Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 8th November

pointypenguin

Hello everyone . Welcome to the weekly spend challenege. This challenge is open to anybody, no matter what financial place they are in.

On this thread please post an amount of money you wish to stay below within the week (Sunday to end of working day on Friday). This can be pennies or thousands it depends on the individual. Then next Saturday report back and pledge for the following week. Feel free to update this thread with daily spends if that keeps you on track.

This is a little bit of fun but for many it highlights the fact that maybe that magazine/chocolate bar isn't needed. Hopefully your spending habits can be changed forever.

Moozie was the founder of this challenge and here is a quote taken from her around last year


Originally Posted by Moozie
Good afternoon lovely DFWs Now for anyone looking in, please feel free to join - the more the merrier! Basically, decide on the amount you want to spend up to from Sunday until the end of the working day on Friday then pledge it here and off we go! The challenge is about incidental spending and not for stuff that should be budgeted elsewhere such as bills, groceries, debt repayment etc but you decide what to include at the end - this is about changing your habits and improving your recording of your spends more than anything else. Have a great week everyone and keep it low!!! Moozie x

Good luck everyone.:T

W/C 1st November Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
Pointypenguin £32.50 / £29
elfen £30
natsing £70 / £69
brokemedic £20 / £23
Wanna Bee Free £40
true27 £5
EverTheOptimist £20 / £19.35
chuggingtongirl £20 / £31.98
karom £15 / £0
flying_fresian £27.52 / £61.60
pink_numbers £20 / £0
Tixy £30 / £31
Blythe £10
Casperthefriendlyghost £40 / £51.10
toochoosey £50
Triggles £10
ntycame £15
katie_pixie £10 / £4.24

link to last week's challenge

W/C 8th November Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
Pointypenguin £50
brokemedic £20
katie_pixie £30
karom £15
chuggingtongirl £20
EverTheOptimist £20
toochoosey £50
pink_numbers £20
natsing £10
Casperthefriendlyghost £25
flying_fresian £30
chris81418 £10
Tixy £26.26
wannaberich1 £10
bigbeff £30

pointypenguin

Morning Budgeteers,

I hope you are all having a lovely weekend.

Ok budget for the week is £50 but this is to include dinner out of Thursday as I have a friend coming over from the Burgh. Going to see if I can convince her to go somewhere cheap so I can save some pennies.

I am going out for lunch today with a friend but I am not going to be counting that in this challenge I will be taking that from another budget when I [STRIKE]fiddle[/STRIKE] restructure my budget

Well done Karom for Purple this week. Good to the reds for next week I am sure you can make.

pink_numbers

Morning pointypenguin, thanks for starting a new threat.

yay I managed to spend ZERO pounds of my budget this week, woot! That's going straight towards our coffee-table-saving!

I will go for £20 again this coming week please

pointypenguin

pink_numbers wrote: »

Morning pointypenguin, thanks for starting a new threat.

yay I managed to spend ZERO pounds of my budget this week, woot! That's going straight towards our coffee-table-saving!

I will go for £20 again this coming week please

Well done we have another purple.

Do you know what kind of coffee table you are getting?

pink_numbers

Hi pointypenguin, I just wanted to thank you for running this challenge.

I remember when I first started this many months ago, I struggled with a budget of £100/week! I used to see other people trying for £50 or less, and dreamed of the day when I would be as disiplined as they were. Now, I'm content with £20 a week, and probably wouldn't know what to do if I had £100... actually, I'd take £20 and save the rest!
My monthly outgoing has come down from £2000 a month to £500 a month, and it's all thanks to this challenge that really made me look at what I was spending money on. so THANK YOU to yourself, and everyone that does the challenge.

coffee table - we decided to get rid of one of the two sofas we have in the living room, as our living room is tiny. Instead, we want a coffee table, but not sure exactly what yet. we are going to have a look at the charity furniture shop tomorrow when we go and donate our sofa

natsing

Morning all, well yesterday I only spent £20 of my £30 budget so I actually came in on budget- £69 yay
I've already done my weekly shop and filled up the car with petrol- so I've got £10 for personal spends for the rest of the week (I'm changing the spend challenge rules again- one day I'll get something that works)
Have a great week all

Casperthefriendlyghost

Hi everyone

I've managed to go over my allocated £40, hmph! I spent £51.10 due to an unexpected but nice night out on Friday after work and the blasted cigarettes!

I remember when I could easily have 18 NSDs a month and I long for them. I know that reading all the posts on here will encourage me as I'm really envious of those people who have NSDs!

Thanx pointypenguin for running this thread and to all the peeps, I will get there by reading your posts and trying to emulate you all. Thanx for the kick up the........

Will try harder this week! I'm allocating £25 for this week.

Cheers
Casper
x x

Casperthefriendlyghost

Oh yes, forgot to say lol, I picked up a £10 note in the street yesterday lol, couldn't believe it! It's now safe in my piggy bank!

Cheers
Casper x x

chuggingtongirl

Well done to those who have come in on budget...glad there are a few of us who havent though as Ive only managed once to be on budget! but you are all very motivating so Im sure we can manage it this week

Ive got £20....Although saying that, Ive just spent some of it already!......
£7.80 on some groceries not included in the weekly shop
£2.20 on newspaper and sweets for DH

so £10 for the week but Im thinking alot of days are gonna be no spending as Im busy most days this week

good luck everyone

chuggingtongirl

Oh and well done Casper on finding the 'free money' ...you are very good not spending it straightaway : )

Casperthefriendlyghost

chuggingtongirl wrote: »

Oh and well done Casper on finding the 'free money' ...you are very good not spending it straightaway : )

thanx, was tempted but was thinking I might need it for something important later, was tempted to buy lottery tickets with it as it was "free", but decided against it.

Cheers
Casper
x x