Weekly Spend Challenge w/c 29 Jan 12

WelshDreamer_2

£2.20/£25.00 this week for me please Im shouting my total a day early as I am not going anywhere apart from work tomorrow its too blinking cold to go anywhere ..... ive decided that my left over weekly money is going to go in my local christmas savings bits then rest in holiday tin... soooo £7.50 in the butchers, £7.50 in newsagents odd £7 in my savings tin at least il get something back that way rather than leave it mount up ... C an i go for £25 again next week please girls have a fab weekend all and if anyones going out wear ya thermals not ya thongs lol xxx

EverTheOptimist

Another £1.25 for me today, :mad: although 35p was for a paper for a chap i look after, so not bothered about that. So my total to today is £28.79. I am however also including Saturdays, as i can see that i would spend money on a saturday and think it didnt matter as its not part of the challenge.

I think i am only getting a paper tomorrow, so should still be GREEN, so will declare tomorrow lunchtime ish.

Hope everyone is well. And well done in advance to those that made purple or green. and onwards and upwards to those who are red and good luck for the next week.

Thank you LC for running the thread again this week, it is really keeping me focused. I love that i am not just wasting money anymore. :T

ETO
x

wannabee_in_credit

Well I'm declaring that I've blown the budget this week. When I picked dd up from her friends house this afternoon she showed me a huge hole worn in the sole of her shoe. I had planned new shoes for both kids this weekend but decided it couldn't wait so got them tonight - £40. Plus £5.18 in h/b on cider to forget about work for a while. so £45.18, and I was £7 in credit so I'm declaring a red week, with spends of £38.18 boooooo.
Next week I will do better (although work makes me want to cry at the moment).

scotmumof3

Hi everyone:wave: Hope you are all having a good week I think I will be declaring in the green this week again:j but I am going to include saturday in my week so fingers crossed nothing pops up. Had a spend of 84p today DD lost her water bottle so I gave her mine and had to buy a new bottle:mad:
sunday nsd
monday nsd
tuesday 2.50 lined paper for dd
wednesday nsd
thursday nsd
friday 84p bottle of water:mad:
saturday no plan
Stay warm and safe everyone:)

scotmumof3

wannabee_in_credit wrote: »

Well I'm declaring that I've blown the budget this week. When I picked dd up from her friends house this afternoon she showed me a huge hole worn in the sole of her shoe. I had planned new shoes for both kids this weekend but decided it couldn't wait so got them tonight - £40. Plus £5.18 in h/b on cider to forget about work for a while. so £45.18, and I was £7 in credit so I'm declaring a red week, with spends of £38.18 boooooo.
Next week I will do better (although work makes me want to cry at the moment).

Sometimes my work makes me feel like that too it can only get better though. What makes me mad is people saying "you're lucky to have a job" I know that but when things get on top of me I LIKE to have a bit of a moan and get it off my chest. I hope your job improves and you feel better:)

Frogletina

Sunday - NSD

Monday - NSD

Tuesday - Hot Chocolate, £1.75

Wednesday - Diet coke, 1.50
- Hot Chocolate, 2.95
- cake, 1.85

Thursday - Costa, 10.55

Friday - NSD

Declaring 18.60/25.00

Not as good as it sounds as I have not included groceries as I usually do

Next week, I'm going to budget for £20

freebyfifty

Well even though I managed another NSD yesterday I will have to declare red this week

Sunday - NSD
Monday - NSD
Tuesday - NSD
Wednesday - NSD
Thursday - £6.00 on non-essential groceries
Friday - NSD

£6/£5



I am going to have to think about my budget for next week because I have a couple of spendy days planned :eek: I hate spending money now

Have a brilliant Saturday x x

wannabee_in_credit

scotmumof3 wrote: »

Sometimes my work makes me feel like that too it can only get better though. What makes me mad is people saying "you're lucky to have a job" I know that but when things get on top of me I LIKE to have a bit of a moan and get it off my chest. I hope your job improves and you feel better:)

Thanks - I'm the same. I know that I'm lucky to have a job - really I don't need telling. But it's sometimes hard to be grateful when you leave the house at 7.30, get home at 6 and you've had to bring work with you. I'm sure it will blow over eventually, there are ups and downs with everything. But I keep hoping that the new job I applied for last week comes up. Fingers crossed.
And I'm suffering this morning, drowning sorrows is never a good idea.

freebyfifty

wannabee_in_credit wrote: »

Thanks - I'm the same. I know that I'm lucky to have a job - really I don't need telling. But it's sometimes hard to be grateful when you leave the house at 7.30, get home at 6 and you've had to bring work with you. I'm sure it will blow over eventually, there are ups and downs with everything. But I keep hoping that the new job I applied for last week comes up. Fingers crossed.
And I'm suffering this morning, drowning sorrows is never a good idea.

I hope it gets better for you soon wannabee People who say you're lucky to have a job have to remember we know we are lucky to have one but it doesn't stop us from having feelings. Especially these days when we are expected to do the work that in the past would probably have been two people's jobs (like mine)

And drowning sorrows always feels like a good idea........at the time :rotfl: Shame about the morning after. Hope you feel better soon

WelshDreamer_2

aww poor you wannabee i have a really unfulfilling job and work with 25 blokes and at the end of the week always think why do i bother but then payday comes and i think thats why i bother hope things improve for you soon and your hangover clears,

Snow here this morning panniced and fetched my son from his grandmas at 8.30 i couldnt go another day without seeing him lol, hoping it throws it down now as ive got work at 4 grrrrr snow-no drivers lol

I declared £2.20/£25.00 last night but i succumbed to the power of bogof internet shopping and bought 2 tops off someone on facebook £8 new with tags bargain ....now declaring £10.20 /£25.00 so still managing to pay my £7.50 to butchers and newsagents apart from 20p but i found 20p cleaning out the shoe cupboard last night lol

have a fab saturday all xx I think im going to include the 7 days in my spend challenge from next week tho as someone else posted im tending to wait til the sunday to do my spending but still really only want to spend my challenge money all in all IYKWIM XX