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September 2011 Grocery Challenge

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  • sproggi
    sproggi Posts: 1,560 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    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 :o, 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 Hifler
    Beware of little expenses.A small leak will sink a great ship
    Benjamin Franklin
  • meanmarie
    meanmarie Posts: 5,331 Forumite
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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.

    Marie
    Weight 08 February 86kg
  • lynneee
    lynneee Posts: 877 Forumite
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    edited 30 September 2011 at 9:21PM
    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 £6.73 :D
    mortgage £800 overpayment 2022. £600/£2400 2023 🙂 savings £1853/£1800 😊
  • Sue14
    Sue14 Posts: 988 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts
    Nothing spent today so declaring at £102.46, very pleased with that!
    Weight loss challenge 2/10lbs


  • franby64
    franby64 Posts: 944 Forumite
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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.
  • busylizzie76
    busylizzie76 Posts: 12 Forumite
    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!:T
    Me, 2 x kiddies and multiple pets.

    GC: Nov: £125/£164.56 Oct: £125/£126.89 Sept:£150/£130.38:D
    NSD Nov - 20 Oct - 20 Sept - 19
  • brodie1_2
    brodie1_2 Posts: 131 Forumite
    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.
  • rej-c
    rej-c Posts: 115 Forumite
    Belatedly declaring for September [meant to do it last night, but basically got home from work and, erm, dozed off watching telly :o ]

    £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 :D

    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. :o
  • Spiggle
    Spiggle Posts: 1,787 Forumite
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    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,
    Spigs
    Mortgage Free October 2013 :T
  • ixia
    ixia Posts: 1,338 Forumite
    For the first time ever I came in under budget :j Hope I can do the same in October.
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