I'm allowed to take the train to work (normally I cycle); if for whatever reason I can't bring lunch to work (unlikely) I can buy a sandwich from Sainsburys that costs £2 or less, and if my bike breaks, it has to be fixed (same goes if I need a new inner tube or something). But that's it. And I definitely MUST NOT buy any books of any type, or any art supplies or stationery whatsoever. I'll post an update this time next week.<br /><br />As for <a href="http://www.purplepinkandorange.com/blog/">Purple Pink and Orange's </a>not eating out challenge that I'm taking part in - well, we kind of fell by the wayside yesterday when, while out shopping, we realised we were starving and went to Burger King. But we did get a cheap cheeseburger meal each (£2.99 each) so it really wasn't too bad. Apart from that I am still being positively angelic, and I'm sure I've saved lots of money, so I'm thinking I'm going to keep it going for April, with the exception of one meal out for Easter.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrWwZ5m3s-9R_K1DxlkiWV0EHuklVo1mbgVfvAAefIVZiidoXFUBO2CRRKpWnYxfWJFt1kwfF_g_4awIl54U4SJg5nM7Hv4y5gJ-uLXHe1lX3R3Kw4hPVu7hh4yMuunjcZmhW319TurJk/s1600-h/professor_layton_boxart.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318710973534028802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrWwZ5m3s-9R_K1DxlkiWV0EHuklVo1mbgVfvAAefIVZiidoXFUBO2CRRKpWnYxfWJFt1kwfF_g_4awIl54U4SJg5nM7Hv4y5gJ-uLXHe1lX3R3Kw4hPVu7hh4yMuunjcZmhW319TurJk/s400/professor_layton_boxart.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 360px;" /></a><br />Oh and also while out shopping yesterday my husband bought us a copy of Professor Layton for the DS. I didn't know a lot about it except that it was as rare as rocking horse poo around Christmas and everyone has been raving about it. Well, they were right to rave, it's fantastic! Some of the puzzles are really quite devious (in fact some are bordering on the unfair) and it's such a great feeling when you figure out the solution to a particularly ponderous one. Great fun. Go and buy it.<br /></div>

An experiment in not spending money.

I was reading Apartment Therapy the other day and something jumped out at me: Buy Nothing Week. The idea is to have one week where you ONL...

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