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How much have/will you spend today Sun 10/12 and the new Sunday to Friday challenge!
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Hi all,
Didn't join last weeks challenge as I was buying a large lot of X'mas presents and would have been a shock too see how much I had spent if it was all added up.
Today's spending:
Spent £18.18 on petrol
Spent £32.95 in Tescos on the following but did include stuff for making up OHs X’mas hamper (he loves cooking)
1 x 15 Tesco value eggs
2 x 32 Tesco nappies
1 x 3kg Tesco pasta
1 x Tesco garlic salt (OH hamper)
1 x Tesco bag of cous cous(OH hamper)
1 x Tesco bag of split lentils(OH hamper)
1 x 6k Tesco organic pitta bread
1 x Tesco finest pasta(OH hamper)
1 x Jason Donovan greatest Hits cd album
2 x tubs of Pringles
6 x 2 ltr Tesco value sparkling water
1 x Tesco organic coffee (OH hamper)
1 x Cadbury’s dairy milk 250g + 33% extra free (OH hamper)
1 x Tesco extra virgin olive oil(OH hamper)
2 x Tesco sunflour spread (small tubs)
1 x bg Tesco peanuts(OH hamper)
1 x 2.5kg Tesco value potatoes
2 x loose bananas
1 x Tesco bay leaves(OH hamper)
1 x Tesco value self raising flour
1 x Tesco brocolli
1 x Tesco dried porcelli mushrooms(OH hamper)
1 x First magazine
1 x bg Tesco value pears
1 x bag loose carrots
1 x peanut butter(OH hamper)
1 x Sunpat organic peanut butter(OH hamper)
1 x Tesco peanut butter
1 x Tesco value apples
1 x Tesco value cheese
1 x Now magazine
2 x Tesco 2lt diet sparkling orange
1 x New Magazine
1 x Ok magazine
1 x Closer magazine
1 x Star magazine
1 x Tesco stay fresh wholemeal bread
2 x Tesco washing up liquid
I think I'll join the challenge too this week and allow myself £125 which includes the possible spends of 2 dvds, x'mas lunch, top up petrol and another Tesco trip, perhaps a few items from Boots and Asda too and a new zip for OHs leather jacket supplied and fitted in shop (surprise for his X'mas). Oh and £5 for dry cleaning. Hopefully that will be it!Tesco points: 101 (£21.50, £19.50, £7.50, £21 & £5)
Boots points: £0.28
Pigsback points: 715 (4 xBoots£10 & 1 xPizzaHut£10, 2 x £10 clothing vouchers)
Mutual points: 3417 (redeemed 8250)
Rpoints:redeemed 28925 points)Cashbag:£8.91(£20)0 -
moozie wrote:To everyone for posting today! :T
Hope you are having a relaxing night - I am drinking a few G&Ts, simply because the the T must go....need to empty the fridge
You dont need to explain to us - just enjoy the G&T's - sounds like you deserve them! Well, actually it sounds like you deserve a medal but i guess the G&Ts will have to do:D :beer: :rotfl:Experience is the toughest teacher because she gives the test first then the lesson
DFW Nerd 196 PROUD TO BE DEALING WITH MY DEBTS.
Coins found whilst dog walking £7.56 Sun-Fri challenge: £10.00 - Spent £0.000 -
Good evening Moozie - Hope you haven't put too much T in the G ! :beer:
See you're packing the PC - hope you'll still be keeping tabs on us over the next few days, though. :rolleyes:
Very best of luck with the cleaning - and the move, but I expect we'll see you before that. :j :j
Cheers mozie,
Rog2I am NOT, nor do I profess to be, a Qualified Debt Adviser. I have made MANY mistakes and have OFTEN been the unwitting victim of the the shamefull tactics of the Financial Industry.
If any of my experiences, or the knowledge that I have gained from those experiences, can help anyone who finds themselves in similar circumstances, then my experiences have not been in vain.
HMRC Bankruptcy Statistic - 26th October 2006 - 23rd April 2007 BCSC Member No. 7
DFW Nerd # 166 PROUD TO BE DEALING WITH MY DEBTS0 -
Thanks guys

Fell asleep on sofa, silly moo! :rolleyes: See you all in the morning, night night xxLeason learnt :beer:0 -
Hi Moozie, Ok I am going to really, really try to stay within budget this week. I plan on spending only what is in my purse which is: £3.66. I really need to do this, so no starbucks or chocolate bars this week unless I get to the end of the week and it's still there!Debtfree JUNE 2008 - Thank you MSE:T0
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Okay, all my Christmas presents are bought, with the exception of DH, who doesn't know what he wants, so there's not much to spend. Meeting a friend for a few drinks on Thursday though
£20 budget should see me through the weekBank loan - [STRIKE]£9949.52 [/STRIKE]/ £8705.83 * Loan from DH - [STRIKE]£600[/STRIKE]/ £350 * Overdraft - [STRIKE]£0[/STRIKE] £648.47
Total debt at LBM (09 2006) - £10,549.52 Total debt on 14 Mar 2007 - £9704.30 - 8.1% Paid off
This week's budget - £20 Spend so far - £32.50
March's target - keep overdraft below £600 - failed
Proud to be dealing with my debts0 -
moozie wrote:
- immoral_angeluk 50 60
- Mrs(no)money 20 19.55
- rog2 20 18.45
- cathybird 50 71.42
- yung 20 0
- CAFCGirl 50 61
- chocaholic110 7 25.55
- newsmonkey 95 91.82
- lil_me 45
- bobble_hat 20
- pms 15 14.31
- MinnieSpender 75
- anniestar 25
- LookingAhead 100 89.08
- postingalwaysposting 350 343.09
- emylou 15 14.98
- brenmcc1 15
- Gemmzie 10
- livinginhope 8 0
- angelite 10
- newleaf 16 13
- saintly 10.50
- whatatwit 20
- cattie1 20 35
- PercyPig 5 Actual spend £4.77
- babes21 35 60
- savvykaz 35 28.35
Hello :wave: sorry to be updating this thread so late, I didn't get a chance yesterday. Yay I came in under target. It will be a different story this week though as we have our work Christmas party so I will have to get a taxi home (OH won't let me use public transport after dark). So for this week I will set my target for £20 instead of my usual £5 :eek:Dealing with my debt and my weight
Debt at LBM 22/12/08 £33,270
Debt now £30,100 (9.5% paid off)
£2 coins saved and banked = £2100 -
Update:
£15.03 on petrol
£ .99 bottle water at college, didn't go for drinks after though so saved a bit
£16.02 so far. £68.98 left0
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