Weekly Spend Challenge w/c 25th Mar 12

pointypenguin

Evening all

Spends for me so far have been:

• £2 on breakfast Monday
• £1.50 on breakfast Tuesday
• £1 on rice cakes

Total £4.50 / £50


Hump day tomorrow :j and the sun is still shining here.

pointypenguin

Evening all

Spends today were

£2.50 on breakfast and coffee
£3 on stuff to go with lunch
£5 on a gig ticket for Friday night

Total so far £15 / £50

I hope you are all having a good week.

LC you must be getting excited about SA not long to go

elsiepac

Hi all

Hope everyone is enjoying the sun!

Annoyingly I jsut wrote a whole post and managed to lose it so this will be brief as I have the Dr early tomorrow.

30p spend yesterday and £4.79 today. All on rubbish and cigs! 55p left in purse, no spends planned for tomorrow.

pp I am so excited! I'm also terrified as for some reason I'm still completely unprepared and haven't done list or packing or anything...terrifying myself feeling very out of control!!! Still, I have the majority of the day tomorrow and Friday morning so as long as I get my bum in gear tomorrow I'll be fine!... famous last words!

LC

Sun 25 Mar: Various £26.08
Mon 26 Mar: Treats and cigs £13.41
Tue 27 Mar: 30p
Wed 28 Mar: £4.79
Thu 29 Mar:

Total for 5 day WSC: £44.58/£45

EverTheOptimist

Morning all

i have approx £1.50 left, which will never buy me lunch tomorrow so will be red but will be damage limitation.

LC - hope you have a fantastic time in SA. Hope you manage to put everything behind you whilst you are away. Hopefully it is what you need to keep you feeling brighter.

Another busy day for me today. Haven't had time to think this week.

I think we have at least one more day of sun here. So will try and make the most of it, whilst finishing off all the last minute bits at work as i am on leave from 16.30 this afternoon for two weeks. :j:j

Enjoy the day all.

elsiepac

Thanks ETO, I'm looking forward to it for so many reasons - not just for the break, but for my friends' wedding and for the fact it's a holiday, I believe my first in about 7 years! Very excited today!

Had a panic last night as I went to bed after writing that post, so I got a notebook and pen and just wrote everything I could think of that I needed to do.

I'll follow that today, pack as much as possible and make a list of everything I need to remember to add tomorrow and also to do tomorrow!

Feeling a bit better although rubbish sleep I think due to worrying!!! Still, all in a good cause eh?!!!

Have a good day all

LC x

abundant1972

!!!!!! and Botheration!!!

Just got paid... and had drawn out my shiny new budget and it went to pot within about 5 minutes!!!

Had to get a few prescriptions I had not counted on and then my cousin called to say she was visiting and I went out and did a £40 shop and got a haircut blowing my £10 pledge big time!!!

So with a lot of reshuffling I have done another new shiny budget for the rest of the month taking stuff into account like prescriptions and a haircut each month. It's going o be tight but am hopeful. Plus I should have some money coming in from selling some DVDs/CDs which will help...

At the moment though am RED with a balance of:

£46.75/£10.00 :mad:

Good news... Boss called me last night to say I could have today and tomorrow off (put in requests ages ago but no cover... she had meetings cancelled and now I can have the time off)!!! So have a few days to chill out... do some <cheap> home cooking and enjoy the sunshine. Am going to walk everywhere and leave the car at home to save money, and do some exercise!

Keep up the good work everyone!!!

:rotfl:

abundant1972

PS.

LC... It's a lovely sunny day (where I am at least hehe)... get the kettle on and make a cup of tea then start packing!!! Check in with us later on and let us know how you are getting on!!! Big Brother is watching you now lol!!!

xxx

elsiepac

Thank you everyone for the good wishes...

You'll be pleased I did the packing!!!

Including hand luggage!

And all my toiletries are laid out so I can put them in once I'm done tonight and tomorrow morning!

I even have my passport in my bag!

And my mum and dad really touched me tonight, they came in when I was watching tv and gave me one of those little plastic money bags and said it was some extra spending money for my trip - it was £100!!! I tried to refuse it but they wouldn't have it and said they wanted to give it to me... I'm welling up again now, it was just so incredibly lovely of them...

So I've got it tucked away in my wallet but I'll transfer to my case tomorrow as it's downstairs (my dad carried it down for me - two flights you see and I'd have taken half the paint off the walls if I'd done it!!!) I'm not changing it up, it's just if there's something extra or something...

Anyway, declaring green as although I spent 99p today, it was from a £1 coin I found in the bottom of the handbag I was clearing out, so I made it, and spent it!!! Hehe, I'm off to pot my 56p leftover this month and go to bed although how I'll sleep I don't know... terrified I'll forget something although I know I have all the important stuff!

I'll see you all on the 9th April when I'm back!!!

Lots of love

LC xxxxxxx

pp thanks for doing the thread while I'm abandoning ship!!!

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Sun 25 Mar: Various £26.08
Mon 26 Mar: Treats and cigs £13.41
Tue 27 Mar: 30p
Wed 28 Mar: £4.79
Thu 29 Mar: found £1, spent 99p, so made 1p

Total for 5 day WSC: £44.57/£45

Barbeduk

LC, sorry I am probably too late but will post just in case! Have a fantastic time and hope you come home all refreshed and lovely!:D

EverTheOptimist

Morning all

Declaring at £34 something / £30 so red for me this week.

Will be setting £20 for next week, not sure this is enough as hubby and I are off for two weeks, so not sure that will be enough to entertain ourselves, but we shall see.

Enjoy the weekend all.

ETO
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