Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 9th January 2011

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. The challenge runs from Sunday to Friday so we don't include Saturdays but feel free to change the rules to suit you and include Saturdays or start on a different day.

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:

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 2nd January Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
Pointypenguin £50 / £23.35
viv. £50
meersy22 £40 / £18.85
natsing £15
phoenix_dragon £30
Casperthefriendlyghost £20
stitching witch £40 / £23.64
welshkaz £30 / £29.14
Baileys Babe £10 / £0
lilylass £80
babes21 £70 / £54.89
welshspendthrift £30 / £27.71
Miss_Marple £15
karom £20 / £9.97
chris81418 £65 / £90.43
Laurent1369 £100 / £90

link to last week's challenge

W/C 9th January Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
Pointypenguin £30
karom £20
stitching witch £30
welshkaz £30
meersy22 £55
welshspendthrift £45
Laurent1369 £100
Alisonb1975 £20
Twinki £
Charlyze2 £25
lilylass £60
dollybeads £20
snoop2008 £15
Baileys Babe £10
chris81418 £45

pointypenguin

Afternoon budgeteers

I was green last week:j:j

I am away from Thursday to Sunday so any spends there are coming out of the holiday budget. So I am going for £30 from today to Wednesday.

Well done to the greens and commiserations to the reds, good luck for this week.

Let me know your results and pledges and I will add you to the list.

Any lurkers out there, come on you know you want to join us.:D

dollybeads

Please can I join, would like to pledge £20.00 as of now, no spend today and not planning to (except emptied purse into sealed pot so hope that doesn't count).

Many thanks dolly x

rising_from_the_ashes

Hope this week goes better!

snoop2008

Thanks pointy, it's good advice. Weekly it is. This week my budget is £ 15.00. I have all my major food stuffs, just need milk and bread if need be!!!

pointypenguin

Welcome dollybeads I have added you to the list.

Welcome back lilylass and snoop2008.

No spends today as I am yet to leave the house:p On a positive note I have sorted out all paperwork (bank statements etc) and filed everything, something I have been meaning to do for about 6 months.

Baileys_Babe

Hi All

Failed to keep up with the thread last week, but did have a Purple week :j

This week I am going to pledge £10, doubt it will be another purple as we are visiting friend next weekend and I'm unsure what we are doing on the Friday or Saturday.

Good luck everyone with this weeks challenge and thanks Pointy :T for organising it yet again

dollybeads

pointypenguin wrote: »

Welcome dollybeads I have added you to the list.

Welcome back lilylass and snoop2008.

No spends today as I am yet to leave the house:p On a positive note I have sorted out all paperwork (bank statements etc) and filed everything, something I have been meaning to do for about 6 months.

Thanks for that, hoping this will keep me focused for the week, HM soup for lunch at work and HM bread yum. So no reason for any incidental spending at all!

charlyze2

Evening all

£12.79 spends today. Had to buy some sugar, butter and bread but also ended up getting some chicken thighs for dinner as i forgot to take stuff out of the freezer. I also picked up some cat food and yorkshire puddings, and i had to fork out 2p :eek: for a shopping bag.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a NSD.

chris81418

Hello everyone!

I've worked out my budget for this week and I'd like to pledge £45 please - thank you as always Pointy!

Have a good week everyone and good luck!

dollybeads

Evening all

£2.85/£20 so far, NSD for me today, but couldn't go cold turkey on the diet coke last night, hence the £2.85. Damn those diet coke elves :mad: