What have I bought? - March and April

I am joining in with Elise again this month and actually have things to post about!

March was another big fat £0 spent. I did get some new to me clothes but they came from clearing out Mum's wardrobe so don't count.

April saw a couple of charity shop runs, we got rid of a lot of stuff last month and managed to only come back with these:

 A shirt that is too small for A but is in the refashion pile now! £2

100% lambswool jumper for me. £3

Another wool jumper that I plan to make into a cardigan. £2

A pair of Next linen trousers. £2

Next denim skirt. £2

A total spend of £11 and quite weather appropriate at the moment - freezing one minute and sunny the next!

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What have I bought - February

Taking part in Elise's Buyers Archive had jinxed my buying habits, I spent nothing on anything clothes related again last month. I did visit my favourite charity shop hoping for a few bargains and it was closed for refurbishment, I was so disappointed! Hopefully I will be able to snaek in a wee trip there this weekend though, it  is Mother's Day after all!

I did buy some curtain fabric last month though. It was entirely my sisters fault for taking me to Rejects in  Kirkcaldy. It is one of the only non charity shops that I could spend hours in, especially when you can get bargains like this beautiful Voyage Velvet fabric.

I fell in love with it 3 years or so ago when I was looking for fabric for my living room curtains but at ~£75 per meter it was way beyond my budget. I spotted it in the sale section in Rejects and actually squealed when I saw what it was reduced to... guess....you won't believe me... £13.99 a meter!!! I bought 4m , enough to do the curtain in my upstairs hall and, hopefully 2 blinds for the downstairs hall.

On a totally different  note, we booked our summer holiday, we are going to Florida! I am so excited, we were there 5 years ago and it was great fun and it should be even better now the kids are able to appreciate it more, although I may have to sell a kidney to buy the park tickets - £1500 for the 4 of us for 7 days Disney, 2 Universal and 1 Kennedy Space Centre, gulp.

I used the shock of realising how much park tickets would cost to induce a mass Ebay selling session. We are all selling things we no longer want/need in an effort to raise the funds. It is really showing the kids that these things don't come cheap!

Hopefully the charity shops will be kind to me in my quest for some summer clothes before the holidays as I have not had time to do any sewing for myself since October. I have gone from being Mum's week day carer to being the main carer for an almost 100 year old Granny and time is not that plentiful... Fingers crossed I get to sew something for me soon though, I have inherited all Mum's patterns and there are a few things I would love to make.

Maybe it won't be a month before the next post...

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What have I bought? - January

I have decided to join in with Elise this year and do a buyers archive per month. I am going to include everything I buy that is clothing and hobby related, hopefully I can use it as evidence that I don't spend as much as husband does on his hobby :)

January was an easy one though, I spent nothing. Absolutely nothing. I have been so restrained, having filled my Seasalt basket more than once then not checked out!


I have already blown the budget for February with a bargain fabric purchase today (although maybe that doesn't count because it is for curtains for the house and we need them...) and am heading to the charity shop tomorrow to drop a load of stuff off which will no doubt result in me leaving something.

On a completely different note, I started fiddling with my blog last night and downloaded a new template which I thought would save somewhere then I could preview it to see what it was like, with no real intention of changing it. It didn't work like that,  when I downloaded it and saved it it just applied it and I spent 2 hours trying to fix it. I am not sure about it, it is really boring but I can't face changing it again. Maybe I will try and look for the html that sets the colours and change that... nothing in simple!

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