Weekly Spend Challenge w/c 25th September 2011

elsiepac

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 18th Sep Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
pointypenguin £35
elsiepac £30
May2013 £20
squeeeek £10
shezam £35
chris81418 £90/£102.22

link to last week's challenge

W/C 25th Sep Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
pointypenguin £31.50/£41.50
elsiepac £40/£36.84
freshair £50
karen is trying £35
FurryBabies £10
chris81418 £50
princess_shopoholic £20/£28
Kellylouise88 £25/£29.03

elsiepac

Hi guys

Apologies, should have had this up yesterday but no internet at home again - yet another power cut made the router go doolally again!!

I'm pledging £40 this week - I've basically got £10 and change until Friday when I get paid, so likely to spend some on Friday hence slightly higher pledge.

Good luck and have a great week!

LC

karen_is_trying

A biggish spend for me today 3x£5 claires giftcards to put in with xmas prezzies for friends kids, and a 2litre of pepsi max so £16/£35 for me today x

FurryBabies

Hi I'm joining! I plan on only spending £10 and that's it as it's not payday until Friday!

pointypenguin

Hi Everyone

Thanks LC for running the thread, sorry to hear about your tinternet issues.

It is payay today and I am pledging £31.50 for the rest of the week (I have £1.50 in my purse at the moment). I am off to the cinema on Wednesday, no spends for ticket but will probably have a cheap dinner out.

Have a good week everyone.

elsiepac

Hi everyone

Thanks for updates, I've included on the first post. Welcome FurryBabies!

I made money today! Tesco had various veggies on for 50p so I took full advantage - 4 jackets for 50p, bag of Chantenay carrots for 50p, 4 salad tomatoes for 50p, cauliflower for 50p.

Got to self service checkout and noticed my carrots went through at 72p!!! Obviously they hadn't updated the tills. Called the girl over and she corrected it. Got home and found... shock horror... that my cauli went through at 84p!!!

So today at lunch time I walked over just to get my 34p refund, and forgot about double the difference, so got 68p back! Bargain! :T

Update:

Sun 25 Sep: NSD
Mon 26 Sep: Tesco Shop - £7.29
Tue 27 Sep: Refund from Tesco - £0.68 (and NSD)

Total so far: £6.61

LC

princess_shopoholic

Hey please can I join?

Can I ask though does spending money that was given to you as say a birthday present count? And also does say a driving lesson count? x

chris81418

Hello everyone! :wave:

Welcome to the newbies!

And hello again princess_shopoholic - I just saw you on the NSD thread and said hello to you there as well! Feel free to count whatever you want in you Weekly Spend Challege budget; there are no hard and fast rules - everyone does it slightly differently - personally, I count everything that involves handing over my card or cash, but I don't count domestic bills (water, gas, electricity, phone, tv etc.) which are set up via direct debit.

As originally posted by Moozie (the founder of this challenge) and quoted by LC in the 1st post
"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"

Thanks for this week's thread LC - after last weeks monstrous red, I'll pledge £50 for this week - I've got nothing in particular planned, so fingers crossed that I'll be green this week ... it's been a while since I had a green week!

Have a good week everyone!

karen_is_trying

Had numerous bits into xmas clubs with butcher etc but that comes out of different budget ... £1.50 for a huge bag of satsumas,£2.39 for coffee,30p for paper, and a £1 for jaffa cakes and 40p for 2 freddos lol and £1.20 bus fare home... £6.49.£22.49/£35.00 already shocking!!!

princess_shopoholic

Ok thanks! Im going to go for £20.00 this week. I wont count my driving lessons as i already bduget for those. so the 20 is just for my birthday lunch on thursday and ill just live on food int he house the rest of the week. Im doing a marathon this weekend so wont be spending any money so should be easy! (hoepfully!) x

pointypenguin

Evening all

Welcome to the newbies, good luck with the marathon Princess I am tired just thinking about it.

I am reporting £1.50 on card at work for porrige and some soup. I am off to the cinema later so I know that will be £1.50 for 3D film and maybe some ice cream. I will update later/tmw.

Enjoy your evening everyone.