Goals for week commencing 6 August

newsmonkey · 6 August 2006 at 9:28AM

You'll find last week's thread here

I've had a mixed week. I set fewer targets than previously, and that's made me feel a bit better. So it might be time to up the stakes a bit.

Carry on with spending diary, get weekly spending below the £100 mark

-- Failed. I was nudging the £99 mark before I went out last night. Total for this week was £107. That's more than £20 down on last week, so I'm getting there. Worryingly, my biggest category is now "pub" instead of "essentials".

Have at least one no-spend day

-- Failed, but came close on one occasion.

Have at least two no-alcohol days

-- Done! (Monday and Wednesday)

Take lunch to work at least three days a week

-- Done! (Monday, Thursday and Friday)

Claim back company expenses for the new mouse I've bought (I'm showing early signs of RSI and needed a more comfortable mouse for my job)

-- Failed, carry forward to next week.

Aims for next week

Carry on with spending diary. This week's maximum is £90 for everything.
Take lunch to work at least three days.
Aim for at least one no-spend day
Three no-alcohol days
Claim back ergonomic mouse from company expenses

jessicamb · 6 August 2006 at 10:00AM

Newsmonkey - thanks for doing this every week.

Heres mine from last week:

This weeks goals:

1. Still dont smoke (getting into the habit of that one) Yep
2. Forget about the bottle of Tesco fake Baileys at the back of the cupboard for 'emergencies' (well I forget about everything I write on here until the next week so I might as well give it a go).Forgot all about it til the weekend
3. Take lunch to work everydayall except once
4. Take stock of the storecupboard and think of some yummy using up meals to claw back budget.made a freezer list - yikes :eek:
5. Limit diet coke intake to 2 cans a day.Nope - its at three but it is rola cola rather than the expensive stuff

This weeks goals:

1. No Smoking
2. Going out on Friday so dont spend a small fortune (or make a fool of myself)
3. Grocery shopping to be less than £10 this week
4. Take lunch to work everyday
5. Limit cola intake to two cans per day
6. Try and find one item to put on Amazon/ebay

Good luck everyone.

:T :T :T :T :T :T

overbudget · 6 August 2006 at 10:04AM

Missed last week as was away. Week before:

1. Sort through boxes from old house - find stuff for eBay/car boot Done! Several boxes now waiting to go
2. Cancel lensplan (save £27.50 a month - buy off net when run out) Letter on my desk to be posted today, DD cancelled
3. Cancel hospital plan (save £5.88 a month) Ditto
4. Chase up water meter - have asked for one - no response yet Web request lost in ether - phone request put in - waiting for survey
5. Switch house insurance (save about £60 a month) Still checking small print to ensure same level of cover - will sort this week
6. Get married on Saturday under budget! (set £2500 budget earlier in the year including short "honeymoon" break - so far are on target for being under £2250!). Yep - great day - great holiday - and within budget!

Goals for this week:
1. Sort out house insurance switch
2. List at least 5 books on Amazon
3. List at least 5 things on eBay
4. File all my paper work so I am organized
5. Submit expense claims to work

newleaf · 6 August 2006 at 10:08AM

Last week:

£35 Supermarket budget Achieved!
5 No spend days managed 4
5 alcohol free days Achieved!
1 cash withdrawal Achieved!
Return 1 unsuitable item to Next for refund Achieved!
Take packed lunch to work every day Achieved!

Well I'm quite pleased with that. If my multipack of crisps hadn't run out on Tuesday I'd have managed 5 no spenders too - instead spent 30p on a bag of cheese & onion Walkers to go with my packed lunch! Anyway, next weeks goals are similar:

5 No spenders
1 cash withdrawal
take a packed lunch to work each day
£35 shopping budget
£15 budget for my meal out with friend on Thursday
5 alcohol free days
Cancel Experian before free trial ends

Rad · 6 August 2006 at 10:15AM

Aims for last week were,

1. keep food and eating out to less than £15 and use up all the food in the cupboard - Sort of Fail spent £19.24 but can reclaim £3.10 from work
2. Chase up paperwork for bills account Got my card yesterday and PIN should arrive this week
3. Pack (moving house on 11 August) and sort stuff out.Begining to get everything sorted
4. List at least 3 items on ebay 3 items sold this week and another 2 listed (one of which will sell)
5. Sort out stuff for car boot sale 4 boxes of stuff ready to go
6. Take lunch to work at least 4 days this week. Managed 3 and a half days

Aims for this week

1. PACK!!!!!!
2. Sort out what Scottish Gas have done with my eletric account (they changed me from Scottish Power with out me knowing)
3. Finish sorting out items for car boot sale and sell it all next Sunday
4. Take lunch to work 3 days this week
5. Move house
6. Go to ikea without spending too much money and buy only the stuff I need
7. 2 no spend days

LJD1_2 · 6 August 2006 at 10:39AM

Last weeks goals:
1) Place one item on ebay Put thirty low cost items from business
2) Gut daughters room whilst she's away Yip, and daughter was very pleased
3) Gut our bedroom and sort out all the crap that creeps in there! Half way through this still
4) Clean bathroom to within an inch of it's life! Todays task
5) Do some more cataloging of bobble stock Started putting on ebay
6) Lose 1lb of 6lbs I want to lose Lost 3lbs
7) Have energy to do all the above Just

This weeks goals:
1. Place more items on ebay and consider opening a shop
2. Gut sons room
3. Finish our bed room
4. Finish OU essay and post tomorrow
5. Keep within budget
6. Lost 1lb.

Mrs_A. · 6 August 2006 at 10:54AM

this was last weeks

1 stick to healthy eating failed miserably
2 no eating rubbish at work failed miserably
3 do a bit more overtime yep passed this one
4 look into clubcard deals managed this one too
5 bank bagged up change done
6 do this months budget carry this one over
7 aim for 2 no spend days managed one
8 exercise at least 2 times this week failed miserably
9 no buying crisps and sweets failed miserably
10 no buying take aways ahem had one last night
11 menu plan yep
12 only shop for whats on the menu plan eh nope
13 rejoin weight watchers nope
14 limit the amount of time i spend on mse to an hour per day this is getting way out of hand. ha ha ha as if i could ever manage this one

so here is this weeks

1 eat healthily
2 do some exercise
3 menu plan
4 sort budget
5 stop buying crisps and sweets
6 get paid
7 get refund of bank charges that bank agreed too
8 bung spare cash into savings account to pay of debts early
9 rejoin weight watchers
10 go to doctors regarding depression
11 2 no spend days

good luck everyone

lynsayjane · 6 August 2006 at 11:23AM

last weeks goals,

1- five no spend days (tues-sat), got food coming for the week so won't need to buy any food till next sunday and got some posting to do on mondayerm today is my last chance of a no spend day...it's been a bad week
2- gym 5 times this week, if i'm gonna keep this i better make it worthwhiletoday will be my fifth :j
3- send off registered letter to bos for charges on monday yup and got a reply to say they are sorry blah blah blah and a costomer service advisor will look into my complaint
4- pay council tax on mondaydone
5- get application for higher english sorted out, got all the money together for it nowall applied for, just waiting for classes to start on 29th
6- finish tiling in kitchen (please god i just want it finished already!!!)one of the three walls are done but been busy going back to work
7- try not to kill my boss for the two days i have to work with her before her hols! then find a new job while she's away so i don't have to talk to her again!managed to not kill her, she's in canada now :j fingers crossed for a new job soon!

this weeks goals

1-gym five times again
2-get spending back under control and have as many no spends as i can
3-finish cv and find five jobs to apply for
4-list 6 items on ebay before current ones end
5-pay another £50 off od
6-make plan for wages on thursday to include cc bills for next month
7-pay scottish power bill and get transferred
8-make xmas lists to start thinking about pressies
9-learn how to play poker to participate in piggypoker
10-cancel experian trial

that should do for this week! good luck everyone and well done on all achievments from last week :T

CAFCGirl · 6 August 2006 at 11:31AM

oh I dont know whats been happening lately!

1) Lunch to work each day All but one
2) Job hunt ongoing,two more applications sent
3) Disciplinary out of the way! Thursday!!!woohoo, verbal only!
4) List DVD box sets on ebayno, I'm pants!
5) Letter to Barclay cancel insurance policyno but cancelled DD
6) Pay £30 off credit card 1nope
7) Pay in change bags to Halifax account (holiday fund) Thursdaynope
8) Eat contents of house and home!pretty much

9) £15 budget for weekdont even want to think about that
10) Buy St.Johns Wort as anti-d's aren't agreeingbought but havent started taking just yet!

So this week goes a little something like this:
1: Lunch to work every day
2: At least 3 no spend days (leave purse at home!)
3: List dvd's on ebay
4:Send letter to Barclays
5:Pay off £30 to CC1
6: Pay council tax
7:Pay off utility bills
8: £10 budget for week
9:Pay in flatmates bill money
10: Tell flatmate she needs to be paying more toward the bills

11:Start taking St John's

Should be easily achievable, lots of little jobs!

wannabedebtfree_2 · 6 August 2006 at 11:41AM

Last weeks goals:

1) Lose 3 lbs in weight Nope, and I've tried really hard, I think I'm destined to be fat forever!!
2) Exercise every day Yep did this, swimming, walking, gardening, I don't know how much more I could do!!
3) Limit spending to £50 (think this will be hard with kids on holiday!! Well I managed to limit my spending, so am really pleased with myself!!
4) Get the stuff sorted to boot sale (for sunday the 13th) Errrrr........not done yet.......ooopppss
5) Bake some cakes, bread and biscuits with all the stuff I bought last week!! Nor this, even with my daughter asking me constantly, I just haven't had the time, but I will make some today, when I get back from this fete thing we're going to, I promise!!

Goals for this week

1) Lose 3 lb in weight (I really really want to do this, 2 weeks I've been exercising like a maniac, weighing food, being careful.....and nothing so far)
2) Another low cost week spends wise, try and limit it to £20 on non-essential stuff - last week I included my food in the £50 spends, but I know this weeks food bill will be higher, so I will put aside £20 for 'holiday' treats!!
3) Sort out the boot sale stuff for next week, I really need 2 new tyres so this is really important!!
4) Bake some stuff!!
5) On 3 days I want to limit my spending to under £1.
6) Find some other ways to maximise my income.

shazzer22 · 6 August 2006 at 11:44AM

Well here is how I've done/or not the case maybe!

1. Have at least 1 no spend day (i can't actually remember the last time I had one of these!) only managed one, but did manage one!
2. Do a proper big budget again, need to re-evaluate EVERYTHING!tried but could have put a bit more effort in
3. No takeawaysi have had a takeaway but i didnt have to pay for it!
4. Go to gym at least 2 times! failed
5. Stick to dietfailed
6. send old mobile off to mobile2cashyup, did this one!
I did also manage to list 1 thing on ebay and 3 things on amazon, 1 of which has sold already! woo!
!

This week I aim to:
1. Have a big clear out of the flat and see what else I can list on ebay/amazon
2. Not go out for any meals (apart from lunch today)
3. Take a packed lunch to work everyday this week (and eat it!)

Goals for week commencing 6 August

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