How much have you spent today and Sunday to Friday challenge!

moozie_2

Good afternoon DFWs

Isn't it a beautiful Sunday? Very bright down here although it feels quite nippy! Still better than dark and miserable

Had a really nice morning with the OH and we'll be off out soon. Going to look at furniture and ideas for our new home! :j Won't be buying anything today, just want to see what's out there :A

So, I don't propose to spend anything today and will challenge myself to £20 this week! I came in just under the £30 for last week, which was my target, but I need to tighten my belt a bit on weekdays so back to £20

Here's the challengers from last Sunday:

1. Challenger £ Amount
2. immoral_angeluk 75
3. Froglette 50
4. lynsayjane 10
5. Brassic 145
6. newleaf 18.42 (how is the evening coat coming along?)
7. Gemmzie 20
8. MinnieSpender 50
9. rarele 40
10. Bogof_Babe 20 (I know you had a tough week hun, thinking of you)
11. northern_star 12.69
12. newmum1 20
13. Mrs(no)money 20
14. postingalwaysposting 5
15. livinginhope 30
16. babes21 40
17. Jesscat 50
18. Imelda 10 (will bump thread for you tomorrow as I know you are not online at w/e )

Quite a list this week, despite it being a half term and I know a lot of you have more expenses then! Also many new starters: immoral_angeluk, froglette, rarele, Bogof_Babe, babes21 :T :T :T

I look forward to seeing everyone's result as well as the new targets for the week :j

Anyone looking in, just set yourself a challenging target for your un-budgeted spending (i.e not food shopping, bills, debt repayment etc) and off we go!

Have a lovely day and here's to a great week for us all.

Moozie xx

postingalwaysposting

moozie wrote:

Good afternoon DFWs

Here's the challengers from last Sunday:

1. Challenger £ Amount
2. immoral_angeluk 75
3. Froglette 50
4. lynsayjane 10
5. Brassic 145
6. newleaf 18.42 (how is the evening coat coming along?)
7. Gemmzie 20
8. MinnieSpender 50
9. rarele 40
10. Bogof_Babe 20 (I know you had a tough week hun, thinking of you)
11. northern_star 12.69
12. newmum1 20
13. Mrs(no)money 20
14. postingalwaysposting 5
15. livinginhope 30
16. babes21 40
17. Jesscat 50
18. Imelda 10 (will bump thread for you tomorrow as I know you are not online at w/e )

Moozie xx

well i am back on track with my £3 a week :T i spent £2.13 monday-friday so i had £2.87 spare how good is that

today i spent £9.40 on my weekly shop for packed lunch stuff and a few goodies and i also spent £9.45 on craft stuff for xmas presents... total = £18.85 :eek: anyways this weeks monday-friday challenge is £6 cause thats all i have in my purse but i have a feeling thats all i have till the 15th :eek: so i am not taking my cards to work now

Sammz

I'm just off to Asda to get some things for lunch during the week and will also check cupboards to see if I need anything else to make enough evening meals. Should be less than £10.

I will also take £10 out of the bank and see if I can live on that this week (Mon-Fri). Actually, that will be excluding food I have to buy for visitors at the weekend. Must go look for tips on big meals for cheap prices too.

immoral_angeluk

Spent £86... £16 over target but we had our 4d pregnancy scan on tuesday which meant £10 more petrol that we would've normally used... and we had to do a top up food shop.. but other than that we haven't done too bad!

This week our target will be higher as we need to do a full food shop etc so I'll probbaly say that this week our target is to spend no more than £180 including food and petrol, and a couple of big ebay things we have to send.. I hate payday.. the money disappears so quick...

so put me down for £180.

cumbrianmum

I've got £10.78 in my purse - so that's my challenge this week - although I'm discluding food to feed the family with - I'll try and limit that to £30 this week.
Haven't spent anthing today - so off to a good start.
Good Luck everyone

immoral_angeluk

Sorry just noticed that the target is for non essential spending (ie not food shopping etc) so will spend no more than £60 this week hopefully!

Immoral_angeluk - Target £60!

livinginhope

Afternoon moozie and co,all a bit relieved here now,done the bootsale this morning,spent £5 petrol and £6 entry,but took ......£181 :j :j :j
we needed £146,so done better than thought,I can sleep tonight now!
This week I was well under budget,but since mucking up the books I think I will write this week off.
Next weeks budget is £5 spends for me and DH,£30 food shop so that's it.
Have a good week everyone :A

Froglette

Hello Everyone,

Now I'm not sure how to count this weeks spend. For everything that I had control over I spent £17.83, which was way under my £50 target, I'm really suprised at how little I need to spend if I try! So I will set next weeks target at £30. We are going out on Wednesday night to the theatre as part of a long line of celebrations for my OH's 30th birthday, otherwise I would have set it at £20.

My dilema comes with the £270 pounds that I had to spend on the car after it bust on me on Thursday. It would be really depressing to have to count that into my weekly spend as it really is a big one off. I already had £170 of this saved in a car fund, so I just needed to find the remaining £100. We decided not to go to the snow dome this weekend because of this; and that would have cost us £62, so really I just need to shave £38 off the rest of this months spending to cancel out the expense of the car. That doesn't seem like it should be too difficult no that I am posting on here each day.

Do you rechkon that I am doing some dodgy accounting? Or is it reasonable not to get too depressed about this unforseen expense?

babes21

Hi Moozie, thanks for the thread.

This week i spent, £60 :eek:, £20 over budget although i did have a night out with that.

I'll set myself a target of £70 this week, as i have a night out planned Thursday as i have Friday off work, hopefully next week i'll be able to stick to it :j.

Good luck everyone x

sans_2

Afternoon all..

I think I will budget (excluding food):

£1 for some NO 7 wipes as I have a £5 off voucher.
£2.50 for some toothpaste (can't remember exact amount from Boots) but on MBG
£20 for a meal with work colleagues this Friday
£15 for petrol
£9.50 for magazines (although this amount should be over estimated)

So that is £48.

HairyHandofDartmoor

Nothing today and nothing yesterday, but will need a new tyre soon (boo hoo).