Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 6th September 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. We colour code the results as below:

Green - within budget
Red - overbudget
Purple - zero spend
Yellow - made money over the week

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.

link to last thread

W/C 6th Sept Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
Pointypenguin £20
Baileys Babe £10
pinkarsenalprincess £30
SazM030306 £20
natsing £5
Jodie1234 £20
sunshineyday £50
psychopathbabble £10
hedgesparrow £21

pointypenguin

Afternoon Budgeteers,

My apologies for going AWOL in the last couple of weeks as I was on holiday and couldn't get the netbook to co-operate with strange foreign dongle.

Anyway I am back with avengence. I hope you have all been getting on well over the last couple of weeks.

I am going for £20 to do me until end of working day on Friday and this will not include groceries as they come from another budget.

Please post your pledges for the coming week and I will update the first post.

pinkarsenalprincess

£30 for me for the week ahead.
This is for my personal spends rather than any petrol/food/bills etc.

Big challenge for me as my shopaholic tendencies mean I normally spend about £100+ a week.

SazM030306

Yey back to it! Thanks PP.

£20 for me please xxx

natsing

Hi Pointy
Hope you had a good holiday, been away myself, so I'm on a tight budget this month especially as I'm going away at the weekend, so I'll budget £5 for personal spends only until Friday.
Have a good week all

Jodie1234

Hi all, my first time attempting this. I'm budgetting myself £20 from today until friday

Good luck everyone!

sunshineyday

Hi everyone, :wave: another newcomer here. I'm aiming for £50 to include petrol and bits & pieces of groceries plus personal spending.

Good luck peeps!

pointypenguin

Aternoon all,

I have updated the first post. Welcome to Jodie1234 and sunshineyday. Let us know how you get on through the week.

natsing I know how you feel I need to keep on track for the next few weeks so I can make it to the end of the month without a negative bank balance. The only way to do this is to keep myself busy with free activities and try to avoid the pub!

psychopathbabble

Hi PP I'm back again....

Can I please have £10 this week? This is not including petrol and food. Ive been very slack recently after moving flat and stuff, but need to get back on it and stop wasting money.

hedgesparrow

Newbie here. I would like to have a chance to track my personal spending and have a challenge. I allow myself £100 per month but this sometimes doesn't make it so I need some motivation. It is supposed to cover gifts, entertainment, mad money, clothes and toiletries. Petrol, bills and food come out of a different pot and I never seem to have as much trouble sticking to that.

I have a silly question - if it runs from Sunday to Friday - what happens about Saturday?

Could I join in and be put down for £21 for the week please

natsing

No spends so far, did buy some booze, but this came from a different budget, and £25 for 6 bottleS of wine and a 1.5 ltr bottle of vodka was well worth it I feel!