January 2009 Grocery Challenge

Rachel021967

I declare a total spend of £374.88

Thats more than double my target but slightly over half of what I normally spend. So I'm quite pleased.

savingholmes

I still overspent on target but not by as much as I expected. Takeaways were extra however and probably were another £45 on top but normally I spent more and extras are more again so still better than normal

jinky67

I would like to declare £114.76/£250:j:j:j:j

And i will aim for £200 for FEB please:T

cw18

Just finished totallying up my spends for January (I think - may be a couple of quid out due to missing receipts, but doubt it's more than that)

Started the month with a budget of £128

Am now here to report a whopping £157.20

but of this over £80 has been put away for the next few months (was offered a trip to Costco, so spent £60 there on stuff that - as of yet - has hardly been touched)

as such I'm not worried by what appears to be a major (almost 25%) overspend, and hope to come in significantly under budget for the next couple of months (at least!)


For those who are interested, of my £157.20 spend £24.35 was spent on Whoopsies with a 'real' value of £70.83

mothershipton

hi, just closing jan at £340 just under my £350. Im going to stick with £350 as Im off sick at the moment with a slipped disc and not able to look for bargains. am relying on tesco deliveries and husband. He did think I was mad on Saturday when i told him not to spend more than £17 as that would take us over budget, but he didnt so message sinking in!

Savvy_sewing

Declaring My January as a success, just. Came in at £352 I think. Dam now I have updated the signature I cant remember what it is!! Derr. Anyway my February challenge is lower, as alas we are also one person less as DD's BF has decided to call it a day. (She is devistated), So my budget for February will be £315.

rosieben

mothershipton wrote: »

hi, just closing jan at £340 just under my £350. Im going to stick with £350 as Im off sick at the moment with a slipped disc and not able to look for bargains. am relying on tesco deliveries and husband. He did think I was mad on Saturday when i told him not to spend more than £17 as that would take us over budget, but he didnt so message sinking in!

Hope you're better soon mothershipton, meantime your oh seems to be dong a good job

well done to all of you achieving budget and for those who didnt, February is a fresh start

TurnaroundSue

Can someone point me to the February challenge please? Have searched everywhere and I can't find it

Many thanks

pink_princess

Hi mrs m can i declare for january please at £274.47 .We ve saved a fortune this month .The only difference has been we are drinking less alcohol.
We ve decided to stay off the alcohol and see if we can lower our budget permanently.
Well done to every-one on there challenges.Im off to find feb now.http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1449317 (link for you)
PP

cw18

TurnaroundSue wrote: »

Can someone point me to the February challenge please? Have searched everywhere and I can't find it

Many thanks

The February challenge is here

To find it I normally go to the top of the screen when in the previous months challenge, click on the 'MoneySaving Old Style' of where it lists the thread title (in the case of this one 'Home >> Forums > Home & Play > MoneySaving Old Style >> January 2009 Grocery Challenge'), and then it's a sticky at the top of the screen that comes up