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September 2011 Grocery Challenge
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Did not manage a NSD today, but I could not resist the cheese at b1g2f in Mr T, plus we needed more fruit (had £1 off £5 fruit spend) and I treated myself to a cheap bottle of wine
, also got Pack Walls sausages for 30p:T Our local store never seems to reduce prices much, maybe 20-50p:(
So £17.84 added and declaring £347.13 for September
with 19 NSD's:)
Sproggi'We can get over being poor, but it takes longer to get over being ignorant'
Jane Sequichie HiflerBeware of little expenses.A small leak will sink a great ship
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Declaring at €139.31 for September and 22 NSDs, think that I'll put my €45.69 surplus in my emergency jar.
Pleased with that result, rarely manage to do so well....not buying lettuce, onions, tomatoes or fruit has probably helped.
MarieWeight 08 February 86kg0 -
evening all. I spent £2.34 yesterday in tes*o express so that brings me to £218.27 for the month of September! Really pleased with this, for my first month its great!!! So came in with a saving of £6.73mortgage £800 overpayment 2022. £600/£2400 2023 🙂 savings £1853/£1800 😊0
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Nothing spent today so declaring at £102.46, very pleased with that!
Weight loss challenge 2/10lbs
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Morning all.
Declaring at £402.24/£380 so £22.24 over but better than last month.
This is partly because I'm now stricter about what goes in to this budget (no junk) but hopefully I've been a bit more frugal as well!
Hope everybody had a good Sept!August Shopping Challenge. 26/8. Budget £250 Spent £256.81.. £6.81 over. So £0.00 a day left.0 -
RightO.......after a last minute blow out at Pizza Express - treat for DS who got all his spellings correct for the 3rd week running! I declare September's total at £130.38 which is under budget and very pleasing. Looking forward to next month's challenge.......bring it on!:TMe, 2 x kiddies and multiple pets.
GC: Nov: £125/£164.56 Oct: £125/£126.89 Sept:£150/£130.38
NSD Nov - 20 Oct - 20 Sept - 190 -
September total £319.19 so 19.oo over budget but not too bad LOL.
October I'll try £300 again.
Brodie:jBrodie 1/ july 300/330.62:oAugust300/322.49:o
September 300/239.78:jOct300/258.50:jNov 250/282.24:) December 300/300.01:j JAN 2011 300/288.72 :j . September 300/319.19:(, October 300/351.59:jThree adults, 1 dog and 1 cats and cleaning stuff, toiletries, beer.0 -
Belatedly declaring for September [meant to do it last night, but basically got home from work and, erm, dozed off watching telly
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£119.76/£150 and 11 NSDs
Very happy with that - I did manage to round off the month on an NSD after all, and there's £30 of untouched budget to go into the anniversary pot
Now to discuss with Him Indoors what we want and can afford to do to celebrate, and decide our October GC target accordingly. This may take a little while, but I'll see you in the October thread before too long. [I think we're starting to enjoy this GC lark!]
Thanks to all participants and those running the thread. All your efforts are appreciated :T
Haven't done the GC since February, but a glance at the Tower of Receipts tells me I really need to get back into it... and plenty of other Challenges besides.0 -
Congratulations to all those coming in near to or under budget. Brilliant work! :T
I've now logged the receipts for yesterdays bits of shopping so declaring at £115.38 for September. This was massively under budget but I think due to a very late big online order in August and buying a couple of months of cat food in August too.
Right I'm off to the October thread and I'll see you all there.
Take care,
SpigsMortgage Free October 2013 :T0 -
For the first time ever I came in under budget :j Hope I can do the same in October.0
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