Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 1st April 2012

pointypenguin

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 25th Mar Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
Pointypenguin £50 / £41
elsiepac £45
abundant1972 £10 / £57.79
Bailey's Babe £5
chris81418 £50 / £33
wannabee_in_credit £10 / £8
zephyr21 £0 / £19.50
EverTheOptimist £30 / £34

link to last week's challenge

W/C 1st Apr Challengers / Pledges /Total Spent
Pointypenguin £50
EverTheOptimist £20
Munchin £30
abundant1972 £20
zephyr21 £0
daisy_butterfly £10
determined new ms £102.90
KissyKissyKaren41 £12.50
Pinkpenguin £30
LaFolie £35
wannabee_in_credit £50
chris81418 £0
RhiBi £30

pointypenguin

Evening all

I have updated the pledges and results from last week's thread let me know if there are any more.

I came in green last week so I am going for £50 again this week. Not much on except bookgroup but that shouldn't be too expensive.

I hope LC is enjoying her holiday and the rest are enjoying their weekends.:beer:

daisy_butterfly

After my disastrous first attempt, I am back to give it another try!

Please can I be put down for £10

determined_new_ms

:wave:Morning I'm back. Not sure what happens to me on this thread, i stick around for a couple of weeks and then fall off of the edge of the world!

Am pledging £102.90 its an odd number but I have £27.90 in my purse for the week and next Thurs I am going down to Brighton for a jaunt with 2 of my best friends and am giving myself a budget of £75. Will keep posting on here this week to strengthen my resolve :money:

KissyKissyKaren41

Hiyas all ive had to change my internet provider hence new name etc can i rejoin this week please for £12.50 and hopefully the NSD challenge will help me along the way x

Pinkpenguin

Hi all,

Please can you put me down for £30 this week. I have family down so no doubt we will go out for dinner one night but will try and keep spends low for rest of week!

Thanks

PP xx

daisy_butterfly

No spend for me towards this challenge today (although not officially an NSD!)

I'm only using this challenge for my 'pocket money' so to speak!

LaFolie

Hello! Can I join in, pretty please? Aiming for £35 for this week, i.e. I'm budgeting myself £5 per day.

Take care all

x

wannabee_in_credit

Morning
Pleased to report a green week last week - I spent £8 of my £10 budget providing cakes for work (which I then couldn't eat thanks to my diet).
As I'm off this week, with the kids, I nearly always blow the budget, but I'll go for a target of £50 this week please...

chris81418

Hello everyone! :wave:

Thanks for this week's thread Pointy! :T

Reporting that I was green last week with a spend of £33 out of my pledged £50! :j

This week, I'm going to cheat a little, as I'll start the challenge tomorrow because I have a load of annual subscriptions that I'm forking out for today; so, as of tomorrow I'm going to pledge and aim for a £0 purple week!

Have a good week everyone and good luck staying with budget!

RhiBi

Hi, can you put me down for £30 please