December 2009 Grocery Challenge

WendysWorld

Lord I'm embarassed......I'm miles over budget. Can't believe I've spent so much over the Christmas period. But:
I'm declaring £660 for December 2009....

Sigh....:o

franby64

Well my final total for December is £546.67 - an embarrasing £96.67 over!
Nevermind - I have stuck with a £450 grocery budget for January and it is my general spending budget which has taken the overspend hit. I also owe myself a bit of money which I borrowed for Christmas so I'm trying to spend as little as possible this month so I can get my finances straightened out by March:D: - if nothing else happens:D:D.

Happy New Year (bit late I know) and good luck to everybody.

mrssnowy_2

Hi anyone who is still here,
Lost the plot -again-will declare £200 and definitely £180 for Jan 2010.
Had a great Christmas,continuous family but littlies with us,so exciting.Loads of 'wow nanny'aah.
All those pressies, and THE MESS.Still as Mum says 'you only have to clear up once'
Bought less food,thought about it a bit more carefully and all was good.
Aldis turkey was lovely(8.99)-friend paid £34 for a fresh one.:eek:
Haven't made trifle for years,but made 2(Christmas and New Year,so not same peeps,only us 2!)Looks effective and used choc sponge left over from charity do in June-very OS.
Bought fun size bars of things from Aldi-sent back with DS and DD-in-law,so I don't have to eat them:rotfl:
Happy New Year and see you over the page

mrss

PS what resolutions if any do people make?Apart from the one about not making any.

mark55man

franby64 wrote: »

Well my final total for December is £546.67 - an embarrasing £96.67 over!
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Never mind - I got a bit disorganised at the end of last year and am declaring at £620 - £120 over - have no idea how that happened - might be at bit of xmas cashback I didn't spot or some M&S shopping that might not have all been food. that's what happens when you take your eye off the ball

fabforty

Hi everyone - and a belated happy new year to all of you.

So I have finally totted up my spends for December and ended on £118.91, well within my £150 target - yay!!!. I will defintiely be joining the January GC and I'm looking forward to saving more money. I will be joining a few other threads as well - and really make the most of this site. For once, my new year resolutions have nothing to do with diet and exercise, but are almost all about saving/earning money.

Good luck to the rest of you and see you on the January GC thread.

Eltee12

Hi all

went over the £500 budget for December - final total £538.14 Not bad considering the slight miscalculation on what size turkey we would need (were 2 people short this year, but ordered same size - DOH!).


Here's to 2010.

Winged_one

Final declaration for December - €634 so €16 under budget. Which included buying party foods for DD's party (which my mum was hosting and we were travelling to) and a turkey crown in M&S to make life easier on ourselves. So happy with that.

And now, on to a new year!!

Cheapskate

Final figure for December - £300 - so well over, but included stuff I wasn't expecting! Still got things left, so Jan off to a reasonable start. Good luck to everyone else & Happy New Year!

Synonymous

Hello Everyone,

Finally totted up my December spending and came in at £74.84 oops! thought I was under budget but y signature has just reminded me I dropped to £70 this month - whoops! I did include some medicine and a plant that I wouldn't normally because I thought I was under, so not too worried about that

Now heading to the Jan 2010 thread to declare for January!