Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 27th Nov 2011

shezam

Good morning everyone,

Was doing so well up untill Sat, when I splurged on a take away and then yesterday a few bits in bobs in the shops, still came in under budget though with £19.45/£24 so i'm happy with that!

This week i'm gonna pledge £51.50 that I have in my purse. Its payday on Wednesday but hoping to not spend anything apart from the normal DD's. This week might prove hard, I have a night out on Fri that will require drinks and a taxi back and i'm round to a friends on Sat, but that should only be a bottle of cheap wine.

Oh, just remembered i'm getting my eyebrows done on Thursday which is £10, fingers crossed I can keep within my limit!

Happy Monday everyone!
Sxxx

chris81418

Good morning everyone! :wave:

Popping in to report that I was green last week with a spend of £104.05 out of my pledged £150! :j

This week I'm going to pledge an even bigger £420! As I have a couple of 2012 annual membership fees to pay.

LC - I hope the work situation improves for you soon (((hugs)))

Pointy - thanks for running this weeks thread! :starmod:

Have a good week everyone!

elsiepac

Hi all

pp I've seen varying reviews so I'm really curious to see it!!

Laisbojar I'm on O2 but either way Tue was the only day we could go this week, we're getting the early showing at £5.95 each which is still extortionate but slightly more reasonable than the £7 odd in the evenings!

chris81418 thanks...things aren't going to get better unfortunately, unless I do something about them. As for that, I'm not in the right frame of mind at the moment so it's a vicious circle. Just between me and you guys I got diagnosedd with "severe depression" a couple of months ago and got put on anti-depressants. A lot of it is stress and work related although there are a couple of things out of work. It's definitely the main factor though. When I went to the docs the other Friday they doubled my dose. Luckily I get free prescriptions as I have an under active thyroid! And the counsellor I've been referred to is ringing me tomorrow for my phone assessment. To be honest, I don't really know what to do with myself. But hey ho, maybe I'll feel better soon.


Sun 27 Nov: £6.80 and £3.50 cigs, £9 drinks, £2.95 soup - TOTAL: £22.25 :eek:
Mon 28 Nov: £3.36 cigs (and Petrol budget spend)
Tue 29 Nov: AL! Planned £14 for early showing of Breaking Dawn with mum (my turn!)
Wed 30 Nov: Payday! Planned £6.45 cigs, £8.20 drinks, also shop from Food budget and Tesco Wine order
Thu 1 Dec: Planned NSD unless 10 cigs £3.40
Fri 2 Dec: Planned £10 cigs, £3 Starbucks, £20 pub maybe?!

Total £25.61/£80

On with the afternoon! Hope everyone is having a nice day

LC x

hr_money

Hi,

Well popped to the Post Office (had a freepost parcel to send off) and shops with my 3 year old daughter and was surprised at how I managed to resist temptation with this challenge firmly in the back of my mind.
:T

Anyway, we did have lunch out which was £10.40 and I bought her a very small toy for £2. So current spend £12.40, but I still have to pay my £10 deposit this week for works xmas lunch, so will have to be good for the rest of the week!

freebyfifty

Just popped to the post office today to post ebay parcels and spent the rest of the day doing housework......I know how to enjoy my holidays!!!!! :mad:


Sunday - NSD
Monday - £3.32 posting ebay parcels


No spends planned for tomorrow ......... so far

Frogletina

Sunday - £1.19 bread rolls 2.50 J2o

Monday - NSD

Edited to add - £50 for this week. Also I declared £44.20 on last weeks thread

Munchin

Hi all - spends so far =

Sun - £2.50 papers
Mon - NSD

Total £2.50/£40


I have to contribute just under £80 to Xmas drinks but that is out of my Xmas budget.

pointypenguin

Evening all

That should be everything on the first post up to date let me know if anything is awry.

My only spend today was on milk for breakfast at work so rounded up to £1 as any change under 50p goes into pots.

Monday down

laisbojar83

Morning Fellow Savers,

I hope you all had a great Monday .

Yesterday was a SD, unfortunately. I could not find my monthly bus pass :mad: so I had to buy a day ticket which cost me £3.90 (double :mad:).
Then, I spent £1.95 on a bottle of juice and a snickers bar (triple :mad:).

On the plus side, I returned some stuff and got £15.00 refund:j, I am not including it in my budget tho. Better save the 15 squiddies for next week :rotfl:.

Today should be a NSD, fingers crossed.

LC, have a great time with your mum later x

Have a lovely tuesday everyone x

L.

saorsie

So let's see where we're at:

Sunday NSD

Monday £1.10 on an emergency bag of chicken corn as had run out and they were giving me evils through the back door (plus apparently the veg peelings that I cooked and lovingly mashed up for them weren't good enough :cool: ) + 2 pairs of fleece lined tights from M &* using a 10% off code and qu*dco £17.10

Both of these have there own budgets, however am going to start adding them as they are still sort of 'random' spends and thus need to be planned for in advance rather than spur of the moment. The things I'm not going to add for the purpose of this challenge are DD's and big grocery shops including the monthly bulk pet food purchase ~ everything else is fair game :cool:

Sooooo after that lengthy preamble I reckon I'm on £18.20/£40

-s-