Weekly Spend Challenge w/c 30th October 2011

pointypenguin

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 23rd Oct Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
pointypenguin £35
elsiepac £35 / £33.04
mclarke1987 £0
freebyfifty £25 / £19.35
banwa £148 / £217.66
saorsie £25 / £19.30
ShrinkingSavingKaren £40 / £40.25
D3lphine3 £20
Frogletina £48 / £64.43
chris81418 £90 / £85.61
antonia1 £11.50

link to last week's challenge

W/C 30th Oct Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
pointypenguin £50
elsiepac £40
emylou £30
meersy £40
banwa £85
frogletina £54
ShrinkingSavingKaren £30
freebyfifty £25
PhiBi £50
Smaz £50
snozberry £60
chris81418 £50
antonia1 £6
D3lphine3 £20
saorsie £380

banwa

Thanks for the new thread.

Please could you put me down for £85 this week

Sunday - (carboot) - books x 4 £1, glasses x 4 £2.50, woollen mittens £3, pumpkin £1- total £7.50
Monday - NSD
Tuesday = NSD
Wednesday = £1.26 coffees at work (actually that's a lie, have done some online Christmas shopping £12.85 + £18.97 but have a budget for this. Will see how my week goes and decide whether or not to count it) £30 diesel £6 petrol
Thursday - £1.05 pop and crisps at work
Fri - £3.25 'Friday sandwich'
Sat - NSD

Total £49.06 (With Christmas presents) or £80.88 (without)

pointypenguin

Evening all

Sorry for being MIA for the end of the week. Work has been crazy and I am visiting a friend this weekend. I was red for last week as I ended up going for drinks a couple of nights that were not planned. The formatting on the first post has gone strange but I will sort this out when I get back home tomorrow.

Enjoy your weekend everyone

Frogletina

Please put me down for £54 this week - thank you.

elsiepac

Hi pp

Thanks for the thread, hope you're having a good weekend so far!

Please can you put me down for £40 this week?

I've got Tue and Wed as leave, and I plan to do a little more Christmas shopping, plus I need to get my passport photos done for my driving license photocard renewal, and pay for the renewal too (!), also doing my wine order and will put in petrol on Mon and do a small food shop to last till Fri. However, none of this paragraph is coming from this budget, hehe :rotfl:.

Planned from this budget is Starbucks Mon, cigs, and anything else unbudgeted elsewhere.

Have a great week all!

LC

emylou

£30 this week please, thank you!

ShrinkingSavingKaren

Thanks for the new thread lovely, can i go for £30 this week please got nothing really planned apart from school runs etc i know this thread is about saving cash but have u all seen the £20 off£40 tesco clothes codes flying round fab for kitting kids out or xmas pressies ive just had 4 pairs of jeans/trousers 5 pair of pants new wellies and a fleece for my son and a pair of slippers for me for £20.50 bargain!!! comes out of a different budget tho as son needed those bits desperately growing like a mad 1 at mo .... goood luck this week all xx

freebyfifty

Hello,

Thanks for the new thread for a new week

This week I have to go paint & accessory shopping for my new bathroom but that is in a 'new bathroom' budget so I'm not going to count it. I also have ebay parcels to post and I'm not sure whether I count those or not??? I did last week so I will this week until someone tells me different!

So, I am hoping for £25 again.

Have a great week. x x

RhiBi

Oh, can I join in, I'd like to spend under £50. I'm going to take the cash out today, and only use that for spending!

Frogletina

elsiepac wrote: »

Please can you put me down for £40 this week?

I've got Tue and Wed as leave, and I plan to do a little more Christmas shopping, plus I need to get my passport photos done for my driving license photocard renewal, and pay for the renewal too (!), also doing my wine order and will put in petrol on Mon and do a small food shop to last till Fri. However, none of this paragraph is coming from this budget, hehe :rotfl:.

Gosh LC, you had me confused there! Thought we had gone back in time

Frogletina

RhiBi wrote: »

Oh, can I join in, I'd like to spend under £50. I'm going to take the cash out today, and only use that for spending!

Hi RhiBi and welcome.

I think I'm going to take cash out as well - I'm sure I spend a lot more when I use a card. I went a month just taking enough cash with me for the day, that really concentrates the mind