The Ides Of March........

Does anyone know what that means? Care to enlighten me?
Even without the aforementioned enlightenment-
Welcome to March........ t'is gonna be a bumpy ride!
March is No Spend Month on the simple savings calendar, and on top of that I'll be doing a $21 Challenge. I guess I don't feel I have enough challenges in my life right now hey........
I think I already mentioned that I filled the freezer with a meal plan in mind and I bought a whole pile of bulk toiletries and cleaners and stuff, so I guess now it's time to put my money where my mouth is.
I'm going to change the $21 Challenge rules a little bit ----- The whole idea is to feed a family of 4 on $21 a week. Well, since I live alone I'm thinking 1 person should be able to go 4 weeks. Just the inverse of the original concept hey. But I am going to crank it up a little to allow for inflation (other ss members are upping the limit for this reason as well, so am not cheating), I'm going to go for $10 dollars a week. Another of my bent rules is that I'm not including any bulk/stockpile purchases in this amount, but only up to the amount of $50.
I'm also going to start keeping a grocery catalogue book, tracking the specials. Over a period of about 2 or 3 months I hope to be able to really capitalise on any specials of products that I use regularly and really beat the stoopidmarkets at there own game!
With regard to the No Spend Challenge (here-in to be refered to as the NCS), I got offto a good start today. I resisted buying a packet of chips to use as comfort food. But I should tell you, I do have about a months supply of home brew, so hopefully I can make that last and it will be enough. LOL
I've also arranged for people to come and look at all things electricity related. My daily usage is about 17kWh/day and that is outragous and ridiculous for 1 person. So will make further updates on all that as it all happens. I'm going to get this bloody daily usage down or die trying!!!
So, wish me luck everyone!! Only 6 months to go till car repairs are paid for.!