Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 25th October

brokemedic

OOoopps.. I was really naughty today and went into a bookshop and for the first time in ages, spent money on a non-medical book. It was £4.99 - it was too good to resist and now I am feeling incredibly guilty. It's nuts!!
Added onto that is £2.15 for coffee and a danish.

So that's £7.14 already spent out of my budget for the week :mad: and it's only just started.

Good luck everybody and I hope we are all green this week

mooomin

Spends today:

40p Newspaper (Collecting tokens for Lego!)
50p Scone (And it was taaaaasty)
£2.45 book for someone's Christmas present courtesy of Bangzo
£13.90 Dad's birthday present#

Spends today = £17.25 :eek:

so_here_we_are

Was aiming for a NSD today but ended up having to buy some mayo, so £1.09 for today

rictus123

Im aiming for a no spend week. Filled the van with diesel on Friday night so i wont need to fill up before next Monday. I was out on Saturday so i will be staying in this weekend with the gf Getting dark earlier makes nights in better i think Phone bill and digs paid for the month so not due again until middle of November....and its that magic day this Friday.....


Payday

pointypenguin

flying_fresian wrote: »

Write a polite letter but try and mention Watchdog

Also, can you change me to £31.18 which is exactly what's in my purse. This will include all spending this week unless I can convince some hapless sod to take me to the supermarket as this won't be included!

NSD yesterday :j

Ok I am going to try writing to them. I think I will do a letter as I find emails never get as good a response.

All other pledges updated let me know if I have missed anyone

I think I have vastly under estimated my weekly budget this week since I forgot I am out lots this week. I have theatre tomorrow night, going to Edinburgh for dinner with friends on Wednesday and then I have a quiz with work on Friday. Tomorrow should be fine as should only be a glass of wine and my friend owes me money for the ticket. Wednesday is going to be a whopper as I have to get the train across (about £16 ) then dinner. Thursday should be cheap as quiz is at student union and I am not planning on drinking too much. I am going to see if I can jiggle things about and I may not include Wednesday out as then I can hopefully keep on track and not go totally of the rails with the other nights.

natsing

Spent £35 on food today, £65 left for the week, petrol tomorrow!

mooomin

pointypenguin wrote: »

Wednesday is going to be a whopper as I have to get the train across (about £16 ) then dinner. Thursday should be cheap as quiz is at student union and I am not planning on drinking too much.

Could you get the Megabus through to the Burgh - it's about £1.50 I think if you book in advance. It's only about 15 minutes longer but hugely cheaper. It's how I would be going to Glasvegas tomorrow were work not paying for it.

It works out as £18.80 return as I'm going peak Haymarket to Queen St. I think it's less than £11 off peak return. Does that help?

pointypenguin

flying_fresian wrote: »

Could you get the Megabus through to the Burgh - it's about £1.50 I think if you book in advance. It's only about 15 minutes longer but hugely cheaper. It's how I would be going to Glasvegas tomorrow were work not paying for it.

It works out as £18.80 return as I'm going peak Haymarket to Queen St. I think it's less than £11 off peak return. Does that help?

Megabus site is broken and I need to go to Haymarket not the centre so I think the train might be the better option. If I get the 6.30pm train I will get a cheap day return which is £10.40 (according to Scotrail website) instead of £18.80 for a peak return. So I think I can just wait a bit for the cheaper train as £8.40 is not to be sniffed at and can hopefully pay for a chunk of my dinner.

Cheers for the insider info F_F. I think next time I got through I am going to try the bus but might try it out at a weekend as I know I will probably not get back to Vegas until about 1am and will be cream crackered if the bus takes longer.

true27

:hello: Hi All!

On track for a NSW this week - laid up with a chest infection this time! Finally shake the migraine and bang, now I can't breathe lol!! Typical, but at least its now and not in a couple of weeks when we're getting married!!

Good luck all xxx

mooomin

pointypenguin wrote: »

Megabus site is broken and I need to go to Haymarket not the centre so I think the train might be the better option. If I get the 6.30pm train I will get a cheap day return which is £10.40 (according to Scotrail website) instead of £18.80 for a peak return. So I think I can just wait a bit for the cheaper train as £8.40 is not to be sniffed at and can hopefully pay for a chunk of my dinner.

Cheers for the insider info F_F. I think next time I got through I am going to try the bus but might try it out at a weekend as I know I will probably not get back to Vegas until about 1am and will be cream crackered if the bus takes longer.

Worth checking with someone if the bus will drop you at Haymarket for future reference. I know that when you get the bus with Citylink there are stops which aren't mentioned on your route as you come into Edinburgh.