Weekly Spend Challenge w/c 15th Jan 2012

EverTheOptimist

Evening all.

Sunday: out for lunch - hoping hubby will pay - He did pay. NSD
Mon: work, then food shopping (seperate budget) - NSD - Food shopping £49 but NS out of my weekly budget.
Tues: work - NSD
Weds: work then out for an evening spa, courtesy of work. so should be a NSD - NSD.
Thurs: work - NSD
Fri: - work - 90p

Had forgotten i had a hospital appt this morning so needed change for the car park, so spent 90p, could have spent less, but thought i might as well buy something i wanted if i was going to spend my precious money. Then didnt have to pay for parking after all. :mad:

Have had a bad day today so buying a chinese for tea for me and hubby. I am going to cheat slightly as i have money in my petrol pot that will be leftover so will be using that and not my budgetted spends for this challenge.

Hope this is allowed???

ETO
x

wannabee_in_credit

Hooray!
I'm reporting a 0 spend week for Sunday to Friday. Am very pleased with myself indeed (nothing to do with the fact that I've been too busy to spend)...
I'll stick with £20 as a target for next week though. Saturday is my shopping day.

WelshDreamer_2

WOW, everyone has done so so well this week and where on earth has the week gone???

sunday- was a quiet day in
monday was a work and NSD
tuesday was a work and NSD
wednesday was boots sale day vouchers and cash set aside and slimming world was free as paid for a countdown so a NSD
thursday was supposed to be a day off but ended up in work 4-12 nightmare :eek:but was NSD in the end..
friday was a NSD and payday i always seem to feel angelic if i manage a NSD on payday lol;)
saturday will be a NSD as working 4-12 again and have nothing planned
sunday is a day off :T:T:T going to cook a nice roast and have a day at housework to start nice n fresh next week worked too many hours this week im knackered .... havent decided if im going for a mooch around shops yet so will update then

Can i please be put down for £20 next week too please x

freebyfifty

Good Morning


I'm a purple person this week :j

Sunday - NSD (for this challenge, I did buy some pizzas for the DD's but that's out of the food budget)
Monday - NSD
Tuesday - NSD
Wednesday - NSD
Thursday - NSD
Friday - NSD


£11/£0

I'm a little bit chuffed with myself.

Have a great Saturday x x

Munchin

Morning all,

I have the same question as "at long last" - what is this second purse?
Yesterday I had to put diesel in my car but that is out of a different pot so doesn't count but I did buy a chinese but OH gave me £5 towards it so it only cost £2.39.

Sun - £2.50 papers & pancakes
Mon - NSD
Tues - NSD
Wed - £6 (Mr Ts)
Thurs - £9.80 swimming + 99p chips
Fri - diesel + chinese £2.39

Total - £21.68/£35

So I'm declaring green. Next week I'm off work :j but I have an eyesight test arranged which I can claim back from work however if I need new glasses then I will have to pay for them (credit until pay day). I will budget £100 just in case.

Baileys_Babe

Morning everybody

This week was purple as I spent nothing :j

Todays plan is to drink tea and playboard games with the family.

Next week I'm not sure what we are doing but I'm going to pledge my normal £5 as it seems to be working for me

Baileys_Babe

elsiepac wrote: »

Hehe, it's this recipe from Come Dine with Me

Thank you for sharing, I'm looking foward to making this

kerri_dfw

kerri_dfw wrote: »

Sunday: NSD
Monday: need to buy some cheapy fabric from dunelm £0.70 spent on a daim bar as I really needed chocolate on my drive home yesterday honest
Tuesday: NSD
Wednesday: NSD went to meet a friend for a coffee which turned into sweet potato falafal wrap with baked crinkle chips and a lemonade, oops £6.45
thursday: NSD, bought 12 tins of beans for £2.98 but that's from a different budget so doing really well. Have already sorted this weekends food so OH can't make me buy take out it's waiting in the slow cooker as I type
Friday: might buy the OH a few ales
Planned Saturday: NSD going up the allotment :-)
£7.15/£20.00

Friday was a NSD so still £7.16/£20.00

The second purse is a set aside amount of money for buying items in bulk when they're on offer, it was setup by mothership. I've started a thread on the groceries board that explains it a bit better.

elsiepac

Hey all

Thank goodness that week is over!!! I'm now not in work until the 31st Jan! Woop Woop!!!

Although I'm green this week, it feels somewhat fraudulent as I've had money from other budgets - e.g. had spare in food budget so actually spent £15 in pub last night... however, not this budget!

The rest of the month is now seriously tight, but should be more than do-able. I have my MOT on Monday which is the one thing I'm worried about as I've obviously had a fair few issues with the car of late. Primarily, the emissions light is still on, however when the garage got it on the diagnostics at the beginning of November, there were no faults anywhere and the light went out. It came back on a few days later and has been on ever since. I don't think the light is a fail, however I'm concerned as to whether there actually is a problem there. Ho hum, not a lot I can do till I know!!!

Sun 15 Jan: £6.50 on cakes for office on Tuesday (plus small food shop from food budget)
Mon 16 Jan: Work 7am-8pm, NSD for challenge (hmmm.....)
Tue 17 Jan: My Birthday! (28...ugh!), Work 8.15am-7.30pm, Sandwich lady £3.10
Wed 18 Jan: AL, NSD for challenge (milk from food budget)
Thu 19 Jan: AL, £3.36 cigs (carrots, celery and a lemon from food budget)
Fri 20 Jan: Work 7am-8pm (2 meetings), Starbucks £4.90

Total £17.86/£20

Please put me down for £15.60 next week pp - odd I know, but basically I have £2.60 a day till payday and am going to be trying very hard to stick to it!

Tonight should be fun - my friends have planned some sort of surprise for my birthday and all I know is to turn up at 7pm at one of their houses. I'll stay as will likely have a couple of amaretto and diet cokes (my new drink !!!!!!!!! Blame my friend!). And I know food will be involved as they said don't eat before coming over! Exciting stuff!

Have a great day all!

LC

(plan for next week while I think of it, can you tell I'm living off stores and previously prepared meals!:)
Planned - Sun 22 Jan: NSD for challenge, 4pts milk and 5 bananas from Food budget
Planned - Mon 23 Jan: AL, NSD for challenge, MOT from Car Fund budget
Planned - Tue 24 Jan: AL, NSD
Planned - Wed 25 Jan: AL, NSD for challenge, 4pts milk and 1 lemon from Food budget
Planned - Thu 26 Jan: AL, NSD
Planned - Fri 27 Jan: AL, NSD

EC12345

Declaring green this week. Am really pleased. Spent a total of £9.90/COLOR] so it was very close. Almost got myself a treat yesterday but it was this challenge that kept me on the straight and narrow otherwise I would have gone over.

Please put me down for £10 next week. A cheap lunch on Friday, a coffee with a friend and then one exercise class.

Well done to everyone this week.:j