So last Sunday was my first no spend day of 2010. I did my best to document throughout the day, and what follows is well, my thought process and account of the day:
First no spend day of 2010 underway…
Woke up today still feeling like I hadn’t gotten enough rest to recover from all the time I’d spent out this week. Stayed in bed as long as possible trying to will myself back to sleep. This works for only so long when you’re a pet owner. London (my terror of a mini-schnauzer mutt), decided to amuse himself by using the bed as a launching board to dive after his toys. Awesome. After about five rounds of this, I’m awake.
It’s about 2:30pm and so far the day has been a spend- free success! (Yeah, I get that it’s easier to refrain from spending any money if you hide under the covers as long as possible. I’ll get to work on a different strategy next week.)
Today, I’ve accomplished the following:
- Slept in – because sleeping is one of the things I’m good at
- Made myself a yummy breakfast burrito consisting of a whole wheat tortilla, egg whites, cheese, salsa, sour cream… and a bit of veggie chili. Don’t judge. It was good.
- Played on itunes, facebook, twitter, email, etc.
- Laundry
At this point my record of the day stops, but I’m pretty sure the remainder consisted of more playing on the internet, actually getting some work done for the week ahead, and contemplating blog article ideas. I read a bit of Eat, Pray, Love but still wasn’t able to finish. Great book, by the way.
I snacked throughout the day on the random items I had picked up on my trip to Pavilion’s over a week ago and totally lucked out when the roomie’s boyfriend showed up to make us both dinner! I donated a box of rice to the meal in effort to do my part.
I closed the night with one too many chocolate chip cookies and a couple glasses of apple cider. I swear I’m not an 8 year old.
So it looks like I officially made it through my first official no spend day. I get that some may look down on the whole hiding in doors for the day thing, but really – it was my first day. And it was a much needed day of catching up and relaxation. I’m sure I’ll have to venture out into the real world eventually for this to really start working out, but for now I’m completely content with making it through day 1.
To all my friends and followers who also made it through your first no spend day, congrats! I’m so happy to have you all here struggling…errr… working with me!
