Goals For W/C 26th Feb 2006

pixie1

OK peeps, its that time again.

How did you get on last week and what are your goals for this week?

My update from laste week.

Take a packed lunch to work everyday. I managed this everyday :j

Have at least two no spend days. I amanged three no spend days, one of which I only managed because I forgot my purse

To update my spending spreadsheet on a daily (hourly LOL) basis. Im totally obsessed my spreadsheet, so I most def did this one :T

My goals for this week.

To stay focused and upbeat about paying off my debts.

To cook large quantities of yummy food in my sc to freeze for later on in the month so I wont be tempted to order take aways.

Sort ebay things out (This is a little cheat goal really because Im spending next weekend with my sister aka ebay queen LOL and she is going to strip my house of goodies and help me list them )

2 no spend days.


Good luck everyone

Pixie

ozzyfan_2

this is my first time doing this so wish me luck!

my goals for the week are

to find & work out how to do a spreadsheet :eek:

to make 2 big batches of soup in my sc & freeze in small portions

to not spend my tesco clubcard points on food but to get a deal with them (probably magazine subscriptions, I know its a luxury but I love reading them)

to make my first DMP payment, hooray!

I think thats enough for the first attempt, the spreadsheet will probably take me the best part of the week to work out, any tips would be gratefuly received!

good luck everyone with your goals

edit as I just remembered that as its the beginning of March this week I'm hoping to join the March grocery challenge for the first time too, I was too late to join the February one when I discovered it.

pixie1

ozzyfan wrote:

this is my first time doing this so wish me luck!

to make my first DMP payment, hooray!

Hi Ozzy, its great to see you joining in with this, good luck :T

I cant believe I missed my first dmp payment off my goal list :eek: how could i forget that LOL

Ive got a spreadsheet if want a copy of it, its all automated (ish) so you can see where youre at. Ive listed my income, full time job wages, mystery shopping income etc and the within my outgoings Ive broken it down like my budget with the cccs with actual spend and what my budget was so I can which areas ive under or over spent in. Im no techie wizz but it does for me Just pm me your email addy if youd like a copy, its on my work pc though so i wont be able to send it until tomorrow.

Good luck everyone,

Pixie

themaccas

Hi Pixie I just wrote my challenges in last weeks thread so here are mine again:
Have 2 no spend days
Do not use the car unless for work or school pick ups (DD school 9 miles away and no bus)
Pay another £300 off cc's
Have another think and look at March budget to see if I can clear Next account

Good luck everyone! I'm off to work again soon. This money saving is HARD work. I am working as many hours as I can whilst looking after 3 children (youngest just 2), I am studying part time for my degree and have just started my dissertation. The first thing I will do when we are debt free is to cut my hours at work! OH is working just as hard and we are juggling childcare between us although this still costs arounbd £400 per month and he is also studying part time for his degree - he finishes this year though.

muddled_midget

My goals for last week were:
-at least 2 no spend days done
-not to buy any food at uni only bought one sandwich, and that was yesterday when I spent longer in the library than I intended to, which is still large drop from £7-8 per week
-find at least 1 more £2 coin done
-find out how to withdraw my money from Bristol and West so it can be ready to go into my ISA in April done

My goals for this week
-to start the March grocery challenge on OS
-find at least 1 more £2 coin
-not to buy ANY food at uni
-pay off cc
-continue with my spending diary

ozzyfan_2

Ive got a spreadsheet if want a copy of it, its all automated (ish) so you can see where youre at. Ive listed my income, full time job wages, mystery shopping income etc and the within my outgoings Ive broken it down like my budget with the cccs with actual spend and what my budget was so I can which areas ive under or over spent in. Im no techie wizz but it does for me Just pm me your email addy if youd like a copy, its on my work pc though so i wont be able to send it until tomorrow.

Good luck everyone,

Pixie

thank you very much Pixie that would be brilliant, I'll pm my email to you sometime later today :T

scottishspendaholic

Hey everyone,

Here's how I did - not great - boo...

*Have at least four no spend days - not doing very much and work busy, so this shouldn't be too hard
Not achieved - I managed two - Sunday and yesterday
*On payday on Thursday, pretend I haven't been paid! See if I can lose my 'it's payday, I should treat myself' mentality
Achieved - ish Still a scary amount of money has left my account already
*Continue listing on eBay
Achieved, but slowly losing the will to live - its so boring and time consuming!
*Overpay credit card by at least £50 or more (depends how well eBay items do)
Not achieved - I decided to put this money towards setting up my business and buying stock to take to a craft fair in three weeks - hopefully then I can overpay by £300+ - speculate to accumulate and all that!
*Continue to take my lunch to work (made soup and cheese scones yesterday -mmm).
Achieved! Cheese scones were horrible but did take breakfast and lunch to work every day
*Continue to take advantage of chocolate & sweetie cravings by eating all the free biscuits and sweets at work, rather than buying my own
Achieved - getting much better at not buying creme eggs! Mmmmmm
*Do a big food shop next weekend and do some batch cooking next Saturday
Achieved! Made 8 portions of chilli last night and 4 of chicken in tomato and basil sauce (thanks to O/S receipes!)

Now I'm going to get my thinking hat on for my goals for this week and come back and post later.

Have a lovely Sunday everyone and good luck with your goals!

scottishspendaholic x

john_kent

Golas for last week
1 Write to creditors with offer of pro rata payment DONE
2 Try and get more work DONE (though only three weeks work)
3 Destroy creditcards (I melted the gits so I cant even see expirey dates)
4 Only buy fuel for car (Done)

Goals for this week.

1) Try and get more hours at part time work
2) Finish Ebay sales of loads of old stuff
3) Not to buy anything other then fuel
4) 4 no spend days
5) Look at my mobile contract and see if I can cut it down

retrieverrose

Hi Everyone,

Well, my first time at this but it seems like a really good idea so here goes.

Goals for this week.

Start OS grocery challenge

2 no spend days

look for a job with better pay and more hours

sort out spread sheet for cc's etc.

Thats probably enough for my first week!

Good luck everyone

pixie1

scottishspendaholic wrote:

*Do a big food shop next weekend and do some batch cooking next Saturday
Achieved! Made 8 portions of chilli last night and 4 of chicken in tomato and basil sauce (thanks to O/S receipes!)

Any chance you can point me in the right direction for the chicken in tomato and basil sauce recipe? Ive tried a search but there are mountains of matches

It sounds yummy, so I fancy giving it a try.

Thanks

Pixie

lottie26_2

Well here go's
Last week I said that I wanted four non-spends days-Did three, but my sis owed me £10 so I spent that on my day four doe's that count?

Sort drawers and cuboards out and sell a load of things on e-bay-Did'nt do this but did a major house tidy so nearly there.

Goals this week:

1. Pay £1000 off cc when hubby gets paid :j

2. Have four no spends days.

3. Sort out things for e-bay.