November 2009 Grocery Challenge

Winged_one

I'd like to declare at €467 please - DH did the final shop on Sat and I know he only spent €25 cos he was bragging about it. And he had already managed to get a free Xmas tree (only 4', but real when we were going to resort to the fake this year!!) earlier in the morning as he was in B&Q and buying enough stuff anyway (didn't even know about it till the girl at till told him to take the tree, he'd bought enough!!).

Angelfeathers

I would like to declare at £302.21 for November please! £47.79 under my official budget, and only £2.21 over my unofficial one, so I'm pretty damn pleased!

Still trying to work out what to put down for December...

MrsBartolozzi

Well, my last day and I've not really kept proper track in the last 2 weeks. I do know that I came in at around the £200 mark including a lot of Pepsi and pringles from Morrisons deals. I've also bought a couple of Xmas pressies and some Xmas food from supermarkets too which is included in this total, so I'm happy enough - paid for my dishwasher, which was my intention!
I'll bow out for December, I've no idea what we are doing over Xmas - might end up at inlaws:eek:, so I'll need to factor in travel instead :rolleyes:.

Well done to those who made it under budget, and commiserations to those who didn't quite make it - it's not a race, it's an ongoing challenge and I reckon if you are now looking at what you spend on food, you're likely to be spending less anyway, so good luck for the coming months - as someone says baby steps!

MadamMim2013

Declaring £ 243.88 for November :T

£250 for December please, thanks:j

pammyj74

declaring £133/£120

have joined the december one but thinking I might go over on that too, but with using the SC and having a few meals already frozen I might be ok ?

Mrs_Money_Penny

Hi All

Just updated signature coming in at November £2338.04 from an annual budget of £2700. Many thanks Helen for all your hard work.

Tinkdh

Hi. I'd like to declare £193.37 for November. Thats £6.63 under budget. :j Thanks for the challenge.:T

Aril

Declaring £198 so just made it by the skin of my teeth:j:j Please put me down for £200 for December.
Best of luck all [although with all those naughty Chrimble treats I wonder just how disciplined I might be:rotfl::rotfl:
Aril

cw18

Allowed myself to be tempted by 3 more Whoopsie items in Mr M tonight (on my way out of work), so have overspent by exactly £6.00 this month

declaring at £99.80

However, I'm not concerned as I'm still under my 'annual to date' target

Figures for the year so far now stand at
Budget of £1211.45
Actual spend of £1198.25 (so I'm actually under budget by £13.20)

Actual spend includes a total of £366.67 spent of Whoopsie items, with a shelf value of £1340.70 - meaning my £1198.25 spend has bought me goods worth £2172.66 :T


Only 8 NSDs in November, but this brings my total to date for 2009 up to 122

Botany

Allrighty, ready to declare....

November: £191.29 .... meaning I am £41.29 over budget (and it was just a 2-week month for me! :mad:)

As a 'punishment', I have revised my next GC budget down from the £300 I would have wanted it to be to .... £ 258.71 for December.

(Basically I have taken out the amount I've over-spent in November)

I know it's a funny figure but it's all done on Excel so it's easy to keep track of it. I'm assuming the philosophy that every penny counts: If I go over budget I must make up for it the following month - if instead I happen to save some money, then I must save that up in a savings account immediately. Yes! I'm that determined!!!

:rudolf: