Spend Free Day – How did I get on?

On Thursday I succeeded in NOT spending any money – BUT the more I thought about it, the success was short lived.

Because I have to tell you that I actually failed in having a spend free day on Thursday after all – why?

The more I thought about it, the more I could see that it would be impossible not to spend any money on any given day. Yes you could literally not spend any cash – which I didn’t, but I did incur costs!

Costs were incurred for:

Gas – even I have the heating on now and then

Electricity – a light bulb (even an energy saving one) still costs money to use

Telephone – I had to make a couple of calls (even if your call package is inclusive, there is an enhanced rental price.

Petrol – I dropped some things off at the post office.

All these things need paying for, so I concluded that I can never have a totally cost free day, and having a spend free day doesn’t mean reducing costs necessarily; you will either buy something before or after the planned spend free day anyway. So you’re not actually saving any money!

So I suppose the only answer to saving money is back in a previous post:

Asking these questions:

Do I really need this product?

Will I use it?

Can I afford it?

Etc etc