Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 29th May 2011

laisbojar83

So I am back.. and the totals are not looking good!!
Here we go...

2.20 - on bus fares
10.00 - soft play
6.00 - my son`s bug collection magazine
1.00 - pack of sweets

TOTAL FOR TODAY £ 19.20 :eek: Oh My Lord!

Off to update my signature.

See you all tomorrow x

L.

psychopathbabble

Spent £1.00 today on 2 tubes of handcream for work... I also bought some birthday cards but the money for that came out of present fund.

laisbojar83

Hi everyone,

The week is almosttt over :j
So, yesterday was not a NSD again.. the day was lovely and I took the kids to a farm park.

We spent £ 20.90, including tickets, some feeding bags and ice creams. I didnt spend on food there as we took our own picnic.

Today and tomorrow we are staying home tho, so I can stay within my £50.00 pledge lolol

Next week is going to be an expensive one as I have so much to pay and food shopping as well.

On the bright side, it is my payday week.. on the sad side, I am losing my job in 4 weeks time :eek: I have already re-arranged our budget and started applying for jobs, so fingers crossed.

Lovely weather here and I hope it stays that way for the weekend so we can do some freebie activities. :rotfl:

Have fun everyone,

L x

rdchick

Hello peoples, so Monday was a NSD, Tuesday I took £20 out and paid my tuck box debt at work (that thing is the devil) and a few other bits and bobs, including stuff for work and still have £2.95 in my purse. I did get fuel yesterday @ £20 so that's £37.05 for me so far this week... however I have paid an extra £3.14 to my credit card to round it down to £470 probably the first time ever I have over paid!

so that's £40.19 for me so far this week

psychopathbabble

£2 today on bubble wrap and brown paper for ebay parcels (in theory my p&p should cover this but not sure it will) so I'm declaring green with a total spend of £4.20 out of £10. Hopefully next week will be a money maker week as all my ebay items end tomorrow!

chris81418

Hello everyone! :wave:

Checking in to report that I would have been green this week; however, an unexpected trip meant I had to fork out for petrol which tipped me into the red :mad:

I'm off to work out my pledge for next week - have a good rest of the weekend everyone and I hope the sun is shining where you are!

elsiepac

elsiepac wrote: »

I'd like to pledge £100

[strike]£30 Food Budget (£20 31/5, £10 3/6)[/strike]
[strike]£20 Misc Budget - for toiletries[/strike] (should see me most of the way through the month as I'm pretty stocked up still, am combining this with cinema trip Tuesday to save doing another trip to Boots another day!)
[strike]£20 Entertainment Budget (£10 31/5, £10 3/6) [/strike] (cinema with Mum on Tuesday, payday, although I should get ifor 95p with nectar points, but not sure if I'll want ice cream there... I usually cave in! :doh: )
[strike]£10 Misc Budget - that I owe a friend [/strike]
[strike]£5 Misc Budget - eBay fees[/strike] (think I'm mostly covered for these in Paypal a/c but just in case...)
[strike]£15 Misc Budget - for part of birthday presents for 2 friends[/strike] (Body Shop sent me a 30% discount voucher as I've not shopped online with them for a while...if I buy 2x £10 gifts, I get free shipping as £20+, then knock off 30% and shipping still stays free - I tested it - so I'm getting £20 worth for £14, I think it's worth it!)

Final update:

Sun: NSD
Mon: NSD
Tue: £20 for eBay fees and 2x presents for friends (change went into ISA)
Also £62 total on food shop, day out, toiletries shop etc, rounded up as change went into my sealed pot!!!
Remainder is £3.00 food budget, £5.00 entertainment budget, and £10 to give to my friend tomorrow when I see him in work!
Wed: £10 that I owed the friend...hate doing that! £3 Starbucks in celebration of payday from food budget
Thu: Nothing from this budget but did put petrol in (which I don't count here) as had to do 150 odd miles for work which I'll get expenses for, so not a NSD.
Fri: £3.00 starbucks from entertainment budget and £1.25 lunch from same

I'm in the green with a total of £99.25/£100

Next week I would like to pledge £40 total not including petrol please...good luck everyone and well done, lots of greens this week! (And my first!)

LC x

laisbojar83

It is a red week for me! I was so so close lol
But it was for a good cause. Lidl had mince on offer today and I stocked up.. only £1.24 each. I bought 4 packs and 2 packs of chicken breasts - 1.3kg for £4.48 each. They also had some chinese BBQ ribs on offer and I bought 2 packs for 2.50. And a few other bits and bobs. That will reduce my food shopping in quite a bit, so it was worth to go red.

In total I spent £35.00 today :eek:

I hope you are all having a great weekend so far.

L x

bellkat

It's Red for me too this week. I spent £21.28 so I'm over by £6.28. I'm really not sure exactly what I spent on either, I think a spending diary is called for!!

I'm going to pledge £20 for next week

Kath

pointypenguin

Evening all

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