Weekly Spend Challengee w/c 11 Mar 2012

elsiepac

Hello everyone. Welcome to the Weekly Spend Challenge. This challenge is open to anybody, no matter what financial place they are in.

On this thread please post an amount of money you wish to stay below within the week (Sunday to end of working day on Friday). This can be pennies or thousands it depends on the individual. Then next Saturday report back and pledge for the following week. The challenge runs from Sunday to Friday so we don't include Saturdays but feel free to change the rules to suit you and include Saturdays or start on a different day.

Feel free to update this thread with daily spends if that keeps you on track. We colour code the results as below:

Green - within budget
Red - overbudget
Purple - zero spend
Orange - made money over the week

This is a little bit of fun but for many it highlights the fact that maybe that magazine/chocolate bar isn't needed. Hopefully your spending habits can be changed forever.

Moozie was the founder of this challenge and here is a quote taken from her:

Originally Posted by Moozie:
"Good afternoon lovely DFWs Now for anyone looking in, please feel free to join - the more the merrier! Basically, decide on the amount you want to spend up to from Sunday until the end of the working day on Friday then pledge it here and off we go! The challenge is about incidental spending and not for stuff that should be budgeted elsewhere such as bills, groceries, debt repayment etc but you decide what to include at the end - this is about changing your habits and improving your recording of your spends more than anything else. Have a great week everyone and keep it low!!! Moozie x"

Good luck everyone.

W/C 4th Mar Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
pointypenguin £40 / £39
elsiepac £25 / £23.70
wannabee_in_credit £10 / £4.78
mon1o £50
EverTheOptimist £10 / £4.03
EC12345 £9.50 / £14.10
abundant1972 £10 / £4.04
freebyfifty £5 / £0
pixnmix £20
WelshDreamer £12.31 / £15.20
Bailey's Babe £5 / £0
chris81418 £50
Barbeduk £4.63 / £5.80

link to last week's challenge

W/C 11th Mar Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
pointypenguin £60
elsiepac £20 / so red you may as well call me Santa Claus
abundant1972 £10 / £13.66
freebyfifty £5 / £0
EverTheOptimist £30 / £10
Barbeduk £25 / £18.85
Bailey's Babe £5
wannabee_in_credit £10
daisy_butterfly £10 / ?!
EC12345 £15 / £11.05
WelshDreamer £20
acl2009 £10
donna dynamo £25
koike09 £10

elsiepac

Hello everyone

Welcome to the shiny new thread!

I'm probably going out later, but not a spendy day planned. At worst I would imagine a drink may be purchased!

Going for £20 this week. I've been really spendy so far this month, and I HAVE to try and reign it in so I really don't want to spend anywhere near this! However, it's only 3 weeks yesterday that I fly to SA, and 3 weeks today that I land there!!! :j Whoop whoop!!!

LC

Barbeduk

Thank you for the new thread LC.

This week I need to pay for Thurs lunch as the mums are being invited in for school dinner with year 3! Luckily school dinners are much nicer than they were when I was at primary school!

Also, I need to get a mothers' day card and take my mum out for a treat.

So think I'm going to go for £25. Good luck everyone!:D

Baileys_Babe

Last week was purple

This week I am going to pledge to spend no more than £5

Thanks again LC on running the thread :A

wannabee_in_credit

Hi LC

Last week I disappeared into the ether a bit (grrrr to real life) but came in green at £4.78/£10

I'll pledge another £10 this week please. And pledge to try to get on here a bit more often than I have been.

daisy_butterfly

I'm a complete newbie so hope that it's OK if I gatecrash?

Please can I pledge £10?

I'm not including things that I already budget for... is that cheating?! Things like a birthday present which I put money aside for each month already etc.

EverTheOptimist

Welcome to the challenge daisy_butterfly.

You can include whatever you like, everyone has their own way of budgeting and include all sorts of things.

I also budget for pressies separately, so i dont include those in this challenge. I include all incidental spends, things that i don't need and am generally wasting money on. But also meals out and treats. But not food, toiletries, cleaning products, petrol.

Good luck with the challenge.

ETO
x

pointypenguin

Evening folks

Thanks for the new thread. Can you put me down for £60 again this week LC please?

Welcome to daisy_butterfly:wave:

I have a few things planned this week as I am going to the theatre on Wednesday and dinner before hand, theatre ticket is paid for but I need to pay for dinner. I am expecting this to be £15-£20. Then we are having a girls beauty night with girls from work (they give us a massive 40% discount) where I am having a facial I am expecting this to be £20ish as we usually chip in for wine and nibbles. That leaves me £20 for anything else which seems easy enough as long as I make sure I take lunch with me.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone.:beer:

EC12345

A red week for me - had a few sushi treats at lunchtime so please put me down as red at £14.10.

Want to do two exercise classes this week so please put me down for £15 this week. Hopefully will be under!!

Good luck

EC xx

WelshDreamer_2

Last week was a red week £15.20/£12.31 so not to bad

£20 for me this week please Lc x
Sunday -NSD
Monday-NSD
Tuesday-NSD
Wednesday- slimming world, pot to shops to top up fruit n vag so always find something to spend pennies on !!!
Thursday- school run and work not a lot else planned.
Friday- Work then pop to Aldis
Saturday- WALES WILL WIN THE GRAND SLAM LOL !!!, work sadly for me and not a lot else planned,
Sunday- Hoping to be spoilt rotten and not spend a penny lol

well thats the plan we will see...

Have a fab week all x

acl2009

Hi I'm new :hello:

Whilst I'm not in debt I definitely spend money that I probably don't need to!

Just checking that this doesn't include what I call "already accounted for" money! e.g. I have a separate groceries shopping account with money in for food shopping so all grocery items come out of that?

Out of my money I only want to spend £10 this week so please put me down for that!

Thank you!