No buy February

I'm not giving up on this!

I need to save money for upcoming trip, so I can see something in Prague. After checking prices, looks like it’s quite expensive city, but there is some things I want to see, because I never been there. We are going there on the first week of March but I’m getting paid later than that and sometimes at the end of month there is so little money on my bank account.

I don’t necessary need money for shopping because we bought cheapest plane tickets and you can’t put a lot things in hand luggage, but I need it for sightseeing and hotel, and coffee (yes I’m treating myself with Starbucks :D).

But there is still some things I need to buy and I hope I can buy just them:

• Need new jeans – either I can’t fit in those I have, I sadly have gained weight since August (it’s combination of my not soo good food choices and meds) or they are not weather appropriate (too much holes/ripps). But I can buy them on sale!
• I need stick or roll deodorant – can’t take my regular one. I’ll try to find cheapest one, because I don’t like that type of deodorants.
• My concealer is running out and since I don’t have any backups, I need new one.

Last time my biggest problem was coffee and overspending on food items, just because I craved them not necessary needed them.

As it goes for food – I’ll try to take food from home when I have longer shifts, and write list of things I need to buy and focus on list. Maybe make some daily budget for food, if I’m lazy to cook after work for next day.

But with coffee I’ll have some biggest problems!

Saw that my grocery store and stores near me stopped carrying instant coffee 2 in 1, that’s without sugar. Cant drink those with sugar, they are too sweet and tastes like sugary drink not coffee. I usually buy few packets of instant coffee mix and I drink that at lunch break when I don’t want to go to coffee shop. I could mix coffee at home and then just add water at work but sometimes I want to drink it on my way to work. I don’t want to buy coffee and creamer and leave it at work. So I have to figure out this somehow.

I’ll finally use my reusable coffee cup tomorrow, better later than never!

This month I have already bought 3 coffees and spend more than 8 euros! Had very stressful week, and if I had time for lunch breaks I would spend even more than that!

As well bought some things I don’t really need because they were so cheap. Sometimes I just cant not to buy something, because I think I need it and price is so good, I need to work on that too!

These are my plans for February. Hope i wont fail!

Till next time! J

No spend January update

I kinda failed at this, at least partly, but I’m not gonna give up!

I haven't bought new makeup items all January. Little bit cheated on this, because I had name day, and as gifts I asked for few products that I was running out and really needed, so I didn’t needed to buy anything new.

But can I go to store and buy only the thing I need? Yes I can! Bought hair die and left store with 2 packs of it and nothing more, that surprised even me! :D Usually I buy more than I need, and sometimes I even forgot what I needed and bought something else instead.

It doesn’t mean I don’t want to buy new makeup things, I just tried really hard.

But not gonna lie, I’m planning to buy things I need online. Can I buy just the few things I need, not  something more, especially if I haven’t tried that product before, but that will be March problem! Because, in February I need to save money for my upcoming trip. Its just for 3 days, but its before I get paid, and I want to be able to afford to go to museums and see things in place I haven’t been before.

Have I saved money – not really!

• ·         I had some medical expenses this month – I have chronic illness and my meds were running out and I had to buy them- sadly for me, even with my special prescription (because I have worst form of illness and I need meds daily they are little bit cheaper), but still they are very expensive.
• ·         Bought some unnecessary things just because they were on sale and were cheap – do I really needed 3 bags for 1.99 each ?!
• ·         Spend way too much money on food – I really need to stop overspend on this. First two weeks I really tried then I just decided it takes too much time to cook at home after long shift and why eat at home if I can buy something on my way and sleep longer.
• ·         And coffee – I really failed!

My coffee, I’ll call it addiction, really failed me.

I’m not sure I even tried to stop buying takeaways. Maybe for week but that’s it. As right now I spend almost 53 euros for coffee. Had few free ones because I had spent so much money. I even have more than 9 euros on my coffee card , so I can get more free coffee, but I had even more than that.

Maybe 53 euros isn’t that much for you, but that’s a lot (depends where you get your coffee from, it costs less that 3 euros here, I don’t usually buy more expensive ones).

And some coffees were cheaper, because I had discount, but not anymore, because my favorite coffee shop closed! That’s sad , because coffee were very delicious!

And my reusable coffee cup is still on my desk in it’s original packaging, I’m not proud about this.

I’ll continue doing this in February as well ! I’ll update you on what and how ill try to accomplish it on next post.

Till next time!