Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 19th June 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 12th June Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
elsiepac £30 / £55.65
Learning2Budget £30
chris81418 £45 / £40.57
Sparkerly £50
rdchick £10
pointypenguin £30 / £26
laisbojar83 £50 / £55
Southernman £5
debtfree future £30 / £29.57
psychopathbabble £15
cloudatlas £30

link to last week's challenge

W/C 19th June Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
Pointypenguin £40
meersy22 £20
elsiepac £10
laisbojar83 £50
**purpleprincess** £6
psychopathbabble £15
bellkat £30
chris81418 £60
rdchick £10
MinnyMoo £70

pointypenguin

Afternoon All

Another week and another weekly challenge. I was green last week so hoping for another one this week. I am pledging £40 as I have a quiz night with work on Wednesday.

Hope you are all having a good weekend and have remembered your dads.

**purpleprincess**

Hiya!!

I'd like to join in thanks I have got £6 to last me until payday and I have got to get the train on Monday which is £6 so hopefully that should be me for the week!

psychopathbabble

£15 again please... hoping to stick to it and have no more drama this week!

bellkat

Hi everyone, sorry I've not been around much the last couple of weeks, during which I completely lost control of my spending. That did include going to the Take That concert with cheap tickets found through the Grabbit Board, had a great time!!

I'm going to pledge £30 this week please.

Kath

elsiepac

Hi all

Thanks for picking up the baton PP! Well done on your green last week and quiz night sounds fun on Wednesday, I get dreadfully competitive at these things!!!

I've spent £2.75 out of my £10 this week, went for a coffee with a friend earlier after I'd been out for Fathers Day roast with the fam. I saw my friend because she's on secondment down at Portsmouth at the moment, and usually stays away Mon-Thu, but for the next MONTH she is working all the weekends as well so won't be home at all! So I wanted to see her before she went off
Technically I spent money today paying for a third of the bill, however that cost isn't really till next month as mum is letting me pay her back as I hadn't budgeted for it :cool: what a plonker so it doesn't count as a spend as I haven't spent it yet! :rotfl:

Hope everyone has done something nice today, see you all on here in the week!

LC xxx

rdchick

Lc you were in Pompey? I was just over the water at the folks in Gosport anyway I spent lots yesterday at my friends hen party, I plan not to spend anything else until next Friday on our trip to the motherland (holland!) where it will be plane snacks etc so just a tenner for me this week wonderful people xxx

chris81418

Hello everyone! :wave:

I've worked out my pledge for this week, and I'd like to pledge £60 please - thank you Pointy! :money:

Have a good week everyone, and good luck staying within budget!

psychopathbabble

Red again for me... have just had to buy a bed

pointypenguin

Evening budgeteers,

First post has been updated.

LC I too am competitive at quizzes, no point entering if you don't try to win!

Psycho what happened to the bed or should I not ask?;)

NSD for me and 3 days until payday woop:j

**purpleprincess**

Didn't get the train today so saved my £6! NSD for me