Nov 25th – Dental but lets face it while we might not like dental, it is a required item.. thankfully a good portion of it will come back with our coverage.

Nov 26th – No spend

Nov 27th – No Spend

Nov 28th – Winter tire switch and oil change spending on the car, again required and routine, winter is here!

Black Friday! – A few more small on sale Christmas gifts (all under 20 dollars) but then came the bigger spends, a new food processer and a new stand alone mixer. My oldest thrifted food processer lasted me years as a workhorse and then died, and i have been limping along with a tiny one but it has finally worn out, it was time to get a new one with a heavy commercial and big capacity again.

Same with the stand alone, i had a very old from the 70’s kitchen aid, loved that machine but finally worn it out and at the time, while i wanted a proper one, ended up finding a very cheap end of sale one at Canadian tire, it was crazy on sale and i said, lets get this one and use it till i burn the motor out, it was a bad choice really as it does a poor job on most things and i i have ended up using my hand held beaters far more due to it but none the less, i was determined to get every single last job out of it before it got replaced. The time has come to replace it, i know its on its very last legs and really its earned its retirement. I was able to pick up a commercial version with a large motor with a 20 year on certain parts at 43% off on a black Friday sale.. I will put it though its paces an do a report on it soon enough.

Special note, a friend found me the most awesome second hand thrifted teapot for my collection, it was a unplanned spend and i love it! I can’t wait to add it to my collection.. something like this can not be gotten after the no spend month, when it comes to thrift store finds, get them now or forever let it go or go for it. I have not got to see it in person yet but i can’t wait to add it to my teapot collection lol

There was a small grocery top up in the week by husband when he went and did our regular feed buying for the critters, if you want the eggs, you must feed the fowl, if you want healthy horses and upkeep your senior old boy, well then he needs his extra ration and feed.

That wraps up our month of No Buy Feb, all the normal stuff was done and bills paid, it did stop any eating out or coffee on the road which i might add was not easy as they finally have the fake baileys back at Timmie’s. It stopped a number of .. oh, that’s cute buys and it stopped me from walking up and down rows and or even going into stores over the past month, while waiting for medical, while waiting for vehicles to be done etc..

I expect it saved my household a couple hundred dollars in impulse buys but overall, the biggest factor was no stopping, no extra stores and very much preplanning to take out lunches and keep on track of making meals and so on.

If you did a no buy with me, how did it go!