Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 3rd July 2011

chris81418

Good morning everyone! :wave:

I'm very late this week with posting my pledge - sorry - but I've been so busy ... which also means that I'm purple so far! :j However, I may just have to pledge £20 for incidentals (thank you Pointy!), as I may treat myself either today or tomorrow for working so hard this week!

Have a good rest of the week everyone!

katie07

Hello again all!

Well I've been pretty restrained with my spending since Monday. Had to put another £2 into the work syndicate for the Euro Millions tomorrow, but other than that all I've bought is a couple of cans of coke (I just can't go without one in the morning at work!). The £4 I spent on lottery tickets on Tuesday was actually taken out of a different 'fund' so I won't count it in my budget, so that brings my total this week so far to £21.67/£30. Fingers crossed, it looks like I'm actually going to stay within my budget this week!:j If I plan well then it should leave me enough to have a couple of drinks after work on Friday to celebrate :beer:

Psychaley

Think I may just swing this! I only spent £5 last night. I got the other people who were getting a lift to the gig off me and my brother to chip on for petrol, stayed away from the merch booth and came home with £15! The other £5 was borrowed by the brother and I'll get that back tomorrow. So i have enough to get the train for the next few days.

Total spend( if I only buy train tickets on Friday): £28.80

karen_is_trying

Been quite ill this last few days, so off work which isnt very MSE but couldnt be helped feeling more human today tho,crazy how im eating more healthy than i ever ever have done on slimming world and im picking up every cold and head virus under the sun bonkers!!!
My spends for this week has been...
£8.40 for my xmas bonus fund..
£2.90 for my c/s goodies
£10.00 my share of 2 chimneas for the garden(my hubby paid a tenner and £10 out of our kitty jar lol)
£3.00 for a meal deal thingy in work a salad.d/coke and crisps(never get tempted by buying lunch only excuse i got is coming down with bug)
so £24.30/£30.00 still not to bad and chimneas will look lush in new garden weve worked so hard doing last month or 2 and were a fab bargain!!

£24.30/£30.00 for me please pp and thanks for keeping track of this thread its a godsend for me xx have a good week allx

can i go for £25.00 next week please pointy, its going to be a tighter week with me off last few days thank god hubby has done shed loads of overtime this month....

redapril

well, my weekly spend this week was £11.76, not quite the £0.00 i was hoping for but definately not as much as i would usually waste in a week. this challenge has been great cause its really made me aware of what i am spending in the week! hopefully this will really help me towards shaving some more pounds of that debt!!

think i will be brave and go for £10 next week cause i dont have any plans for next week and would like to try and limit the amount of money i am wasting on nothing! x

katie07

Ok, I've totted up my spending for the week and looks like it's a grand total of £31.07/£30. Well, I'm getting closer!!

I don't have anything planned this week, but I may suggest to OH to go for a cheap meal out or something, so I'm going to go for £30 again this week. I should have significantly lower expenditure next week so I *should* be able to stay within this limit...fingers crossed!

Have a good weekend everyone!

Kx

pointypenguin

Hi All

I was in the red for last week as I ended up in the pub on Thursday night until late and have been bad making my lunches for work this week. So I was about £7 over. Total for the week £47 / £40

I am visiting the family this week so trying to get the thread set up earlier so new thread set up here

onlyroz

Well I wasn't counting this week, but in the end I spent 53.11. This includes about £10 in postage and packaging costs for ebay sales. I've got about £47 to get me through to payday next friday...

debtfree_future

I'm in the Red this week I spent £40. extra £10 due to visiting Dad who has been taken into hospital with severe wat infection and his legs went stiff as Dad his in his 80's doctor wanted him in hospital. He is now getting better but due to be there this weekend. Part of the £10 was on bus fares the bus to the hospital is a different company than there one with which I have a monthly ticket, juice for Dad and sandwiches on the way to visiting as I have been going straight from work. So no. NSD for me this week.

DFF

beadgirl87

Hello,
This week I spent £26 out of my £40.
Pretty pleased, out of this I got £11 of food (treated bf to dinner last night, fahitjas)
Looking back at my spending diary, I wasted about £2 on food at work because I hadn't been food shopping to take stuff with me. Also I did 2 mini food shops, and bought stuff from the corner shop, may have been better to do it all in one go.
Also 2 NSD this week.
Having the spending diary is helping as I can see what little things add up.
Next week I am going for £40 again please. Seeing Harry Potter (so excited!) night out for friends birthday, and bfs mums birthday so need flowers and a card for her.
Have a good weekend everyone!