Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 2nd Oct 2011

elsiepac

Hi guys

Busy thread this week!

Did a small top up shop yesterday for £4.92 but this came out of my food budget for the week as I still had over £7 left in there.

However, I also frivolously spent money on cigs, cake from sandwich lady , and a banana. D'Oh!

I'm not worried though as I'm working till 8 every night this week - and getting paid overtime for it, woo hoo!!! So no drinks after work etc!

Also, the big boss is buying us all pizza for lunch today - not at all healthy, but in my book - a free lunch! So that's cool

Have a good day all

Sun 2 Oct: Meal Out, Starbucks etc - £27.75
Mon 3 Oct: Cigs, sandwich lady - £4.51

Total so far: £32.26/£40

LC x

L7oopys

Yesterday was not too bad
82p stamps
46p chewing gum
£2.07 on some sudafed- not a planned spend but I was sitting
In my office all bungee up feeling horrible

Tonight I'm off to cinema- free ticket with O2 and I have. £5 voucher
For some sweets or popcorn so will only be spending £1 for the car park.

My plan is wed and thurs to be no spend days!

Then prob spend the remainder of my budget fri night- meal at Prezzo for my friends birthday shame that a prezzo voucher has just finished! Anyone know of any other offers?

Then the weekend will have to be No spend days!
Ride my horse, stay in watch Xfactor, NO takeaways!

karen_is_trying

Im after any comments or advice if you can spare a few minutes, im Karen im 40 and live in south wales been with my husband for 6 years married 3 and have an amazing son who is about to turn 5 years old in december, im desperately struggling mentally to work fulltime at present (hubby works 2 days a week i work 5) we share childcare between us hence 1 of us working partime but i so feel im missing out with my son my time after work is spent running round picking up after anyone doing housework and school things also an evening in slimming world and my little angel is growing faster than a beanstalk lol, apart from the obvious motherly guilt of not being able to do the schoolrun often enough i feel genuinely like im missing out, i had my 2 eldest sons at 16+18 so very young skint and niave and feel my youngest is a true blessing and i think thats making me feel worse too, we dont have an awful ammount of debt just run of mill stuff but i dont know if dropping my hours in work is the right way to go?? any advice?

L7oopys

Just found a prezzo voucher!
2 courses and a drink for £11.95 OR
3 courses and s drink for &13.95

Hooray!

elsiepac

karen_is_trying wrote: »

Im after any comments or advice if you can spare a few minutes, im Karen im 40 and live in south wales been with my husband for 6 years married 3 and have an amazing son who is about to turn 5 years old in december, im desperately struggling mentally to work fulltime at present (hubby works 2 days a week i work 5) we share childcare between us hence 1 of us working partime but i so feel im missing out with my son my time after work is spent running round picking up after anyone doing housework and school things also an evening in slimming world and my little angel is growing faster than a beanstalk lol, apart from the obvious motherly guilt of not being able to do the schoolrun often enough i feel genuinely like im missing out, i had my 2 eldest sons at 16+18 so very young skint and niave and feel my youngest is a true blessing and i think thats making me feel worse too, we dont have an awful ammount of debt just run of mill stuff but i dont know if dropping my hours in work is the right way to go?? any advice?

Hi Karen

I can't offer anything myself, but I'd suggest you repost in the main Debt Free Wannabe Board as you'll get more responses

LC x

elsiepac

Quick update

Sun 2 Oct: Meal Out, Starbucks etc - £27.75
Mon 3 Oct: Cigs, sandwich lady - £4.51
Tue 4 Oct: Cigs and Rizla, yoghurt and choc bar - £4.70

Total so far: £36.76/£40

I am sooooo gonna go over budget this week

LC

karen_is_trying

Paid all my bits off xmas clubs and butchers xmas club etc and 2 custard slices for a £1 so £11 for me today, nothing else tomorrow tho as nights tonight and funeral a.m, bed p.m and work nights again, so hopefully a NSD for me tomorrow...

£11/£20 so far x

pointypenguin

karen_is_trying wrote: »

Im after any comments or advice if you can spare a few minutes, im Karen im 40 and live in south wales been with my husband for 6 years married 3 and have an amazing son who is about to turn 5 years old in december, im desperately struggling mentally to work fulltime at present (hubby works 2 days a week i work 5) we share childcare between us hence 1 of us working partime but i so feel im missing out with my son my time after work is spent running round picking up after anyone doing housework and school things also an evening in slimming world and my little angel is growing faster than a beanstalk lol, apart from the obvious motherly guilt of not being able to do the schoolrun often enough i feel genuinely like im missing out, i had my 2 eldest sons at 16+18 so very young skint and niave and feel my youngest is a true blessing and i think thats making me feel worse too, we dont have an awful ammount of debt just run of mill stuff but i dont know if dropping my hours in work is the right way to go?? any advice?

Hi Karen I have added you to the list for this week. As per the above is there anyway that you could do 4 days and your OH do 3 so you are both part-time but you get more time to spend with your son? Or are you in a position to cut your hours by one day without your OH doing extra? Or able to do flexible working? Quite a few at my work do a full week but over 4.5 days getting half a day off a week or working extra hours over 9 days and getting one day off a fortnight. Most places have to offer this now as it is law (I think), always worth asking but depends on what you do.

L7oopys what are you going to see at the cinema? You have a horse, bet that costs you a fair bit. What is it called?

LC they say there is no such thing as a free lunch :rotfl:Enjoy yours:D

Spends for me were:

• 50p on an apple (from yesterday but I forgot)
• £1 on bonusball at work (I run the damn thing and haven't won in the 3.5 years I have been doing it:mad:)

Total £7 /£40

Looking good so far if I can keep it up. No expected spends tomorrow then about £20 on Thursday so fingers crossed.

Frogletina

Sunday NSD

Monday H/K - Lucozade £1 Pineapple juice £1.20 Coleslaw £1.60
Personal - Newspaper 0.55

Tuesday NSD

But, I had my microwave fixed, cost £132.06 :eek: Glad I've a maintenance budget for things like this! Otherwise I might have had to say 'well, my personal budget is £3 a day, it will take a while to pay you what I owe':)

pointypenguin

Frogletina wrote: »

Sunday NSD

Monday H/K - Lucozade £1 Pineapple juice £1.20 Coleslaw £1.60
Personal - Newspaper 0.55

Tuesday NSD

But, I had my microwave fixed, cost £132.06 :eek: Glad I've a maintenance budget for things like this! Otherwise I might have had to say 'well, my personal budget is £3 a day, it will take a while to pay you what I owe':)

Would it not have been cheaper to buy a new microwave? I think my last one cost about £40