Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 25th April 2010

pointypenguin

Hello everyone . Welcome to the weekly spend challenge. 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.

W/C 18th April Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
Pointypenguin £40 / £38.50
natsing £10 / £8.10
chris81418 £100 / £78.59
SazM030306 £40 / £31.26
karmachilovething £30 / £29.85
Baileys Babe £5 / £0
psychopathbabble £10 / £45
chuggintongirl £15
EC12345 £3 / £5
solongmarianne £30 / £4.76
determined new ms £35 / £37.47
Firewalker £5 / £0.75
chickywiggle £ / £23.49
ches £80 / £78

link to last week's challenge

W/C 25th April Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
Pointypenguin £20
natsing £10
solongmarianne £5
SazM030306 £10
ches £80
karmachilovething £60
Baileys Babe £5
Firewalker £5
determined new ms £20
chickywiggle £20
psychopathbabble £10
EC12345 £20
loopylorial £5
chris81418 £100
complimentschemistry £40
chuggintongirl £15

pointypenguin

Morning budgeteers,

Another Sunday morning and the beginning of another week budgeteering. I made green only just last week. I am back on the dieting wagon which usually is very good for my spending as most of my money is spent on food or drink (how sad is that?:() so I am going for £20 this week. I haven't planned to go out at all until Friday night so it will be off to the gym with me which is free.

Well done to Baileys Babe for the purple and also to the greens. For the reds good luck for the coming week.:D

chickywiggle

£20 for me again please PP - payday on Friday so down to the last dregs (of the ovedraft).

(P.S. you've put 18th for both lists above) :-)

psychopathbabble

£5.40 for me this week please, just got until Thursday this week as payday Friday. Only expected spend is my mentoring meeting tomorrow and maybe a couple of food bits. I cleverly worked out my budget this month over 4 weeks instead of the 5 it actually worked out between paydays!

pointypenguin

chickywiggle wrote: »

£20 for me again please PP - payday on Friday so down to the last dregs (of the ovedraft).

(P.S. you've put 18th for both lists above) :-)

Thanks I have added you and correct the above.:D

pointypenguin

psychopathbabble wrote: »

£5.40 for me this week please, just got until Thursday this week as payday Friday. Only expected spend is my mentoring meeting tomorrow and maybe a couple of food bits. I cleverly worked out my budget this month over 4 weeks instead of the 5 it actually worked out between paydays!

Do you not think someone should decimalise time so we have months that are all the same length? It would make budgetting much easier.:)

psychopathbabble

pointypenguin wrote: »

Do you not think someone should decimalise time so we have months that are all the same length? It would make budgetting much easier.:)

It would indeed. Or we should all get paid every 4 weeks. I get paid on the last working day of the month so sometimes it takes forever to get paid.

SazM030306

PP I would like to change my amount to £10 this week please.
That's what I have in my purse and I'd rather not draw any more out.
Thank you! Saz xxx

EC12345

Hello everyone.

Not too good last week, spent a total of £5.00 so please put me down in red for £5 - :mad:

Quite an expensive week this week so put me down for £20 this week.

Thanks PP.

EC

natsing

Have already spent this week, £5.99 on makeup (very essential it was foundation and I've run out, and I never go out without it on!) expecting three NSDs at least this week, maybe four if I'm not tempted!
Have a great week everyone

loopylorial

Hope you don't mind if I join in - it's the pennies that need looking after so I'm down for £5 please.