Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 14th November 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.

W/C 7th November Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
Pointypenguin £50 / £55
natsing £5 / £0
mandz1 £40 / £35.68
Karom £50
joflakes £1
chris18418 £100 / £97.69
SavingJane £50
gemini12 £20
chuggingtongirl £20 / £24.30
psychopathbabble £0
hedgesparrow £100 / £99.94
ruby_eskimo £20 / £11
elfen £9
karmachilovething £30 / £25
littlepinkstars44 £20
curlybap £30
SazM030306 £20 / £28.28

link to last week's challenge

W/C 14th November Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
Pointypenguin £30
natsing £5
SazM030306 £10
ruby_eskimo £15
karmachilovething £20
chuggingtongirl £10
psychopathbabble £5
hedgesparrow £25
dfw123 £30
LocoDice £10
princesscupcake £0
stupidspender £30
bzz £10
debtbegone £20
littlepinkstars44 £15
debtschmet £70
gemini12 £15
mandz1 £15
SavingJane £50
chris18418 £145
Little bit dizzy £35
curlybap £70

pointypenguin

Afternoon

I was red last week because I went to the pub on Thursday and was rubbish at talking lunch to work with me.

Trying to turn over a new leaf this week as I have already got lunch sorted for tomorrow. I am going for £30 this week as funds are short and payday is still a while away :mad:

dfw123

Hi!
please can i join in!
i would like to aim for £30 or less spend! i also need a payday!!!
good luck!

LocoDice_2

Would Love to join this aswell, i am going to set myself a weeks target of £10..

Wednesday will be the tester but lets see how we go...

Good luck all

princesscupcake_2

Hello I'm a newbie and would like to pledge that I will spend £0 other then what I have already allocated for food and bills. Might seem a bit ambitious especially for my first week but there really is nothing I'm going to need money for!

Fingers crossed!!

stupidspender

Hi =]
Would like to join this please, sounds interesting.
Will set myself a target of £30

Good luck everyone
Dan x

bzz

I would like to spend £10 or less this week. The last couple of weeks have been a bit of a spending disaster - my husband and I have been treating ourselves a bit too much!

Hopefully, by cutting back for the next six weeks, we'll start the New Year with a bit more in our offset mortgage and a topped up emergency fund.

debtbegone

Hello! I think right now that I'm more suited to the weekly spends challenge rather than the NSD one as I'm ending up spending a little everyday

I'm in this week with a target of £20 or under.

pointypenguin

Evening budgeteers,

Welcome to dfw123, LocoDice, princesscupcake, stupidspender, bzz and debtbegone. I have added you to the list, let us know how you get on the through the week.

littlepinkstars44

Can you put me down for £15 this week please.

debtschmet

Hi, would like to be put down for £70 please xx