Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 18th Jan

sazzledazzle

I am really proud of myself managed to only spend £16 so far this week. Got a free 2 course meal last night as went to work with my dad, and earnt money. Got to buy a bottle of wine for my night out tonight but will keep it under the £4 mark. Then is a NSD weekend, which should be fine as working with Dad again tomorrow.

babs2008

Amazingly I went out last night with my remaining £28.80 and came back (at 4am - I'm getting too old for that) with £25.10 left!!!

I need to pay £20 for a holiday inn room which a friend booked for June, so now I can afford to put £10 toward that this week.

Leaving me with £15.10 - which, depending on how my hangover goes, I may need to spend on goodies to make me feel better . And I'm craving chips now thanks to purpletea's post. :drool:

pointypenguin - I think I managed avoiding a full on cold. I felt a bit rubbish before I went out yesterday, but just getting out of the house and stopping feeling sorry for myself made me feel much better. Have a good time in london and try not to spend too much.

Well done on the free meal sazzledazzle.

Well done with the budgets everyone x

Raychee

I have £3.06 left. I know it's the end of the week, but it needs to last me till the end of tomorrow - which is achieveable. The only spend I've had since Saturday was £2 into the Loivbot fund when I had to get the car checked for my police producer! (*sigh!*)

Am working everyday next week, so can't see much extra spending... I'm going for another £15 next week.

Well done everyone. And thanks PP for keeping us motivated with this thread. :T

Lula-Hula

Yay - I've kept within the budget :j

Spent £ 3.67 on groceries on wednesday, spent £22.56 on groceries at T today, followed by another £6.35 on veg at the farm shop total spend £ 32.58 ( fortunately I dont have to include the other £ 18.30 on household & toiletry items :whistle: ).

Sadly I've gone over my £100 January grocery budget but it was a 5 week months so forgiving myself .

Hope you have a lovely week end pointypenguin & please put me down for £30 for next weeks' challenge

lula x

utopiah

Hi all
well I still have my £10 haven't spent any of it. I bought some grocerys today but that comes out of my food budget. I haven't been anywhere near a shop all week as I,ve been at work. I have also been taking my own packed lunches and not bought mags or papers. This is a great challenge pointypenguin! It really keeps you on track and more aware of what you are buying. Please can you put me down for £25 next week as I have a night out and i'm not sure how much i will spend.
thanks

ladymay

Kept within budget despite two trips to the pub and one to the cinema. Spent £19.38, leaving 62p - I'm really happy because this has proved to me I can still have fun and not make too many sacrifices and not send loads of money - it just takes a bit of organisation and willpower.

Happy happy dance:dance:

I'd like to pledge £20 again for next week please.

Diana_Prince

Total spend this week £10.45 (half of that was a bloody special delivery!!!)

Had another NSD today but I expect I'll spend tomorrow!!

I think I'll pledge £15 for next week! Thanks

babs2008

I have a confession. I was well within budget, but then I spotted a coat in the dorothy perkins sale... you can see where I'm going with this.

Anyway. It came to £27.80 altogether (incl £4 delivery), which isn't bad. And I did get £11.20 in discounts.

Anyway, as obviously this would completely blow my budget, I have decided that I wont include this purchase in my budget. Is that breaking the rules??

Raychee

Lol Babs - the rules are what you decide to make them! If you think the coat shouldn't come out of your budget, then don't take it out of your budget!!! I've avoided all shops apart from grocery shopping for 3 weeks now - and my bank balance shows it!

I'm finding that I'm using this challenge money to mainly top up our grocery shopping. Infact, I've only spent £2 on 'extras' for myself, and that was sort of 'forced.'

I've also realised that I'm not being totally honest with myself, and that although for the past 2 weeks I've given myself £15 for personal spend, I'm actually only taking £10 of that a week out of the bank! But I'm still going to keep my pledge at £15...

babs2008

Hi everyone - I'm afraid I'm starting with a mini rant...

I just found out that Orange kindly decided on Friday they would take £20.16 out of my bank account for my phone bill - and they've dated it for the 26th, which is monday (when payment was due). It has made me go overdrawn and I have had to take £1 out of my savings until I get paid on Friday to cover the shortfall of 16p (I intended to use next weeks budget to pay for it all). I hope they don't charge me for going overdrawn for a day or so because of this. (I've printed off my online balance with today's date on just incase there are any charges added or problems.) - sorry, that probably made no sense!

Anyway, back to the weekly budget...

Today I went to Sainsburys to cheer myself up (been feeling down for no reason) and bought a bottle or wine, snacks, newspapers and a few magazines - totalling £12.17 :eek: Did the trick though and I feel much better.

I'm still on budget too (only £27.07 spent), and I have ... (running off to count what's left in purse)... £2.93 left to go in my savings pot

Next week I'm declaring a budget of £20.16. Which has already been dedicated to the phone bill. I am adamant I will not spend anything else at all next week.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend :beer:

Babs x