Minimum Money March Begins Early...

This week begins the money-saving drive I'm cleverly calling "Minimum Money March" - the idea being, as if you haven't guessed, that I spend the minimum amount of money I can.

Although I have been unable to work for many years, I'm lucky in that I can get by on the health benefits I am entitled to and the good graces of my noble wife, Lady Rachel (who pays the bulk of the house bills etc).

However, at the end of last year I noticed my "geeky spending" had been steadily increasing and was in danger of exceeding my income.

Thus I am attempting, for the duration of March at least, to curb my eBay purchases, make no new purchases from Amazon or Forbidden Planet, and generally try to hang on to a percentage of what comes into my bank account - rather than immediately piss it away on the latest "must have".

It's not as if I'm running short of books and comics to read (the whole "no new fiction for 2012" drive was a dismal failure straight out of the starting gate), DVDs to watch, audiobooks to listen to etc

The second financial string to this month will be: "Make Money March". Again, this is something I've already started, but I intend to have a major push on eBay as a seller.

This is not only to bring in some extra sheckles but also to clear some room up here in the gamesroom so I can take a serious stab at tidying the place up, getting my shelves looking neat, free up some floor space (so it's not an assault course to get around the room) and so on.

What this could mean is that I might have less time to devote to the blog for the next few weeks, but we'll see how that shapes up.

Wish me luck!