How much have you/will you spend Sunday 14/1/07 & new weekly budget!

mizmir

Hi all

My budget last week was £20 (spent £12) which was for personal spending and household bits and pieces. Going to do it slightly differently this week and have an overall budget covering all spending except bills, debts and DDs - will set that at £40 and see how we go.

Should be a NSD today.

comping_cat

A NSD for me today!!!! Mind you, staying in my pjs all day and not going out helps!!!
Going to attempt £10 for my moozies challenge, as apart from childrens clubs and magazines, i shouldnt have to buy anything other than groceries this week.

Sassers

Hi everyone: wave:
Today I have spent £72 on online grocery and food shopping at Mr T's ! :eek:
However, it is not as bad as it sounds as I'll get at least 2-3 months of meals out of it all including lunches for work by batch cooking and freezing stuff. Also filled the storecupboard to the gunnells!:T

Also saved petrol money this coming week as car is out of action :rolleyes: so bus pass for me tomorrow (17.50)!

love Sas x

kathfisch

NSD for me today

Haven't done this weekly challenge thing before, not sure how much to set as my target. I think I will exclude petrol because otherwise I'll fill up less if I've overspent :rotfl: I now have a season ticket for the criminally expensive bridge toll :mad: , costs me £87 a month :eek: but then I can cross as much as I like, so not on my spending diary any more!

I will probably go to the cinema on wednesday (orange wednesdays ) but not sure about any other plans. I think I will set myself a target of £15 but hope to come in well under that if I don't go anywhere except the cinema!

Kath

moozie_2

Good afternoon lovely DFWs

Thank you very much LA for taking care of the thread and challenge :beer: I have been fly-ladying (new word! :rotfl: ) I have cleaned and polished my sink beyond recognition! Before that I cooked a lovely breakfast for me and OH and then emptied and wasjed the fridge freezer, the slelves etc. Only found a salad dressing that was out of date by 6 months - would have chucked tonnes more prior to MSE :money:

I am now taking a well earned break while the OH is putting staff in the loft - preparing to decorate the bedroom Then I'll be cooking dinner....non stop today :eek:

Anyway, the link to last week's thread is very handy but I am all for naming and shaming :rotfl: so here we go....

Challenger Amount Actual

1. Moozie 25 23.22
2. Mrs(no)Money 20 19.01
3. taxi73 20
4. piglet6 60 58.72
5. hypno06 1 0.99
6. vixtress 25 36
7. chocaholic110 10 8.20
8. liewe heksie 10
9. mh1923 20 12.59
10. Kazonline 80
11. Gemmzie 5 0
12. flowerofscotland 8.44 7.21
13. BrokeWelshChick 17
14. immoral_angeluk 50 32.50
15. pollyanna24 45.98
16. postingalwaysposting 5.30 5.21
17. catowen 30
18. lyric_grace 20 8.47
19. babes21 40 103
20. ciara2712 10 30+
21. lil_me 30 20.19
22. cmjohnson_86 50 62.42
23. rog2 28 euro (and no sign of the rascal!)
24. corsanita 10
25. rachelmk 18
26. cathybird 30 21.04
27. angelite 30
28. emzig123 30
29. dizzy lizzie 60
30. BlueSkyDay 25
31. joannasmum 15
32. LookingAhead 75 61.47
33. malvena 10 12.98
34. Mrs A 15
35. gilly1964 10
36. maureenjscott 20
37. NonStopMum 50
38. sans 40 89
39. Sammz 20
40. bobble_hat 5 26.72
41. livinginhope 5
42. Tinkerbell21 20
43. Punkygoth 41
44. savvykaz 20 7.20
45. bananakinz 14.70/19.30 42
46. Gemmadm 40
47. Beanietdc 20
48. Hannah111 30 21.32
49. miss-sixty 50

We broke the previous record (44) of challengers again - well done everyone now let's have some updates!

For this week I will budget £75 as I have some necessary spends as well as a girlie night out where I hope lots of gossip will be exhanged and alcohol consumed!

Have a great Sunday and a good week everyone and keep it low!

Moozie x

moozie_2

vixtress wrote:

didnt do great last week, grocery shop was within budget but spent an extra £8 on stuff to make soup that will last me about 4 weeks for lunches at work and an extra £15 on, wait for it................cod liver oil!! the v concentrated one that the beasties have was 3 for 2 at boots and will last us about 9 months so i thought it would have been rude not to, boy do i know how to live!!!
budget for this week is £40 for shopping, £25 deisel and £10 extras
good luck to you all

Hey vixtress

I am lost, sorry You had budgeted £25 for extras last week - did you go over that?

You reminded me I need some CLO - must get some if it's on offer! Thank you

babes21

Hello everyone, my target for last week was £40 and i'm ashamed to say that i spent £103 :eek:. To be honest that was with a couple of nights out plus a top up, travel etc.

Today is a NSD for me as it's the second day that i've quit smoking :T, so far so good so i'm hoping that i can stick to it, i'll be saving £100 a month, that's madness to spend on cigarettes and for that and my health i'm determined to stop.

My weekly target shall be £40, which should now be easily achievable.

moozie_2

babes21 wrote:

Hello everyone, my target for last week was £40 and i'm ashamed to say that i spent £103 :eek:. To be honest that was with a couple of nights out plus a top up, travel etc.

Today is a NSD for me as it's the second day that i've quit smoking :T, so far so good so i'm hoping that i can stick to it, i'll be saving £100 a month, that's madness to spend on cigarettes and for that and my health i'm determined to stop.

My weekly target shall be £40, which should now be easily achievable.

Babes I am really happy you decided to quit smoking! Cigs feature very much on your daily spends (as you know) and as you say, bad for your health too!

Good luck with successfully giving up for good!

PS Note I am not commenting on the overspent under the circumstances :cool:

babes21

moozie wrote:

Babes I am really happy you decided to quit smoking! Cigs feature very much on your daily spends (as you know) and as you say, bad for your health too!

Good luck with successfully giving up for good!

PS Note I am not commenting on the overspent under the circumstances :cool:

Thanks Moozie.

Whilst writing my daily spends i was honestly ashamed to put that i spent that money on cigarettes each day, it definitely took up most of my weekly budget.

More determined than ever now to stick to it :cool:

MinnieSpender

moozie wrote:

I am now taking a well earned break while the OH is putting staff in the loft

Hello? You have staff? Is that strictly MSE? And you keep them in the loft????? I've read about people like you! I can only hope they use Stardrops! :rotfl:

Not done the challenge for a while as things have been somewhat hectic. And I won't be able to do the usual Asda shop for a couple of weeks either.

Tempted as I am to set my weekly budget at £500 (and therefore being certain of coming in well under estimate) I'm going to set myself £50. I know - a hell of a lot for a single person but my week's looking very busy and any spare moments will be with head stuck in a book (where it's been for most of the day until I surfaced for this late lunch break!). Exams are too soon and I've got other things to attend to at the moment so it'll be a healthy diet of ready meals and shop bought lunches for me for the next week and a half.

I'm come back fatter, unhealthier and poorer, but hopefully with exam passes.

Have a good week all!