Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 1st March

pointypenguin

:hello:Budgeteers

Monday is upon us again. I am aiming for a NSD so fingers crossed.

Have a good day everyone

sheba

Hi there peeps, Sheba here :hello: reporting (late- sorry, but my excuse is the sun shone:j so had to take advantage and tidy up garden) on last weeks figures and making this weeks pledge;
so... having said I wanted to spend £10 I spent £30.12:eek: , however this is down to me being stupid really- I pledged £10 knowing full well I was on to spend more as I needed groceries etc- which is what it all went on- no fripparies at all.

so... this week I have meal planned and set aside the £15 for lunch with 'Mava' (my turn this week) and so pledge to spend no more than £10 on milk and bread for the week, some foil, margarine and satsumas.

For the first time in the 3 weeks I've been signed up to the challenge I actually think I could do this amount as I have forward-thought a little more. Good thing about the past two weeks though, is that even though I over budget (as my budget was unrealistic for what I needed each week) being signed on to this challenge definately stopped me spending more and on silly nonsense- so it definately has had a good effect on me and is helping me to forward plan more so YAY Weekly Spend Challenge thread and all who sail in her :beer: .

Off to do chores and fetch milk now (and NO, NONE, NADA cadburys creme eggs- not good for purse or diet, although tichy as they are now, they couldn't possibly contain any calories could they??:D )

Have a great day/week y'all and remeber, keep that purse CLOSED!!!:rotfl:

Sheba

sazzledazzle

£10 for me again this week. Kind of lost track a little last week as got given some money back and put it in my purse and it all got confusing. Only going to keep my £10 in my purse and make sure I dont add anything to it.

Piquant_2

Hiya everyone :hello:

nsd for me yesterday, today I've got my £10 as I'm going out this evening! Hopefully, won't cost more.

piq

pointypenguin

Howdy

Ok so my NSD turned into a spend day sadly. I spent £5.10 on fruit for work but I think I am going to take this out of food budget. Then £2.67 on toiletries but that is budgeted elsewhere. So a spend day but nothing from my weekly one so all in all, not too bad.

Sheba I think most people find that when they start as you are not sure how much to pledge. I'm sure this week will be your week. I am now fantasiing about creme eggs (I am chocolate-free for Lent)

:hello:sazzledazzle

mooomin

Spends for today (Quite a few!)

Lunch from Boots £2.99
Books and chocolate £1.47 Used £10 voucher, this was the difference.
Milk and bread £2.59
Ciggies for boyfriend £2.98 (His student loan doesn't come till Friday)

Total spend £10.03
Put in Sealed Pot 97p

£27 left in purse :eek: and I still have some groceries to buy...

mrssainted76

nothing spent today , well not from my £20 budget lol, just a few bits of shopping but thats from another budget

Tixy

Hi All.
No spends for me so far this week, so still got all my budget left:j . Fairly certain I shall spend tomorrow though.

Beencounting

Hi All

I've spent £3 today, which should set me up for the week I think, as it was supplies of chocolate (£1 for 4 bars!!) and 8 cans of Pepsi for £2 from Lidls (that's one a day, by the way, so will have some for next week too).

I don't think I'm going to need to spend anything else this week...fingers crossed!

Been

Raychee

Well, yesterday I spent around £11 on grocery top ups - but it did include my muesli (which isn't cheap, but I'm fussy) and olive oil... This means I don't have much left for this week - not sure how much I haven't got left though... need to count!

Am toying with the idea of buying either a slow cooker or a little bolero jacket to go with the dress I'm wearing to a wedding on Friday. Don't know what to do... Slow cooker could wait until I get paid at the end of the month when I get my next pub wage, but do I REALLY need the bolero jacket? (Though I do have a £5 voucher for monsoon.... help?)

btw - today was a nsd! :T