Day One

So I decided to kick start the year of minimal spending or only spending when necessary (we haven't settled on specifics!) with a task from my 101 list which is to 'spend nothing for 7 days.' I thought it'd be a good way to start and would get me in the right frame of mind.

Joe gave his brother a lift to the hospital where his wife and newborn son are and I was thinking of the petrol he used and how much it cost and was giving your brother a lift a necessity and at the same time thinking this year is going to turn me into The Grinch!

Whilst he was gone I sent the 2 big boys upstairs to play and put the littlest down for a nap and started to vacuum (settles baby and cleans the house) I'm thinking, this uses electricity and I could brush up instead? Then I realise we need £2 for the car park when we go to visit our one day old nephew later so there goes day one of spending nothing for 7 days. Bah Humbug!

I'm in a Very Bad Mood when Joe returns as I feel like I've failed already and then he starts up the internet to look for a punch bag bracket for the punch bag he is going to buy with his Christmas Decathalon vouchers, I'm wondering if a punch bag / bracket are necessities and getting madder by the second. I don't want to do this challenge alone, I don't want to be The Grinch and it is going to be hard.

I moan to Joe about failing on day one and he huffs and puffs about me moaning, I really don't want to moan but I'm not sure that this is going to work with only one of us being dedicated to it. I decide the punch bag is definitely a necessity.