π Good morning (here)! β Nice way to get my morning off to a flying start. Reading the weekly update!
Got some HIVE accruing, waiting for more details on the SPI Sale!
Love the "February No-Buy Month" idea. I am new to this community. Is this a new idea? Or one which has been carried over from a previous year's inspiration?
- But, but, but ... Valentine's Day treat is still on the Allowed List? π Okay, my beloved agrees ... π«‘
My weekly (week 2) savings progress:
My weekly report:
https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@roleerob/saturday-savers-club-week-2
Onward and upward, into a new week!
Thank you for your steady, consistent efforts to put this weekly post together @shanibeer. I know it takes a lot of work ... "under the hood." π«‘
Good morning π
No Buy months have been around as long as Saturday Savers Club. We did our first one in September 2020. Someone mentioned after last year's one how useful they had found it and it would have been good to do one earlier in the year. So we're trying that this year.
It came from reading about someone who was always saying she earned too little to save and then one year having a boost in her income (so, ostensibly, some disposable income) and still not saving anything. Her thoughts were that not saving was something to do with her relationship to money, to feelings of worth about herself, and to developing a better critique of the constant external messages and demands we receive to buy more and that your happiness and well-being is dependent on your consumption. I am very interested in the development process of learning to save, it's fascinating, and really important to have a supportive network around you.
Thanks for adding your goals here - I'll add them to next week's chart. I'm nearly up-to-date π
Excellent!
Yes, agreed. "Learning ..." It is sad how much lack of awareness and understanding there is these days of what used to simply be "common sense" ...
I hope there will be some nice reports at EOM, of the value experienced of those applying some of your list of recommendations!
P.S. Written by someone whose parents grew up in the Great Depression. Hmmm. I wonder what they told him ... ππ
Okay, so you probably had the make do and mend legacy that we had in the UK after the 1939-1945 war. I grew up with you never threw anything away. It was either squirrelled away in a cupboard until it was needed or it was passed on to someone else to help them. My fridge has just broken down, I struggle with the idea that it needs replacing in nine years - I grew up with the idea that you buy things (white goods, furniture) once and they last a lifetime. I had my first electric sewing machine for 42 years and was annoyed then when it expired! I did have good use from it, though π
Yes, @shanibeer, that definitely captures the general idea. Here is a story, from my mother, which tells you all you need to know about my upbringing (in regard to our subject this morning):
Pretty close to the story I heard. More than once ... π
My grandmother, in turn, was the granddaughter of a Prussian military officer, who emigrated here in the 1850s and fought in our Civil War. While she passed in the '60s, my impressions of her linger still. Leaving me with no doubt as to whether or not my mother was ... "exaggerating" ...
I can believe it! I too was told I was cutting too much potato with the peel (although I didn't have to go back to the scrapings). I think @phoenixwren would enjoy this thread π
(Big smile here) ... You two ladies are a hoot! (@phoenixwren) Somehow we have "veered off course," from our focus on saving money to how deeply we cut into the uhhh ... "meat" ... of our vegetables!? π
Oh wait! No! No, we didn't ... My dear mother is still amongst the living. And I can assure you right now, she is nodding in agreement ...
hahahaha. I legitimately didn't know potato peelers were a thing for many years. In our house, when we scraped carrots before eating, we didn't use a peeler, we used a serrated steak knife, so that way it only took the barest shaving where the dirt wouldn't wash off. xD
Hahahaha you better treat your beloved right! Don't get in trouble for being in the Saturday Savers Club! π
Yep. It is wise for me to remain on the right side of my beloved life mate! Tends to make the day go better ... π