Weekly Spend Challenge w/c 29 Jan 12

freebyfifty

Good Morning

My £5 is still intact - just. Was sorely tempted to buy my lunch yesterday but the thought of coming on here and confessing as well as losing another NSD made me quake, so I resisted


Sunday - NSD
Monday - NSD
Tuesday - NSD

£0/£5

Have a great Wednesday x x

pointypenguin

Morning all

For Monday I had no spends to report. Tuesday was work night out as people were visiting from US so free dinner and drinks but I did pay £5 for a taxi home.

Total so far £5 / £50

Bookgroup tonight but it is at our flat so no transportation needed and food and wine has already been purchased.

Happy hump day all.

chris81418

Good morning everyone! :wave:

Thanks for this weeks thread LC, and apologies for being late again this week! Sorry! :whistle:

Anyway, popping in to report that I fell off the rails a little bit, and was red last week; however, this week I'm going to make up for it, so starting from now, I'm going to pledge a purple week!

Good luck meeting your targets everyone and have a good week!

abundant1972

Hi all... well am on track - kind of. I underestimated on fuel costs as do a 35 mile trip 4 days a week... so my £20 hasn't gone far... I used to allow £80 per week... £40 fuel + £40 groceries/spends... so am going to discount fuel costs (as they are an essential to get me to work) and aim for £20 groceries/spends instead of £40 - does that seem fair? What are other people doing who have to pay fuel...? Including or excluding?

Anyhow - I have 74p left to last me Thur and Fri... food cupboards emptying slowly and eating my way through old stocks... just 3 boxes of porridge oats, 3 tins of beans and 4 packs of rice... a couple of onions and some potatoes! Yum - what can i make with that ha ha!!! Am going to buy the Sun tomorrow as it has a £6.00 Morrisons voucher in there (if you spend £40) so am going to stock up on Saturday with loads of value stuff... and see if I can use that as part of my next 2 weeks groceries.

Keep up the good work all!

Baileys_Babe

Sunday NSD
Monday NSD
Tuesday NSD
Wednesday NSD & I found 2 £1 coins today :j

elsiepac

hi everyone

I'm only nipping on quickly to update but may be back later, you've all been busy!

After some creative budgeting and working everything out, I've covered one of the packs of 10 cigs on Tuesday with money from my surplus pot, which also paid for me and a friend to have a few payday drinks last night and I stayed out, hence I didn't pop on yesterday evening!!! (sore head at work today though, however made me focus on that rather than not wanting to be there so was ok! Cleared up after an hour!)

So I'm amending Tue spend to £3.36 and adding today's spends that are from this budget. And now I must stay on track!!! We have payday pint after work on Friday I think but it's a very cheap pub and literally one drink so we'll see...

Sun 29 Jan: NSD for challenge, milk and mushrooms from food budget
Mon 30 Jan: AL, £2 towards tip, £3.40 cigs, but £5.70 refund so in credit by 30p!
Tue 31 Jan: Payday! Work 0700-2000, small/stores food shop from food budget, cigs £3.36
Planned - Wed 1 Feb: Work 9-5, Tesco 2 soups on offer (this budget not food budget as was additional spending) £3 and sandwich lady (didn't have lunch as didn't go home, d'oh!) £2.75 on a GORGEOUS Mediterannean style low fat chicken sandwich on the most gorgeous bread EVER. So £5.75 total for day.
Planned - Thu 2 Feb: Work 9-5, NSD
Planned Fri 3 Feb: Work 9-5, Starbucks £3, weeks food shop

Total so far: £8.81 / £15

LC

WelshDreamer_2

Back from slimming world and managed to spend nothing hubby paid for raffle and magazine lol so sun,mon,tues,wed NSD ..... FAB SO FAR ...

EverTheOptimist

Evening

Sun - NSD :j
Mon - Planned -Nails £20, car park £1.20 (£6.98 - grocery budget)
Tues - NSD for this challenge. :j Though Planned hair appt - Seperate budget
Weds - Work - tea with a very good friend £20 - My gorgeous lovely friend (who i havent seen for about 8 weeks) paid for our tea as a belated birthday treat. So I paid £3 for the tip. So the definite £40 spend i was expecting has reduced by a fair bit. :j

Have also been able to add £5 to my budget as i had some change left from my hair appt, potted £2.50 for SP challenge but kept £5 behind.

At £24.20 / £55 (Only one true NSD)

Hope everyone is well.

Counting down to the weekend now.

freebyfifty

Good Morning

Again yesterday was a quiet day. Managed to keep my purse in my bag


Sunday - NSD
Monday - NSD
Tuesday - NSD
Wednesday - NSD

£0/£5

My new plan of spending on a Saturday and being organised for the rest of the week seems to be working..........for now anyway.

Have a great Thursday x x

Pinkpenguin

Sun: £5 on Full English Breakfast (also £6 on food shopping but that came out of a seperate budget)
Mon: NSD
Tues: NSD (Food Shopping but on a seperate budget)
Weds: £4.80 on treats to take into cinema (would have double dthat if brought in there!
Thurs: £5 on a drink - going to see Sarah Millican
Fri: NSD
Sat: NSD

I have also realised that the £5 I spent on Sunday was coming out of a previous budget so i'm not including that. As long as I dont spend more than £5 tonight I might still be on track for my target! Woopeeee

PP xx