Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 24th April 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 17th April Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
Pointypenguin £80
twoboysmamma79 £4
bellkat £30 / £20.59
BaileyBabe £10 / £0
Rock_Cakes £30
chris81418 £30 / £28.59

link to last week's challenge

W/C 24th April Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
Pointypenguin £60
BaileyBabe £10
rictus123 £60
bellkat £20
moneytree1 £30
chris81418 £225
serendipity1985 £30
meersy22 £30

pointypenguin

Evening all

I am going for £60 this week. Apologies I am a bit late setting up the thread.:o

Hope you have had a good bank holiday weekend.:j

chris81418

Good morning everyone! :wave:

Checking in to report that I am back on the wagon, as I was green last week with a spend of £28.59 out of my pledged £30! Woo hoo! :j

This week I have to pay my annual sports club fee, so my pledge of £225 includes that.

Thank you as always to Pointy for running the thread! :T

Have a good week everyone, and I hope you're all enjoying the sunshine!

serendipity1985

Please can I join in again??

I think this will only for for me if I come back to update everyday otherwise I forget about it!!

I'll go for £30 this week please

meersy22

Hi Pointy

Can I join again please. I lost some motivation and bad habits were sneaking up on me, so back to your challenge and thanks for running it. I'll go for £30 this week and will see how I get on.

Many thanks

Meersy

moneytree1

Hi there just reporting in Monday NSD today spent 49p on milk but that is food budget so another NSD lets hope this is a good omen for the rest of the week.

serendipity1985

NSD yesterday and today!! It's payday tomorrow but I want to try and get through until Friday without spending anything!!

rictus123

Well spent my £4 on lottery syndicate...just phone bill to follow and thats my lot...

pointypenguin

Evening all

First post has been updated let me know if I have missed anything.

I have no spends to report today as everything spent today came from grocery budget.

Not long until the weekend I could get used to this short week malarky.

bellkat

Thanks for starting the new thread Pointy. So far this week I've spent £5.60, so not too bad.

Have a good week everyone

Kath

meersy22

Morning all

Spends so far:
25/04 - £3.60 (rice, orange juice & cereal bar)
26/04 - £5.10 (contribution towards worlds most disgusting chinese)

Total - £8.70 - I'm hoping today is an NSD