Weekly Spend Challenge w/c 4 March 12

freebyfifty

Good Morning

LC - I am sure when you get back to work it will be less stressful than you are imagining and remember you can only do what you can do Don't push yourself too hard or you'll end up back at square one Let us know how you get on.

PP - I was going to see This Means War at the weekend but it appears that my weekend is filling up with all sorts of other stuff that's going on that I doubt I'll have time now


Another NSD to report for yesterday :j

Sunday - NSD
Monday - NSD
Tuesday - NSD:)



£0/£5

Have a great Wednesday x x

WelshDreamer_2

Morning all from a very blustery rainy Wales brrrrrrrr, a small spend sunday night after i posted on icecream van promised my son an icecream so £2.00/£12.31 Monday and Tuesday were NSD tho, hope everyone has nicer weather than here and have a fab low spendy day x

EverTheOptimist

Now i have spent £1.19 today, not happy with myself as the item i bought was a bottle of water, now i normally buy my water in bulk from the supermarket as part of my grocery shop.
I got half way to work and realised i had forgotten to bring one with me. :mad: so had to go the local shop, and pay twice what i would have paid in bulk. :mad: again. But as i dont drink anything else i couldnt have got through the day.

Am popping into town tomorrow so need to pay for car parking. So hopefully will still come in well under.

Hope everyone has had a good day and enjoy the countdown to the weekend.

Baileys_Babe

Hi everyone, thought I should pop in and update whilst the broadband is working, since it has been back it has been very slow and unreliable.

Sunday NSD
Monday NSD
Tuesday NSD
Wednesday NSD

EverTheOptimist is there anywhere at work where you could store a few spare bottles of water? It would save you having to buy from the expensive local shops, if you forgot to bring one with you another day.

LC I hope your first day back at work went smoothly. Don't try to over do it, you'll benefit no one in the long run.

elsiepac

A very exhausted LC checking in...

Thank you so much for all the well wishes for work. To be honest it was pretty much as I expected, a LOT to do and catch up on. My managers are being absolutely fantastic and say they are aware, I can escalate things to them if people are chasing (some things are very outstanding) and they know it'll take me a long time to get it all back to some kind of managable state. I was prepared to feel stressed at the MOUND of emails and tickets awaiting me, so I sort of controlled that, but what I wasn't expecting was the incredible panic I was feeling as I drove in. Got myself in a right old state in the car! I think I just didn't know what to expect. As I said, predicted fairly accurately the state of affairs and whilst I have a LOT to do, I'm trying really hard not to get stressed about it.

Easier said than done though, right?!?!?!

Anyway, spend of £3.20 in Starbucks as a first day back treat, to ease me in!!! Went to pubsafter work with friends, had a diet coke... bought for me...which was lovely of them!

Hope everyone's had a nice day - it's been really gloomy here, sort of grey and windy and really quite chilly,particularly this evening! I'm so tired, I'm off to bed to have a little read then hopefully a heavy sleep (chance would be a fine thing - my black bags are getting quite ridiculous now, I'm SICK of not sleeping well!)

Goodnight all, sweet dreams x

Sun 4 Mar: £3.95 - Boost - smoothie
Mon 5 Mar: £7.85 - Starbucks - 2 coffees and a cake
Tue 6 Mar: NSD for this challenge (groceries spend)
Wed 7 Mar: £3.20 Starbucks

Total so far: £15.00/£25

LC

WelshDreamer_2

Evertheoptimist its always those little spends that could have been avoided that bug the hell out of me too and yea i know tesco got an offer on 12 for just over £2 at the mo im going to have a pack this week as my water intake is lousy !!!!

Lc sounds like day 1 went as expected without the paniccy bit so well done you lovely and slowly slowly catchy monkey and all that im sure day 2 will be so much easier xx

my bargain hunting cost me pennies last night called in local shop for a diet coke but was on offer across the road in bargaIN booze so saved £1.25 as they were bogof but my DS grabbed his dora cookery mag he has 2weekly so that cost me a fiver tut tut so £6.45 to add plus £1.95 for bars so now sailing close to the wind so NSD are due!!! £10.40/£12.31...
As a bonus had a free lift there and back and a free class meeting = £9.95 and my new recipe book was in @ £9.95 so had that free out of family kitty lol

Have a fab day all x

freebyfifty

Good Morning

Another NSD for me yesterday :j

Sunday - NSD
Monday - NSD
Tuesday - NSD:)
Wednesday - NSD


£0/£5

Just a quick update as I have loads to do before work this morning. Serves me right for being so lazy and not doing it last night

Have a great Thursday x x

EverTheOptimist

Afternoon all

Planned day out today. Had to go into town for some bits. Have been organised and picked up a couple of birthday cards i need in the next couple of weeks. Had to get my sisters birthday presents too. Thankfully i have been saving for birthdays.

Made the mistake of going at lunchtime without having had lunch. Oooops. so bought a small snack.

Total so far this week £4.03/ £10

Baileys Babe - I had thought about it before just never got around to it. I will look at taking some water in tomorrow, i am sure i can stash it somewhere.

Enjoy your evenings.

Barbeduk

Hi all, so much for no more magazines! Bought Cosmo yesterday for the free mascara - only way I can afford Clinique! So on £3.50/£4.63

Glad you made it through the first day LC. Hope everyone stays supportive.

Baileys_Babe

Barbeduk wrote: »

Hi all, so much for no more magazines! Bought Cosmo yesterday for the free mascara - only way I can afford Clinique!

Isn't that just a cheap way to buy your mascara, the fact it came with a free magazine is just a bonus.

Today was a NSD for this challenge.