Money Fritters 'Enough Now' DFW Diary

Bowski_1011

I've not got into farm town although everyone else seems to have. I was addicted to owned this time last year, but not been on it for ages. Now I just go on Zoosk or Are You Interested? :rotfl:

Money_Fritter

Hi Everybody,

I am back. Sorry I have not had time to post, been very busy. Went to a wedding at the weekend. It was lovely, it was in chillingham castle. I did not see any ghosts, even though it is suppose to be one of the most haunted houses in britain. I stayed in the castle for two nights. :eek::eek:

The wedding was lovely, and they have now gone to New Zealand for 4 weeks. Well Jealous. :rotfl:

Anyway, after the wedding I then went down to my girlfirends for a few days and had some time off work, had a great time.

Back in work today, but only a half day.

I will do an update on my challenges later on tonight, hopefully.

FireFox and Bowski - Thanks for the compliments, but I am afraid I am nothing special, just an average guy. lol

Bowski - As for Zoosk or are you interested, I have never played them.

Horace - Not tried Be A Tycoon, might have to give that one a go. lol

Horace

Glad you had a fab time Fritter - did you poke your head into the charity shop to get a present?

Money_Fritter

Hi Horace,

No I didn't get chance in the end.

Money_Fritter

Hi Folks,

Hope everybody is well.

As I have not done an update for about a week I thought I would just do a summary for July and then start my daily updates for august again.

So for July I managed to hit my grocery target. I managed to spend £80.12 out of a budget of £80.83

I managed 12/12 NSD, which I was really pleased about as I was stuck on 10 for awhile and thought I would not make it.

For the PAD challenge, I managed £273.41 for July. Not bad. :j

However, i was seriously behind for the make £10 per day challenge. I only managed to make £70.91. Most of that came from amazon books, as I sold a couple more books. Hopefully the matched betting will pick up in august as the football season starts.

Anyway I think that is about it for now. I have updated my signature with the exception of my total debt figure, I will do that later.

Bye for now

Money Fritter

Bowski_1011

I know you didn't make your £10 a day challenge but at least you still got £70.91 more than you would have done if you weren't doin it atall !!
It was still, on the whole a successful month :beer:

Glad you enjoyed your weekend and few days off work. A wedding in a castle sounds like a dream!

Money_Fritter

Evening everyone. I am off to bed in a minute. Just thought I would catch up with my updates.


Thursday 6th August 2009


1) Living on 4k a year challenge


Breakfast:- Shreddies+Milk=21p
Snack 1:- Carrot Stick=7p
Lunch:- Spicy cous cous bacon salad+apple=£1.06
Snack 2:- Brazil nuts=9p
Tea:- free

Total for the day £1.43

Nothing spent extra today

2) August Grocery Challenge

Spent £34.30 on shopping today. Total for the month so far is £62.52
Remaining to spend=£18.31

3) Loose change

18p in 1p
20p in 2p
30p in 5p
50p in 10p
£1.20 in 20p

So total change today=£2.38

4) NSD Challenge

NSD today. Total for August=1


5) PAD challenge

Paid £215.56 towards two visa bill today


6) Make £5 per day Challenge

Surveys - Nothing to report

Amazon Books - Nothing to report

Matched betting - Nothing to report
Scratchcards - £0.10

Money Fritter

Money_Fritter

Hi folks,

Not a bad day today, as you can see from above. I have managed to colour in another 5 boxes on my chart.

:j:j:j

Money Fritter

poorbutrich

Money_Fritter wrote: »

Breakfast:- Shreddies+Milk=21p
Snack 1:- Carrot Stick=7p
Lunch:- Spicy cous cous bacon salad+apple=£1.06
Snack 2:- Brazil nuts=9p

Hi MF!
Hope you are well! I was looking at your figures and am gobsmacked at how much work you have put into this - you fully deserve to have come in under budget for groceries this month.

And sounds delicious too!

Hope you have a lovely weekend!

Money_Fritter

Morning everybody,

Well I watched that new Economy Gastronomy on BBC i-player last night. It was on BBC 2 on wednesday, but I missed it. I could not believe the amount of take-aways and ready meals that family had. They were spending about £230 on food per week :eek:

I dont even spend that much in a month

Anyway they managed to get them to save £90 per week. I think I could have got it down more. They did that saving by just buying basic ingredients and cooking from scratch.

Anyway it did have some good tips, which I might try, just need to watch it again and jot down some notes. It will be like being a student again. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Anyway that was the 1st episode. I just have to watch next weeks one. The two chefs are with a family that spend....wait for it......

£17000 per year on food. How the hell do you spend that much.

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Answers on a postcard please.

Money Fritter