How much have u spent today 21/11/05

Tondella

wigginsmum wrote:

£1.55 on stuffed croissant for breakfast as I was running late, but will have a bowl of porridge (using free milk) for lunch - keep a box of Oatso Simple sachets at work. Don't anticipate spending any more today.

Tondella - I like the way you've put your debt/spending details in your sig - what an incentive! I might do the same.

Jules

Thanks! The debt free thing is inspired by so many others on this board, the shopping thing is for the November grocery challenge (see sticky on the OLd School board), which i have failed this month with eight days to go!!!

exessexmum

Expensive day today:
£54 on weekly food shop (loo roll week this week so an extra £4 LOL)
£8.50 on a haircut as I was looking like a shaggy dog
£14.99 on toy for DD (she paid out of her pocket money so not actually expenditure as such)
£15 on 2 board games, Monopoly and Cluedo as "family" presents for us all for Crimbo
£7 on halogen flipping lightbulbs for kitchen

Won't spend anything tomorrow though, honest!

black-saturn

£3.70 on stuff I needed from supermarket
£1.00 on battery for the kitchen clock
£14.99 on DVD of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for the kids
£5.00 on a pack of 5 pairs of tights from BHS

tattooed_lady

16p on 2 large onions, £1.20 to post an ebay parcel and THAT'S IT!!

Got DD lots of free clothes (13 items in fact) by taking her old clothes to a clothing swap!! Pleased today!

iwanttosave_2

spent £1.25 on a cd from amazon, includin p&p so doing o.k. not planning on going anywhere today so that should be it

Magentasue

Expensive day - family cinema visit.

£30 for tickets (six of us)
£ 3.24 for drinks and popcorn from Asda
plus £15+ for fish and chips after

I feel really extravagant spending this because I've been so frugal this month but it's instead of DS3's birthday party. And it is for all of us ... And it is Harry Potter!

Tondella

just spent £2.50 on CD on ebay, but really pleased with it as I've been looking for ages for it as I would like to traverse down the aisle to it on my wedding day! overjoyed!

chickpea

Unusually, I bought coffees today - I had a friend visiting, so it was a social thing (plus I side-stepped Starbucks and went to a little Italian place)!= £2.70

I also bought 6 free-range (some thinga you just can't scrimp on) eggs and crackers for cheese from Tesco=£1.80

And that's it! Tomorrow's packed lunch (crackers with cheese, ham and tomato) is packed up and ready to go!

It's amazing how far pennies can go...I started being just a little bit more frugal just 2 years ago and as of today I have £45k in the bank (ING!) - my husband gets frustrated when I borrow tenners off him to last out the month - but it'll be a different story when Itell him we can afford a much better house than we otherwise would have done...all by avoiding Starbucks!!!!

black-saturn

black-saturn wrote:

£14.99 on DVD of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for the kids

My kids have watched this twice already since they got home from school and it's kept them amused all evening so it looks like that was a good buy

tattooed_lady

chickpea wrote:

It's amazing how far pennies can go...I started being just a little bit more frugal just 2 years ago and as of today I have £45k in the bank (ING!) -

WOW chickpea!! That's amazing!!

black-saturn - I'm going to buy my kids the same dvd for Xmas, they also want Madagascar and numerous others!