Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 10th July 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 3rd July Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
Pointypenguin £40 / £47
redapril £15
karen is trying £30 / £24.30
Psychaley £30 / £28.80
elsiepac £30
laisbojar83 £20
rdchick £
toddybad £60
debtfree future £30 / £40
beadgirl87 £40 / £26
katie07 £30 / £31.07
meersy £50
shezam £30
chris81418 £20 / £5.77
redapril £15 / £11.76

link to last week's challenge

W/C 10th July Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
Pointypenguin £40 / £42.79
debtfree future £50
OberonSH £10
redapril £10
katie07 £30 / £24.90
karen is trying £25
beadgirl87 £40
elsiepac £40 / £42.31
Psychaley £20
psychopathbabble £10
chris81418 £125

debtfree_future

Hi

I am going for £50 this week to take into account visiting Dad in hospital +£10 on overdue library book fees which I am taking back today.

DFF

OberonSH

Oooh!!! Can I join? The 'tenner here, tenner there' has really crept up, so need a kick in the bahookie! I'm going for £10. Low, but need a short sharp shock!

redapril

£10 pledge for me this week please - i was within my pledge last week but still spent more than i really should have as bought my lunch at work twice! tut tut. so if i lower it this week it may make me more determined! heres hoping.....

katie07

I'll repeat myself on here, just in case my post on the last thread gets missed

I'm going to pledge £30 again this week, and should in theory stay within that budget.....just gotta make sure I don't let my OH tempt me to spend!

Kx

chris81418

Hello everyone! :wave:

Just quickly popping in to report that I was green last week with a spend of £5.77 out of my pledged £20 - whoopee! :j

I'll be back within the next couple of days once I've worked out my pledge for this week.

Have a good rest of the weekend everyone!

pointypenguin

Morning all

That is the first post updated let me know if I have missed anything. Not back until late tonight so will update anything else after work tomorrow

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

beadgirl87

Hey

Could I go with £40 again please this week.
Pleased I managed £26 out of £40 last week.
This challenge is great, I've been doing it a while buy myself but great to see other people doing it too.

elsiepac

Hi everyone, Happy Sunday!

Already stated I was red last week by *some* money - lost track after raiding every every spare penny I had stashed away everywhere to pay for my car to be fixed so gave up as I knew I was well over!

This week I am pledging no more than £40 please.

Thanks for doing the thread PP - must confess I thought it was my week to start... shall I do next week?

Have a fantastic money saving week all

LC xx

redapril

hi pp,

my pledge last week was £15, so i think i should be green on your first post as i only spent 11.76! defo hoping to spend less than that this week x

Psychaley

So I somehow managed to stay within budget last week and did only spend £28.80

I'm going for £20 this week. I've been organising myself and written a daily budget breakdown in my diary: £7.20 for train tickets, £5 for Next account, £6 for a taxi, £1 for a lottery ticket which will give me a little left over for little emergency cups of orange juice at work too :T