Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 7th Mar 2010

banwa

Disastrous week last week, came in at £18.03 :eek:

No spend day for me today and can't see me needing to buy anything this week so will try for £3 again if I'm not too late to join

chickywiggle

so far:
Sunday: £10 spent (2 poles to hold the washing line up - apparently they don't like sitting outside in the winter we've just had, 2 x deodrant for hubby cause he convieniently forgets to buy it when he goes to the shops).

Monday: NSD - not thro choice ( was supposed to be buying some bolts to mend the toilet that leaked all over the bathroom floor at 11.45 last night) - DS was poorly so was confined to the sofa with him.

£10/ £50

pointypenguin

I went to a gig tonight and spend £19.85 on dinner and drinks which was excellent and band were great.

chris81418

Good morning all!

Pointy - please can you show me green for last week - after picking up bits n bobs for the party that I'll be hosting, my total spend came to £189.14 - I'll be reimbursed for some of the party expenses, but I won't deduct that until I've got the cash in hand ... never count your chickens n all that ...

This week I have a few more things to buy for the party and I'm running out of essentials so a big food and households shop is coming up, so I'll pledge £125.

Thanks Pointy - fingers crossed that you get out of your vicious red circle and make it green this week - glad you had fun with the Fun Lovin Criminals - I'm going to have Scooby Snacks stuck in my head all day now!

heatherykins - I have to agree with you too - Debit cards are most dangerous, I now leave all my cards at home unless I have a planned purchase/spend to make - it has made a huge difference. Glad that this thread has got you on track.

Good luck for the rest of the week everyone!

pointypenguin

I am still rather deaf from last night, hopefully not for too long. I forgot to add i spent £2 on bonusball at work and £4 on my card yesterday so total is £25.85 so far

Have a good day budgeteers

natsing

NSD for me yesterday as I went to bed early with a migraine, ouchy!
Another NSD planned for today, I really want to keep the money in my purse to pay off that overdraft!

psychopathbabble

Just added up my spends for the 'week' as I'm away from tomorrow. So much for sticking to £10!!!
Spends are:
sendings books £3.26
St johns wort £1.60
moisturiser £1.22
paint 97p
paint that was white not cream! £1.49
shampoo and conditioner for holiday £1.98
face wipes 59p
aaa batteries for heated eyelash curlers and mp3 player 50p
colour catcher (nearly dyed the polka dots in my dress blue!) £1.61
painkillers 65p
key cut for new place £4.80
mcdonalds £1.98
drink and choc for cinema £1.88
cinema £4.50
£1.38 extra to make up euros
TOTAL - £28.91!!!

A few of those items were not strictly necessary (mcds, drink, chocolate, face wipes) or could have waited til after holiday (colour catcher) but the paint saved me losing my deposit and the cinema was alice in wonderland which i've been waiting to see for months and months and months! key was obviously necessary and so was the moisturiser. the shampoo and conditioner were just smaller bottles instead of taking the huge bottles ive already got.

All in all, a bad-ish week but couldn't be helped. Only problem is I'm going to struggle now when I get back from holiday, but I have got lots of meal ideas from the cheap recipes threads.

Baileys_Babe

Hi everyone can I rejoin, I've had a few weeks where I haven't posted on any of the challenges I'm part of, even thou I've been keeping on track without posting I feel more motivated if I'm part of the offical challenge.

This week, Monday to Sunday I plan to spend less than £7.50 which I haven't already budgeted for.

heatherykins

Today, brought lunch into work to save cash as I was meeting up with girls from uni for a coffee (or a juice in my case) and a right good moan. Drink cost me £3.00 - I hate these commercialised, over-priced swindlers!!! No drink (especially non-alcoholic) is worth £3.00!!!

Total Spent this week: £70.00/£26.93

pointypenguin

Evening all,

I spent £3.70 on lunch today and I have been to the gym this evening so I am feeling positive

I have added the rest of the pledges to the first post, nice to see a nice long list. If there are any lurkers out there it is not too late to join.