Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 13th Nov 2011

salduck

May i join you please?
My budget for the week up to Saturday is £30
I have food in for the week already and dont need to spend anything!
I am an official for a sporting club and get paid £15 a match and have 2 matches to do this week so hoping to live on that and that will mean i have a zero spend!
Thanks and look forward to the challenge
S

elsiepac

Thanks pp, still going strong! Going to bed in a minute, and that'll be 2 full days then! :j

Welcome salduck, and good luck! That's a nice little earner for you! Gives you a good social life too I'll bet which can't be bad! pointypenguin will be along soon to add you to the first post, in the meantime good luck!

Went to Tesco on the way home from work as needed milk (am on porridge for brekkie at the mo, with fruit and nuts and cinnamon and bit of maple syrup in, yum) - and ended up using Clubcard vouchers on little Christmas bits and bobs which was quite fun. Also did a walk tonight, only half an hour as have lost all my fitness so am trying to ease back in, but my God, what a difference 2 days of not smoking has made, seriously it's unbelievable! Incentive... Although to be fair this time I'm in the right frame of mind for it so am not tempted!! It's laughably easy to quit when you're ready as I knew all along, just wasn't ready. Have done it twice before cold turkey and been fine, this time was just a lot harder to take the plunge, but I'm good now :rotfl:

Sun 13 Nov: NSD for challenge (not true NSD as petrol from petrol budget)
Mon 14 Nov: NSD for challenge (not true NSD as milk from shopping budget, also spent clubcard vouchers and advantage card points)
Planned - Tue 15 Nov: NSD (AL so at home except for injection in morning)
Planned - Wed 16 Nov: NSD
Planned - Thu 17 Nov: NSD (AL so at home except for flu jab in evening)
Planned - Fri 18 Nov: Starbucks £3

Total so far: £0/£25

AL tomorrow so easy day of non smoking for me. have injection in the morning so no lie in annoyingly but at least I'm not in work!

LC

shezam

Morning

Spends so far:

I am shocked at my spend last night, first time i've noticed in a while that everything is going up!!

£3.68 - Frying Steak
£1.43 - Bananas
£1.29 - Noodles
£1.50 - Peppers

£7.90 on stuff for a stir fry! ouch! Hoping today will be a NSD though.

Total. £7.90/£42.00
Sxxx

elsiepac

Hi all

I've had a lovely day's leave so far, have basically played around with budgets extensively and not much else!!!

Going for a half hour walk in a minute which will be good.

And this is day 3 of not smoking and I'm doing fine! Hurrah!

Also, a proper NSD for me today, yay!

Sun 13 Nov: NSD for challenge (not true NSD as petrol from petrol budget)
Mon 14 Nov: NSD for challenge (not true NSD as milk from shopping budget, also spent clubcard vouchers and advantage card points)
Tue 15 Nov: TRUE NSD
Planned - Wed 16 Nov: NSD
Planned - Thu 17 Nov: NSD (AL so at home except for flu jab in evening)
Planned - Fri 18 Nov: Starbucks £3

Total so far: £0/£25

LC

Frogletina

Sunday - £9.20 Cinema and drink

Monday - £1.19 Asda
- £16.18 M&S
- £2 poundland
- £18.34 Sainsburys

Tuesday - NSD

saorsie

Ooooh it's looking a bit spendy this week

Sunday ~ NSD ~ christmas present ordered for daughter out of it's own budget £0/£40

Monday ~ 2 M*rs B*rs bought and consumed after choir practice :eek: Obviously had a need £1.20/£40 To make amends cashed out £4.70 from Cr*wd*l*gy survey site -£3.50/£40


Tuesday ~ £5 spent on crafty bits to finish off christmas fundraising niknaks for coffee morning at workplace on 26/11
Silly parking ticket paid before it jumped from £30 to £45 ~ my head would have exploded :mad: £31.50/£40

-s-

freebyfifty

Hello everyone

Sunday - Christmas shopping but all out of another budget so I won't be counting it in.
Monday - £6.05 posting ebay parcels. I also bought the shopping for the week and diesel for the car but they were from another budget
Tuesday - NSD



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maidincornwall

Could I join today please? Ill try to manage the week til sat on £50, as I have a friend going into hospital tomorrow whom I will visit, I might not manage it but will give it a go and hope to have 3 NSD's today being my first one (though yesterday I had to pay for the cars MOT but managed not to spend anything else!)

pointypenguin

Welcome to salduck and maidincornwall I have added you both to the list let us know how you get on.

LC well done for keeping going with the not smoking it can only get easier.

frogletina what did you see at the cinema?

Spends for me today were £3 on card at work for coffee, still have some left to pay for one tomorrow.

Total £9 / £30 so not looking too bad and just over a week until payday.

salduck

Well thats me on 2 NSD yesterday and today! Made £15 today from my sports so am up £15 and not spent a penny!
Gym tomorrow and that's not going to cost me anything then Thursday gym again and Friday quiet night in! Might need a loaf of bread tomorrow so may have to spend something! Think I can just about cope! Saturday shoudl be another £15 up and then lunch with the girls later on so may spend osme pennies but ill be cheap and cheerful means i should end the week around £20 up!
Thanks for the warm welcome!
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