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March save on work lunches challenge

Nottoobadyet
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Here we are again! After some big successes in our January and Feb challenges, we're off for month number 3!
This challenge has been fab for me - I havent bought a single lunch since the start of the year, and I know its served as an inspiration to other people as well.
Post if you want to join and clearly write down what your challenge will be (4 out of 5 lunches a week, no spend, etc)
Challengers:
1 - Nottoobadyet - no spend!
2 - Mr Green - only 2 bought lunches in March
3 - tiny_courageous - no spend!
4 - The Moo - only 3 bought lunches in March
5 - VALM - 4/5 lunches brought in a week, until holiday time!
6 - moneysaver599 - 3 bought lunches in March
7 - josephine82 - 20 brought in lunches in March
8 - littlemisschocolate - bringing in all lunches until 23rd March
9 - Rosemary7391 - no bought lunches until 20 March
10 - swampduck - 20 out of 23 lunches
11 - roxypie - 4 lunches from home per week
12 - karenlyth25 - no spend!
13 - Mrs Have No Money - 20 out of 23 lunches
14 - Kayleighpea - no spend!
15 - La escocesa - 20 out of 21 lunches
16 - natsplatnat - no spend!
17 - pavlovs_dog - 17 out of 19 lunches
18 - bargainbetty - 14 out of 13 lunches
19 - treacly - 20 out of 23 lunches
20 - me-shelly - 21 take in lunches
21 - baileydog99 - 4 lunches per week
22 - winterfrost - bringing in 12 out of 16
23 - maysmummy - 4/5 lunnches per week
24 - charliegirl - no spend for the rest of March
25 - bramble1 - no spend!
26 - determined new MS - 2 bought lunches
27 - getinmyselfoutadebt - no spend!
This challenge has been fab for me - I havent bought a single lunch since the start of the year, and I know its served as an inspiration to other people as well.
Post if you want to join and clearly write down what your challenge will be (4 out of 5 lunches a week, no spend, etc)
Challengers:
1 - Nottoobadyet - no spend!
2 - Mr Green - only 2 bought lunches in March
3 - tiny_courageous - no spend!
4 - The Moo - only 3 bought lunches in March
5 - VALM - 4/5 lunches brought in a week, until holiday time!
6 - moneysaver599 - 3 bought lunches in March
7 - josephine82 - 20 brought in lunches in March
8 - littlemisschocolate - bringing in all lunches until 23rd March
9 - Rosemary7391 - no bought lunches until 20 March
10 - swampduck - 20 out of 23 lunches
11 - roxypie - 4 lunches from home per week
12 - karenlyth25 - no spend!
13 - Mrs Have No Money - 20 out of 23 lunches
14 - Kayleighpea - no spend!
15 - La escocesa - 20 out of 21 lunches
16 - natsplatnat - no spend!
17 - pavlovs_dog - 17 out of 19 lunches
18 - bargainbetty - 14 out of 13 lunches
19 - treacly - 20 out of 23 lunches
20 - me-shelly - 21 take in lunches
21 - baileydog99 - 4 lunches per week
22 - winterfrost - bringing in 12 out of 16
23 - maysmummy - 4/5 lunnches per week
24 - charliegirl - no spend for the rest of March
25 - bramble1 - no spend!
26 - determined new MS - 2 bought lunches
27 - getinmyselfoutadebt - no spend!
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I'm ready for another month, please put me down for just 2 bought lunches in March.Nearly debt free
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Ready for another month, put me down for No Spend please.
Thanks for running the challenges!0 -
Ermm at the risk of sounding really stupid I am not sure I understand the challenge? Is it that you are bringing lunches in from home (brought) or that you buy (fewer) lunches (bought) from work?
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Buffythedebtslayer wrote: »Ermm at the risk of sounding really stupid I am not sure I understand the challenge? Is it that you are bringing lunches in from home (brought) or that you buy (fewer) lunches (bought) from work?
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Kinda both, I think: it you are bringing lunch from home, you don't have to buy it.
Essentially, it's not buying lunches out.
HTH. xPlease call me 'Pickle'
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I'm in again please!
The Moo
Only 3 bought lunches in March
Thanks for running the challenge again :A0 -
The major plus for me outside of the money saving, is knowing what is in your lunch and who made it. I've seen some grim things in food preparation.0
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Count me in again although my challenge will run up to 26 March as we fly out to Tenerife on that date. We're not going self catering this time (usually when we do we do not buy lunches when away but prefer to make sandwiches in the apartment) however we are going half board and considering we have both lost a lot of weight since Jan I'm hoping we won't do lunch!
I'll put myself down for 4/5 lunches a week though as I've found that sometimes I get caught out if I'm out shopping at lunch time. xBack for the No Buying Toiletries challenge. I pledge to only buy when I run out of a product that is not already in my stash no matter what wonderful emails land in in my Inbox or threads I read on MSE re: glitches!
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Put me down for only 3 bought lunches in March0
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Please can you put me down for '20 days bringing lunch from home' as i have 3 days off work in March.
This is great- I've saved so much extra money in Jan & Feb purely from not buying lunch, and I've lost weight too and feel fabulous!Debt free as of 2 October 2009
Mortgage free as of 27 March 20240
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