Weekly Spend Challenge w/c 1st January 2012 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Pie

Happy New Year everyone! Feeling very clear-headed and ready to get this challenge started :T

Please can I join with a target of £20 for this week?

How does everyone stick to their target? Do you take the weekly amount out of your account/ purse at the start of the week, or do you spend bits and bobs and keep the total in mind? I have a feeling that £20 cash might disappear pretty quickly from my purse :rotfl:

Any tips appreciated! Thanks to the organisers of this board

Crunchy_Nutter

Popped into Tesco Express on the way home from work to pick a few bits up for lunches and spent £6.58 - but on the bright side tomorrow should be a NSD

Tibbie's_mum

I'm hopeless at challenges but I'm gonna give this a go, so could you please put me down for £50. I've already spent an unnecessary £5.69 on pull-ups because I forgot to put them on the shopping list yesterday, must get my act together!

leikela

Can I join in please? I've decided it's pointless and a waste of money to eat at work so I'll be making bread for sarnies this week and cooking some of the thousand chicken thighs my mum gave me and I've been too busy packing boxes to do anything with

I'm hoping for £0 but I will start out at £25. Really think this might get my mind in a different place and start 2012 off in a positive way for a change!

elsiepac

Hi all

Mall was shut!!! So I wandered round Cabot Circus instead which is in town. Got one of the presents off my list - under half price Body Shop stuff, plus got my 10% off with my LYB card, so happy with that. Also got half the toiletries I need this month - annoyingly the foundation and powder I use didn't have my colours - nothing more frustrating, especially when you have the money in your pocket for it!!!

So am going to the mall tomorrow with a friend - need to get the other present - and then we're both going to another friends house for coffee. Then home in the evening. Should be a nice day

The best thing is though, that I haven't smoked, or been tempted, even though I've been out on my own and could easily have cheated!!! Day one, done

Sun 1 Jan: Parking £2.50, Water £1, Starbucks £4.60
Planned - Mon 2 Jan: £5 griddle pan (also presents from presents budget, clothes [hopefully] from clothes budget, and toiletries from toiletries budget - possible petrol top up from petrol budget)
Planned - Tue 3 Jan: Starbucks £3
Planned - Wed 4 Jan: NSD
Planned - Thu 5 Jan: NSD
Planned - Fri 6 Jan: Starbucks £3 (also food shop from food budget and petrol from petrol budget)

Total so far: £8.10/£30

LC

chris81418

Good morning everyone! :wave:

Thanks for this week's thread LC! :starmod:

Hello to all the regulars and welcome to the newbies!

I hope everyone had a good time seeing in the New Year!

Popping to report that I just about managed to keep to my purple pledge of £0 last week! :j

However, this week normal service resumes, so I'd like to pledge £70 please LC - thank you!

Good luck staying within budget everyone!

Crunchy_Nutter

Shop was shut this morning on the way into work, so looks like todays predicted NSD should become reality :j

Crunchy

freebyfifty

Pie wrote: »

How does everyone stick to their target? Do you take the weekly amount out of your account/ purse at the start of the week, or do you spend bits and bobs and keep the total in mind? I have a feeling that £20 cash might disappear pretty quickly from my purse :rotfl:

Any tips appreciated! Thanks to the organisers of this board

Personally, I use what I have in my purse or if I don't have it in my purse I take it out of cash point and that's all I have

It works for me because I can see exactly what I've got left and if it isn't there to spend then I can't spend it. So far this has worked really well for me but I expect everyone does it differently. It's just what works for you


Unsurprisingly, yesterday was a NSD......................

Sunday - NSD


£12/£0

Have a great week everyone x

Munchin

Morning everyone

Spends yesterday £7.50 on new Xmas tree and decorations. I have to hit the shops today as OH has nothing in cupboards for dinner except chocolate which I don't think qualifies as a proper meal

wannabee_in_credit

Hey everyone
Sneaking in to declare I've spend £22.50 today taking my OH and kids out for dinner. It was worth it though (kids ate free on vouchers) as it was the last day off the four of us have together for a while, and nice to spend some time with the four of us together.
That should be me pretty much done though - OH will now be footing dd's extortionate bill that she has for school on the first day of each new term (lunches, cookery, milk).